Vivek Sukhthankar(He/Him)

-Leading the strategy, delivery, and operations of enterprise applications landscape with a strong focus on Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP, SCM, Finance, Field Service, Integration and Oracle AI. -Responsible for driving the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of the enterprise applications to support business transformation, scale, and operational excellence. -Partnering with C-suite and functional leadership (Finance, HR, Supply Chain, Operations, AI) to translate business priorities into application capabilities. - Establishing governance for application lifecycle management, including intake, prioritization, and continuous improvement. -Acting as a Technical voice of the Oracle platform, Integration and AI initiatives with internal stakeholders, partners and leadership. - Manage and mentor IT teams on high performance, AI agents and functional capabilities of the Cloud platform

•As a Business Architect, infused key clients in achieving their digital transformation SaaS ERP vision, AI Strategy and business capabilities from their enterprise technology strategic investments. •Provided thought leadership on agentic workflow and architectural guidance to business and IT leaders on information system technologies, their SaaS Cloud roadmaps, their functionalities, costs, benefits, and implementation requirements. •Implemented a phased plan that manages systems complexity and gradually increases the architecture maturity level of the company over a multi-year period and supporting both current and future business strategies. •Drive IT innovation with Agent demos and showcase the Gen AI features, concept assessments, industry benchmarking analysis, risk analysis, business case development and approval for technologies to create a win-win for the client and the company. •Promoted and delivered Business architecture, Cloud technology infrastructure, platform development, and integrate applications to reduce costs and improve information and process improvement flows.

- As an Enterprise Architect, Partnered with clients at the enterprise level to mobilize, deliver, and measure strategic business outcomes to drive business value by helping customers understand how best to leverage, implement, and optimize the Oracle SaaS, PaaS and IaaS solutions. - Collaborated with C-Level business leaders as well as the enterprise architecture team to provide a consensus based enterprise solution that is scalable, adaptable, and in synch with ever changing business needs. Used best practices on cloud infrastructure knowledge with platform integration - Evaluated customer current enterprise architecture to detect critical deficiencies, recommending business case solutions for improvement and documenting all architecture design and analysis work for the CXO community identified. - Developed and maintained a 3 to 5 year roadmap (On Premises and Cloud) and financial investment plans based on business objectives, business value, risks, industry trends, innovation, capability requirements, and future state technology lifecycle.

• Managed Oracle Practice of 250+ Consulting team and serve as an expert and thought leader in the Oracle capabilities and implementing solutions worldwide for Zensar (a RPG group). • Managed client relationships (especially with the UN bodies) to ensure delivery of current commitments, grow customer satisfaction, and increase revenue under the Oracle framework. • Provided oversight of project managers for the successful delivery of projects, ensuring teams adhered to methodologies, consistently utilized Oracle best practices to accomplish assigned work products, and complied with all project standards. • Acted as a liaison among project stakeholders, business analysts, and developers to ensure appropriate delivery of technology solutions (enterprise architecture, data modeling and conversion, integration design and development, infrastructure capacity and utilization, backups, disaster recovery, user support, training and documentation) in accordance with business requirements and objectives. • Proactively identified Oracle practice pipeline opportunities from consulting sales and/or project managers and determined how to best support the pursuit by putting together response to Proposals and RFPs. • Led business develop effort where appropriate or manage creation of business value propositions, proposals, scoping documents, costs estimates, presentations, discovery workshops, and project plans in support of sales. • Coordinated assignments of consultants in liaison with the Delivery Managers and the Operations team. • Managed business operations/resources in a manner that fulfils business goals, meets budgets, and maintains Practice strategic direction.

• Part of the Executive Strategy leadership for Bank of Tokyo- Mitsubishi and an advocate with defining new business processes and implementing tools and technology in support of evolving business models and the strategic priority of digitizing the global bank. • Managed multiple cross-functional workstreams, created and maintained project timelines and plans, facilitated team meetings, and communicated project status, risks, and issues to stakeholders. • Worked proactively with the business and IT to document Finance impacts, bottlenecks, risks, business requirements, process changes, and implementation plans. • Led a team of 30+ Oracle SMEs and Finance staff on a 12-month globally wide program with a budget of $10 M implementation .

• Managed and delivered components of Marsh & Mcclennan (MMC)’s engagements that identified, designed, and implemented technology and business solutions for client companies. • Developed and maintained contact with top decision makers at key MMC clients, participated and led aspects of the proposal development process, and contributed to the development of proposal pricing strategies. • Oversaw teams in the identification of business requirements, functional design, process design (including scenario design, flow mapping), prototyping, testing, training, and defining support procedures. • Led the global implementation of MMC's Oracle Financials rollouts and managing Oracle Production support for a key client with presence in 20+ countries on all the 4 continents. • Worked with MMC's end users in finance and operations to carry out change control deliverables based on a specific work plan. • Managed a team of development staff members onshore as well as offshore to carry out technical work deliverables

Worked as a Principal for IBM Business consulting services(Previously Pricewaterhouse Consulting) for multiple client industries in the US, Europe and Asia executing Oracle Financials implementations and Chart of Account redesign and process improvement projects. Delivered on management consulting and process improvement with Oracle ERPinitiatives within different industry sectors (Consumer and Industrial Products, Telecommunications, FMCG, Healthcare, Media and Entertainment etc.) making those organizations best in class with transaction processing and management reporting.

Worked as a Sr. Consultant in the Oracle Financials Practice and implemented Oracle EBS Applications for a large Telecommunication client (Nextel) and a Major Staffing client (Olsten). Participated in these full life cycle Oracle Financials(11i) Implementations covering Accounts Receivables and Management reporting requirements.

Strategy driven Innovation, Design development , Entrepreneurship principles, valuation and topics covering Business Modeling and Planning, Value Chain analysis and building innovation case analysis.

Welingkar Institute of Management Development and Research, Sion - Mumbai