Arunkumar Setti Email & Phone Number

Auckland, New Zealand

Auckland, New Zealand

• As a part of the Practice Leadership team, I lead a team of functional and technical consultants in implementations of Oracle Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP) solutions.• Solution Architect for multiple successful implementations of Oracle ERP Cloud at large NZ government departments and Crown entities. • I am helping grow the Oracle practice by identifying and recruiting candidates, mentor them once they join and enable them to realise their best potential.• As the relationship manager for multiple clients, I am their trusted advisor who helps them achieve the most out of their investments in Oracle Cloud, suggesting improvements and getting their issues resolved promptly by my team.

Auckland, New Zealand

• Manage onshore and offshore developers• Deliver complex reporting and analytics solutions using Oracle Analytics Cloud• Understand business and technical requirements and architect the ERP Cloud solution to meet these requirements. • Lead implementation projects, and mentor junior consultants in my project team• Respond to RFPs, conduct pre-sales demonstration sessions to prospective clients

Auckland, New Zealand

• Project managed a complex Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3 implementation with total budget of over NZ$ 1.5M• Coordinate vendor resources from: UXC Eclipse, the primary system integrator, Flintfox for pricing and promotions modules, Kepion for Budgeting and Financial Reporting, and ERP Solutions for TQCM quality module • Understand business requirements and help users get the most optimal solution.• Work with vendor project managers to ensure timelines are met.

Auckland, New Zealand

• Project managed two Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3 implementations, one for a distributions company in the pharmaceutical industry, and the other for a manufacturing company in the food and beverage industry.• Project managed several Greentree ERP implementations and upgrades.• Expanded the Endeavour Project Implementation Methodology.• Identified and rolled out a collaborative, online project management platform called LiquidPlanner, which was very well received by customers, management and team members alike as a significantly superior alternative to desktop project management software.• Created several pre-sales and sales proposals after analysing requirements from prospective customers.

Auckland, New Zealand

• Was primarily responsible for creating the OpenText Service Catalogue for the All of Government ECM service panel.• Created several sales opportunities by giving presentations and product demonstrations to top executives of prospective customers.• Project managed and provided technical responses to several RFPs.

Auckland, New Zealand

• Was awarded the “Atta Award” for best project manager – an accolade normally only given to full-time employees.• Project managed several projects, up to 5 projects concurrently. Here are some of them: * SunGard Integrity upgrade for Auckland Council Treasury * Security Review and Remediation of the Council’s primary SAP system * Hansen Asset Management System migration for Storm Water * Public Internet Access strategy * SAP B1 CRM implementation for City Parks * Job Management System implementation for City Parks * Marina Management System upgrade for Waterfront Auckland * Noise Monitoring System implementation for Licensing and Compliance• Managed project budgets of over NZ$ 2M, with project teams of up to 25.• Helped improve the IS PMO project delivery methodology and SDLC.

Auckland, New Zealand

• SAP CRM 7 implementation project – quickly learned the system and demonstrated it to internal stakeholders, gathered requirements, and tested the implementation.• Non-Energy Products Platform project – to enable Mercury Energy sell 3rd party non-energy products to their customer-base. Helped project succeed by collaborating extensively with a pilot product vendor.

Wellington, New Zealand

• Project managed the Oracle Financials upgrade from version 11.5.10 to 12.1 • FINEOS Claims Management System upgrade project.• Sun/Solaris to HP/Linux platform migration project.• Total project budget for above three projects was NZ$ 3M, with a project team size of 20.

Auckland, New Zealand

• Evangelize Oracle’s products and solutions to Gen-i’s customers.• Conduct workshops with customers to discover their real requirements.• Develop ideas, propose, design and model solution.• Respond to RFPs, create statements of work for JD Edwards and Oracle ERP projects.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

• Procure-to-Pay Project: Managed the implementation of Oracle Financials version 12 to revamp the sourcing process, which resulted in savings of US$ 70M per year on procurement volume of US$ 6.8B per year.• Archive-Purge Project: Oracle Information Lifecycle Management project, which saved over US$ 500K per year by streamlining how and where data was backed up and stored.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• CARQUEST / General Parts International, Inc., Raleigh, NC: Project leader for the Oracle Financials upgrade project, successfully led a team of 6 consultants to upgrade from version 11.5.9 to 11.5.10.2, in preparation for upgrade to version 12.

India And Usa

• Was awarded “Consultant of the Year” in 2005.• Worked in Oracle North America Consulting and ERP development divisions.• Successfully led several Oracle E-Business Suite projects, while managing an off-shore team of 15 developers.

Bengaluru Area, India

• Worked on developing FlexCube, which provides end-to-end solution to banks.• Support analyst at TAIB Bank, Bahrain and later on provided support to seven banks in Tanzania during the critical Year-2000 roll-over.

Hosur, Tamil Nadu

Managed construction of a painting shop, an effluent-treatment plant and an electro-plating shop.

Ms, Software Systems

Master of Engineering Degree in Software Systems

Bs, Electro-Chemical Engineering

Bachelor of Technology degree in Electro-chemical Engineering from Madurai Kamaraj University

All India Senior School Certificate, English, Maths, Computer Science, Physics And Chemistry.

High School (Standard 6-12) and received the All India Senior School Certificate Exam (AISSCE) from the Central Board of Secondary.