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Manjunatha KG Managing Director
 
Manjunatha KG's Profile
Aghreni Technologies Private Limited
Manjunatha KG
Managing Director
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Bangalore, India
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Manjunatha KG's Experience
Current :

CEO/MD/Director, Aghreni Technologies Private Limited

IT Services

Working from 2008

Brief summary :

Manjunatha KG is the Founder and Managing Director of Aghreni Technologies Private Limited.

 

Aghreni Technologies Private Limited is a provider of email and mobile marketing automation solutions and services to clients world-wide. Aghreni Technologies has many years of experience with leading global companies in the world and managing marketing campaigns for global brands. Aghreni is spear-headed by a senior team of highly qualified and experienced professionals from online marketing industry. The company aims to provide end to end solutions and services for marketers for customer acquisition, retention and loyalty.

Previous :

Vice President, Marlabs Inc

India

Worked from 2005 to 2011

Brief summary :

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT: Creating Sales Plans and Collaterals, Business Plans, Business and Technical Proposals, Business Strategy Development, Managing and Tracking Business Results ORGANIZATION and PEOPLE: Creating dynamic organization environment with Scalable and High Performance teams, Motivated workforce development, Employee Development and Performance planning and Reviews, Retaining talent, Creation of Vision, Mission and Objectives, Organization alignment Marlabs Inc, Edison, NJ/Bangalore, India Jan 2005 - Current As Vice President of Global Delivery, created end to end delivery models and processes for onsite/offsite/offshore development centers for health care products, solutions and services, .NET, Mobility, Java/J2EE and DW and BI Center of Excellences, and Dedicated Development Centers for some of the world leading world clients on Build, Operate and Transfer Models. Built and lead large sales and delivery teams of both in US and India. Created processes, business model for .NET, Java/J2EE, Health Care, DW/BI, Oracle DB and ERP application services. Functionalities include business planning, business development, ramping up sales and delivery teams, training and people development, managing client and vendor relationships, development of delivery processes, managing and tracking utilization, capacities and business results. Currently managing a team of 120+ people. The services are likely to grow into specialized services with a team of 700 people in the next 18-24 months. Created a business case for the creation of offshore delivery incubation models for US clients in niche product development and services area. Executed business plans, staffing and created processes. Created pre-sales collaterals for Application Development and Management services through global delivery processes. The pre-sales collaterals cover services offered, offshore advantages, value proposition, differentiators, facilities and infrastructure and methodologies.

Previous :

CEO/MD/Director, Epsilon India

IT Products

Worked from 2005 to 2008

Previous :

Senior Project Manager, Packard

Bangalore

Worked from 1996 to 2004

Brief summary :

Organized and synergized sales and delivery processes across all of Marlabs. Brought in processes and methodologies for the journey towards SEI-CMM/CMMi certification in the next 6 months. Published an article on J2EE and .NET interoperability standards and best practices for leveraging existing investments and reusability. Hewlett-Packard June 1996 to Dec 2004 As a Senior Project Manager and Program Manager, at Bangalore, India from October 2003 to Dec 2005, created offshore development centers for Mainframe and J2EE application capacity planning, performance benchmarking, Application Development and Maintenance and Support services and delivering application services. Secured orders for 6M USD, Revenues of 3.5 M USD with a funnel of 4M USD year over year. Created processes and business model for J2EE application development, maintenance and performance management services. Functionalities include business planning, business development, ramping up delivery teams, training and people development, managing client and vendor relationships, development of delivery processes, managing and tracking utilization, capacities and business results. Ramped up the delivery team from 5 to 85+ in 10 months. Setup Capacity Planning and Application Performance Management Services with well defined models and processes. One of the significant achievements of the team was to set a breaking benchmark numbers for a SOA application (J2EE application on both BEA WLS and Oracle OAS) on Oracle 9i RAC with a lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). Created a business case for the creation of offshore development center for mainframe applications development and support services. Wrote the business proposals to the client, negotiated with the client and winning deals for creating a team of 50 people to deliver over services over the next several years. Hired project managers and leads for the center and setup facilities and delivery processes to execute off shoring of mainframe application services. Created pre-sales collaterals for Application Development and Management services through global delivery processes. The pre-sales collaterals cover services offered, offshore advantages, value proposition, differentiators, facilities and infrastructure and methodologies. As a System Architect, Senior Project Manager and Program Manager, at Hewlett-Packard, Cupertino, USA from January 2000 to September 2003, lead the delivery of several projects both within HP and to HPs customers worldwide. Participated in presales activities and business development. System Architected customer contact center application suite based on distributed Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) using CORBA, C++, and Vantive product. Successfully migrated to Java/J2EE architecture using BEA Tuxedo, JOLT and Weblogic Application Server. Managed the delivery of projects through global delivery models and practices with team sizes varying between 30-45 worldwide on time, budget and quality in customer relationship and customer contact center e-solutions domain using custom Vantive and Peoplesoft solutions. Integrated several e-business applications to Vantive and Peoplesoft CRM solutions. Program managed large delivery projects to HPs trade customers (Agilent Technologies) with account size of 2 - 4M USD. Managed account P and L responsibility for a team of 45 people for data migration from legacy applications to Siebel CRM solution through custom and standard Informatica ETL tools. Program managed development of custom solutions using industry enterprise content management products (Lotus Notes, Trigo, Documentum and Stellent) for content collection, authoring, collaboration, aggregation and publishing to enterprise portals and applications. Participated in large ITO and BPO pursuits (value from USD 300M to 3B). Represented HP for application services. Instrumental in winning the largest order from Procter and Gamble for comprehensive IT outsourcing services. As a web service lead for the ITO pursuit, brought the capabilities and best practices from all over HP to the pursuit by working with different organizations and teams within HP. As an IT services lead for the BPO pursuit, brought all of the HP capabilities to the HR and Payroll BPO pursuit. Transition and Transformation lead for outsourced application services projects (USD 700M). Put up a transition plan for transitioning application services (executed by 800 resources across different business units) over a 6 month period and for delivery of contractual deliverables. Established Application development, maintenance and support standards and tools and metrics for adherence to the standards for the outsourced organization across different technologies (Java/J2EE, Portals, DW and BI, SAP, Mainframe and Custom Applications). Established Metrics of Productivity for development and maintenance and collection and analysis mechanisms. Managed client and vendor relationships as onsite project manager. Interacted and communicated with senior management personnel within the organization and customer. Made presentations on the strategy, plan, solution and execution methodologies. Transitioned the application services and delivered the contractual obligations on-time and to the satisfaction of the customer. As a Project Manager, at Bangalore, India from September 1998 to December 1999, lead the enterprise workflow process manager product development and maintenance across multiple sites (US to Japan) with team size of 150+. Managed team of 25+ people. Managed product development, maintenance and support of HPs Enterprise Process Manager (EPM) on UNIX and Windows NT platforms (C++ application server on CORBA middleware, backend on Oracle and Microsoft SQL server, Wrappers in C++ and Java for clients to be written in these languages). EPM provides a process driven approach to EAI to integrate both people and applications by taking advantage of middleware connectivity and its service-based model to build end-to-end process automation across enterprises and beyond. Managed the development of multiple database support (Oracle 7x and Microsoft SQL Server) for the product. Streamlined product development, maintenance and support processes across all of the development centers. Created development, Quality Assurance, Release, CM, Build and Test Automation processes and standards for execution excellence. Setup coding standards for C++ and Java and checklists for effective reviews. Managed the transition of product maintenance, QA and support work from onsite (US and EMEA) to India. Managed to clean the bug repository proactively from 5000+ bugs to a manageable 50+ by working with marketing and onsite product development managers. Managed several major and minor releases of the product and patches with high quality. Managed the migration of the product from CVS to Clearcase Multi-site configuration management tools and creation of best practices for multi-site development and maintenance of the product. As an Architect, Project Manager, Program Manager, at VeriFone, Bangalore, India (which was acquired by Hewlett-Packard in April 1997) between June 1996 to August 1998, architected and managed Point of Sale applications product and applications development (in C, C++, Java on Window desktops and VeriFone handheld terminals (hardware and software) for VeriFone and its customers.

Previous :

Project Manager, Bharat Electronics Limited

Bangalore

Worked from 1984 to 1996

Brief summary :

Managed development of several projects for VeriFone customers worldwide in C, C++ and Java on Microsoft windows and Point of Sale terminals (Super Market chains and Banks). Architected a point of sale and smart card application development framework with VISA (credit card provider). Managed the pilot implementation of the framework in C++ on VeriFone point of sale platforms. Program managed the new development of a point of sale handheld platform across multiple locations with a team size of 20 people. It is a Java based platform running embedded java. Lead the development of a suit of libraries, device drivers, Visual Integrated Development Environment tools, application development framework in Java, sample java demo applications and migration strategies for migrating legacy applications from other platforms. Bharat Electronics Limited. Bangalore, INDIA March 1984 to May 1996 As a Project Manager, from January 1993 to May 1996, managed the transfer of technology to production divisions to produce 10 RADAR systems. Plan and coordinated with client, the requirements for customization. Implemented processes for serial production and quality of deliverables. Over the 3 years, managed the successful delivery of INR 800M worth of hardware, software, spares and services. As a Team Lead, from August 1989 to December 1992, architected, designed, developed, tested, and deployed to production RADAR systems. Lead the development of a highly complex, state-of-the-art RADAR system for surveillance, tracking and controlling missile system with a team of 10 hardware and software engineers on 80x86 and 68x00 platforms. Assembly, C and C++ programming on windows desktops and Intels iRMX real time operating system. Development of Software Tools (assembler, linker, loader, debugger, reverse engineering, auto tests etc) on windows desktops using DOS. Successfully tested the system in field and acceptance by customer. Transfer of knowledge to production, preparation of technical, user, installation and production documentation etc. Instrumental in winning the order for INR 500M for serial production of 10 systems. As a Senior Software Engineer and Lead, from March 1986 to July 1989, architected, designed, developed, tested, and implemented embedded hardware and software systems. Developed reusable hardware and software embedded systems for data acquisition, control and management of RADAR systems. Assembly, C and C++ programming on 80x86 and 68x00 platforms. Development of open architecture and reusable common hardware and software modules for rapid development and deployment. Lead and coached team members and internees. Gave orientation on development, domain and technologies

 
 
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