Rakesh Pathak

1. Partnered with business to develop growth strategy for securing above target increase in revenues. 2. Led creation of detailed budgets and financial forecasts to achieve/exceed target growth in revenues consecutively over 3 years. 3. Led overall responsibility for budgeting, forecasting, ad-hoc analysis, and business plans ensuring conformance with GAAP and company accounting policies 4. Periodically analyzed financial performance which was translated into financial reports for Business Unit heads.

1. Conceived and led projects to improve profitability margin. 2. Led decision making activities to develop financial evaluation of proposed projects/initiatives. 3. Guided sales team with pricing and contract negotiation on deals involving products and services. 4. Performed in-depth gap analysis to address variances from budget. Identified key drivers and underlying root causes. 5. Identified risks to the program budgets, indicating the likelihood of occurrence with concurrent financial impacts.

1. Owned/Ran multi million and multi technology deals end to end including solution , estimation and pricing. 2. Led cross-functional teams at Wipro, and across partner organizations to develop the optimal IT solution.

1. Led IT infrastructure build specific to data-center server (Unix based) environment. 2. Acted as escalation point of contact and admin for Solaris server systems. 3. Deployed updates, service pack, and security patches for servers and client systems using WSUS (Windows server update services). 4. Led project module for the implementation and maintenance of Tivoli Maestro jobs using IBM TWS (Tivoli workload scheduler). 5. Handled production support of high priority events.

Financial Management , Strategy and business development

Computer Science and Engineering