Viswanathan  Narayanan

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About Viswanathan Narayanan

Leader - High integrity, focused and driven leader actively possessing strategic vision, decisive management style, and expertise in leading global teams for Product Development, Product Management, Delivery, Operations for a thriving software business. Offers a unique combination of hands-on technology experience, executive leadership, and entrepreneurial spirit. Aligning the team with the company’s strategic objectives and managing with a metrics driven approach to ensure continuous refinements to the process and structure that is inline with the organizational maturity.— Innovator - Led the development of two security platforms that were recognized by Gartner and placed in the leadership quadrant. Evangelized the adoption of Secure Access Markup Language (SAML) to secure web services. Led the development of Stereotactic Radiosurgery, obtained FDA approval and commercialized the product for cancer treatment. — Customer relationships - Leading a pioneering software development organization, organized and conducted regular meetings of the Customer Advisory Board. Brought structure and focus to the meetings, while encouraging creative thinking. Leveraged key customers to validate innovative solutions, evangelize and build excitement about upcoming releases and built strong relationships that helped in seeking ad hoc inputs when needed.— Turn arounds - Brought in to turn around a floundering business and position it for an acquisition, Took complete ownership of not just the technology team, but developed a plan for the entire organization, made key personnel changes both on the technology team and in other areas of the organization to enhance operational efficiencies. Owned the strategic roadmap for the organization and took decisive actions to bring operational expenses under control, ensuring viability of the organization. This led to a successful acquisition by a private equity firm.— Process Engineering - Transformed several organizations by introducing Agile methodologies like SCRUM to bring about a metrics driven approach to engineering. Strong focus on delivering quality solutions in a timely fashion (maximum deviation from schedule within 96 hours).— Mentor - Currently mentoring three startup CEOs One of my mentees has made it to the Forbes 30 under 30. — Hands-on technologist - Stay ahead of technology and market trends. Ability to actively participate in architecture reviews and discussions. Able to evaluate tradeoffs and make tactical decisions based on the merits and business needs.

Viswanathan Narayanan's Current Company Details
Yooniko

Yooniko

CTO at Yooniko
Viswanathan Narayanan Work Experience Details
  • Yooniko
    Chief Technology Officer
    Yooniko Feb 2015 - Present
    Instrumental in defining and executing all facets of technology at this start-up provider of integrated personal branding solutions, with responsibility for software development, technology selection and operations, and the leadership of a team of five developers and one Quality Assurance engineer. As a Founder, evangelized the business concept and value proposition to the Investors and Customers.  Championed the adoption of a rapid application development methodology with jQuery mobile front end, OData middle tier and SQL database, that significantly accelerated the go to market cycle, leading to the launch of Yooniko in 9 months. Recruited offshore team in India and worked with the team to ramp up and build the platform. Personally wrote many modules of the initial platform, including the WebRTC implementation for coaching sessions. Transitioned the product from the initial go to market version to a scalable platform using the MEAN (MongoDB, Express, Angular, Node.js) stack for development. Both generations of the SaaS based solutions developed and deployed on Azure platform based upon being a member of the Microsoft BizSpark initiative. Managed the deployment and management of cloud-based infrastructure on Microsoft Azure, including scaling and security of user data. Handled all issues related to planning and global redundancy of a distributed SQL databases.  Serves a critical role providing a technical perspective and input in all engagements and conversations with investors and potential investors, facilitating the expansion of professional relationships and the acquisition of funding to sustain and grow operations. Onboarded over 150 providers on the platform and ensured adequate training and support for optimal usage.
  • Certiport - A Pearson Vue Business
    Chief Technology Officer
    Certiport - A Pearson Vue Business May 2008 - Aug 2014
    American Fork, Ut, Us
    Recruited as the vice president and chief technology officer for MeasureUp to bring about engineering discipline and improve operational efficiencies. As a member of the executive team, played a critical role in bringing the operational costs in line with the revenue, thereby positioning the company for a successful acquisition. Post-acquisition, took on the leadership of the technology and operation teams of the parent company and brought about process change and structure within the whole organization. • Reduced the development and operational expense by 37% year-over-year, while improving the level of service by improving engineering efficiencies, bringing operations in-house and systematically eliminating wasteful spending.• Implemented SCRUM methodology in an organization that had never had any methodology.• Led the effort to the architect and successfully launch a new e-commerce site to achieve a 40% year-over-year revenue growth.• Architected and built web based practice test engine, the core delivery platform for a web based business.• Led the effort to consolidate IT infrastructure from two locations resulting in a 25% reduction in datacenter cost.• Guided the development of a new exam delivery engine that is hosted on Amazon cloud.• Managed the initiative to move the hosting infrastructure to a new collocation facility to reduce hosting costs by 32%.• Reduced dependence on external expertise and focused on bringing the cost structure in line with the business needs and led to a successful acquisition. • Took over the responsibility for Quality Assurance and Customer Support• Reached outside my area of responsibility to assist Marketing with requirements gathering, project planning and functional documentation• Provided technology, architecture and vendor evaluation consultation to MSEmploy Inc ( a sister company)
  • Statcom
    Vp Of Engineering
    Statcom 2006 - 2007
    Was brought in to help transition the organization, following the retirement of the founders of the company. Managed product development, quality assurance and the professional services teams (distributed organization with a substantial offshore presence) to implement an enterprise-wide patient flow and logistics software.• Promoted to VP of engineering within 9 months of joining the organization.• Launched the first ever hospital wide patient flow logistics platform after three failed attempts under the previous leadership.• Identified the drawbacks of the current architecture and developed a technology roadmap with a focus on ease of implementation and supportability of the product.
  • Symantec
    Senior Program Manager
    Symantec 2005 - 2006
    San Jose, California, Us
    Combine inputs from product management, customer feedback, industry trends and internal innovations to define functional requirements for the next product release. Coordinate the efforts of engineering and QA teams to ensure that the release meets the requirements. (Was originally hired to head the India operations. Plans changed because of M&A activity) • Recognized by industry analysts (Gartner Research) for being the market leader in the instant messaging security space.• Handled the transition of the India organization to Symantec, India after the acquisition. • Provided the product definition and led the first Symantec IMManager release to market.
  • 3Com
    Senior Program Manager
    3Com 2004 - 2005
    Marlborough, Ma, Us
    Identify and provide guidance to the engineering heads of various business units to improve processes, vendor management, leverage 3Com intellectual capital and increase organizational productivity. Developed strategy for joint ventures and acquisition evaluation for product and technology platform integrations.• Defined and rolled out vendor selection process for software OEM partners. Conducted engineering due diligence on several potential vendors. Worked with legal on contract negotiations.• Established software development process both for internal development and for co-development initiatives.• Implemented processes to track and protect Intellectual Property and to document any such information for systematic tracking and safekeeping.
  • Pronaya Llc
    President And Ceo
    Pronaya Llc 2003 - 2005
    Formed to help small to medium sized software product organizations to leverage offshore development, without the challenges associated with building captive operations abroad.• Executive staff responsible for corporate strategic planning, pricing and market position definition.• Grew India operations to 78 employees in 9 months• Defined process map and implemented a knowledge management centric methodology for offshore product development, leading the team to CMMI level 5.
  • Netegrity
    Senior Development Manager
    Netegrity 2001 - 2003
    Us
    Changed the culture of a successful startup to be in line with its current stature and maturity. Changed the delivery model to be in line with a large worldwide customer base by eliminating one off products and defined processes that made it maintainable and supportable.• Led SiteMinder platform development, the only product placed in the Gartner Leadership Quadrant for three consecutive years. • Achieved 98% on-time delivery in an organization with the track record of six month slippages on releases, through improved software development processes (Waterfall SDLC).• A 400% improvement in response time for customer escalations achieved by forming an Escalation Response Team and streamlining the processes.• Company liaison interacting directly with a large customer base through all phases of software development and maintenance.

Viswanathan Narayanan Skills

Integration Enterprise Software Program Management Software Development Sdlc Strategy Management Scrum Agile Methodologies Product Management Vendor Management Leadership Start Ups Cloud Computing Software Project Management E Commerce Strategic Partnerships Software Engineering Saas Software Design Professional Services Software Quality Assurance Enterprise Architecture Software Development Life Cycle Quality Assurance Product Development Unix Soa Entrepreneurship Requirements Analysis Technical Project Leadership Coding Standards Technology Roadmapping Security Software Product Management Offshore Software Development E Commerce Solutions Offshore Management Web Engineering Cmmi Service Oriented Architecture Webrtc Personal Training Personal Fonance

Viswanathan Narayanan Education Details

  • Syracuse University
    Syracuse University
    Electrical Engineering
  • Bangalore University
    Bangalore University
    Electronics And Communication

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