Rajesh Sundararajan

Rajesh Sundararajan

Project Lead - GE Industrial Plastics

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  • About me

    General Manager - Head of Operations , Smart platform, SAP Practice - Atos Eviden

  • Education

    • University of Madras

      1994 - 1997
      MCA
    • University of Madras

      1991 - 1994
      BSc
  • Experience

    • Tata Consultancy Services

      Jul 1998 - Oct 2002
      Project Lead - GE Industrial Plastics

      PITTSFIELD, USA (MAY 2000 – OCT 2002)May 2002 – Oct 2002 – Project Leader - Implemented Single Sign on for GE CustomersSept 2001 – Apr 2002 - Ldap and Siteminder AdministratorMay 2000 – July 2000 – Project Leader - Digitization e-Sales & OrderNETHERLANDS (FEB 2000 – APR 2000) Feb2000 – Apr 2000 - Business Analyst - Help desk & Asset center data warehouseSINGAPORE, INDIA (JUL-1998 – DEC 1999)March 1998 – Dec 1999 - Module Lead /Team member for Application Support & Data warehouse project (Oracle Financial 10.7, GEMMS 4.1 , 6 data warehouse) Show less

    • Tata Consultancy Services

      Mar 2005 - Sept 2006

      Held various IT Delivery leadership position in GE Water & Process Technology and GE plastic Managed 20+ project simultaneously with max team size of 200+; Responsible for all commercial application including Sales portal, Customer portal, Value Generation Plan, BI/BW, etc.; Team size: 200+ Consultants (Onsite / Offshore/ Offsite), USA Led end-to-end IS/IT integration of GE W&PT with Ionics Inc. and Ecolochem; responsible for IS/IT road map for acquired company of GE W&PTDeveloped applications to drive Six Sigma Big Y: Sales force effectiveness and Customer Satisfaction. Responsibility includes managing a 120+ diverse, global team across 3 poles, project includesOversaw development of Quick Marketing Initiatives (QMI) project to track sales funnel by consolidating more than 350 different business processes into 5 standard processes. (Effort appreciated by GEI W&PT P&L leader) Managed development efforts for phase 1 & 2 of GE Water & Process Technologies Customer Web Portal (www.gewater.com); led Sales Web Portal (internal), a dynamic, personalized web site acting as one stop shop for all sales representative needs Show less

      • Delivery Manager – SAP Engagement

        Feb 2006 - Sept 2006
      • Delivery Manager – GE Infrastructure, Water & Process Technologies

        Mar 2005 - Mar 2006
    • Wipro Limited

      Sept 2006 - Aug 2021

      With Covid 19 and Entire Wipro workforce working from home, Currently Leading 80+ tracks covering all aspects of cyber security to secure Wipro Assets including endpoint(250k), servers(15k), cloud platform Network & Security (8000), CIS benchmarking for hardening, Red and Purple teaming, Inbound & Outbound risky rules, Applications, Assets in shadow IT and entities, etc. • Responsibility includes implementing of security posture on all assets, Program managing all tracks as part of Wipro One IT initiative. Responsibility including tracking external security benchmarking like Bit sight (810/900), Security Scorecard (98/100) and Cognito scores.• Responsible for Data privacy GDPR including German Work council assessment and closure of any observation. Initiated Informatica for Data Discovery and Retention and Fortanix for data encryption, ITDR for Resilience covering H/W , Natural and cyberattack scenario. • Responsible for SOX Management audit and ensure all audits including SOX external audit, Risk Audit, Internal Audit ,Customer Audit have zero observations.• Responsible for IT Disaster Recovery (ICT 27301) framework implementation. All scenario including Cybersecurity, H/w and Natural disaster are covered as part of this program. Show less Group Head – Application Management – Supply Chain, Quality, Microsoft SharePoint Track lead; Team Size: 300+ Consultants; Applications: 80+ IT Budget: $15MnExternal Award: SAP ACE Award 2019 - Sourcing Excellence for implementing Ariba P2PTeam Size: Peak team size 200+ consultants across various technology; Total Number of Projects: 80+ • Responsible multiple transformation of the Wipro Supply Chain function globally for the (Direct & Indirect) business; transforming Wipro quality process by implementing ALM for effective Quality & project health tracking; Manages a team of 300+ consultants across various technologies like Ariba, SAP, Microsoft SharePoint, Digite ALM , DOT NET, SQL Server , Java, Oracle, DotNET• As Source to Pay IT lead responsible transforming procurement process by implementing Ariba and SAP for end to end procurement process• Responsible for transforming Wipro supply chain function (procurement) by implementing Ariba Cloud based solution with close integration with SAP and 7 other system• Responsibility includes vendor management, budget management, IT Strategy for Supply chain, BRD finalization to implementation and change management. • Responsible for transforming Wipro Quality process by tracking all Customer projects across all lifecycle model. Currently 1Lakhs consultants are using this application to track 5000+ project deliverables and quality requirements • Responsible for Managing Microsoft SharePoint. Wipro SharePoint Online (SPO) is one of world largest user adoption. Currently SharePoint (SPO) manages complete Wipro Knowledge Management among other portals• Responsibility to implement Case management tool for HR shared services to process offshore cash, onsite cash, Medical, Travel, etc. • Responsible for Integrating Acquired entity like Top coder, Infoserver to Wipro Ltd Show less External Award: Best internal audit award – 2015, Institute of internal audit – team award – 2015 & 2016Led internal IT Audits to provide assurance on IT applications, IT general controls, data privacy, cyber security & HIPAA; Performed over 25 audits across financial, Process & Compliance as well as Women Safety that resulted in securing the Best Internal Audit award for 2015 & Institute of Internal Audit award for 2015 and 2016As part of Internal Audit, Initiated IT Audits to give assurance on IT applications, IT general controls, data privacy, cyber security. Performed financial, Process and Compliance audits as part of my responsibilityLed 25+ audits including traditional area like fixed assets, vendor payment, variable payroll, PFF trust etc. and in emerging risk areas like cybersecurity, mobility, data privacy, HIPAA, Women safety etc.Led Forensic investigation for Transport unit, to identify people, modus of operation and financial loss to company; Saved INR 38 LacAs part of business excellence, worked with Delivery, Quality and Finance team to formulate a process through which potential penalty or bonus are tracked & made visible to management Action to mitigate the penalty Show less Wipro Award: Leader pick award - 2013; SAP Practice Size : 5000+As Head of SAP Global Workforce Management Group, was responsible for growing SAP Practice at the top and bottom-line through operational efficiency and by owning staff Argument position completely (Practice Size: HC 5000+, Utilization 95%)Directly managed aspects impacting Wipro SAP practice P&L. while in practice roles, practice revenue increased by 8% and cost of delivery reduced by 2%. Financial KPI (order booking, revenue, cost of delivery), Operational KPI (net add, onsite / offshore utilization, rookie ratio, Bulge, Contractor ratio) and delivery KPI (CSAT) were periodically monitored and optimized effectivelyGrew the SAP Practice & delivered a top & bottom line operational efficiency; owned the staff augmentation practice with a head count of 5000 resources & a utilization of 95%; Was the recipient of the Leaders Pick Award Show less As SAP HCM competency head, managed 150+ HCM consultants across various projects. Responsibility includes working with Presales / Sales team As Pre sales lead for SAP SCM / APO / Ariba, Worked with sales team on Proactive proposals and on RFP response. Responsibility include ensuring sales team is aware of SAP / Aribaproducts and Wipro capability in SAP Supply chain management. Identifying customer for proactive proposals and converting the same to orderTransforming Knowledge Capital creation culture. Working with other competency and practices leads to encouraging 5000+ team to create premium artifacts like white paper, case study, blogs and discussion forums and publish the same in industry forums. 30 + White paper were published and Project joining kit were prepared to ensure reusability, domain knowledge and project specific knowledge artifacts for faster onboardingLed a team of 150 consultants across multiple projects, transformed the knowledge capital creating culture, supported the Presales/Sales teams of complex proposals, customer presentations, competency building & solution templates Show less External Award: SAP ACE 2011 award for Best Adoption of Sybase Solution, Wipro Award : Wipro - Applied Innovation award, Best Function across all support functionLed the E2E SAP CRM services 7.0 implementation for Enterprise Services Division. Project is currently in Realization phase; Program managed CIO office’s 80+ applications (Java, DOT NET, MS SQL & Oracle DB) for Wipro InfotechLed the e2e SAP CRM services 7.0 implementation for Enterprise Services Division; Jointly holding responsible for managing 80+ business applications and ensured SOX and ISO compliance for critical applications; Additionally managed 60+ servers and helpdesk management; Reduced cost of delivery by outsourcing to BSD- EgyptHandled the Entire process from contracts, call management, services delivery, spare management, Return material authorization to financial posting based on ITIL v3 framework. (Project Cost : $ 350K with ROI = 3 years. Mobile CRM along with Sybase unwired platform is conceptualized for phaseTransformed Enterprise Service business(LOB) by end to end implementation of SAP CRM 7.0 with ITILv3 compliance and extending the same with offline mobility using Sybase Unwired Platform Benefit: Increased ES CSAT and SLA with field engineer having real time call information through mobileResponsibility includes Strategy and Operational plan, Budget, alignment to Business, Infrastructure availability, virtualization, vendor management, software delivery, product selection & implementation, quality, function BCP, Risk management, SOX & ISO & people managementInvolved in IS/IT Strategy & Budget for Wipro Infotech Ltd ($1Bn) & successfully align IS/IT strategy of Wipro Infotech to Wipro Ltd ($5Bn) companyIntroduced Chargeback to Business concept. IS projected 09-10 spends is $5Mn & Business Projected spend is $7 Mn. (Network, desktop, laptops, security operation not included) Show less

      • Head - Security and Compliance

        Feb 2020 - Aug 2021
      • Group Function Head (CIO Application Management Group) – Source to Pay, Quality

        Jan 2017 - Feb 2020
      • Group Head – Internal Audit (Specialization in IT Audit)

        Sept 2014 - Dec 2016
      • Head – SAP Global Workforce Management Group - SAP Practice

        Jan 2012 - Aug 2014
      • SAP Supply chain and Human Capital Management Pre-Sales, SAP HCM Competency head and SAP Knowledge c

        Jan 2011 - Dec 2011
      • Senior Program Manager – Information System/Technology - CIO office; Team size: 100+ Consultants, Ap

        Sept 2006 - Dec 2010
    • Atos - Eviden

      Sept 2021 - now
      General Manager - Global Head of Operations - SAP Practice & Smart platform

      Sep 2021 to till Date : SAP Practice – Global Head of Operation - ATOS Eviden• Head count: 6000+ SAP Consultants across 5 Regions, Tracking NET ADD (customer billable) , Gross Head count , Sub co including Reduction plan , Low / High cost Country mix, Experience Mix, Debuts hiring and deployment, Landed Resource across Geo. • Pipeline: Tracking weekly Pipeline strength (€1.2 Bn) active deals, Pipe Quality, Win Ratio, Action tracking to win Deals, OE to Revenue – Sale to Delivery tracking . • Revenue & Margin, Along with Finance , Tracking Account wise Revenue , Cost. Analysis of Cost , create and tracking of Cost optimization plan including Recovery of Negative Margin Project with Delivery. Managed Standard Cost and recovered Practice margin from Negative to positive. • Managing Function wise KPI, Region wise Reviews and action plan, Practice Management reporting, etc.As Head of Operation- Smart platform, Responsible for 6 practices (SAP, ServiceNow, Salesforce, IOT, Lowcode , CX) operations and standardization of operation across practices. Responsible for Profitability by optimization cost across all Practices . Show less

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • ITIL v3

      Exin
    • Six Sigma Black belt

      Tata Consultancy Services
    • Up Your Services

      Ron Koffman
  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Rajesh Sundararajan
      SAP ACE Award 2019 - Sourcing Excellence for implementing Ariba P2P SAP Oct 2019 Received the Award for best Ariba implementation across industry.
    • Awarded to Rajesh Sundararajan
      Innovation Award 2016 - Team Award Institute of Internal Audit Feb 2016 Wipro won Innovation Award 2016 - Team Award from IIA , India
    • Awarded to Rajesh Sundararajan
      Best Audit Award -2015 Internal audit Wipro - Internal Audit Aug 2015 Received for Best Audit Award for Women Safety Audit
    • Awarded to Rajesh Sundararajan
      Productivity Award - 2015 Team Award Institute of Internal Audit Feb 2015
    • Awarded to Rajesh Sundararajan
      SAP ACE 2011 award for Best Adoption of Sybase Solution SAP Nov 2011 Received SAP ACE 2011 award for Best Adoption of Sybase Solution for Genie Mobile CRM project implemented for Wipro Infotech Enterprise Services business.
    • Awarded to Rajesh Sundararajan
      Wipro Applied Innovation Winner Award Wipro Ltd Sep 2008 Received Wipro Applied Innovation Wnner Award in 2008 under process category for transforming Wipro Infotech Factory by implemention IMAS project.