Rekha Sharma Email & Phone Number

Ottawa, On, Ca

Ottawa, Ontario , Ca

Differly’s Innovation as Service model takes the guesswork out of innovation so your business can grow. Expert practitioners support you across four pillars:Innovation & Transformation, Customer and Member Growth, technology & Digital Strategy, and Change & Organizational Readiness.

Providing strategic technology advisory services to small and medium. Supporting them in their analytics and optimization journey.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

I was brought on board to build the function of Business Systems and Business Intelligence from the ground up, developing the vision and long-term strategy, and organizational structure to execute the plan.Developed a transformative vision, multi-year strategy, and organizational structure to modernize Achievers' BI and Business Systems function, enabling the organization to achieve its growth objectives.Restructured the systems and Business Intelligence team by bringing together siloed technical resources across the organization, hiring leaders, and coaching and mentoring team members.Successfully influenced and spearheaded an enterprise data governance program and embedded it in the project delivery process across the organization.Established standard operating procedures for team effectiveness and efficiency and provided accountability and transparency to the business on deliverables.

Ottawa, Ontario, Ca

I am responsible for developing and managing the technology roadmap and providing leadership in all aspects of the IT business solutions portfolio.I have institutionalized an IT business partner model and while being a strategic IT business partner, I direct and lead the application development, application delivery, system and data integration and IT business partner groups to transform business and enable the business to make data driven decisions.

Ottawa, Ontario, Ca

Reporting to CFO, I was responsible for developing business systems roadmap, fostering strong relationships with business leaders to stay aligned with business goals, set the vision and goals for the team to modernize, transform and automate business processes, and enable organizational growth and success by the network of technologies.Formed and directed the cross-functional team to select the technologies, to architect and implement an award-winning solution leveraging AI/ML that modernized the global customer support operations and provided personalized knowledge to employees, customers, and partners to maximize product adoption and customer service.Orchestrated the transition from legacy reporting to interactive visualizations with self-service business analytics empowering the employees to make data-driven decisions.Developed technology roadmap aligned with corporate goals. Built a high performing and highly motivated team to meet the growing needs of Kinaxis. Led the team to modernize, automate and transform business process by implementing technologies such as Service and Community cloud from Salesforce, Coveo- enterprise search, Okta, Outreach, Discover Org, Successfactors, Microsoft Teams, CPQ, Novatus and ServiceNow.

Ottawa, Ontario, Ca

In this hands-on senior management role, I was responsible for all the aspects of business systems (packaged, developed and SaaS), data integration, database systems, and reporting. I led all activities related to the strategic planning, selection, design, development, configuration, implementation, and support of related systems and technologies.Major System Implementation: Office 365 - SharePoint Online, OneDrive - provided a platform for collaborating with partners, customers and employees. Implemented NetSuite - provided a solution to manage revenue recognition and automating other finance processes.

Ottawa, Ontario, Ca

Led and built the business systems team to develop, implement and maintain mission critical business applications for Kinaxis. Collaborated closely with business management to define business needs and evaluate business solutions. Worked closely with VP (IT) to build IT roadmap, budget and forecast. Elicited business requirements, project managed the system implementations and system integrations projects, developed policy for acquiring software, evaluated SaaS solutions, managed vendor relationships with cloud solution providers - Salesforce.com, FinancialForce.com, Concur, Jive. *Implemented Salesforce.com for sales, support and marketing organization. Evaluated and implemented SaaS solutions for PSA (Tenrox, FinancialForce.com), Expense and Travel booking (Concur), Integrated Concur with Great Plains, implemented and integrated tools for software development for R&D organization (Jira, Confluence, Crucible), Implemented marketing automation tool Eloqua and oversaw implementation of community on Jive platform.

Managed and led Business Information Systems team. Managed system roll-outs and upgrades as a project manager.Gathered business requirements and implemented many business applications. Evaluated different business intelligence tools and selected/implemented Crystal Reports Server to centralize enterprise business intelligence.Integrated internal business applications and improved & streamlined business processes. Oversaw integration between Navision and Pivotal CRM.Administered and supported Microsoft Navision and SQL Server 2000.

Developed many web based applications to streamline and automate processes at Semiconductor Insights. Some of the applications include Patent Application, HR Training Course Management, HR Employee Evaluation System, SI Report Manager, Seeker - a search application.Technical environment used for development: .Net Framework, ASP.Net, SQL Server 2000, IIS 5.0, Enterprise Architect, UML, C# , CSS and JavaScript.

Montreal, Quebec, Ca

As a .Net Developer, developed License Retiring Application, a multilingual application, for CGI client Department of Fisheries and Oceans.Developed Window based Java application, Nunavut Batch Processor, for CGI client Government of Nunavut.Developed web based application, Income Support Module, using Java and ASP, SQl Server 6,0, IIS and JavaScript for CGI client Government of Nunavut.Main responsibilities: Developed stored procedures and implemented in Java and ASP.net, developed and designed user interface, prepared test cases and tested applications, generated reports, designed and developed prototypes for client, installed application on client's test environment.

Executive Certificate In Strategy And Innovation

Master Of Engineering, Engineering

Bachelor Of Engineering, Engineering

Pg Diploma In Computer Application, Computer Science

Project Management, Project Management