
Rakesh Rajendran
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About me
Senior Manager - Alliances and Partnerships
Education

Amrita School Of Engineering
2005 - 2009Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Electronics and Communicaions EngineeringActivities and Societies: Coordinator of Electronics and Communication club (Astra), Amrita School of Engineering. • Coordinator of Electronics and Communication club (Astra) events in Amrita School of Engineering.

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
2012 - 2014Master of Business Administration (MBA) Marketing/Marketing Management, GeneralActivities and Societies: • Coordinator of Marketing and Advertising (MAD) • Coordinator of Consulting club (Mantradharin) • Coordinator of the SpringFest and the Kshitij • Coordinator of Marketing and Advertising (MAD) club events in VGSOM. The responsibilities include organizing marketing summits where CMOs and Marketing heads from industry are invited, conducting panel discussions, organizing marketing and advertising events like Madison Avenue and Venalicium.• Coordinator of Consulting club (Mantradharin) events in VGSOM. The responsibilities include conducting case study discussions, quizzes and guest lectures which creates awareness among the students… Show more • Coordinator of Marketing and Advertising (MAD) club events in VGSOM. The responsibilities include organizing marketing summits where CMOs and Marketing heads from industry are invited, conducting panel discussions, organizing marketing and advertising events like Madison Avenue and Venalicium.• Coordinator of Consulting club (Mantradharin) events in VGSOM. The responsibilities include conducting case study discussions, quizzes and guest lectures which creates awareness among the students in consultancy domain.• Coordinator of the SpringFest and the Kshitij (tech fest) events in IIT Kharagpur. Show less
Experience

Infosys
Dec 2009 - May 2012Systems Engineer• Worked as a designer and developer of Enterprise Package Solutions for the Global Apparel company.• Module lead for Supply Chain management, pricing and promotion optimization projects in a team of 20.• Additional role of configuration controller and data security in the project.• Creation and maintenance of status reports, requirement trace reports and application interface development reports.• Batch monitoring and mainframe support for client applications.• Migration of dsx files and shellscripts to break fix and production environments.• System, integration, performance and end-to-end test support of the interfaces developed. • Developed customized applications for the creation of functional and technical documents in the project.• Responsibility of defect prevention activities in the project. Show less

Feecounter
May 2013 - Jul 2013Marketing and sales Intern
YASH Technologies
Jun 2014 - Sept 2019Deputy Manager- Strategic AlliancesGSO GTM SPOC for Microsoft Alliance and Business Development at YASH Technologies.Global Alliances Manager for Microsoft, IBM and CISCO strategic partnerships.Business development and creation of deals and quotes in the partner portals.Partner negotiations and deal closure for million dollar projects.Significant role in taking the company from member level through advanced level to premier and SVP Primary Support Provider Levels in IBM partnership hierarchy and to Select Certified Level in CISCO partnership.Cisco Certified SMB Account Manager.IBM Certified Social Business Solution Sales Professional and IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Sales Professional.IBM SVP Primary Support Provider Mastery Professional.Build and maintain relationships with business development executives and work as an extended team for alliance partners.Interaction with over 50 member IBM and CISCO teams in the company for project bandwidth and certifications.Statistical Analysis to understand and correlate changing demands from work volume perspective and adjust the resource volume for leading US based clientDeveloped functional architecture and systems integration big picture for the agriculture equipment based US client. Prepare RFPs and sales collaterals as part of Lead Generation team for various global clients.Part of process improvement and scope management projects for leading clients. Show less

Infostretch
Sept 2019 - Apr 2020Associate Director
KPI Partners
Sept 2020 - Jan 2023Senior Alliance Manager
SLK
Jan 2023 - nowSenior Manager - Alliances and Partnerships
Licenses & Certifications
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AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Amazon Web Services (AWS)Nov 2019
Integrity in Business Partner Relationships
IBMAug 2015- View certificate

IBM Certified Solution Developer - InfoSphere DataStage v8.0
IBMJun 2011 - View certificate

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Sales Professional v2
IBMFeb 2015 - View certificate
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Migration Ambassador Foundations (Business) 2022
Amazon Web Services (AWS)Jul 2022 - View certificate

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Sales Professional v3
IBMMar 2016 
Microsoft Licensing Solutions Specialist Lite
MicrosoftAug 2016- View certificate

Exam 705: Designing and Providing Microsoft Licensing Solutions to Large Organizations
MicrosoftJun 2018 
Small and Midsize Business Account Manager Representative
CiscoSept 2015- View certificate

IBM Social Business Solution Sales Professional v1
IBMFeb 2015 - View certificate

IBM SVP Primary Support Provider Mastery Professional v1
IBMApr 2015
Honors & Awards
- Awarded to Rakesh RajendranBravo Award (Crown Award) Infosys Ltd. Jul 2012 Winner of Bravo Award (Crown Award) in Infosys for the performance in Q1 2012
Languages
- enEnglish
- maMalayalam
- hiHindi
- taTamil
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