Project Manager Management

K RISH MENON

www.linkedin.com/in/menonkrish **********@*****.*** 917-***-**** NY Metro Area

Product and business savvy technology executive with a 15-year track record of innovation and

success in creating vision, building roadmaps, managing multifunctional teams, and delivering

scalable award-winning web based platforms and products.

Currently lead product and technology research and development of an award-winning multichannel

digital media platform used by global clients including General Motors, Lamborghini, adidas, Puma,

Ericsson, the US Department of State, Rotary, IBM, PWC, Intel and many others.

QUALIFICATIONS

Has strong entrepreneurial drive, technology knowledge and the management and execution skills

to leverage technology assets to deliver business value and the proven expertise to lead all aspects

of technology research and development needs – from, inception, design and usability to architecture,

development, testing, hosting, and operations.

Keen ability to understand key business drivers and requirements, articulate a vision, evaluate

risks and define roadmaps to strengthen technology capabilities, processes, and infrastructure

investments.

Skilled at making decisions on the right mix of technology, processes and partners. Balance

custom development and off-the-shelf solutions to meet goals in the most expedient and cost

effective way.

Experienced with building, managing and scaling Product Development, UX/UI design, Project

Management, QA, Operations and IT teams and setting up an in-house offshore technology center

in India and working with multiple vendors in the US, UK, Belarus and India.

Consistently focus on Technology Governance as the driving force to ensure that investments in

technology delivered business value, and mitigated the implementation and operational risks.

Proven international experience and success working in multi-cultural environments and multi-

national organizations. Led teams up to 60 worldwide, including 20 in-house supported by

vendors, as needed.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SYNAPTIC DIGITAL (formerly THE NEWSMARKET; now part of DEFINITION 6), New York, NY Nov 2002 to Present

CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER (SYNAPTIC DIGITAL) AND CHIEF SOFTWARE ARCHITECT (DEFINITION 6)

Lead product and technology research and development since inception of the organization’s

multichannel digital media creation, management and distribution platform that is used by Fortune

500 companies and prominent global organizations and governments.

Successfully built and managed high performance product strategy and research and

development teams. Created multiple award winning products. Conducted competitive,

customer and gap analysis; created and launched multiple new products with ownership for

product development from design and usability to implementation, hosting and operations.

Created, communicated, managed and implemented product roadmap. Prioritized and managed

expectations. Led multiple projects in parallel using various standard and agile methodologies to

meet need for rapid and successful deployment under tight time constraints in a highly

competitive market.

Built and scaled operations and processes around the various products and established entire

development, product, UX/UI, IT and operations teams from scratch in the US and India. Engaged

and worked with multiple vendors in many countries to deliver projects.

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Architected and implemented the modular product platform and scaled software stack that

powers SaaS based white-labeled solutions integrating professional broadcast quality and

streaming video and social media for leading global brands. Also delivered the platform that

powers thenewsmarket.com, the world's largest content exchange for professional media and

influencers across more than 30,000 media outlets in nearly 200 countries. Technology platform

has won numerous awards.

Scaled technology platform more than 50X over the years to meet the ever changing and

increasing needs of customers and internal users while meeting funding challenges of a rapidly

growing company.

Participated in numerous key account sales pitches and provided input at multiple levels to the

business development efforts of the sales team.

Member of the senior management team driving company strategy and growth. Part of the team

that led the acquisition and integration of a NASDAQ-listed company in 2009. Also a member of

the team that was involved in the process and due diligence that led to Synaptic Digital being

acquired in 2012 by Definition 6; a unified marketing agency.

ZENSAR TECHNOLOGIES, India, US and Japan 1997 to 2002

WEB ARCHITECT, PROJECT MANAGER, DEVELOPER

Rapidly promoted from C++ developer to role as web architect and senior project manager at Zensar

Technologies, a leading publicly listed software solutions provider based in India.

Major projects included:

For Microsoft - Redmond, US: Lead Developer on project to build reference architecture for B2C

commerce sites using Commerce Server 2000.

For AskMe - Seattle, US and India: Enhancement of a knowledge management product called

AskMe Enterprise. Was involved in sales and subsequent setup of delivery team as well.

For Bulletin international - NYC, US: Development of a web based solution to automate Bulletin’s

business processes across all their worldwide offices.

For Zensar - India: Architected, implemented and drove all aspects of Zensar’s first in-house web

product initiative. Worked with Microsoft’s MCS team.

For Fujitsu - Japan and India: Developed C++ based libraries for vendor agnostic database access

on Windows and UNIX. Also part of team that wrote a Borland Database Engine (BDE) driver for

Fujitsu's SymfoWARE database.

EDUCATION

BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING degree with honors in Electronics - Bombay University, India

TECHNOLOGY CORE COMPETENCIES

Domains: Web platforms and technologies targeting the desktop and mobile environments,

broadcast quality and streaming video, social media, content management, syndication, user

management, campaign management, search, analytics, workflow management, scalability, hosting,

virtualization, high availability, content distribution networks, security, outsourcing and vendor

management.

Technologies and platforms: Windows, IIS, SQL Server, ASP.NET, REST APIs, XML/XSLT, SOAP,

Akamai, Limelight, The Platform, Brightcove, Flash, OSMF, NTSC/PAL/HD video, video transcoding,

live streaming, Autonomy, Internationalization, Responsive Web Design, jQuery, Omniture, Google

analytics, C#, VB.NET, Java, ODBC, UNIX, Database Drivers, ISAPI filters, Oracle, C/C++.

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AWARDS AND HONORS

Featured speaker at industry events including SIIA Content Forum, Streaming Media East and

West, Digital Hollywood at CES, Akamai User Conference.

Delivered guest lecture on Cloud computing to professors and PHD students at Virginia Tech.

Implementation of the US Dept of State Online News Room was the winner of the prestigious

2012 Bulldog Digital/Social PR Awards for Outstanding Achievement by Agencies and

Individuals in PR and Corporate Communications in the Best Online Newsroom of the Year

category.

Winner in 2012 of PR News' Platinum PR Award in the Online Press Room/Media Center category

for the white labeled implementation of our Media Center platform for Rotary International.

Awarded Gold and Silver, respectively, for White-labeled implementation of our product platform

for adidas and Maersk at the Communicate Magazine Digital Impact Awards in 2011 in the best

online newsroom category.

Winner in 2011 in the Technology Innovation Division of the Online Reputation Management

Category - awarded by SNCR, a prestigious global nonprofit research and education foundation

and think tank.

Computerworld Honors Program Laureate in the Media, Arts and Entertainment category for the

implementation of advanced Multi-media Search in 2007.

Member of senior team at Synaptic Digital that grew company exponentially since 2002.

o #35 on Inc. Magazine’s Top Media Companies on the Inc. 5000 list in 2011.

o Company placed 13th in the NY region in the Deloitte's Technology Fast 50 in 2007.

Youngest “Employee of the year” at Zensar Technologies (formerly, Fujitsu ICIM, Ltd.) – a leading

software and services company based in India with 5000+ employees. Won multiple other

awards at Zensar.

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