Venkatesh Ponniah Email & Phone Number

Experienced Leader in Software Product Development, Product Strategy, Building Teams and Customer EngagementA dynamic Global IT professional with distinguished track record of delivering results and business values through innovation, business transformation, and operation excellence for over 23 years. Demonstrated success through Software development, Quality assurance, and Product features managing complete Product development lifecycle. Well-organized result-oriented individual with proven ability to implement standards, procedures and processes that improves business functionality. Exceptional communicator focused on building strong customer and business relationship.• Product Development: Full lifecycle experience in scoping, designing, developing, testing, solutions implementation, deploying and supporting enterprise scale application software using industry standard methodologies. • Domain Expertise: Broad domain experience in Network Management, Voice, Wireless, System configuration management, Storage, Web-based applications, Unified Communications, Networking and Cloud.• Organization building: Developed competence centres in India and instrumental in transitioning, replicating knowledge centres across for operational efficiency.• Customer Engagement: Tata communications, Vodafone, Reliance, Orange Telecom, T-Mobile, Rakuten Communications, Telstra, Indian Army etc.• Product Management: Distinctly recognized for revamping the annual revenue of $150million by implementing flagship products in the Unified communication space.• Sales Enablement: Actively involved in product briefings and pre-sales engagement with Tier1 MSP’s and Critical accounts.• Solutions Delivery: Engaged with senior executives in creating and delivering emerging market solutions.• Innovation: Created a start-up forum “Yukti” to drive innovation through unique means. Also engaged in setting up incubation centers in esteemed universities. Advisory council for innovation in other organizations and mentors start-ups. Hosts hackathons to drive ideation.• Product Differentiation: Conceptualized and delivered first in class, unique customer differentiators in record time.• Partner Management: Managed relationship, deliverables, and strategic partnerships with key vendors like HCL, Wipro, BMC, TCS, Infosys, TechM, Global Logic etc.• Brand ambassador: University relations. Speaker on Technology, Innovation and start-up forums.