Ravi Arunachalam

About Ravi Arunachalam

Ravi has around 18 years of experience in Digital Transformation Consulting Business with Cognitive & ERP Product Lines (Cloud & On-Prem). Currently working as a Solution Architect and handling Oracle Enterprise Management Portfolios with Digital technology\'s enablers like AI, Blockchain, Cloud, DevOps, IoT, Process Mining & RPA. He has involved on various End to End Implementations, Roll Outs, Up-gradation, Enhancement and Support Projects with various industries like C & IP, Banking & Financial Services, Life sciences, Oil & Gas, Chemicals, Manufacturing/Engineering and Construction Industry. He has configured and worked on Procure to Pay (P2P), Order to Cash (O2C), Acquire to Retire (A2R) and Record to Report (R2R) business scenarios. He has worked on various functional modules in ERP Products like GL, AP, AR, FA,EM, ACA, Project Costing, Project Billing, Real Estate Management. He has good knowledge with reporting tools like Tableau, QlikView & Power BI. As part of ERP certifications he has obtained Oracle Cloud ERP (Finance/PPM/Procurement) Implementation Specialist, Oracle JD Edwards (Finance/PPM/SCM) Implementation Specialist, CX (Sales), Oracle Primavera P6 Enterprise PPM Implementation Specialist Certificate from Oracle University and Microsoft Dynamics 365 ERP Fundamentals Certificate. Also he is ITIL Certified IT Service Management Consultant, Automation Anywhere/UiPath Certified Advanced RPA Professional, PMI/PRINCE2 Certified Project Management Practitioner, CSSI/MSI Certified Lean Six Sigma Professional, Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Scaled Agile Certified Product Owner/Product Manager (SAFe POPM), IIBA Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP), TOGAF Certified Enterprise Architect & Azure, IBM and Oracle Certified Cloud Solution practitioner.

Experience

1. Senior Manager - Digital Transformation (Cognitive & ERP)

   IBM

   Jul 2017 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Working as a Solution Architect and part of IBM Consulting Digital Transformation & Global ERP Build Factory Projects. Core Responsibilities:• Interacts with the business stakeholders and subject matter experts to understand their business problems and needs• Defining, Analyzing and Eliciting business requirements• Managing the Resources, Product Backlogs, prioritizing the business needs, overseeing development stages and evaluating product progress at each iteration • Developing technical solutions to business problems• Perform complex design, maintenance, enhancement, testing, implementation, and support on ERP and Digital Transformation Projects• Initiate and drive activities for continuous improvement and quality focus• Solid experience in Designing and Architect complex Applications, Reports, Interfaces, Conversions and Enhancements • Part of governance and oversight committees related to technology planning, design, and decisions• Build strong relationships with business partners to ensure technology alignment with business priorities• Develop expert knowledge of existing systems and facilitate creation of mechanisms to track current and future state architectures• Performs design reviews to make sure that the Implementation aligns with architectural plans and road-maps

Education

• Bangalore University

  Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Accounting and Finance

  2005 — 2007