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Saketh CHANDRASEKARAN

Concord,CA

Summary

Strategic Business Process and Technology leader with over 20 years experience in successfully delivering multi-million dollar projects. A motivating leader who builds high performing teams and enables long-term strategy and product roadmap with cross functional teams. Trusted advisor to leadership in the areas of Enterprise Business Systems, Data Governance, and Data Management.

Overview

22
22
years of professional experience

Work History

Director of Business Systems and Data Architecture

Coalfire
02.2023 - Current


  • Implemented Salesforce CPQ and Certinia PSA and Billing simultaneously.
  • Implemented Services CPQ and automated creation of projects using the data setup in Salesforce CPQ
  • Formed the SRC committee to review any software being acquired or renewed in the company
  • Implemented the expense tool ChromeRiver
  • Retired OpenAir and led the data migration effort from OpenAir to Certinia
  • Transitioned from Boomi to Mulesoft.
  • Implemented the integration of Certinia to Netsuite and also integration between ChromeRiver to Certinia for the expenses.
  • Implemented the CLM tool IronClad for the legal team and its integration with Salesforce
  • Implemented ChurnZero and its integration with Salesforce for the customer success team
  • Formed the support team to help the Sales, Delivery and Finance team once we went live with the different tools for a smooth transition


Director Business Systems and Global Support

UserTesting
02.2021 - 01.2023
  • Responsible for leading multiple projects with a team of 18 reports and 3 managers across Business Systems and Global Support
  • Drive technology strategy by analyzing latest trends in IT and implementing complex solutions based on business needs
  • Implemented 24/5 Global Support(CPQ/ IT) that handled all tickets with successful 98% SLA achievement
  • Developed mid-term to long-term strategy to achieve 3X growth and in alignment with company's business goals
  • Implemented Salesforce CPQ with several automations that helped the Sales team close deals faster and completed Data Migration and Data Cleanup for this implementation
  • Developed processes to proactively identify changes in Data completeness and Quality
  • Successfully Implemented integrations from Salesforce to NetSuite with Mulesoft for Finance team and FinancialForce for Professional Services team
  • Implemented Zendesk for Access management for different teams and also for all Support Requests
  • Strong technical knowledge on data profiling, data standardization, transformation, cleansing and applying best practices on high volume data
  • Subject Matter Expertise in Data Quality, Master and Meta Data Management, Data Governance and Data Stewardship
  • Owned Access management/ Change Management for SOX audit purposes

Sr. Manager Enterprise Systems

J2 Global
09.2018 - 01.2021
  • Responsible for leading and growing team of 28 reports and 4 managers
  • Implemented Agile Methodology and Product Management based approach in order to standardize Enterprise Systems projects
  • Developed and Implemented long-term strategy and product roadmap with the cross functional teams that included Finance, Accounting, Order Management & Fulfillment, Sales, HR and Legal
  • Lead improvement on tracking department budget to focus spending on new and strategic initiatives and manage ROI within each segment
  • Lead and Implemented Salesforce CPQ project and trained Sales and Deal Desk team on CPQ
  • Rolled out of FinancialForce and worked with Professional Services team for setup and Migration of data
  • Developed and Implemented How To team to give Demo’s of new features for Sales enablement
  • Collaborated with leadership, and subject matter experts to derive, visualize, and communicate actionable insights in order to achieve successful business outcomes

Head of PMO

Model N
01.2008 - 08.2018
  • Implemented SaaS Revenue Management tool (Revvy) as part of Incentives project using Salesforce platform, HDFS for file storage and Spark for calc. engine in multi-tenant system hosted on AWS
  • Implemented integration of Salesforce to legacy High-Tech app
  • Lead Professional Services team on successful implementation of Incentives project for Intel Corp
  • Developed long term roadmaps for products and created detailed project plans and provided regular status updates to leadership.
  • Championed support for business plans and priorities by engaging with cross-functional business stakeholders
  • Lead Budget Planning and Budget Management for multiple projects in the Revvy team
  • Transformed qa team vision from 100% manual to automation oriented approach to improve testing
  • Provided guidance and leadership to team of business analysts, qa and developers
  • Transformed Engineering team from Waterfall to Agile Methodology

Lead Analyst

MAXIMUS Inc
09.2003 - 12.2007
  • Quantitative analysis and reporting on SchoolMAX data and teacher satisfaction metrics to senior leadership
  • Analyzed requirements and Orchestrated first-of-its kind bi-monthly Data Visualization Users Group for over departments from schools
  • Researched and designed presentations for Senior Vice Presidents to present both internally and externally
  • Evaluated feature requests from customers and defined and scoped requirement for the team
  • Provided guidance to qa and business analysts on requirements

Sr. QA Analyst

Medco
06.2002 - 08.2003

Involved in testing and automating the applications eSD (eService Delivery), Alpha, QRX and NRX


Education

Master of Science - Computer Science

Syracuse University

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

Madras University

Skills

  • Salesforce
  • AWS
  • NetSuite
  • FinancialForce
  • MuleSoft
  • Avalara
  • Change Management
  • Mentoring/Team Development
  • Vendor/ Partner Management
  • Data Governance
  • Master Data Management
  • Business Engagement
  • Strategic Roadmap Planning
  • Project Management

Key Achievements

  • Worked closely with the CIO to lead the transformation as UserTesting was preparing to go IPO:
    • Netsuite implementation to best handle future growth
    • Salesforce CPQ for the Sales team
    • FinancialForce for the Professional Services team
    • Avalara for Taxes
    • Mulesoft middleware Integration platform implementation
    • SOX Controls
    • Process and structure for IT End user and CPQ support
  • Created a process to provide business case justification and ROI on functional area requirements and developed common understanding to evaluate cross-functional initiatives.
  • Improved contract rate structure by 30% and increased overall delivery performance for key technology areas with system integration partners
  • Implemented a Revenue Management solution on Salesforce with a Multi-Tenant backend architecture on AWS
  • Delivered Revvy project for Intel Corp on time and under budget

Timeline

Director of Business Systems and Data Architecture

Coalfire
02.2023 - Current

Director Business Systems and Global Support

UserTesting
02.2021 - 01.2023

Sr. Manager Enterprise Systems

J2 Global
09.2018 - 01.2021

Head of PMO

Model N
01.2008 - 08.2018

Lead Analyst

MAXIMUS Inc
09.2003 - 12.2007

Sr. QA Analyst

Medco
06.2002 - 08.2003

Master of Science - Computer Science

Syracuse University

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

Madras University
Saketh CHANDRASEKARAN