A seasoned IT Professional having 38 years of experience with focused approach on Digitalization, IoT, Low-Cost Automation, Industry 4.0, RPA Cloud migration and analytics to bring in operational excellence, turn around & value addition to the business.

Have done substantial work in building data centers, disaster recovery systems and business continuity plan, 400 + digitalization & Automation projects for the group at regional and global level.

Currently working as Chief Digital Transformer for a Manufacturing company of repute. Guiding them on the way of digital transformation by use of AI,ML,AR,VR and analytics which would transform the various business processes.

Rajeev is also a certified Independent Director the proficiency test for the same is conducted by Ministry of Company Affairs ( MCA) Rajeev is currently undergoing the Digital Directors Certification program which is conducted by World Development Corporation.

Winner of various Industry awards: e.g.

• Eminent CIO of India
• CIO Power List 2018
• Recognition as CIO of the year 2019-20.
• COVID 19 Superhero CIO award by Enterprise IT world.
• TekQ Super CIO award for 2020.
• Winner of CIO Power list 2020 award.
• Transformational CIO of the year 2020
• Winner of CXO Tech Excellence award 2020. & 2021
• IT Strategist of year 2021
• CIO Power list 2021 Manufacturing ICON
• Enterprise IT World Cyber Security Lifetime achievement award 2021
• CIO 100 Award in recognition of the contribution to usher business transformation.
• and many more ……

Key Competencies:

Designing Group level IT Strategies, Policies & IT road maps for achieving growth through process innovation, progressive change management.

Designed & implemented the entire security architecture for multi-location setup of organization/s across different geographies in a brown & green fields environment.

Different innovative ways to protect/safeguard the data in the organization were implemented.

A novel mechanism of alerting IT staff as soon as the attacker tries to enter was developed and implemented to ensure safety of IT environment.

Recognized couple of times by Industry for securing the enterprises Infrastructure in challenging times of heavy cyber-attacks.

Architectural design & establishment of entire IT set up for mfg. unit/s, head office across various geographies for individual and group companies.

Rich experience in converting IT projects from conceptual/architectural design to handover stage.

Building IT Road maps, formulation of key IT strategies, Policies & procedures, and establishment of centralized IT setup for entire organization.

Expertise:

1. Digitalization, Innovation, IoT, Industry 4.0 LCA
2. Strategic IT Planning and Management.
3. Rich exposure to design of IT Policies, procedures, road maps, standardization, and adoption of best practices.
4. Strong business acumen for leveraging technology with a focus to bring in business innovation, operational efficiency with competitive advantage.
5. Effective business enabler / leader with a keen focus on Change management, Organization Leadership, relationship building.
6. Architectural design and Implementation of IT Infrastructure for data centers, Migration to Cloud. disaster recovery sites, Engineering design centers and Business Continuity plans.
7. Selection and Implementation of ERP for individual and group companies.
8. Process enhancements in existing applications to bring in enhancements and Optimization.
9. Completed more then 400 digitalization & other automation related projects during the last two years to automated various processes across the Organization to bring in effective & efficient productivity enhancement with cost savings and time savings. All these projects were for the Electric Component manufacturing industry that I worked in my last assignment. These projects included the length & breadth of the organization.

• Participating in various Industry forums e.g., Confederation of Industries, Indo American Chamber of Commerce & Industries, Data Centre & Cloud summit.
• Thought leader on various topics.
• Interviewed by Oracle, Dynamic CIO, Data Quest.
• Mentor and advisor to various startup companies.
• Guest speaker.

Key focus area was to design IT Strategy and tactical execution plan of IT projects e.g Uniform ERP across all locations, IT roadmap of various projects to make the organization fully Industry 4.0 and several more projects for use across all locations.