Sakib Kadak

Charlotte, NC

1-917-873-9763

sakibk@yahoo.com

Professional Summary

Sakib has 15 years of experience in ERP Applications, Business Intelligence Solutions, and Enterprise Information Models.  He has worked with organizations of all sizes from Fortune 500 to Small Medium Businesses in helping them enable Oracle ERP solutions, Business Intelligence (OBIEE, BI Apps), Master Data Management (MDM), Enterprise Information Models / Dashboards, Architected Integrations and Custom Application development.  Sakib is considered a thought leader in the field of Business Intelligence Solutions for ERP, Big Data, as well as customers looking to migrate to Oracle Fusion Applications.

Strong experience in implementing full life-cycle Oracle implementations across a multitude of industries.  Sakib has strong project and technology management skills including creating Business Cases, developing and executing project and resource plans, delivering projects based on budget and milestones, and leading very large onshore / offshore business and technology teams.

Sakib has held various positions at Deloitte Consulting LLP, Arthur Andersen LLP, and Oracle Corporation including building and sustaining Oracle practices for these organizations.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Blink Consulting, Principal, 2005 – Current

Deloitte Consulting, Senior Manager, 2002 – 2005

Arthur Andersen Business Consulting, Manager, 2000 – 2002

Oracle Consulting, Practice Manager, 1996 – 2000

3Com Systems, Software Architect, 1994 – 1996

Significant experience / roles

·       Project Management

·       Program Management

·       Business Intelligence Strategy and Architect

·       Business Intelligence Enablement

·       Master Data Management (MDM) Initiatives

·       Integration / SOA Architect

·       Technology Landscape Assessments

·      Project Assessments / Risk Advisory

·      Governance, Risk, and Compliance Validations

·      Technology Manager / Lead

·       Vendor Packaged Software Selection

·       Cloud Application Strategy and Enablement

·       Directing & Motivating High Performance Teams

Representative clients

American Institute of Certified Public Accountants

Circor International

Citation Shares

Dai Nippon Printing America

Dayton Power and Light

Delta Airlines

Dunkin’ Brands

East Kentucky Power Cooperative

Expanets

Fidelity Information Services

First Data Corporation

GE Sourcing

Goodtimes

Ingersoll-Rand

Journal Register

Leslie Controls

Lucent Technologies

Merial

Motorola ING

News America Marketing

Packard BioSciences

Pearson Technology

Pratt & Whitney

Priority Healthcare

Relizon

SGS America

The Sherwin-Williams Company

Subaru of America

Viant

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Pearson Technology, Oracle eBS R12 / Salesforce.com Integration Lead

Education

·        Outlined the various Integration Architecture options for integration Oracle R12 eBS and Salesforce.com Applications.

·        Worked on fine tuning the process orchestration between the various Applications involved.  Master Data such as Items, Price Lists, etc. in Oracle eBS was being integrated using the Composite Data Hub model.  Transactions in Order Management were being integrated using the ESB Web Services structure between R12 and SFDC.

·        Lead a team to deliver the overall SOA based integrations and delivered the various integrations utilizing technology from Oracle, SFDC, and IBM WebSphere.

Dunkin’ Brands, Oracle eBS 11i / R12, Application Managed Services

Retail

·        Managed an Enterprise wide Application Support engagement and Process improvement team.

·        Worked with the Executive, Business, and IT teams to ensure enablement of a Functional / Technical support governance structure for Finance, Procurement, Contract Management, Advanced Product Catalog, Property Manager, and other business functions.

·        Managed a multitude of teams to deliver various projects.  The Onsite / Offshore team provided business hours support for all Global Oracle ERP Applications.

·        A second team provided 24x7 support on Hyperion / Essbase Applications.

·        Managed a third team delivering the custom BI retail solutions using OBIEE suite of products for retail front office and back office including the Data Warehouse.

Circor International, Oracle EBS R12 and SAP, Software Selection and Implementation Partner Selection

Manufacturing /Heavy Industrial

·        Led a Global, Multi-location ERP Software selection project for the client.

·        Built a non-traditional approach of ensuring that the client’s unique business requirements were matched with the software and to build a business case.

·        Met with Global CEO / Executives / General Managers / Business and IT Stakeholders to ensure building a unified vision of the Enterprise requirements.

·        Built an RFP for selecting an implementation partner.

·        Built an RFP to assist the client evaluate Cloud solution vendors and options.  Assisted with evaluating Private / Public / Hybrid Cloud based offerings.

Merial, Oracle eBS 11i / R12, Business Intelligence & MDM Platform

Life Sciences / Pharma

·        Key role played on this highly process and business objective driven, large, complex, global Finance, Supply Chain, and Customer Transformation Engagement involving Oracle R12 with large BI components and extensive SOA based integrations.

·        Architected a global BI solution for the client and led the project in enabling the BI solution at US sites.  Utilized the US platform and Global Governance structure to leverage and enable the BI solution at French locations.

·        Worked extensively with the Discoverer and OBIEE platforms for both Operational and Analytical Reporting.

·        Architected and enabled a Data Warehouse to support both Operational and Analytical Reporting needs.  Worked extensively with Oracle OBIEE, Oracle Discoverer, and IBM Cognos tools to access the Warehouse

·        Architected a Global MDM strategy for Products / Customers / Vendors and created Data Governance Models utilizing Unified Data Methodologies.

·        Developed a Global Integration Strategy based on SOA principles middleware tools.

·        Managed a large onshore / offshore group with direct reporting to the Stakeholders.

Leslie Controls, ERP Usability Assessment / BI & MDM Assessment / ERP Applications Comparability Assessment

Manufacturing

·        Evaluate the existing ERP Application implementation and usage by business functions.

·        Identify all key Break points within the system across Business Process Threads and compared functionality available within the ERP system.

·        Performed a full Business Intelligence assessment for both Operational and Analytical BI.

·        Created a business case and recommendation on the utilization of Master Data Management (MDM) for Products and Customers.

·        Created a full business process fit assessment, financial investment ROI, and IT / Business spends across various ERP platforms including Oracle eBS, Microsoft Dynamics, and Epicor Vantage.

Fidelity Information Systems, Oracle EBS 11i Financials, Custom Application

Financial Services

·        Was brought into the troubled account to turn around the delivery and ensure the successful implementation of the project.

·        Successfully delivered the Technology components of a full Financials implementation in conjunction with Hitachi Consulting.

·        Managed a large team of technical resources to deliver a highly customized Financials solution.

·        The implementation included over 100 Custom Objects with a large number of integrations and the technology team met every deadline and delivered within the project budget and timelines.

Dunkin’ Brands, Oracle EBS 11i Financials, Contract Management, Financials Upgrade

Retail

·        Responsible for all project management activities as well as architecting an overall foundation for future implementations for this multi-billion dollar client.

·        Responsible for building a five year software and hardware footprint aligned with IT initiatives and budgets.

·        Participated in managing a large implementation with 6 other implementation partners.

·        Managed the Technology aspects of the project (Architecture and Infrastructure, RICE delivery, Instances) and was also the key liaison between implementation partners and the client.

·        Built a BI strategy and execution plan for the Financials and Contract implementation utilizing the Oracle Discoverer platform.

·        Helped rationalize and consolidate the reports across the business units.  Delivered unified views to expose data for the business applications.

·        Project Manager for upgrading the client’s ERP applications to 11.5.7 in a rapid 6 week timeline.

Relizon / WorkflowOne, Oracle EBS 11i

Industrial

·        Oracle Technology Advisor Manager on the project with direct responsibilities Infrastructure / Architecture, Enterprise Data Warehouse, Architected Integrations.

·        Responsible to layout the groundwork software architecture for the multiple tracks.

·        Responsible for the overall management of the Architecture as well as the environments to support the multiple phases of the project.

·        Built an IT Organization Readiness plan including training plans and assisting in moving legacy resources to the new platform.

Priority Healthcare, Oracle EBS 11i Sales Force Automation, Financials, CRM, Distribution

Life Sciences

·        Architected a large Integration project between the back office applications and the pharmacy applications.

·        Primary Architect on developing a Custom Application for the Specialty Pharmacy requirements.

·        Managed a team of 20 Business and IT resources on the project and was directly responsible on reporting to Business Stakeholders / Executive team.

Expanets, Oracle EBS 11i Financials, Order-to-Cash, Siebel CRM

Telecommunications

·        Directly Managed a 25% to 28% budget of a $110MM project.

·        Direct responsibilities for various teams responsible for Customizations, Interfaces, Key Performance Indicators and other technology work.

·        Acted as Subject Matter Expert to various teams involved and managed a team of 35 resources.

·        Directly responsible to build the architecture for the Quote to Order process which seamlessly integrated Oracle and Siebel Order processing using Oracle’s Activity Management Gateway.

·        Responsible for implementing the TCA architecture for seamless and robust integration of Customers between Oracle and Siebel.

·        Responsible to build major interfaces to support Billing outsourcer, external Sales Compensation system, Ceridian HR interfaces as well as the standard Financials Lockbox, and bank statement feeds.

·        Assisted client in implementing Change Control Process in production as well as implementing Configuration Management Tool.

News America Marketing, Oracle 11i Financials Implementation

Media

·        Project Manager for an Oracle11i Financials Implementation (GL / AP / AR / FA / CE).  Created project plans for Functional / Business and Technology Tracks.

·        Planned and Assisted client with developing Application and Database Architecture including server sizing exercises and procurement of hardware.  Developed strategies for Conversions and bi-directional Interfaces.

·        Delivered the project successfully on time and under budget.

Packard BioSciences, 11i ERP Implementation

Life Sciences

·        Worked with client Technical Director during the Hosting provider selection process.

·        Assisted in developing relationships with the various providers as well as helped in negotiating the SLA with the final hosting provider.

·        Acted as key contact between hosting provider and client and managed all technology issues including networking infrastructure, applications, backups and instance management.

·        Managed the technical teams to meet critical project milestones.  Scoped all technical requirements and created appropriate project and resource plans.

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Ingersoll Rand, iProcurement Implementation and Upgrade             

Industrial

·        Scoped and Developed Technical Upgrade plan from SSP4 to SSP5 (including resource planning).

·        Analyzed / Modified all customizations in order to be compliant with the Upgrade.

·        Upgraded from Oracle Application Web Server to Apache Web Server.

·        Integrated Requisite Technology’s (electronic catalog content provider) Catalog with SSP5.0 using XML based data.

·        Integrated suppliers to Oracle systems over the Web utilizing the Oracle eCommerce Gateway.

Presentation and white papers

Oracle BI Applications Rapid Implementation (BI Apps, OBIEE, Procure and Spend Analytics)

Oracle OBIEE New Features and Functions

MDM / Product Workbench for Discrete / Process Manufacturing (Data Hub, MDM Software Solutions)

ERP Support Organization Best Practices (Small and Medium Business, Fortune 2000)

‘Right shore’ Delivery Model Evaluations

Enterprise Portal Planning and Strategy (Dashboards, Executive / CXO)

Professional affiliations

Charlotte Cloud Computing Group

ISACA Cloud Computing Member

Oracle Partner Network

IDC IT Forum Member

Massachusetts High Tech Business Member

MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge

Oracle Applications User Group             

education

B.S., Engineering – Boston University, College of Engineering

Leadership and Management Program – Harvard Business School