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Kunal Ashar is listed as EDTECH, STARTUP TECHNOLOGY LEADERSHIP: CTO • HEAD OF PRODUCT at Frontline Education, based in Leander, Texas, United States. AeroLeads shows a matched LinkedIn profile for Kunal Ashar.
Kunal Ashar previously worked as Senior Director of Engineering at Frontline Education and CTO at Hayes Software Systems. Kunal Ashar holds Pgdca, Computer Applications from International School Of Computer Technology.
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As a startup technology leader and expert, I'm focused on building powerful, effective solutions and platforms that will power our organization's growth and expansion—and ultimately support a successful, profitable acquisition strategy. I thrive in open, relaxed, flat cultures with a real commitment to growth and innovation - and I build and maintain the strong partnerships with my peers in the leadership team that are so critical to keep us moving forward consistently. My broad experience enables me to contribute effectively across the full spectrum of products and services - driving alignment with our customers' needs and ultimate customer success. I'm skilled in taking product ideas from initial conception, through the full development process, and then taking those products profitably to market. Within the enterprise, I focus on efficiency at all levels. I propel continuous process improvement to ensure that we are - and remain - at the absolute top of our game. I contribute to a solid bottom line by containing both operating and capital costs. I've also built the reputation as the go-to person to solve the toughest, most intractable problems. As a team builder, I clearly and consistently communicate our strategic business vision to every member of the team - ensuring a superior sense of team ownership and commitment at every stage of the product development process. As a result, my technology organizations are dedicated, committed, and driven by communication and collaboration.
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Malvern, Pa, Us
As the former CTO of Hayes Software Systems in Austin, TX, I specialized in K-12 School Asset Management solutions. Following Hayes' acquisition by Frontline Education, a Roper Technologies company included in the Nasdaq 100, S&P 500, and Fortune 1000, I now lead the asset management group as the Senior Director of Engineering.
Austin, Tx, Us
I partner with my executive peers on our overall business strategy, direct all technology strategy and execution, and drive full technology / business alignment. I ensure appropriate technology and cloud platform selection to support product speed, security, and scalability. I direct technology strategy and product delivery across 4 SaaS-based products. I implement technology processes, tools, and methodologies - including Agile and DevOps and drive cross-functional collaboration. -Built innovation and startup mindset into the organization's DNA. -Led Hayes to be rated one of the best places to work in Austin. I worked closely with my C-suite peers on all stages of successful company acquisition. I led all technical due diligence - encompassing products, tools, security, platform, implementations, and customer experience. I analyzed the product roadmap and path forward to address evolving customer needs. Finally, I evaluated the skill sets and relevance of every team member. -Ensured successful acquisition and enabled massive scaling to providing critical functionality to drive the acquisition process.I was mandated by senior leadership to optimize environments for all 4 products and ensure efficiency. -Reduced costs with no reduction in customer satisfaction or experience. Transformed product release process and built new, high-powered team. -Cut release time and slashed bug reports. I built real commitment for Agile with a serious understanding of Agile benefits. I also created weekly and quarterly KPIs and actionable sprint items. -Grew velocity exponentially. -Slashed tier III ticket resolution time from weeks to <48 hours.-Built team investment and commitment.
Singapore, Singapore, Sg
I served as Acting CTO for this content delivery backend and payment system enabling executive education programs from Harvard, MIT, Columbia, NSAID Singapore, and other leading universities. I planned, architected, designed, and implemented a greenfield, cloud-based executive education technology platform - including mobile/ web applications, collaboration / LMS servers, big data analytics, and reporting dashboards. I was mandated to build a unique content delivery platform - critical to our business success. I developed strategies and partnered with content creation teams to develop content, presentation, and security approaches. I addressed cloud and hosting strategies. I evaluated APIs, vendors, and providers and created PoCs. Finally, I built out the platform with full integration into the Canvas LMS. -Enabled seamless scaling. -Expanded technology partnerships. -Developed gamification engine to drive student interest and engagement. -Contributed directly to new funding.
San Francisco, California, Us
Product and services consulting architect for Java, Ruby on Rails and Mobile applications.* Big data, cloud product architecture, engineering and delivery,* Mobile application architecture and engineering for B2C mobile apps,* Content management and security solutions, including DRM and alternatives
Franklin, Tn, Us
Product architecture, engineering and delivery, solutions architecture and services delivery for healthcare products, services and systems across the world. Technology, quality and architecture advisor across multiple clients and projects of emids.Focus on:* Java/J2EE* Angular JS & Node.js* Cloud Computing* Big Data* Data Analytics* Android* Healthcare
Product and Services Marketing for Cloud, Mobile and Product and Application Development services. Marketing of Customer Mantra, and Technology and Architecture adviser.
Bangalore, Karnataka, In
Built 2 startup products - NorthStar (http://northstar.ws) and eSmart (http://esmart.ws). NorthStar is India's best known, most successful and most comprehensive school bus and child safety solution.PRODUCTS:* Startup group* Ideation and Product Management* Product architecture, tools and technology* Product conceptualization & management* Product design, development, delivery & release* Product support & maintenance* Product Marketing & PR* Implementation and services* Pre-sales & PIlots* Team creation & building* Budgets, revenues and P&L* Strategic Partnerships & Relationships* Sales & Channel development, & business leads* Process creation & managementSOLUTIONS:* Architected solutions for all products and services* Initiated, pursued and closed business leads for products and services* Managed the creation, delivery and follow-up of RFPs, proposals and SOQs* Created strategic and technology partnerships with dozens of companies for products, services and resources* Created relationships and channels with recruiting firms* Created relationships and channels with development firms for outsourcing* Analyzed competing products and services, commercial and open source GIS servers and SDKs, commercial and open source mobile GIS servers, SDKs, toolkits and products
Co-founder, chief architect, technology, engineering and marketing head. Pre-sales strategy and presentations, implementations, design/ development/ quality/ delivery of NorthStar in the Amazon Cloud. Budgeting, profit/loss management and cost control. Vendor evaluation and management. Hiring and recruitment. Team management, mentoring and performance improvement.
- Evaluated US, European and Indian consumer markets for product, technology, usability, platform and services offerings- Evaluated the feasibility of launching the product on numerous platforms such as Facebook, iPhone, OpenSocial (Orkut, MySpace), Web- Led the product management and architecture teams to create the product roadmap- Headed the local product management and global architecture teams to create the solution and technical architecture- Led the creation and filing of 7 patents (of a total of 13) in the USPTO- Created and evangelized the technology and tool stack for the creation of the Digital Personal Assistant
Santa Clara, California, Us
- Pre and Post Sales Solutions Architecture- Account/Customer Management- Project Management- Delivery Management- For Banking and Telecom customers worldwide- Using TIBCO technologies including Rules Management Engine (BusinessEvents), SOA/ESB (ActiveMatrix), Messaging (EMS/RV) and Adapters
Noida, Uttar Pradesh, In
- Pre-sales and Post-sales Consultant and Architect- EAI Architect and Account Manager for major telecom, pharmaceutical and logistics companies- EAI Solution Architect with expertise in rules engines, workflow engines, SOA, ESB and adapters
- Product Delivery & Management- Implemented Proof-of-Concepts- Managed People and Processes- Wrote & published technical articles- Mentored Aalayans on technical concepts and non-technical processes- Managed the complete product lifecycles of several TIBCO products- Helped TIBCO close product license deals worth several million dollars. - Managed Product Release and Porting- Performed complete Team Building activities
Minneapolis, Mn, Us
- Managed and contributed to a team of developers working on a Color Management System with unique web-based client-server architecture for Datacard Corporation, MN, and USA for their worldwide range of card printers- Implemented the complete design, module development, unit testing and delivery of a Java GUI front end for Datacard's Zenith System- Designed, developed and deployed a PoS software for Datacard's global customer requirements.
- Developed a GUI-based Environmental Database System using C++ and OOAD upon the request of the organization. The primary use of the software was to demonstrate the principles of OOAD to the engineers at HAL. - Software included a graphical editor to view the database and a powerful database search engine to scan the database of over 10,000 files for keywords, Phrases and numerical data.
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Kunal Ashar works for Frontline Education.
Kunal Ashar is listed as EDTECH, STARTUP TECHNOLOGY LEADERSHIP: CTO • HEAD OF PRODUCT at Frontline Education.
Kunal Ashar is based in Leander, Texas, United States while working with Frontline Education.
Kunal Ashar has worked for Frontline Education, Hayes Software Systems, Emeritus Institute Of Management, Sourcebits, and Emids.
Kunal Ashar's colleagues at Frontline Education include Iuliia Lytvynenko, Charles Solis, Ben Anderson, Paul Smith, and Conrad Kraybill.
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Kunal Ashar holds Pgdca, Computer Applications from International School Of Computer Technology.
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