Summary of Qualifications

Results-driven professional with 19 years of technology and supply chain experience. Good understanding of enterprise application landscape and proven record of managing broad suite of supply chain applications.

Professional Consulting Experience

JDA Software – Atlanta, GA December 2015 - Present

Solutions Principal

Engaged with strategic customers in their supply chain transformation initiatives to understand and align their business, supply chain and technology strategy to JDA’s solutions and capabilities.

Led solution architecture, design and roadmap engagement for $10B German apparel retailer to revamp their supply chain with JDA’s Intelligent Fulfillment solutions.

Provided thought leadership and POVs on end-to-end supply chain processes and best practices to prospects and customers on business functions across demand forecasting, inventory planning, VMI, warehousing, transportation and store operations.

Articulated JDA’s technology and innovation strategy on cloud, mobility and big data and the business value it brings to customers.

Bricz – Atlanta, GA April 2015 – December 2015

Supply Chain Consultant

Led a $5M warehouse and transportation management implementation project for The Home Depot fulfillment centers in Canada.

Led a 23-member team of supply chain consultants, developers, testers across WMS, TMS, ERP, Integration and Reporting applications from initial design phase to go-live.

Coordinated and managed tasks with external onsite and offsite vendors for successful execution of the project.

IGATE – Atlanta, GA June 2014 – March 2015

Practice Director – Supply Chain

Built a supply chain consulting practice from scratch, with internal training and on-boarding supply chain experts to the team to a 15-member team.

Built a go-to market strategy to develop the supply chain IT practice and worked with business development and sales team on marketing campaign and messaging.

Led a strategic consulting project for a footwear, apparel retailer to transform their supply chain solutions landscape and developed a 3-year roadmap to replace, upgrade and implement new solutions.

Manhattan Associates – Atlanta, GA January 2006 – June 2014

Sr. Manager & Pre-Sales Solutions Consultant October 2010 – June 2014

Subject matter expert on Manhattan supply chain solutions in sales opportunities.

Gathered and analyzed requirements customers’ operations and designing Manhattan solutions to meet customers’ requirements.

Demonstrating Manhattan WMOS, LM, Slotting and other supply chain products in sales cycles.

Performed value assessment exercise as part of the sales process for supply chain projects through financial analysis, NPV and ROI calculations using operational and financial models; resulted in a 20% increased win rate.

Manager – Client Services Organization January 2009 – October 2010

Led WMS implementation projects at various customers with responsibilities including project planning and management, design and implementation.

Managed a 12-member team providing software implementation and support services to top-tier customers including OHL, UPS Logistics, The Home Depot and Wal-Mart.

Implemented new support model in the team for efficiently managing top-tier customers, improving the turn-around time by 25%, and improving the quality of deliverables by 10%.

Automated and streamlined the software delivery process to customers using Salesforce.com reducing the processing time by 50%.

Sr. Consultant – Client Services Organization January 2006 – December 2008

Handpicked by management to lead the first implementation and support project on WMOS for CATO Corporation

Led the project for improving the order processing time by 200% at Simon & Schuster distribution center by coordinating the efforts between R&D, Services, IT, Support and Customer resulting in 7% labor cost savings.

Designed and implemented WMOS software enhancements for OHL for adding new parcel service capabilities.

Led a design & implementation projects at NSA Juice+ for a new wheel assembly process (using work order) by working closely with operations & business leaders.

Infosys Technologies/Verizon – Chennai, India & Irving, Texas March 2003 – December 2005

Project Manager, Verizon October 2004 – December 2005

Handpicked to maintain COFEE ordering system consisting of VB/VC++-based Windows client with C++/Unix backend and CORBA client/server communication.

Managed project planning / scheduling, tracking / monitoring, and client reporting for Verizon COFEE Ordering system project.

Defined architecture and configuration management process while conducting requirement analysis and detailed design.

Expertly redesigned the server component to run in multi-threaded mode, resulting in 400% increase in request handling capability.

Technical Lead, Verizon March 2003 – October 2004

Challenged by Verizon, leading US telecom provider, to lead production and release efforts for eServer order processing system.

Skillfully directed 10-member team to maintain the production systems for eServer system, improving reliability and uptime.

Prevented fines of $500,000 per quarter by driving flow through rates to required 95%.

INautix Technologies – Chennai, India & Jersey City, NJ June 2001 – February 2003

Project Lead

Built the Open Financial Exchange services team and developed OFX services for a US online brokerage seeking to offer improved Tax and Investment download services using Quicken and TurboTax to its customers.

Implemented a load balancing algorithm that improved the OFX information download transaction processing time by 30%.

Delmia Solutions India – Bangalore, India & Troy, MI January 2000 – June 2001

Software Engineer

Optimized graphic rendering of the manufacturing and robotic simulation, resulting in 30% reduction in processing time.

Developed proprietary interfaces for loading 3D information from CATIA solution into IGRIP simulation software eliminating the need for external translators.

TCS – Chennai, India 1998 - 1999

Programmer

Designed and developed a tool creating faceted representation of assemblies in UniGraphics reducing loading and run time by 30% versus actual models.

Education

Georgia Institute of Technology, Scheller College of Business – Atlanta, GA 2012

MBA in Management of Technology

Anna University – Chennai, India 1998

Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical)

Awards

President’s Award for Excellence in Leadership for contribution to the company in 2011.

CSO Award for Excellence in Leadership for contribution to client services department in 2009.

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