Raghavendra Rao Email & Phone Number

Frisco, Tx, Us

Dallas, Texas, United States

CSC Generation is saving Retail. We acquire store and catalog based retailers, and transform them into high performing, “digital first” brands. In just four years, we’ve acquired and turned around brands including: Sur La Table, Z Gallerie, and One Kings Lane, saving over 2,000 jobs and reaching over $1.7B in revenue. My organization's goal is to optimize ERP & Supply chain technology footprint across brands to improve customer experience, reduce TCO, and drive brick-and-mortar focused brands into leaner e-commerce-first businesses.Proud owner of the brands: Z Gallerie, Direct Buy, One Kings Lane, Sur La Table.Netsuite ERP implementation n building centralized integrations for plug n play across retailers

Plano, Texas

Senior Manager - Supply Chain TechnologyLead Technology for Store fulfillment , .COM fulfillment , TMS , MHE, Factory ship and IntegrationsPeople and Talent Development Technology Modernization of Supply chain applications

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

- Technology Delivery (Marketing - Planning applications) - Work with Sr Product manager to assist/define Product Road maps - Drove efforts to transition the team from a water fall delivery model to Agile/Product delivery model.- Define MVPs for the product features & establish delivery plans to align to Roadmap goals - Provide directions to Scrum master to align sprint to sprint planning to MVP post MVP delivery timings- Key stakeholder reviews - Define Roadmap for Technology Efficiencies & Automation (Technology product management) - 3rd Party product integrations

Greater Seattle Area

Alexa is the name of the Amazon cloud-based voice service that powers Echo, the groundbreaking new Amazon device designed around your voice. Echo is always ready — just ask for information, music, news, weather, and more.Alexa Beta: •Drove planning and execution of Alexa Beta operations to enable successful launches of Echo Spot and Echo Show, both of which received a customer star rating of over 4 out of 5.•Led the definition, design and roll out of new programs, products and key new features.•Established Alexa Beta Strategy and Goals for 1-3 years out, for the country (US).•Demonstrated a lean learning curve by taking over and successfully defining International (US, UK, India, Japan and Germany) beta operational plans & estimations for Echo Spot (Alexa) •SME to Product and Technical teams for the programs.•Leadership and mentoring of junior members within Alexa Beta. •Managed Stakeholder and beta community relationships for the country (US).

• Accountable and Responsible for a successful delivery of a $20 M+ Upstream Distribution IT Program, with a projected benefit of $350M over 5 years.• Responsible for strategy and Implementation of the EKI through Delivery, Vendor and Budget management.• Managed core functional changes across F&R, Inventory, Distribution and Transportation systems to strategically position inventory upstream, to quickly-react to demand volatility throughout the chain.• Influenced teams to adopt Open source, lightweight, low cost and flexible technologies (ex: TOMCAT over WAS. Kafka & Apache Camel for Integrations over MQ) – Corporate alignment. • Effectively integrated SPRING, J2EE frameworks SC applications with external vendor based material handling systems through Apache Tomcat. • Led efforts of Internal and Vendor technology teams (Over 80 resources) to drive alignment across the teams to deliver high quality systems and Products on time and under budget – Drive for Results.• Effectively managed technology, Vendor and Business stakeholder relationships by building trust and consistently delivering information needed to make decisions.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

International Expansion: • Responsible to deliver Warehouse Management space within the International expansion strategy for Target’s Canada. • Responsible for standing up end-to-end Warehouse management systems for 2 of the 3 Distribution centers using 3PLs and Package solutions (Manhattan for WMS and Integration with SAP/JDA). • Led a Day2 program (8M annual budget) to Increase profitability by reducing carton-handling costs (Projected 15M / Year savings).ASRS (Automated Storage and Retrieval) & Sorter MHE solutions for Distribution centers:• Led the effort to evaluate Packages, Gap fit Analysis and integrate warehouse management systems with Swisslog WM (ASRS) and Intelligrated ICW (Control systems). • Defining and leading the Integration commissioning efforts for Distribution centers.• Over 25% Reduction in Carton handling charges, and Savings in Deferred capital due to higher throughput and Storage Density.• Defined reusable Project planning, Commissioning and deployment artifacts for subsequent ASRS implementations.• Established Milestone based Fixed Price Contracts (SOWs and SLAs) with MHE vendors, to enable higher vendor accountability in delivery of Software services. • Hiring, Leading and mentoring of Business Analysis team for the program, Established Induction process for new resources.• As Part of the Business Technology Team, responsible for Relationship, Application portfolio, Demand intake, financial management and Program/Release governance.• Part of the team responsible for evaluating & selecting vendors for product implementations.

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Area

• Took 100% accountability of a New Stagnated Retail Pharmacy Account as an Account manager.• Working with SYNTEL Legal, Finance, Sales, HR heads, assumed Single point ownership of all aspects of the Account. • Responsible and accountable for Client relationship, Contract management , Delivery management, Revenue & Margin management, Hiring , Mentoring and Performance evaluations• Achieved ~ 200% growth from stagnated 10 resource T&M account to a 40+ account by pooling resources to compete and win a Fixed Price Key customer facing Portal initiative within RiateAid.COM. Set up the account to sustain further growth prior to moving to a Corporate Goal.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Led efforts to put together SYNTEL proposals (RFP -Response) and Solution Architecture for large competitive bid initiatives in Target Replenishment space, and won the majority of the contracts over a leading software vendor. • Achieved a high rate of personal growth in the organization with consistent performance & results exceeding expectations. re• Responsible for designing Web (Java) & Batch (Mainframe) application solution architecture and Data modeling to support key initiatives in the Replenishment space. Lead a team of over 40 resources (between offshore and Onsite) to deliver $ 12M worth of IT solutions (over 2.5 years) to support business and technology optimization Strategies. Net savings of • Responsible for Effort estimations, Resource planning, Resource performance management and Mentoring, Project Management.• Developed effective Knowledge transition methodologies to make knowledge transfer between onsite and offshore teams effective.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

•Designed and Developed Core system components within Target Import Ordering and Replenishment portfolio, Involving Legacy (Main frame) and Web/Java (EAD4J, Spring) technologies•Designed and Developed New systems and system enhancements involving Legacy and Web Technologies.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

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Bachelor'S Degree - Engineering And Technology

Bachelor Of Technology (B.Tech.)