Rajiv Rathod - PMP®, PMI-ACP®

Experience

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  Voltas Limited - A TATA Enterprise

  Jul 2005 - May 2006

  Management Trainee

  Involved in Sales, Planning, and Design, Procurement, Execution and Service of Responsibilities Central Air- Conditioning plants. Involved in ISO Audits Carried out projects

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  Infosys

  Dec 2006 - May 2011

  Technology Analyst Data Management

  • Define item, supplier and customer onboarding and maintenance process, streamline process.• Implement various functionalities in P2P (Procure to Pay) for e.g. Blanket/Std/Drop Ship Orders, ASN, Sourcing Rules, ASL, cycle counting, replenishment, receipts, Invoices, Payments, Requisitions, Quotes, Inventory management etc.• Requirement, KPI, product dimensions gathering and acquiring business sign off.• Fit gap analysis for finding gaps in product functionality, provide workaround solutions for gaps• Testing the flow end to end between applications including regression testing.• Create User Persona Mappings for different functions to finalize the business use cases.• Gather, analyze, and translate business requirements, created as-is/to-be business process documents.• Use tools and techniques like Fish Bone diagram, Pareto Diagrams etc. to find root cause analysis of issue.• Configure applications and maintain setup, functional and technical documents.• Proficient in SQL, PLSQL and shell, python scripting to perform quick analysis on data integrity and figure out inconsistencies in data between applications, analyze and report the business impact.• Prepare test scenarios and test scripts for process, integration, unit etc. Show less

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  Oracle consulting

  Jan 2011 - Jan 2011

  Technical consultant
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  KPIT

  Feb 2012 - May 2015

  Data Architect

  • Establish Data governance council, setup framework, identify roles and responsibility matrix, setup to be business process flows for various entities like Customer, Supplier, Items, Purchase Order etc.• Develops the vision, strategy, and experience of a highly complex, high-impact solution area for the supply chain data quality domain. Acts as a trusted advisor to align process and technical solutions with overall business strategic objectives.• Design New product introduction (NPI) process along with workflows and data definition across domains for Product Lifecycle Mgmt. (PLM) systems, similarly setup Customer/Supplier onboarding business process along credit vetting process. Implement Audit and purging strategies.• Expert in implementation of Oracle Product Development (PD), Product Data Hub (PDH), Supplier Hub, Location/Site Hub, Customer Data Hub.• Proven stakeholder management capabilities including influencing solution design outcomes across teams in cross-functional settings and influencing external stakeholders and policies.• Demonstrated experience anticipating potential conflict within the stakeholder group and proactively resolve by building consensus between teams.• Implement 3rd party enrichment from D&B, Equifax, address verification services. • Integration with FDA (GUDID) and supplier network (OSN/XML Gateway/E-Commerce Gateway)• Design and implement taxonomies, data models, business/validation rules, data dictionaries, business glossaries, metamodel.• Assessments for data/process readiness and provide recommendations and future roadmaps.• Conduct and facilitate requirements elicitation workshops, fit gap analysis.• Partner with Data Stewards for requirements, integrations, and processes, participate in meetings and working sessions.• Organizational change management for adoption of new policies, processes, and procedures in enterprise data management.• Lead the user training and training collateral Show less

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  Cummins Inc.

  May 2015 - May 2016

  Data Architect

  • Architect PLM/SCM/MDM landscape within enterprise, Supply chain business process redesign, enforce best practices in PLM/SCM/MDM implementation projects.• Perform assessments to layout roadmap for enterprises both short/long term.• Experience with Metadata Management, Reference Data Management, Master Data Management, Data Lineage, Data Quality, and associated tooling.• Strong experience in data quality domain with implementing best practices, data profiling, data integrity, data stewardship and governance.• Well versed with all data quality dimensions and understand very well the impact of poor data quality on business and operations.• Design data quality plan and drive cross-functional support for implementation• Solution Design and develop tools for data transformations and migrating to Target applications.• Design and develop Batch programs, real time APIs for data publication and ingestion.• Solution architecture for enterprise internal/external collaborations using Portals, EDI.• Integration architecture, Data Architecture, Security Architecture, Application architecture• Solution design data transformation requirements, strategy for Extract-Transform-Load (ETL).• Extensive knowledge and experience with large-scale database technology (Oracle), SQL and PLSQL. Unix Shell / python scripting.• Extensive experience in designing and developing dashboards and reports in Oracle BI, OTBI and Tableau. Identify and implement KPI for data quality.• Extensive experience in ETL tools like Oracle Enterprise Data Quality (EDQ)/Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) to transform, profile, standardize, enrich, validate data.• Strong experience in implementation and bringing solutions, systems, and processes to enterprise grade.• Data Security, GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) and PII compliance solution architecture.• Conduct assessments on master data and recommend KPI implementation roadmap and strategy. Show less

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  Inspirage

  Jan 2017 - Oct 2022

  Director, Solution Architecture

  • Program and Project Management in both Agile/Waterfall in Cloud and On-Premise applications with End-to-End knowledge in Supply Chain operations in Innovation, Planning, Sourcing, Costing, Finance, Inventory etc. domains.• Lead teams, strategy, roadmap, charter, Proof of Concept, Pre-sales, practice building and Adoption of Master Data Mgmt. in Supply Chain and Manufacturing.• Implemented Data Quality standards and best practices.• Design Product, Customer (CX) and Supplier Data model and To-Be processes.• Design Data models in supply chain for structured/un-structured data• Establish Data Governance Framework, council, role and responsibility matrix, business process flows and workflows and value stream mapping.• Techno Functional expertise in implementing PLM/MDM and expert in Items, Products, Suppliers, Customers, Locations and Regulations etc.• Expert in planning and executing all phase of Software development Life Cycle• Cross domain collaboration across Data Stewards, Data Owners, Purchasing, Data Warehouse & BI Analytics, Warehouse mgmt., Logistics, Inventory, Engineering, Leadership etc.• Conduct/facilitate workshops for Requirement gathering, Conference Room Pilots (CRP), User acceptance testing (UAT), System Integrations testing (SIT)• Organizational Change Management and User trainings.• Implementing Data Quality projects, Data Architecture, Technical Solutions, KPI Assessments and define success criteria and performance metrics• Data Analysis, Data migrations/Integrations and sync with downstream/upstream subscribing applications using API and ETL• Manage production support, identify & implement quick wins Show less

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  Meta

  Oct 2022 - Jun 2023

  Business Solutions Engineer

  • Support Infra Data Center Logistic operations focused on Master Data Management, Asset management and Logistics• Strategy, roadmap, solution design for MDM tools used in Infra operations.• Cross functional partner, stakeholder collaboration, identify gaps/issues and implement solutions.• Establish Data Governance Framework, council, role and responsibility matrix, business process flows and workflows and value stream mapping.• Data Analysis, Data migrations/Integrations and sync with downstream/upstream subscribing applications Show less

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  Trinamix Inc

  Jul 2023 - now

  Director

  Supply Chain Solution Architecture, Delivery