Vinayak Kamath

Experience

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  E-SoftSys LLC

  Jun 2001 - Oct 2002

  Quality Assurance Analyst

  I started my career in this organisation as a Quality Assurance Trainee. This period of my career seeded the strong fundamentals of the requirement of a quality deliverable. I was exposed to various faces of the testing lifecycle and was also involved in writing automation scripts using Rational Robot and Winrunner.

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  PTC

  Nov 2002 - Nov 2005

  Software Engineer

  Started off my career as a Quality Assurance analyst and was responsible for ensuring the quality of few Windchill components like Info*Engine Adapters, Document Management and ESI. Being a QA Engineer, i had thorough knowledge of all Windchill components.However, PTC promoted me from QA Engineer to Development stream based on my development knowledge and problem solving skills on Tibco. I was part of the ESI Development team which develops the components to integrate Windchill with Oracle Apps and SAP. Show less

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  Infosys

  Aug 2005 - Jul 2018

  • Group Project Manager

    Jan 2017 - Jul 2018

  • Senior Project Manager

    Aug 2005 - Dec 2016
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  Rio Tinto

  Jul 2006 - Feb 2009

  Interface - Release Team Lead

  ROLE: Interface Release Team Lead CLIENT: Leading Mining Giant based at AustraliaPLATFORM AND TOOLS: SAP PI 7.1, xMIILed integration team to integrate existing systems spanning across 5 releases. This was one of the biggest EAI implementation for the client which included SAP PI and SAP xMII

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  Southern California Edison (SCE)

  Feb 2009 - Aug 2009

  Technical Architect

  ROLE: EAI ARCHITECT CLIENT: LARGE UTILITY CLIENT IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAPLATFORM AND TOOLS: SAP PI 7.1Enterprise Integration Architect defining the SAP PI integration framework, eSOA, interface design, change management process, sales strategy and identification of potential target markets and accounts in EAI space for the North American region.Ensuring the smooth go-live for 200 plus interfaces with over 20 systems integrated with corporate SAP ERP implementation.Integration solution development for ERP implementation involving SAP PM,MM, HCM, SUS, SRM, MDM SAP PI and BI for the first phase. Show less

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  Boots UK

  Nov 2009 - Oct 2012

  Delivery Lead for Boots Integration Center of Excellence

  - Responsible for leading the Integration track (IBM Message Broker, MQ, SAP PI) in BOOTS.• Experienced in providing assessments of IT organizations, infrastructures, and software applications to provide well thought-out decisions on complex or ambiguous IT architecture issues and recommendations for alternative technologies and products.•Evaluated system proposals from an architectural perspective, including feasibility, practicality, technical, viability, and consistency.•Developed numerous programs aiding in efficiency and productivity using EAI packages knowledge and concepts of SOA in Business Process and Services. •Led and directed all facets of small and large projects from conception through final implementation and rollout of systems. •Collaborated with the engineering business units to streamline and bridge architectures for better product synergy. •Mapped business processes and gathered data via a series of interviews with cost center general managers, supervisors, and key employees. •Reviewed technology infrastructure for management consultant group, proposing enhancements, managing implementation projects, and assessing results. Show less

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  Unilever

  Feb 2013 - Apr 2015

  Global Service Manager

  Unilever is a Global CPG player that owns many of the popular brands in foods, beverages and personal care products.Integration (Middleware) applications in Unilever, deal with secure electronic information exchange between Unilever and its external partners (B2B – Business to Business) and between applications within Unilever (A2A – Application to Application). The key objective of this project is to consolidate middleware support and maintenance services across the globe and create central shared service organization to help Unilever reduce TCO and maintain ZOG (Zero Overhead Growth) Show less

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  AstraZeneca

  May 2015 - Nov 2016

  Program Manager

  Overall Program Management of large transformation program. This is being executed using Scaled Agile Framework [SAFe].

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  Corteva Agriscience

  Aug 2018 - Apr 2021

  • Product Line Support Leader - ERP Platform

    Nov 2020 - Apr 2021

  • Global IT Leader - Integration, Business Analytics and Data Apps

    Aug 2018 - Nov 2020
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  Virtusa

  Apr 2021 - now

  Director