Prakash Rao Email & Phone Number

San Francisco Bay Area

• Drive and execute the strategic vision by developing a clear multi year roadmap for a range of internal and external products.• Engineer robust, integrated, highly scalable and user friendly solutions (web applications, client based apps, product add-ons and platform solutions) using latest development technologies, tools and processes.• Manage programs related to enterprise asset management, content management, operations, sales and finance applications.• Maintain business - IT alignment (sales, finance, operations) to meet business goals, and enable new capabilities.• Manage internal products as well as implement third party solutions, by aligning the teams to ensure development and project management work seamlessly to deliver solutions.• Incorporate data driven metrics to provide key insight to the business, using big data technologies and analytics.

• Manage delivery of projects/solutions for several business groups.• Manage the onsite and offshore teams responsible for CRM and ERP applications.• Manage integration of SAP ERP with CRM, PLM, SCM and BI applications.• Implementation of IT controls for SOX, compliance, information security and service management. • Implementation of SAP across all global SanDisk sites (ECC, CRM, SRM, BI/BW, HR, Portals). This was a big bang go-live replacing most of the legacy systems with the SAP modules and was completed in 2 years.• Implementation of SAP CRM – Trade promotions management, Marketing, Sales, Channel Management, Funds Management, Claims management and Accruals Management.• Implementing automated solutions for key periodic processes like Cost rolls, Cost revaluation and financial consolidation, to reduce system downtime by 60% and increase efficiency of the process.• Implementation of ServiceNow to centralize change, release, incident and problem management, to increase efficiency, reduce cycle time and provide enhanced customer service for all users.

• Manage development projects for various areas in ERP, data warehousing, and application integration.• Implement disaster recovery solutions for critical systems.• Manage technical operations for several IT groups including database administration, application development and support.

• Provide high quality ERP (QAD) consulting to clients and alliance partners.• Lead packaged ERP (QAD) implementations for customers and deliver technical solutions for key business problems.• Lead prototyping and proof-of-concept initiatives to explore new technology advancements and incorporate them into our solutions.

• Provide technical and functional ERP consulting to clients in various industry verticals.• Provide development, implementation and pre-sales support to enterprise customers.• Worked in various technical capacities, including developer, analyst, database administrator and solutions architect. Developed and rolled out software modules to many Unilever sites worldwide.• Worked on several software projects for leading multinational companies like Unilever, GE, Schlumberger and Allen Bradley in areas of finance, inventory management, manufacturing and sales.

Bachelor Of Engineering B.E (Hons), Computer Science

Cpim, Production & Inventory Mgmt, Supply Chain Management

Itil - Foundation, It Service Management