Raghavan Sundaram
Summary
Global thought leader with 25+ years of experience delivering solutions and implementations across multiple ERP systems with outstanding productivity. Proven leadership experience in functional, technical and project management Highly experienced in helping Global Organizations gain competitive advantage by leveraging technology and applications to deliver value faster. Experienced in the full life cycle starting from requirements, design, conversion, configuration, development, quality assurance, and deployment. Industries: Manufacturing, Financial Services, Insurance, High Tech, Higher-Ed, Public Sector Specialties: ERP Finance (Procure to Pay, Order to Cash, Record to Report), Supply Chain
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Consulting Practice Manager – Oracle ERP Cloud
Oracle Corp
04.2020 - Current
- Senior practice manager for cloud consulting practice, managing a team of 10+ consultants delivering high value ERP cloud transformations for different industries/organizations.
- Define and lead application delivery in accordance with the business needs, gathering requirements and solutioning and perform hands-on configurations for various Oracle ERP Cloud modules.
Senior Managing Consultant (Functional Lead) –Oracle ERP Cloud, PeopleSoft
TrendSoft ERP
01.2017 - 04.2020
- Lead consultant managing a team of 4+ to 6+ consultants responsible for delivery on various implementation/upgrade projects for Oracle ERP Cloud, PeopleSoft ERP Finance and Supply Chain and Warehouse management systems.
- Functional Lead / Manager responsible for gathering business requirements, design, and deliver solutions on ERP Cloud and Peoplesoft ERP for Logistics business.
- Managed a team of 6 consultants.
- Implement EDI documents with multiple 3rd Party Logistics vendors.
- Led WMS Implementation (High Jump) integration with ERP system.
- Functional Lead / Manager responsible for gathering business requirements, design, and deliver solutions on Peoplesoft ERP (Finance, Procurement) for a public sector client.
- Managed a team of 4 consultants.
- Performed advisory role to the client team.
- Designed and implemented a robust approval workflow.
Consulting Manager – PeopleSoft ERP
Oracle Corp
01.2013 - 10.2016
- Consulting manager for Technology and government consulting performing progressively responsible roles including functional lead, technical manager, project lead and project manager for various PeopleSoft implementations and upgrades.
- Managed teams ranging from 3+ to 8+ resources, delivering extremely successful business transformation projects.
- Project Lead responsible for functional solutioning and delivery of PeopleSoft upgrade of Finance and Supply Chain modules for a Public Schools system.
- Managed a team of 5 consultants.
- Provide leadership and direction to the team on all application areas.
- Project Manager responsible for managing budgets, project teams and delivery of PeopleSoft Finance and Procurement application upgrade for a local government.
- Managed a team of 7 consultants.
- Successfully delivered the project on-time and under budget.
- Provide leadership and direction to the team on all application areas.
- Functional Lead responsible for solutioning and delivery of PeopleSoft Finance and procurement applications upgrade for a Higher-Ed organization.
- Responsible for gathering business requirements and functional design.
- Reduced customizations by using delivered functionality within the product where feasible.
- Implemented bank integrations for payments.
- Technical Manager responsible for solutioning and delivery of PeopleSoft Finance application implementation for an insurance organization.
- Managed a team of 5 developers.
- Responsible for technical design.
- Designed processes for agent commissions, premium calculations.
Senior Consultant – PeopleSoft ERP
Independent Consulting
01.2011 - 12.2012
- Senior consultant performing a variety of roles including functional lead, technical lead for various PeopleSoft implementations and upgrades.
- Managed teams ranging from 2+ to 4+ resources, delivering extremely successful business transformation projects.
- Technical Lead responsible for design on PeopleSoft implementation of Finance, Supply Chain modules for NA and APAC countries for a manufacturing organization.
- Technical design for process to track changes / additions made to North American Engineering and Mfg BOMs, BU Items and Routings to allow users in Asia to accept/reject changes into their BU.
- Implement multi-language product text definitions for Orders and attachments for prod text.
- Created Technical design specifications, test scripts for UAT.
- Technical Lead responsible for design on PeopleSoft upgrade of Finance, Supply Chain modules for NA and EMEA countries for a retail organization.
- Technical analysis and design for the upgrade/reimplementation.
- Implemented Custom AP EFT for Europe Pay cycle.
- Retrofit customizations into latest version.
- Designed, implemented code changes to help merge 2 separate application instances in (North America and Europe) into single instance after the upgrade.
- User testing support and setting up nVision Scopes, Report requests and testing to run on the web.
- Leadership and direction to developers advising on customization retrofit and code reviews.
- Created Technical design specifications, test scripts for UAT, created/modified UNIX shell scripts.
- Techno-Functional Lead responsible for design on PeopleSoft upgrade of Finance, Supply Chain modules for an insurance organization.
- Technical analysis and design for the upgrade.
- Designed and implemented new functionality – Procurement Cards, eProcurement.
- Leadership and direction to development, functional teams advising on fit/gap and customizations.
- Performance improvements and production support.
ERP - Financials Team Lead
COMMUNITY HOSPITAL
Munster, IN, USA
04.2009 - 12.2010
ERP - Financials Team Lead
ERP ANALYSTS’ INC
Dayton, OH, USA
05.2005 - 03.2009
ERP - Financials Team Lead
THE HARTFORD
Hartford, CT, USA
08.2001 - 04.2005
Education
MBA - Mgmt. Info Systems
Madurai Kamaraj University
IndiaBS - Computer Science
Bharathiar University
IndiaSkills
- Oracle ERP Financials Cloud
- Oracle Procurement Cloud
- PeopleSoft ERP
- Delivery / Team Leadership
- Configurations
- User Training
- Cutover / Data Conversion
- Design / Integrations / Testing / Support
Certification
- Oracle ERP Cloud Certified
- ITIL Foundation
- Oracle Internal PM Certification
Personal Information
Title: Senior Consulting Practice Manager – Oracle ERP Cloud
Timeline
Senior Consulting Practice Manager – Oracle ERP Cloud
Oracle Corp
04.2020 - Current
Senior Managing Consultant (Functional Lead) –Oracle ERP Cloud, PeopleSoft
TrendSoft ERP
01.2017 - 04.2020
Consulting Manager – PeopleSoft ERP
Oracle Corp
01.2013 - 10.2016
Senior Consultant – PeopleSoft ERP
Independent Consulting
01.2011 - 12.2012
ERP - Financials Team Lead
COMMUNITY HOSPITAL
04.2009 - 12.2010
ERP - Financials Team Lead
ERP ANALYSTS’ INC
05.2005 - 03.2009
ERP - Financials Team Lead
THE HARTFORD
08.2001 - 04.2005
BS - Computer Science
Bharathiar University
MBA - Mgmt. Info Systems
Madurai Kamaraj University