Ajeesh Muthirakkal

About Ajeesh Muthirakkal

Visionary Digital Transformation and IT leader with 23 years of proven expertise in driving large-scale business systems implementation, strategic process optimization, and organizational innovation. My career spans diverse industries including Automotive, Industrial, Retail, Distribution, and Services, with deep specialization in domains such as Lead-to-Cash, Project-to-Cash, Procurement-to-Pay, advanced warehousing, manufacturing, and system integration.I have a track record of delivering complex, scalable architectures, integrating on-premise and cloud ecosystems for industry leaders like Cisco, and building enterprise systems from the ground up in startups such as Jawbone, Light Labs, and Zoox. As a trusted advisor to startups in India, I take pride in mentoring emerging leaders and guiding innovative ventures to success.Core CompetenciesEnterprise Strategy & Execution: Crafting and executing IT/IS strategies that align with business objectives to drive scalability, security, and ROI.Technology Leadership: Leading diverse, multicultural teams and managing IT infrastructure transformations across ERP (SAP S/4HANA, Oracle, NetSuite), CRM (Salesforce, Zendesk), and advanced tools (Workday, Coupa, Shopify).Supply Chain Excellence: Orchestrating end-to-end supply chain solutions with integrated applications for ERP, APS, WMS, HRIS, and IoT.Business Process Expertise: Supporting finance, procurement, manufacturing, logistics, quality, HR, and customer care through agile IT solutions.Stakeholder Engagement: Building strong executive relationships and communicating strategic visions effectively to drive buy-in and collaboration.Systems expertise includes SAP S/4HANA, NetSuite, Workday, Coupa, Ariba, Salesforce, Shopify, Vertex, and more.I thrive at the intersection of technology and business, leveraging my expertise to build resilient, innovative enterprises that are future-ready.

Experience

1. Director Business Systems

   Zoox

   Oct 2018 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US

   Defined the vision and long term strategy for business systems at Zoox by partnering with process team and project management team to drive manual task elimination across Finance & OperationsWork closely and partner with the CEO, VP of procurement, VP manufacturing & VP finance to ensure that the foundation layer of the ERP is in line with the Zoox’s roadmap and report to the CTO and CEO office for the business systems roadmap aligning to Zoox’s strategic vision.Business systems stakeholders in critical projects (Workday integrations, Vendor management implementation, ERP, FP & A and MES) to ensure project success by understanding the needs of the business and leadership, identifying appropriate solutions, and determining how technology should be leveraged to make the solution happenOwn the entire system landscape at Zoox - HRIS (Workday), ERP (S4 HANA from SAP), MES (SAP), Procurement(Coupa), FP & A (Adaptive Insights)

Education

• Savitribai Phule Pune University

  Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science

  1998 — 2001

• Savitribai Phule Pune University

  Master’s Degree, Computer Science

  2001 — 2003

Skills

• Java Enterprise Edition
• Oracle
• Solution Architecture
• Web Services
• Soa
• Spring
• Leadership
• Team Management
• Requirements Analysis
• Struts
• Technical Leadership
• Team Leadership
• Sdlc
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Great Personality
• Software Project Management
• Agile Methodologies
• Business Analysis
• Great Communications Skills
• Great Motivator
• Vendor Management
• Spring Framework
• Pre-Sales
• Netsuite
• Service-Oriented Architecture (Soa)
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Kinaxis
• Arena for Plm
• Shopify
• Business Intelligence