IT Director

619-***-**** Carlsbad, CA *****

Ramesh Doraiswamy, PMP

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IT DIRECTOR * IT STRATEGY EXECUTIVE * PROGRAM MANAGEMENT * PROJECT

MANAGEMENT

Talented and accomplished IT Director, with demonstrated expertise in leading successful delivery of

information technology, and support services operations. Expertise with 15 years of increasing

responsibility and experience delivering complex integrated technology initiatives, by aligning

information technology vision with business strategy. Experienced in leading enterprise-wide value

innovation and multi-system integration implementations up to $15M with state of the art applications

and technologies in the most cost effective and efficient methodology. Prior background in consulting,

project management, and business development. Excellent problem-solving, proven leadership with

product and process skills. Implemented multiple “technology as a business enabler” projects. PMP

Certified. Teaches Project Management classes at PMI San Diego.

Experience

IT Strategy Consultant (Consulting), Carlsbad, CA, Feb 2015 to present

IT/PMO consulting/Big Data Initiatives

* Big Data applications/systems and SaaS applications consulting for an educational institution in India.

IT Manager - Corporate Business Systems, Jack in the Box, San Diego, CA, May 2013 to Feb 2015

Responsible for technology team of 11 IT resources supporting enterprise business systems solutions for

corporate Finance, HR, Payroll, Benefits, Accounting and Legal departments. Leading technology

utilization with constant Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) reduction, vendor management, enterprise value

innovation initiatives, project rollouts. Business ecosystem is an integrated Oracle EBS R12, SOA,

Lawson HRIS, Sharepoint, Webcenter 10g, and homegrown .NET applications, including EDI.

Championed Agile adoption and optimized resource utilization and business project execution. Supported

BC/DR testing for the integrated applications mentioned above meeting RTO and RPO objectives.

* Reduced 7% of Software Operating expenses by eliminating support costs for unused applications

* Reduced unplanned downtime by 40% implementing proactive application monitoring

* Realized 75% resource utilization with Bi-Weekly Agile Planning/Business Product Owner meetings

and daily scrums

* Championed Agile adoption under 6 months for 10+ IT groups by training/help with Scrum meetings

* Leading migration of legacy applications to SaaS environments integrated to in-house Oracle ERP and

Lawson HR

* Implemented Oracle TDE encryption of employee data for Lawson appplications

* Developing the Enterprise Applications' road map including Oracle EBS R12, Kofax 10, WebCenter

11g, by consolidating SOA 10g/Stellent/BPEL 10g footprint

IT Strategy Consultant (Consulting), City of Carlsbad, Carlsbad, CA, March 2013 to May 2013

Help the IT/PMO organization to assess application capabilities and develop roadmap.

* Developed the Technology Advisory roadmap for the consolidating City's IT systems and SaaS

applications.

Enterprise Architect, Intelenex - Los Angeles County, CA, June 2012 to November 2012

Responsible for technology roadmap, solution architecture, applications strategy, for clients’ enterprise

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solutions, working with cross functional team of client, onshore and offshore consulting resources

utilizing Oracle EBS Applications R12, Oracle 11g SOA, Agile PLM, saleforce.com (SFDC) and

Financials.

* Designed a flexible quoting approval integrating Oracle EBS, Oracle Agile, and salesforce.com

* Reduced period close time 30% by training Business teams to proactively monitor and manage

transactions

* Designed a flexible revenue recognition application for Oracle OM and AR, for service and warranty

* Saved Executive team’s time by redesigning approvals for POs, Invoices, and expense reports.

* Optimized the SOA 11g integration of Agile PIP with Oracle ERP

IT Director, Enterprise Applications, DPI Specialty Foods, Ontario, California, December 2009 to

June 2012

Responsible for a team of 20 resources that supports, enhances, and maintains enterprise IT solutions of

Oracle EBS R12, Siebel, Demantra, ASCP, OPM, and Financials for a 5 site, $1B company. Manage on

time, on budget, projects delivery with Operational Expense (Opex) budgets of up to $2M. IT champion

for enterprise capital projects and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) reduction.

* Reduced $4M cost for Oracle EBS R12 rollout by transitioning from vendor to in-house team within 6

months

* Directed second and third site ERP rollout on time and budget in 18 months with stakeholder consensus

* Realized 67% application resource utilization savings with a 3 month SWOT redesign initiative

* Reduced application monitoring and support times by 40%, developing an internal dashboard

Technical Manager, Oracle Corporation, San Diego, CA, April 2005 to December 2009

Responsible for successful, on-time and on-budget delivery of Oracle EBS R12 projects for Oracle's Western US and

Canada consulting practice. Delivered complex projects by managing teams of over 30 resources spread

geographically. Managed teams on complete lifecycle ERP implementation, with pre-sales, project management,

delivery, and transition, optimal TCO, and upgrade compatibility

* Delivered web and back office integrated ERP for Caterpillar, VeriFone, Saxon (Canada), and art.com

* Realized 20% reduction on pre-sales estimation activities by establishing guidelines for ERP rollouts

* Established and fine tuned implementation approach, best practices, solution standards, and code re-use

ERP Technical Manager (Consulting), 24 Hour Fitness, Carlsbad, CA, May 2002 to December 2004

Responsible for successful, on-time and on-budget delivery of Oracle ERP rollout for corporate and 200+

healthcare clubs across USA

* Managed successful implementation of Oracle EBS 11i, including definition, delivery and performance

* Reduced data conversion and downtime of 2.5 Million customers' data into Oracle ERP to 4 days from

32

* Reduced system maintenance team size from 20 person partner team to a 10 person in-house IT team

Advisor to the IT director (Consulting), Western Digital, Irvine, CA, August 1999 to April 2002

Responsible for mentoring 10 people internal IT team on integration, support, application performance

tuning, and best practices for Oracle ERP

* Led the pioneering integration of a real-time Web based Warranty/RMA system to Oracle EBS

* Evaluated feasibility, cost savings and best practices assessment of EDI add-ons to Oracle EBS

* Realized processing efficiency migrating Oracle 10.7 applications from Sequent/Dynix to IBM/AIX

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Oracle ERP Specialist, Metamor Worldwide, San Diego, CA, August 1997 to August 1999

Responsible for integration, solution review, best practices for Oracle ERP rollouts

* Designed, implemented, and supported complex Oracle ERP applications for Xerox and SONY

Electronics

Systems Manager, WIPRO Systems, US and Offshore projects, August 1992 to August 1997

Establish and staff offshore project and support delivery centers. Direct responsibility for offshore project

bids, offshore support, onsite coordination, and blended team Oracle ERP rollouts

Education

Government College of Technology, Coimbatore, India, B.Engg. (Computer Science and Engineering)

Skills

* IT Operations * Leadership * Technology Roadmaps * System Development * Strategic Planning *

Business Process Automation * E-commerce * Business Continuity * Solution Development *

Compliance * ERP * CRM * Sales Management * Process Improvement * Business Intelligence * Data

Warehousing * Cost Control * Long Term Planning * Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) reduction *

Business Continuity * Disaster Recovery

Technology/Products

* Oracle EBS R12 ERP * Oracle SOA/BPEL * Oracle PL/SQL * Shell Script * MS Office * MS Project * HTML *

PHP * Java * Sharepoint * EDMS * Records Management * Hadoop HDFS* Pig * HIVE * NoSQL * MongoDB *

Amazon AWS

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