1. TONOY KUMAR BHATTACHARYA
E-mail id: tonoy.bhattacharya@gmail.com
IT leader with more than 16 years of global experience providing vision, strategy, and execution
within a results driven business. Goal oriented thought leader recognized for continuous process
improvements, innovative thinking, and ability to influence key constituents. Acknowledged for
building and leading high performance teams resulting in outputs of increased competitive position.
Core Strengths and Business Domain
Program & Project Governance Captive Center Management Business Intelligence Strategy
Development & Execution
Financial Management Vendor Relationship
Management
IT Processes
IT Strategy Development ERP Implementation Across
Multiple Geographies
Delivery Management
Service Desk & Data Center
Operations Management
IT Due Diligence For Mergers &
Acquisitions
Data Services Management
Professional Profile
A technocrat having over 16 years’ of qualitative experience in Global ERP Implementation
(SAP), Business Intelligence strategy development and execution, Unit Center Management,
Portfolio Management, Business Relationship Management, Program Management, Design,
Development, Modeling, Application Development & Data Warehousing in India and off shore.
Presently associated with Timken Engineering & Research India as Manager IT – Business
Intelligence & Processes and responsible for IT Operations, Low Cost Country Strategy, IT
Financial Management, Vendor Management, IT Processes and a testing competency center.
Was deputed in the company HQ in the USA for four years on an expatriate assignment; involved
in Business Relationship Management and Program Management for ERP (SAP) and Business
Applications delivery.
Ability to manage IT departments in offshore development centers along with remote resources
across the globe in a typical onsite – offshore model.
Expertise in development of strategic deployment roadmaps of IT Solutions for the enterprise.
Expertise in handling cross functional teams and cross domain business verticals.
A keen analyst with expertise in the delivery of technical strategies and solutions, project
management, portfolio management, application development, process flow analysis.
Endowed with exemplary team management, communication, leadership and analytical skills.
Core Competencies
Managerial
Business Intelligence strategy development for the enterprise and its’ in house execution of a $4
Million roadmap in an offshore onsite model saving consultant costs to the range of $1 Million and
delivering value in all four Value Drivers for the company, Revenue, Operating Margin, Asset
Efficiency and Expectations.
Low Cost Country IT Strategy development to impact value drivers of cost arbitrage and risk
management.
Setting up a structured vendor management program to leverage cost advantages and efficient
operational processes. The program generated half a million dollars of savings for FY 2014.
Information Technology roadmap development for Mergers & Acquisition activities.
New Technology Development Strategy Development and execution. Cloud computing, BYOD
Strategies, Mobile Device Application Development and Social Media implementation.
2. Business Relationship Management including laying long term IT Investment Strategy planning
for business units.
Due diligence Leader for activities around acquisitions and divestitures in the enterprise.
SAP implementation leader for manufacturing plants across geographies.
Continuous Improvement leader for Corporate IT with a 2 million dollar savings target globally in
cost savings and cost avoidance.
Portfolio Management activities in SAP Application Delivery. Business Intelligence, Business
Readiness and change management, IT Processes & Data Warehousing.
Offshore development center management for a captive Global Information Center.
Budgeting and financial planning activities for departmental budget centers and business units.
Achieving a 10% forecasting accuracy month on month.
Project Management activities for large IT deployments in joint ventures and inorganic business
growth projects.
Functional
Business Intelligence & Data Warehousing
Business Intelligence strategy development and directing the execution of the $4 Million roadmap
for the enterprise.
Business Intelligence Leader for Sales & Marketing for The Timken Company with revenue of $ 5
Billion.
Project Manager for deployment of data warehouses for The Timken Company with revenue of $
5 Billion.
Business verticals of Sales, Orders , Purchasing and S&A functional expertise.
Key PMO member for large IT installations.
Enterprise Application Deployment
IT Leader for deployment of SAP in multiple manufacturing plants in diverse geographies.
IT Processes, Quality Assurance & Testing
IT Leader for deployment of AGILE processes in global application development teams improving
quality, customer satisfaction and speed of delivery by 40 % from established targets.
IT Leader for Business Readiness activities for large scale deployments of Business Intelligence
solutions
IT Leader for driving Quality KPIs within the information technology department.
IT Leader for the deployment of Automated Testing tools in mainstream development and
deployment of IT Solutions.
Application Development
Offshore development center management. (General Management & Delivery management)
Portfolio planning, tracking, risk estimation and mitigation, communication and ensuring process
compliance and improvements.
Overseeing the software project lifecycle, deployment and implementation at client location.
IT Strategy
Develop a Low Cost Country IT strategy for the global IT operations to leverage cost reductions,
mitigate risk of attrition and increase coverage of IT services for the global business.
Develop operational models in corporate IT to define key performance indicators for all IT
processes and value indicators for all strategic investments.
Vendor Management
Develop a KPI driven structured vendor management program to leverage cost advantages in
staff augmentation and define quantifiable benefits on strategic vendor investments.
3. Financial Management
Create, maintain and operate the departmental budget. Deliver it to 85% of the plan annually
Maintaining month on month forecasting accuracy to less than or equal to 10%
Career Highlights
Since Apr’01 with Timken Engineering & Research India Private Limited currently designated
as Manager IT - Business Intelligence & Processes.
The Global Market Leader in Anti-friction Solutions having establishments in 29 countries across
the world. It has a Technology Center in Bangalore for utilizing the Engineering skills available in
India in Product related R&D and secondly to utilize the IT skills in the shared services arena
within IT and Finance.
Presently heading the IT Operations area which includes, a 24/7 Service Desk and Data Center, IT
Processes, Vendor Management, Financial Management, Business Readiness and Data Services of
the IT COE of the Timken Company. Previously involved as a IT Leader in Strategy development
,Implementation of Business Intelligence & Analytics throughout the Global Sales and Marketing
vertical of the organization. Also leading Business Readiness teams for large scale implementations
of IT solutions and IT Leader for due diligence activities around inorganic opportunities in the
enterprise.
Key Positions & Initiatives Handled
Title:Manager IT – Business Intelligence & Processes Duration: Since Apr’10 till date
Key Responsibilities:
Create and continuously refresh the Business Intelligence roadmap of the enterprise through
established governance procedures.
Lead the Global Sales & Marketing teams of the company in transitioning to new BI
capabilities from existing silos of business information.
Manage a diverse team of BI & IT Process professionals to drive the implementation of the
Business Intelligence roadmap.
Lead a team of Business Readiness professionals to manage change management activities
around enterprise wide deployment of SAP and Business Intelligence solutions.
Lead a team of IT Process related professionals to deploy standard IT Operational KPIs and
AGILE development methodology in all application development teams.
Lead a team of IT testing professionals to introduce Automated Regression Testing in to
mainstream development and testing of IT Solutions.
Lead a team of 20 people that supports the 24/7 Service Desk and Data Center Operations of
the company.
Manage a vendor management function that includes management of a a $1 Million staff
augmentation budget. Drive staffing variability across multiple technology functions.
Manage the departmental budget.
4. Title:Manager IT - SAP Implementation Duration: Since Apr’09 till Apr 10
Key Responsibilities:
IT Leader for simultaneous deployment of SAP in two manufacturing plants in two different
countries in ASIA.
Responsible for all cut over activities resulting in successful operations of the manufacturing
plants on Go Live
Title:Manager IT – Business Relationship Duration: Jan’06 till Mar’09
Key Responsibilities:
Corporate IT Liaison for all IT portfolio management activities with all business units and
managing a $25 Million IT Portfolio.
Expatriate assignment based out of Corporate Head quarters in the United States
Responsible for IT Business Planning with the business units.
Responsible for IT Relationship Management activities with business executives and business
controllers.
Responsible for representing IT in all Steering committees in the business dealing with
planning for IT Solutions
IT Leader for all due diligence activities in inorganic growth projects resulting in successful
integration of 6 business opportunities across the globe.
Offshore development center liaison for successful transition of work from On Shore to Off
shore managing 100 + development professionals in the off shore development center.
Title:Manager IT – Business Development Duration: Apr’03 – Dec’05
Key Responsibilities:
Responsible for portfolio management activities of the off shore development center and
managing a portfolio of $ 1 Million across Application development and Operational verticals.
Responsible for successful transition of work and IT positions to the off shore development
center. Grew headcount of 16 to 156 in the Offshore center.
Responsible for relationship management activities with US based IT Application Managers
and executives.
Responsible for building more delivery capabilities in the offshore development center.
Title:Lead Consultant Data Warehousing & Reporting Duration: Apr’01 – Nov’05
Key Responsibilities:
Responsible for design and development of the company’s first data warehouse around Sales
& Orders generating productivity savings of $ 1.5 Million through rationalization of analyst
roles and responsibilities in the business and effective use of the data.
Responsible to create and operate a team of ETL professionals in the off shore development
center to run the data warehousing project in turn reducing $ 250K worth of operating costs for
the corporate.
Project manager for enterprise wide deployment of a common reporting tool for data reporting.
Tool deployed was Hyperion Brio over and Informix database.
Responsible for design and deployment of multiple customer facing applications involving
customer pricing, customer relationship management etc.
5. Title:Programmer Analyst: Binary Fusion International Duration: Apr’98 – Mar’01
Key Responsibilities:
Responsible for design and deployment of multiple client server applications for Payroll,
Inventory Management, Billing, Insurance, Market Data Research verticals for clients such as
Medicare Services, Calcutta Electricity Supply Corporation, Lagan Jute Private Limited, Nalco
Chemicals and Taylor Nelson Sofres Mode.
Certifications
Microsoft Certified Professional in Visual Basic 5.0
Microsoft Certified Product Specialist.
Lean Six Sigma E1 Certified.
Trained In Enterprise Project Management.
Academic Credentials
Master In Business Administration ( General Management & Information Technology) – New
Delhi
Graduate In (Mathematics Honours.) - Magadh University, Patna
Graduate (Software Engineering) from National Institute Of Information Technology. – New
Delhi
Personal Details
Contact Address : C-20 Vaishnavi Orchids, No 32 Kasavanahalli, Bangalore - 560035
Passport No. : H0120256
Phone : +91-80-42024497/M: 9740010518
Overseas Visits : US, UK, Germany, Spain, South Africa, China, Romania.