Sandeep Patel, Principal Enterprise Architect (Cloud, Big data  & Mobility)

Sandeep Patel

Principal Enterprise Architect (Cloud, Big data & Mobility)

Oracle India Pvt Ltd

Location
India - Mumbai
Education
Master's degree, Marketing
Experience
23 years, 10 Months

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Total years of experience :23 years, 10 Months

Principal Enterprise Architect (Cloud, Big data & Mobility) at Oracle India Pvt Ltd
  • India - Mumbai
  • My current job since October 2011

Multiplatform Enterprise Architect(CRM, HCM & ERP) with 13 yrs. experience in delivering enterprise frameworks, technology adoption principles and leading business transformation deals for Oracle to achieve X-LOB solution targets across all verticals in Manufacturing, Banking, Telco & Oil - Gas sectors with global majors like Oracle, Microsoft, Cisco & HP etc

▪ Leading ERP presales consulting & advisory Architect across various application suites like MS Dynamics, Axapta, Oracle Applications, Oracle Enterprise business Suite, Fusion Middleware, SAP, PeopleSoft, Hyperion & Siebel application packages in various roles.
▪ Peoplesoft, JDE, Siebel, Dynamics CRM & Oracle E-business Suite SME -Techno functional Consultant successfully managed/lead 25+ projects (7+ projects simultaneously) with values ranging up to $20 million. Won and implemented around 14+ global ERP projects.
▪ Domain specific application consulting across various industries primarily Manufacturing, Banking, Telco & Oil - Gas sectors leading adoption of diverse portfolio of solutions based on Oracle SOA, Enterprise Portals, Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), data warehousing, MDM, BPM, Cloud Computing & Analytics.
▪ 3+ years experience with Oracle E-Business Suite / Siebel Applications - Performing functional and technical work mainly within the Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Sales Force Automation (SFA), and Self-Service modules of Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) (Oracle Applications / Oracle Financials for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP).3+ years experience with Oracle CRM; including: Install Base, Service Contracts, TeleService, iSupport, and TCA.
▪ Domain Split : Experienced in Manufacturing (10+); Banking/Financial (7+); Telecom (6+); Insurance (1.5+); Health(1.5+); Government(0.5+) years. Directly managed teams of 15+ staff; Internal Partners and External Vendors management.

ERP\CRM\VCP presales Consulting & Advisory Leadership: 13 years + experience in Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Demand Sensing and Shaping Applications, Real time manufacturing intelligence in Process, Discrete and Engineering Industries.

 Peoplesoft, JDE, Siebel & Oracle E-business Suite SME -Techno functional Consultant successfully managed/lead 25+ projects (7+ projects simultaneously) with values ranging up to $20 million. Business Process Transformation Consultant, Systems Designer and Functional Consultant having over 13+ years of experience in twelve countries.
 Consulting Delivery Architect -3+ years managing and implementing Oracle Financial, Distribution and Supply Chain Apps projects.3 + years designing cost and manufacturing systems at Oracle Corporation.10+ years cost and general accounting management for manufacturing and distribution firms
 Lead ERP & CRM Sales Consulting for India. Creating and executing go to market strategy for Oracle Value Chain Planning products across APAC region. Deliver key solution messaging for Value Chain Planning in marketing events such as IDC, Oracle Open World, Co-branded Oliver Wight Executive workshops.
Accomplishments: Leader and go to person for ERP\CRM & SCM Management products in APAC. Leads large multi-million dollar opportunities across the region for Oracle Applications.

Certifications & SME on Siebel CRM, Peoplesoft HRMS, E-biz & JDE Financials:
 Oracle Certified Expert, Siebel CRM 8 Business Analyst
 Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Supply Chain Certified Expert Consultant, Purchasing (OCE)
 Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Supply Chain Certified Expert Consultant, Order Management (OCE)
 Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Advanced Supply Chain Planning Certified Expert Consultant (OCE)
 JD Edwards Enterprise One 9 Distribution Certified Implementation Specialist

Enterprise Cloud Architect at Cisco Systems
  • India - Bengaluru
  • January 2011 to September 2011

o As a Cloud Architect & Application Lead: Cisco cloud strategy & Lead Application Development and Maintenance; demonstrating how customers could save 50+ million over 5 years. Responsible for developing and bringing to market Cisco’s new end-to-end consulting services for comprehensive industry and process-specific business solutions.


Architecture Leadership:
o As a lead architect in Cisco Advanced services team within APAC built solutions in DC, Collaboration, VXI & cloud Areas. Lead the Advanced Services team responsible for design, migration, implementation and testing of large scale enterprise and service provider cloud networks in APAC region.
o Dual CCIE certified in Routing & Switching and Service Provider tracks. Extensive experience in designing, implementation and operation of large complex enterprise and Service Provider networks on Cisco Nexus, GSR routers and Cisco UCS servers.
Cisco COE Establishment for Cloud & Networking: Build & ran the Cisco Cloud COE (Centre of Excellence for Cloud) for global customers. Build the Cisco cloud center of excellence with VMware, Cisco & EMC2 (VCE Alliance) managing 8 member’s team. .Helped sales build a funnel of 70 + million USD.
Presales Consulting for Key Accounts in APAC:
o Provide presales & architecture leadership and direction across the business, particularly focusing on the Technology Teams i.e. Cisco UCS, Cisco Security, Cisco Nexus platform and Cisco Tidal for APAC.
o Closely work with partners EMC, Vmware manage and oversee all aspects of the Technology teams, comprising Product Development, Competitive Intelligence, Technical Account Management, Support and Test and Professional Services for Cisco Cloud.
o My Client list: ANZ, Singtel, Telekom Malaysia, MCI, NBN Australia etc.

Cloud Engineering Lead Architect(Cisco Cloud):
o Focused on enterprise architecture (EA), managing projects, mentoring architects, Subject Matter Expert (SME) on Networks, Voice, Video & Data productions.
o Experience defining system architectures and exploring technical feasibility tradeoffs. Instrumental in developing Cisco Tidal software services and an understanding of design for scalability, performance and reliability.
o Mastery of the tools of the trade, including a variety of modern programming languages (Java, JavaScript, C/C++, Python, SQL, C#).Expert knowledge of CouchDB, JavaScript, Node.JS, HTML5, and CSS3
o Experience in developing Backend, Middleware, and Frontend for web applications
o Helped various Banks, Telco, Financial Services, and Public Sector, Health Care, Retail, Manufacturing, food and beverage companies to adopt Cisco Intelligent Network strategy.

Telecom Projects Executed in Cisco

o China: Designing of the MPLS/VPN architecture with the engineers from Telefonica, the provider in charge of the local construction of the network.
o NBN Australia: Networks virtualization from PSA partners' networks with an MPLS/VPN solution as a substitute to the GRE tunneling technology.
o o As a VCE COE Architect: Provide leadership and direction across the business, particularly focusing on the Technology Teams i.e. Cloud, application & network.

CERTIFICATIONS / ACCREDITATIONS HELD

o CCIE - Cisco Systems Internetwork Expert (written)
o VCP - VMware Certified Professional
o CDCUCSS - Cisco Data Center Unified Computing Support Specialist
o VSP - VMware Sales Professional
o VTSP - VMware Technical Sales Professional
o TSS - Cisco Technical Solutions Specialist, Data Center
o CCVP - Cisco Certified Voice Professional
o CSNSSS - Cisco Storage Networking Solutions Support Specialist
o CSNSDS - Cisco Storage Network Solutions Design Specialist
o CADCNSS - Cisco Advanced Data Center Networking Infrastructure Support Specialist

Enterprise Architect & Business Manager at Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd
  • India - Delhi
  • November 2005 to February 2011

Architecture Skills on ERP\Cloud & CRM platforms:
o Architecture on premise \off premise networks: Experience with Windows Azure Cloud Computing architectures as the TAP program leader & Microsoft Online services \UC evangelist.
o Strategic and technological thought-leadership in key emerging technologies such as Business Intelligence & Data Warehousing, Collaboration/Portals/Content Management, Integration/workflow/SOA, Virtualization. Featured speaking engagements at premier events such as (TechEd, TechReady) on a variety of topics presenting full sessions with live demos.
o Microsoft Dynamics AX, CRM, Navision & MS - Axapta solution selling in top accounts. Technical demo’s presentation to the key business\technology TDM’s. Also instrumental in bringing one of the largest dynamics\CRM deal in West.

Accomplishments as Enterprise Architect & Technology Advisor:
 Solution Advisory :Perform business analysis, collect define and manage business requirements & Create and validate business and technical architectures for Microsoft Global Customers in USA & APAC.Devised the GTM strategy to execute a multi-year technology vision which helped Microsoft acquire multiple customers in O&G sectors, Manufacturing and Healthcare.
 Cross Functional Solutions :Architect, Build, Deploy and ran the Microsoft technology practice (core IO, APIO & BPIO) + Windows Azure Cloud Computing \Lync\Sharepoint\Biztalk and Exchange architectures leading a team of 8+ delivery resources for customers across verticals (healthcare, manufacturing , utilities).
 Cloud\BI\Sharepoint Solutions :Using the Zachman frameworks build Microsoft solutions using BI, Cloud Solution Architecture (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS modalities) Identity Management and most areas of data security and access control as well as both traditional and cloud application design. Platform and solution experience includes the full Microsoft platform stack, languages include .ASM, Visual Basic, C#, C++ and ASP.NET, and database technologies include SQL, ORACLE and DB2.
 Multi-Platform Architect :Experienced with complete application development life-cycle including requirements gathering, analysis and design, coding, testing and deployment. Experienced with Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010, MOSS 2007, WSS 3.0. Helped ISV solutions on various platforms like SQL Server 2008/2005, database designing, SQL Server Management Studio

o Architect, Build, Deploy and ran the Microsoft Dynamics practice (Functional Architect) + Windows Azure Cloud Computing architectures leading a team of 4+ resources for customer across verticals.
o Analyze Customer's ERP, CRM related Business requirements, facilitate Business requirements gathering process, Key end user training, Create Business requirement documents, training documents.
o Assess IT infrastructure to identify the gap with Microsoft Dynamics ERP, CRM hardware and software requirements.
o Install Configure, Customize, Deploy Microsoft Dynamics ERP, CRM server, clients, Data Migration, Certified in Scribe Data Migration Tool.
o Well Versed in c360 and other Dynamics ERP, CRM ISV products, Atlas, Solver,
o X++, Java Script, Plug INS, C#, ASP.Net Development work for Axapta and CRM.
o Integration with MOSS, Dashboards & 9. SQL SRS reports & Tech Support for partners, customers.

Network Architect at Hewlett Packard
  • India - Delhi
  • July 2004 to November 2005

o Accomplishments - closed multi-million dollar deals like SBI, BOB (Bank of Baroda), PETRONAS etc.
Solution Architected 10 huge multimillion $ deals for HP mounting to a revenue of 20 million us $ in services. Lead the turnkey engagement for HP on infrastructure, security, Voice, System Integrations, Carrier Networks and Campus Networks deals.
o Experience in TOGAF ADM, Master level skills in architecture design and dev. of complex IT systems & in building arch roadmaps, Information Management & Governance, Hadoop, Deep domain knowledge in Telco Industry, eTOM, NGOSS, Banking Domain, Public Sector.
o Set up Global Technology Practices & COE (Centre of Excellence) for HP on the following lines & helping customers with adoption for the same.
a. Enterprise Infrastructure Services (Next Gen DC, Network etc.)
b. Business Productivity Services & c. Unified Communications & Customer Contact
d. Enterprise Platform Services (App servers, Database, Middleware, App Admin, App Ops, DevOps, Automation etc.)

Architected multi-million dollar deals like SBI, BOB (Bank of Baroda), PETRONAS etc.
Solution Architected 10 huge multimillion $ deals for HP mounting to a revenue of 20 million us $ in services. Lead the turnkey engagement for HP on ERP, infrastructure, security, Voice, System Integrations, Carrier Networks and Campus Networks deals. Multiple implementation and support experience in SAP R/3 specializing in Materials Management, Procurement, Supply chain, Logistics, FI/CO and Sales & Distribution modules. Specific experience includes MM, SD, LO, FI/CO and WM configuration, EDI development and configuration
o Extensive experience in SAP modules TRM (Tax and Revenue Management), FSCM, SD (OTC- Order to Cash, PTP- Procure to Pay, PTC- Planning to Consolidation), FI-CO (GL- General Ledger, AP- Accounts Payable, AR- Accounts receivable, FA - Fixed Assets, Cost center and Profit center accounting), MM (Material Management), PP (Production Planning), WM and CRM.
o Worked in HCM modules like Payroll, PA, PD, Benefits, Compensation and MSS.
o Experience in Workflow programming.Experience in Unicode conversion related issues/tasks.
o Experience in SAP ECC 5.0 & ECC6.0 Version.Experienced in Upgrading SAP ECC5.0 to ECC6.0
o Good domain knowledge in Finance & security, Public, Telecom, Retail and Manufacturing sectors.
o Customization experience in various areas of IMG activities of SD, FI & MM modules.
o Good development experience in SAP CRM Applications.Experience in discussions with Business system analysts and end-users in design phase.
o Skilled in document processes, identifying issues, handling multiple tasks, and training end users.
o Extensive experience in analyzing complicated business processes, effort estimations and creating technical specifications.
Domain Specific Solutions Built for Various Verticals on HP Converged Platform (Banking, Service Providers):

o Proven expertise in Digital banking (Channel transformation and Integration, Customer experience, Multi-channel delivery, Customer Analytics, Digital marketing, and E-commerce).
o For Bank of India Project :Provide overarching application design to the team of data architects, ETL architects, modelers, analysts, and developers being directly responsible for the analysis, definition, review, and design of a consistent data services application architecture and strategy, including alignment with the enterprise standards and policies.

Network Operations Manager & Infrastructure Architect at World Telecom Network Holding AG Switzerland
  • Switzerland
  • March 2002 to March 2004

In-Charge for the Ongoing Operation of Swisscom global Services Operations and network infrastructure worldwide for 2 yrs. include their NOC, SOC & Service desk. My key responsibilities were - Architecture Staffing & Vendor Management, P&L Management, Business Development, Escalation Management and to establish best practices and processes
• Collaboration with Executive Leadership on ITS Strategy & Enterprise Architecture - Led Solution Architecture & Technology Group in WTN Switzerland.
• Architecture/Technology & Design consulting to business-critical programs across WTN group.
• Business Integration Architecture Strategy for a Large Bank in Zurich.
• New Model Development Procurement Architecture for a Global Food Provider (Nestle)
• Technology support to Corporate Sales & Marketing Initiatives/Business Proposals for WTN.

Solution Designer & Software Architect at TRANSFORMATIVE BUSINESS SOLUTIONS BERHAD,MALAYSIA
  • Malaysia
  • April 2000 to March 2002

2 +years of experience in the implementation and Utilization of SAP ERP, Oracle, JD & Siebel CRM with Malaysian customers in KL & Singapore primarily TIME, MTDC, Malaysian airlines etc.
• Large number of successful implementation, global rollout, upgrade and improvement projects. Multiple full cycle projects.
• Combining an excellent knowledge of the business with extensive and detailed SAP expertise.
• Very successful in the design of efficient, effective and innovative solutions.
• Excellence in solution design, solution architecture, implementation and strategy.
• Very successful in the integration of SAP ERP within a business and in the integration of the SAP modules with each other.
• Implementation of SAP R/3. Full cycle: Project Preparation, Business Blueprint, Realization, Final Preparation, Go Live and Support.

Education

Master's degree, Marketing
  • at IIBM
  • October 2010
Master's degree, Computers Sciences
  • at ISBM
  • May 2010

Specialties & Skills

Software Engineering
Blackberry Enterprise Server
Sparx Enterprise Architect
Hyperion Enterprise
Oracle Enterprise Manager
Network Architecture
Application Architecture & Design (JDE,Siebel,Peoplesoft ,Ebiz)
Cloud Design & Architecture

Languages

English
Expert

Training and Certifications

CCNA,CCNP,CCDP,CCDA,CCSA,CCVP -Data Certifications (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2011
Valid Until:
January 2013