Arvind Ganesan Email & Phone Number

San Jose, Ca

• Brought to market several mobile & desktop apps targeting customers in the music, dance, and performing arts markets.• Manage all aspects of business analysis, requirements gathering, UX design, app architecture & design, development, testing, app store deployment, marketing, PR, and sales strategy.• Brought to market RealTanpura - a classical Indian drone instrument app available for iOS, Android, and Amazon Fire devices. See http://www.haathisoftware.com/?page_id=30 for more details on RealTanpura. RealTanpura was developed using the JavaScript based cross-platform Appcelerator Titanium framework.• Brought to market Haathi Carnatic Editor - the world's first modern WYSIWYG classical Indian music notation editing software. See http://www.haathisoftware.com/?page_id=110 for more details. Haathi Carnatic Editor is a C# .NET XAML application.• Brought to market Haathi MediaMark - an application which enables people to master their skill (dance, music, yoga, karate, language, etc.) by easily marking spots in audio/video files and then engaging in repetitive practice by looping certain sections of the audio/video files. See http://www.haathisoftware.com/?page_id=251 for more details. Haathi MediaMark is a C# .NET Forms application.

Madison, Wi, Us

• Responsible for managing the development and roadmap numerous scalable web applications for handling Customer Service, Returns processing, Identity services, Identity mapping, Outbound order consolidation from warehouse, and Outbound order fulfillment exception handling.• Responsible for managing the development and roadmap of a website widget framework and a collection of reusable web UI components (buttons, product cards, carousels, grids, etc.) to enable multiple dev teams that own different parts of the website to deliver a consistent UX.• Serve in Technical Program Management (TPM) and Product Management (PM) capacity for several of the above mentioned applications.• Responsible for managing all aspects of software development from requirements gathering & analysis, determining project feasibility, technical and business impact, success metrics, User Experience (UX), Visual Design (VD), architectural design, application security review, development, testing (unit tests, integration tests, load tests, performance & latency tests), cutover & release planning, ongoing operational excellence, ongoing application support, metrics emission & analysis, meeting with stakeholders & planning short term and long term roadmap, cloud infrastructure procurement & approvals, and overseeing an overall Agile/SCRUM SDLC.• Interact with business and technical stakeholders from senior leadership, customer service, returns processing team, warehouse technology management team, data warehouse team, accounting team, finance team, transportation logistics teams, personalization team, core website team, User Experience (UX) team, Visual Design (VD) team, Product Management (PM) team, and fulfillment center teams.• Tech stack and tools used in above applications: J2EE, JSP, AWS (S3, Aurora PostgreSQL, CloudWatch, DynamoDB, SNS, SQS, Lambda, CloudFormation, EC2, Auto Scaling), and many internal Amazon tools/services.

Madison, Wi, Us

• Was hired as the Company's very first employee and served as CTO for 18 years.• Brought to market highly scalable and distributed data capture, document classification and redaction enterprise solutions serving county government, state government, and healthcare industries.• Brought the Company into the 'machine learning era' by driving the employee training, application design, and early innovation of new machine learning based features in Extract's products.• Responsible for product road map, sprint & release planning, technology strategy, product architecture, and user interface design.• Defined and managed software development processes, guidelines, policies, and best practices.• Managed all Information Technology (IT) policies and processes such as backup, disaster recovery, Active Directory permissions and security policies.• Managed the selection, acquisition, and disposal of IT hardware and software assets.• Hired, on-boarded, and actively managed all employees involved in software development, QA/testing, documentation, packaging/delivery, rule writing (a key part of our software's delivery), and all IT functions.• Partnered closely with the President/CEO and sales/marketing teams on product presentations to win and sign on a vast majority of our key customers and channel partners.• Routinely engaged with C-Suite executives among customer prospects to discuss their requirements, do product demonstrations, technical presentations, discuss architecture of product integrations, evaluate pros/cons of different integration approaches, answer questions on our RFP/RFQ responses, etc.• As CTO, I also managed all customer support related processes and personnel for 6+ years until a VP of professional services was hired.• Tech stack & tools used: C++, C#, .NET, COM/ActiveX, SQL, MS SQL Server, Optical Character Recognition (OCR), Microsoft Visual Studio, Nuance OCR engine, LeadTools Document Imaging library, AutoCAD, ArcGIS, Visio (for UML/OOM)

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

• Object oriented analysis and design using UML and tools such as Rational Rose.• Primarily responsible for the C++ development of numerous components of a CORBA based distributed software system used to design, print, encode, and emboss plastic cards such as credit cards, employee badges, drivers license cards, etc. on sophisticated high end machinery.

• Responsible for the design and development of the DeviceNET Schematics Compiler which is an add-on module to the promis●e Electrical Control Systems design software that runs on the AutoCAD platform.• Developed many other utilities application for internal use to improve workflow / productivity.• Routinely traveled to customer sites to conduct multi-day onsite training sessions on the promis●e software.

Master Of Science In Software Engineering (Msse), Computer Software Engineering

Bachelor Of Science In Electrical Engineering (Bsee), Electrical & Computer Engineering

International Baccalaureate (Ib) Diploma