Paraj Mathur Email & Phone Number

Oak Brook, Il, Us

Senior Director Information Technology at Hub Group

Northbrook, Illinois, Us

IT Leader and head for Field Engineering and Retail Applications • Accountable for applications which generate over $800K in yearly revenue• IT leader responsible for Salesforce Implementation (~30M) across field service organization globally. Tasked with retiring several legacy applications

Northbrook, Illinois, Us

IT Director Global Fulfillment for Retail and Industry Business Unit• Created a 3-year application and strategic program roadmap for a $250 Million division. This included strategy for fulfillment systems from the acquired companies.• Co-Designed organization structure of the division Information Technology team getting alignment on the org design tenets from all parties.• Developed a proposal to implement common Lab processes across the division and implement common fulfillment system & retire 20 legacy apps. Working on ROI and business value realization. • Co-created an application matrix (quadrant) providing an executive view of applications to invest, retire, replace or maintain • Contributor to IT’s Long Range Planning and review process • Act as Global Business Process Owner for OpenAir system which is used to manage SaaS businesses – ensured best practices were followed, drove consensus and alignment from 8 different businesses on system design and usage • Provided strategic oversights in the program to replace a 20-year-old legacy system with a common lab/fulfillment system (Labware) for one of the labs in Germany • Lead to Order / Field Engineering Transformation program - IT Stakeholder in implementation of Salesforce CRM and Oracle CPQ across the organization.

Northbrook, Illinois, Us

IT Shared Services KEY PROJECTS - Transfer of ownership of NetSuite and Open Air applications (support, budget, resources etc.) from business to IT- Business Process improvements around expense management, employee and customer. Integrated NetSuite with Oracle, Concur, Ceridian and Salesforce.-Delivered complex gobal ERP upgrade (Oracle 12.2.6 for Quote to Cash, Procure to Pay, Posting to Reporting and HR) on budget and schedule without any impacts to business - Delivered Middleware (Oracle SOA) and Reporting (OBIEE) Upgrade programs on budget and schedule without any issues - Contributed to business unit transformation initiatives including customer facing Portal and Global Fulfillment System - Contributed to implementation of Click Scheduling Software for over 2000 Field Service staff globally IT Operations - - Lead teams of IT managers, tech leads, BAs, architects, developers and admins to implement and support ERP (Oracle and NetSuite), Middleware (Oracle SOA Suite and Integration Cloud ) and BI- Develop and execute IT Strategy & Roadmap - COE for SOA Middleware related technologies. Mandate use of SOA-Create high performing teams. In-Source application support from an outsourced provider -Responsible for Audits and IT Governance Control for these applications. -Manage vendor relationships, leads vendor selection and software selection -Successfully execute multiple cost savings and reduction initiatives

Northbrook, Illinois, Us

Quote to Cash Implementation -Successfully led global Quote to Cash implementation on budget and extremely tight timeline to bring new acquired (M&A) companies into common business process and global design. Solution invloved new implementation of Oracle EBS R12.2, SOA 11g and OBIEE 11g - Responsibilties included delivery and all aspects of technology solutioning including solution design, development, architecture, infrastructure and roll out. - Peak team size managed was 100 resources. Total budget directly managed upwards of $ 10M - Enforced compliance to 'No Customization’ mandate of CIO through Design Review Board - Achieved goal of single customer, employee and Service Catalog for the organization - Accelerated onboarding of fulfillment systems by designing reusable order to BU fulfillment solution using Oracle Middleware solution

Northbrook, Illinois, Us

Key Projects eCommerce System - Designed and delivered an online ordering and payment solution for Building Materials business. The solution built on Microsoft technologies on front end and Oracle istore in backend.CRM (Siebel) Implementation - Drove adoption of a common Sales Process globally using Siebel CRM. Led the project on time and on budget ($ 5M). Delivered two-way integration of Accounts, Contacts and Quotes between Oracle ERP and Siebel CRM. 'For Profit' conversion - IT Project Manager for UL Canada's conversion to 'For Profit' from 'Not for Profit' organization Sales Contracts Implementation - Implemeted this module in Oracle EBS 11.5.10IT Operations - - Led Oracle ERP, CRM, Oracle DBAs and Field Engineering IT teams and supported these applications -Insourced application support from an outsourced provider by creating an ERP and DBA practices in the organization. Consolidated shadow IT resources into IT. -Initiated Service Review Boards for governance and prioritization of work requests-Managed vendor relationships -Successfully Executed cost reduction initiatives

Paris, France, Fr

Worked with Capgemini and Formerly with E&Y for about 8 years. As a senior manager with Capgemini, member of Oracle Practice's Midwest Leadership team. Responsible for delivery and sales process of large scale business transformation projects for clients in various industries. Managed team sizes and work of up to 80 team members. Consistently beat yearly goals for revenue managed, utilization and sales. Sales Wins- Sales Pursuit Lead for over $10 Million win at large convenience store chain. Built the proposal including business case development, cost estimates, project and resource plan and timeline. - Sales Pursuit Lead for multi Million Dollars Oracle upgrade work at large convenience store chain. Also led the Orals presentation to client’s leadership team - Sales Pursuit Lead for multi Million Dollars win at major aviation firm. Led RFP response and presentation. Key Delivery Roles- Led the software selection phase for a real estate store development program at major convenience store. Helped complete fit gap and tool selection. Subsequently managed 26000 hours of custom development work involving Oracle ERP and Tririga s/w.- Engagement / Project Manager for Product Roadmap and business case development for a major aviation company. Responsible for project delivery, budget, timeline, stake holder management.

London, Gb

As a Manager in Oracle Practice of Capgemini Ernst & Young,, I played a key role in multiple successful ERP and other business transformation programs. Also helped in the Sales Process, proposal building, RFP responses etc. Key Delivery Roles- Jeppesen - Project Manager for two of seven transformation consulting projects for client helping their migration from Paper to Electronic charts -Albertsons - Testing Program Manager on a huge Procure to Pay and Projects implementation. Developed testing strategy. Successfully led UAT and SIT test cycles. Presented weekly executive summary of UAT progress and Go Live readiness to the CFO and CIO of Albertsons. -BMC Software - Testing lead on a large Siebel/Oracle implementation. Defined test strategy, drove successful on time completion of Systems Integration and User Acceptance testing. -Neiman Marcus - Managed large team and successful delivery of over 100 custom objects for Posting to Reporting”, “Procure to Pay” and “Property Management” business processes in Oracle -Swiss Reinsurance - Lead for Oracle Financials implementation. Managed all technical aspects.Key Sales Wins- Pursuit team member. Won Oracle ERP assessment phase work at a key aviation client. - Sales Pursuit team member for a big win at high end retailer. Participated in RFP response and orals. Presented to client’s CFO, CIO and others

London, Gb

Part of Oracle ERP Practice of Ernst & Young. Key Projects- Lucent Technologies - Worked as technical Lead for AR and Inventory. Worked on Inventory Item Master setup and data conversion, workflows and vertex implementation - Large Telecommunication Giant - Worked on global Supply Chain Optimization Project. Developed multiple reports, alerts, Customization on MRP and Purchasing- eOutlets.com - Worked on .com project for prime outlets- C-StoreMatrix - Worked on B2B Market Place integration project using i2 and Oracle solution

Bangalore, Karnataka, In

Different roles including Onsite Account Manager, Project Manager, Team Lead, Developer and Customer Support Executive during the ~ 7 years at Wipro. Key Projects include- GE Capital Modular Space - Led the successful implementation of Wipro's first fixed fee Oracle Applications (AR) project.- GE Capital Modular Space - Chart of Account Structure change - architected and developed a solution for COA structure change. Saved several hundred thousand dollars with this solution. - GE Medical Systems - Multiple roles including Unix System Administrator, DBA and Developer - GE Global Consumer Finance - Provided operation support from offshore - Also worked in Customer Support Division of Wipro Technologies

Executive Leadership Program

Global Leader, Executive Leadership Skills

Master'S Degree, Computer Applications

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