Rakesh Abberla Email & Phone Number

Bengaluru, KA, IN

Bengaluru Area, India

• Leads a PLM Team for Reliance Trends and provides day to day support for all PLM system related requests, queries, feedback, and bugs/malfunctions along with the team.
• Define and align scope for new developments and small projects with the Product Development team.
• Gather and analyze business requirements with the goal to map and improve existing business processes.
• Functional testing to ensure new requirements, upgrades and improvements implemented by the development team
• Organize and deliver training sessions to Business users and vendors on site about new processes..
• Nominated Retail IT member for Vendor screening and Functional evaluation of Software solutions related to product development and ensures to provide right solution to Business users.

Bengaluru Area, India

• Successfully implemented the Dassault Systemes Enovia My Collection PLM in Reliance Trends and Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail Ltd and Provided continuous support to Arvind Lifestyle Brands Ltd and BlackBerrys.
• Conducted gap analysis while Interacting with key end users and business owners, mapped their standard business processes to the PLM and Prepared Functional specification documents.
• Led business and user acceptance workshops by designing Test cases and checklists for effective steering.
• Prepared user manuals, conducted training work shops and diligently provided post implementation support for better adoption.
• Led the requirement gathering workshop from the functional side for change management and handed over the Functional requirement Documents to Technical Team.
• As an in house project, Re-Designed Requirement gathering templates to capture the holistic requirements of new projects and impact analysis.

Noida Area, India

• Worked extensively with the product development team in the generation of new features in intelloCut software aimed at making the cutting floor processes more efficient.
• Analysed and inspected the working of the software at all major implemented factories with tools and results. Possible solutions were shared both development and factory teams to ensure the smooth functioning.
• Implemented the software in woven and knit factories across India and Bangladesh o Aligning their cutting process with the intelloCut process flow, o Trained the factory team in the software and new cutting methods,o.

Gurgaon, India

• Projects deliveredo Performance Improvement of Garment manufacturing suppliers in Bangladesh,o Capacity mapping and capability analysis of hard goods suppliers,o Conducting a study on Garment sector to understand their.
• Restructured the Body of Knowledge (BOK) for simplification of data mining.
• Assisted the business development team with technical proposals in initiating the talks with the clients.

New Delhi Area, India

• Designed and conducted training programs and manuals for the internal stakeholders which helped them to boost the embroidery machine sales up to 75%,
• Provided feedback about machines to the Global technical team,
• Designed maintenance schedule and Manuals for the services team.

Masters In Fashion Technology, Garment Manufacturing Technology

Bachelors In Technology, Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering, Distinction