Jay Parikh is Information Technology professional with a diverse background in PMO, Project Portfolio Management, Practice Management, Process re-engineering, Solution Architect, Solution Sales and client relationship management. Jay led the Project Management Office (PMO) within Oracle Applications Consulting practice and established consistent processes for portfolio management, putting in place metrics to measure portfolio performance, bringing consistency in portfolio review and reporting across all practice lines, assessing early warning indicators on projects, facilitating intervention and remediation and providing visibility to executive management. Jay has lead and directed cross-functional teams to deliver multi-million dollar ERP software implementation programs for large corporations in Banking, Brokerage, Imaging, telecom and manufacturing industries as well as for government entities. Prior to joining Oracle, Jay worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers in their Management Consulting division as a Principal Consultant and worked on e-business practice development activities as well as lead CRM Application implementation projects.Jay managed a large manufacturing operation as a production manager where he improved the productivity by multi-fold and reduce the material waste during the manufacturing process by re-designing the processes, tools and coaching the team for producing quality work products.