Sudhakar Siddegowda, Principal Consultant

Sudhakar Siddegowda

Principal Consultant

OMNIPOD

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Doctorate, Retail Management
Experience
31 years, 9 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :31 years, 9 Months

Principal Consultant at OMNIPOD
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since January 2012

*Provided ICT strategy to BFL, UAE as per the Good to Great Business Transformation Program and currently building E-Commerce platform for their online fashion business.
*Provided Retail Audit Service for BMA International, UAE operating within GCC countries on Oracle Merchandize Operations Management (MOM) Applications with 2 Fashion Brands & 200 Stores.
*Provided Program Management and Implementation service to Mohammed Hilal Group, UAE for implementing Manufacturing, Retail & Distribution (MRD) Industry solution and Omni-channel business model through Oracle Fusion Cloud Service & Retail On-Premise Applications covering 5 brands, 6 countries & 100+ stores.
*Provided Program Management and Implementation service to Khaled Al Rajhi Holding Company, KSA for implementing Oracle Point of Service (XOffice & XStore) for their 3 brands.
*Provided Program Management and implementation service to Midad Group, KSA for implementing Oracle Retail in a box solution with optimized BoM - Fusion Cloud (GL, AP, AR, CM, FA, SCM, HCM, Payroll, OTL & OM) and Point of Service (XOffice & XStore) for 15 brands. 1st company to go live in the entire IMEA region on the new Oracle Point of Service (PoS) modules with integration to Fusion Cloud Service Suite.
*Provided Management Services to Versant Technologies Inc., USA and improved their retail practice level skills, resource utilization and sales revenue with vendor agnostic approach (Oracle, SAP, and Microsoft etc.) throughout their Merger and Acquisition process with Aspire Systems, India.
Developed Retail Real-time Operational Intelligence (ROI) Solution Blue Print (SBP) to Omnitrol Networks, USA.
*Provided ICT Strategy to Almas for Al Mazroui Group, UAE.
*Provided Program Management Officer (PMO) service to Nouvasys, UAE for Hyperion Implementation projects in ADGSEC & FERTIL, UAE.
Provided Management Service to Tetrahedron Consulting, UAE for their Information Technology Enabled Services (ITES) business setup at Dubai Internet City (DIC).
*Provided Consulting Service to Doral IT, UAE on their Services Delivery Division setup.
Provided Consulting Service to GTS, UAE on their Services Delivery Division setup.
*Provided Consulting Service to Lead Associates, UAE on Omni-channel Transformation Strategy.
Provided Management Service to Team Time Company (TTC), KSA for implementing 1st Oracle Cloud (Fusion, Taleo & Right Now) modules in the region.

IT Director at MAF Holding
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • June 2010 to December 2011

Provided IT strategic direction and leadership to Ventures division SBU’s (Franchise & JV) having Fashion & Confectionery businesses with heterogeneous IT ecosystem (Microsoft Dynamics AX, JDE, GP, Retail Pro, Control etc.) and shared services on infrastructure and corporate systems.
Key Achievements:
* Facilitated Risk Assessment and Developed Register.
* Ensured compliance on Audit Observations.
* Developed capacity planning
* Reduced cost and increased productivity with proper planning, budgeting and forecasting as per business dynamics.
* Finalized Service Level Agreements (SLA) on shared services model.
* Presented business case and transformation plan from current state to vision state.
* Prepared Enterprise Architecture using ARIS software based on The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) methodology and standards.

Chief Information Officer at M.H. Group of Companies
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • February 2009 to May 2010

Provided IT strategic direction and leadership to SBU’s (Own, Franchise & JV) - Food Solutions & Service, Sales & Distribution (FMCG & Chemicals), Food Processing & Packaging and Duty Free operations.
Key Achievements:
* Successfully established the ICT Department with centralized People, Process & Technology (PPT)initiatives with proper Policies, Procedures and Systems (PPS).
* Centralized Facility, networking and computing capabilities including Disaster Recovery (DR)mechanism.
* Facilitated on Hazard Analysis & Critical Control Points (HACCP) Certification process.
* Implemented Warehouse Management System (WMS) build on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
integrating to ORION ERP and interfacing to Smart Client Potable Data Access (PDA) devices.
* Connected GCC Operations via Virtual Private Network.
* Implemented open source Spiceworks Help Desk system.

General Manager at Global Retail Company (Al Rajhi Investments)
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • October 2008 to February 2009

Provided strategic direction and leadership to SBU’s having Retail & Hospitality businesses on Franchise & JV model.

Key Achievements:
* Started Oracle - EBS and Retail business applications implementation process.

Deputy General Manager at Landmark Group
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • March 1996 to September 2008

Founder Member of Group IT & Deputy to CIO - Provided solutions to SBU’s (Own, Franchise & Joint Venture) managing Retail & Hospitality businesses.

Software Engineer at Processware Systems Private Limited
  • India - Bengaluru
  • August 1995 to February 1996

Lead team to build PPS and FIMS.

Deputy EDP In-Charge at Desk Courier and Cargo Limited
  • India - Bengaluru
  • February 1993 to July 1995

Lead team to develop business applications

Trainee Software Engineer at PAM Electronics
  • India - Bengaluru
  • August 1992 to January 1993

Developed billing software.

Education

Doctorate, Retail Management
  • at SRU
  • June 2015

Specialties & Skills

Artificial Intelligence
ERP Consultancy
Retail Systems
B2B eCommerce
BUSINESS CASE
CAPACITY PLANNING
CONSULTING
Management

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Expert
Kannada
Expert

Memberships

Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA)
  • Gold
  • January 2005

Training and Certifications

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2007
Valid Until:
December 2018
Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2010
Valid Until:
December 2018
Certified Global CIO (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2011