Rajesh M Kulkarni

Business-savvy manufacturing CIO experienced in improving strategic competitiveness of medium-to-large scale global businesses. Enables revenue growth by accelerating productivity improvement programs and optimizing global supply chain efficiencies. Champions business process standardization initiatives using ERP, provides decision-making analytics, and turn-around global IT operations.

❏ Full scope global IT operations: leads IT/BPM org of 140+ IT pros across 20+ countries, in-sourced / outsourced, with budgets $50M~$100M+

❏ Problem-Solver: Addresses complex business problems using innovative technology solutions. Prevented loss of external customers by correcting critical business problems at source.

❏ Cost Productivity: Improves global supply chain efficiencies. Reduced $5M+ in overtime labor wages.

❏ Technology Leadership : Expertise in architecting IT strategies, application and infrastructure consolidation, Clouds, ERP/SAP global deployments, improving end-user productivity using social media and BYOD, enterprise risk management, IT governance, PMO, security & compliance.

❏ Multi-Industry experience: Industrial and Automotive, Aerospace and Defense, Food and Beverages, Chemical and Pharmaceuticals.

❏ Education: MBA, MCM -Masters in IT , Bachelor in Financial Accounting, Six Sigma Green Belt

❏ International work experience : Europe - Bonn, Germany | Asia - Pune, India

Special areas of interest include entrepreneurship, leadership skills, developing talent, innovating solutions to business problems.

CIO expertise: End-user productivity improvements, IT operation, social media deployments, IT strategy, cost reductions, MES optimization, Sarbanes-Oxley, enterprise IT security, vendor risk management, insourcing/outsourcing. Cloud Computing (SaaS, IaaS, PaaS), Business Intelligence/Analytics, eCommerce, ERP (Oracle, SAP, Peoplesoft, Lawson)