Bharath Krishnan

Expertise

Leadership with acute business intelligence to take on challenges with an agile approach on functional and business consulting, client relationship, delivery ownership, cost management, scope management, and leveraging cross-domain knowledge base across implementation projects for better execution, in addition to extensive enterprise software skills.

Experience

Nov 2012 till date: Manager- IT

AVRDC – The World Vegetable Center, Shanhua, Taiwan

Achievements:

Provided strategic and tactical planning, development, evaluation, and coordination of the information and technology systems for the organization globally, which included business continuity and disaster recovery planning.
Development and implementation of information system to capture M&E indicators.
Designed and managed IT purchasing and information security policies.
Leveraged cloud-based services as necessary.
Identified cost-saving options in software and hardware purchases and negotiated with vendors for licenses and their renewal.
Worked with Bioinformatics for the installation of the STACKS sequencing tool and interacted with the tool’s developers as necessary.
Supervised and guided interns during their internship at the Center.
Developed and implemented user training programs.

Jan 2011 – Oct 2012: Senior Manager – Technology

Magic Software (P) Ltd, New Delhi, India

Recognition:

Member of the organization’s Strategy and Planning committee.

Achievements:

Consulted with clients on their workflow-related software requirements and subscription-based services.
Introduced new software development technologies that are future-ready and reduce deployment times by over 50%.
Prepared business presentations showcasing market ICT trends and organization capabilities for use by CXO.
Led vision definition, architecture and prototyping of software apps on web and cloud-based, mobility/smartdevices platforms for applications, mobile apps and games
Provided consultancy to clients, internal development, sales, QA and program management teams over J2EE, .NET, PHP, iOS, Android, HTML5,Amazon S3, SES and Azure environs.
Led presales, consulting and solutioning initiatives across various technology domains.
Participated in developing company product portfolios and defining product and department roadmaps.
Main contributor to the organization blog.
Team mentoring and professional development.

Jun 2006 – Dec 2011: Senior Manager – Technology (also HOD, Technology Dept)

Techbooks International (P) Ltd, New Delhi, India

Recognition:

Achieved the ‘Champ’ recognition in Dec 2010.
Appreciated by ‘Center of Excellence’ on implementation of the training survey in July 2010.Awarded the management of the 3000+ employ
yee organization’s MIS department to control HRMS, billing and reporting functions in April 2009.
Appreciated on the ever-growing PowerManage initiative by the CEO and the Country Head in Feb 2009.
Won the CEO and CFO “Best Team Award 2007” for the PowerManage initiative in Jan 2008.

Achievements:

Led the application architecture, approach, design and development (including data structure and algorithm definition) of software products using technologies over global, heterogeneous hardware, software, database and operating platforms across project portfolios and in alignment to business objectives.
Conceptualized, managed and delivered a multi-platform, business process management (BPM) project known as PowerManage enabling organization to introduce automation in human-centric processes, monitor and boost productivity, identify employee improvement areas, avoid human errors, capture customer voice and report production status to customers.
Investigated technology trends. recommended technologies that are a fit with the enterprise web application development/architecture, including third party frameworks, processes, models, tools and off-the-shelf products.
Managed and mentored a team of assistant managers, Oracle and J2EE tech leads, PL/SQL and Java developers, Oracle DBAs, QA managers and testers, technical writers, UI designers and 24x7 support staff delegating tasks, and setting target dates and quality objectives.
Team building across heterogeneous areas: J2EE, .NET, UNIX, Windows, Macintosh, database (Oracle 10g, MySql/Posgres), QA, project management
Introduced programs to increase employee recognition among peers, to enhance job skills and to reduce attrition.

Jan 2003 – Jun 2006: Manager - Knowledge Management and ICT
CGIAR: CIMMYT (International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center), New Delhi, India

Recognition-:

Member of the RWC team that won the prestigious King Badoudin Award

Achievements:

Led organization as head of the Knowledge Management and Information & Communication Technologies department that directs software consulting, design and development, product promotion, IT asset acquisitions, IT resource management, training and ICT advisory services.
Represented the Asian continent at the KASSA/European Union conference in Brussels where global sustainable agriculture was discussed.
Visualized the creation of the PROMIS – an international knowledge dissemination medium.
Responsible for the management of a wide range of IT infrastructure activities (network, databases, hardware and software applications)
Envisioned the Information Systems strategy by setting directions relating to management and deployment of software projects and implemented the IT Policy to govern the use of IT assets.
Involved hands-on in software development on MS (VB, ASP, .NET with C# and VB.net, SQL, XML) and Java, and GIS based applications.
Achieved increase in team efficiency and collaboration that led to reduced turnaround times in cutting-edge application development (RAD) allowing greater scope for value-addition.
Organized and conducted regional and international seminars to evangelize software products, competitive software design, and expansion projects.
Led multicultural client groups in training workshops.
Participated in the dissemination of extra multi-disciplinary knowledge (IT, agriculture, economics, sciences, geography) to diversified target groups.

May 2000 – Dec 2002:Senior Web Developer / Product Specialist (eLearning)

Agenda Net Marketing (Pvt.) Ltd, Chennai, India

Recognition:

Presented innovative business plans at ‘Think-tank’ sessions of board meetings.
Recognized as ‘Employee of the month’ twice.

Achievements:

Piloted projects in the software life cycle stages of pre-sales, analyses, design and development, and maintenance, and post-sales on ASP/JSP/SQL Server/Oracle/DB2.
Researched upcoming and new technologies and tools such as Ajax on IE 5.5.
Provided consultancy to prospective clients on how to apply technology to help them deliver better.

Academics

Degrees:

Master of Arts (Economics), Tamil Nadu, India
Bachelor of Technology (Computer Systems), British Columbia, Canada

Professional:

Member of the Institute of Electric and Electronic Engineers, NJ, USA
Member of the Information Systems Audit and Control Association, Ohio, USA
Advanced Diploma (Honours) in Software Engineering, Distinction Holder

Knowledge Diversity

Core skills: Software Engineering and IT

SDLC (Web-based/distributed and client/desktop design and development) in Java/J2EE, AJAX and ExtJS, .NET with Oracle 10g over UNIX, PC and Mac server and client platforms
Software Quality Assurance
Project and Resource Management
Information Systems Auditing (passed Certified Information Systems Auditor – CISA – exam)

Miscellaneous

Production and Operations Management
Financial Accounting
Management and Marketing

Presentations

Monitoring and Evaluation Systems, Arusha, Tanzania (6/2013)
Data Security and backups, Bangkok, Thailand (4/2013)
Co-convener and Presenter at the Informatics session at the 2nd International Rice Congress, New Delhi, India (10/2006)
Knowledge Integration in South Asia, Fondation Universitaire, Brussels, Belgium (2/2006)
PROMIS – Managing Project Knowledge, Lahore, Pakistan (2/2006)
Knowledge Search Databases, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium (1/2006)
Utility of open-source platforms, Dhaka, Bangladesh (12/2005)
Knowledge across borders, paper presented at Zürich, Switzerland (4/2005)
CEO Seminar - Branding, IIPM, New Delhi (4/2005)
The Importance of an User-friendly Interface Design, Wageningen, the Netherlands (3/2005)
Software Development and the future of embracing Open Source, Utrecht, the Netherlands (3/2005)
The benefits of shared information resources, Islamabad, Pakistan (10/2004); Kathmandu/Lalitpur, Nepal (10/2004); Dhaka, Bangladesh (7/2003 & 5/2004); Bern, Switzerland (3/2004)
Shared platforms in database development, Utrecht, the Netherlands (3/2004)
Seminar on XML (2002)
The Microsoft .Net Framework – An introduction(2002)
Reusable Components… It’s not COM! (2001)
Seminars on Oracle and Windows 95 at the National Institute of Port Management, Chennai, India (2000)

Publications

Knowledge across borders, paper presented at Zürich, Switzerland – April 2005

RWC-PRISM, Bern, Switzerland – March 2004

Class Properties in C# Explained, wimdows.net

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