Streamlining, strengthening and formulating processes and strategies on using technologies
Having professional experience spanning over 38 years, Mr. Chandran (fondly called as Chandy) plays the key role of BCT’s CIO (Chief Information Officer) and CDO ( Chief Delivery Officer) working towards streamlining, strengthening and formulating processes and strategies on using technologies for information availability and accessibility.
Dr. Chandran is a Mechanical Engineer (Hons) from College of Engineering Guindy , India, (1982) and has done his Masters in Industrial Engineering from National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE), Mumbai, India ( 1984).
Dr. Chandran has overall experience of 38+ years in IT. He has spent 23+ years in building Enterprise Applications Services Practice across organizations. He headed the Enterprise SAP Practice of Satyam and built Zensar’ss Enterprise Practice across Oracle, SAP, BI/DW areas. Mr. Chandran has been instrumental in setting up and managing IT department in end user organizations, building Enterprise Applications Services Practices, Business Leader for Asia Pacific, Establishing Systems & Procedures, Managing Pre-sales and Delivery Centre. He has handled multiple end-to-end implementations of large scale ERP projects.
Prior to joining BCT, Dr. Chandran was the CIO for Greenfield Automotive site Daimler India establishing systems for the entire manufacturing organization and Business Applications like Order-to-supply (SAP Logistics & Operations), SAP Financial System, Manufacturing Engineering and Global R&D Applications support. He has also worked with Satyam Computers , Zensar , HCL Hewlett-Packard, Hero Motors and Hindustan Petroleum.
Awards
• Conferred ‘ Cyber Security Life Time Achievement Award ‘ by IT World Magazine in the Cyber Security Symposium on Sep 3,2021
• Conferred ‘ CXO Excellence Award ‘ by CXO TV on Aug 18 ,2021
• Conferred ‘ Top 100 CIOs Infosec Maestros award’ by CIO Axis on May 22nd 2021
• Conferred ‘Catalyst Technology Award ‘ by GEC World Media Asia edition on Mar 7th , 2021
and many more
Speaker & Panel member:
• Regular Jury Member in OJAS at NITIE ‘Lakshya’ for more than 5 years .
• Regular Speaker in local Chennai Nasscom chapter on Cloud Computing , ERP Implementations , Changing role of IT department
• Speaker at Nasscom Engineering Summit at Pune in Nov 2011 – Usage of engineering applications in Automotive Industry
• Panel member for CIO Magazine, local CIO Klub, Chennai, CII, as well as ICT Academy
• Key Speaker at Nasscom Surge 2012 on June 26th – Vertical – Automotive
• Speaker on ‘Artificial Intelligence’ on Oct 8, 2018 at Taj Vivanta , Coimbatore in the program ‘ NVidia Academic Connect’ organized by Nvidia and ICT Academy attended by principals and Administrators pf various engg colleges in and around Coimbatore
any many more
Articles Written
• 'Leading Change in Times of Disruption' – CIO Insider India Magazine Jan 2020
• 'AI – The Prime Mover for Industry 4.0' – CIO Insider India Magazine Mar 2020
• 'Challenges and Issues of Online classes' - CIO Review India magazine in Jan 2021
The colleges were Webinar was conducted on ‘Career Guidance’
• Indira Gandhi Colleage of Arts & Science , Trichy
• CK college of Engineering , Cuddalore
• St.Claret College , Bangalore
• Dhanalakshmi College of Engineering , Chennai
• Nowgong College , Guwhati , Assam
• PSG College of Arts and Science m Coimbatore
• PSNA College of Engg , Dindigul
Projects
1. ‘Goal Programming in Materials Management” published in International Journal of Production Economics Considering the entire gamut of Materials Management as one system, each of the final requirements is considered as goals. Goal Programming algorithm was used to ascertain the priority of goals at various situations.
2. Project on System analysis of Finished Goods Inventory at MICO (A subsidiary of MICO Bosch, Germany), Bangalore Conducting an Information System Study of Finished Goods Inventory processes handled at MICO, and charting out Data Flow Diagrams for the various processes involved. The System study was used to develop the Finished Goods Inventory System Programming at MICO.
