NARASAYYA IMMIDISETTY

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ENGINEERING LEADER, PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

Accomplished leader with 20 years of software industry and passionate about driving organization transformation and related improvements to
drive business need from inception to best in class maturity levels in areas of new product development, product/process optimization, time to
market, expanding in newer geographies and achieving some of the most challenging organizational transformation initiatives. Currently heading
Central Engineering group at VMWare managing the development of numerous web-based solutions, SaaS products built in a cloud native way
using micro services Architecture for VMWare Customers & Partners. Prior to this, worked at Cisco San Jose, USA & India for 15 years and managed
development of a cloud enabled PaaS software product named “Service Delivery Platform”. Possess MS Computers from NIT and holds dual
Citizenship for USA & India.

Over the years, I have proven ability to multi-task, manage multiple projects simultaneously, efficiently manage risk, and effectively determine
priorities. Led global cross functional teams of 40+ resources, consisting of development managers, architects, product managers, software
engineers and QA managers. I have also provided direction for technology selection and agile software development process.

Passionate about building and growing high performing teams, being a change leader and driving operational excellence in software delivery. Built,
trained and managed off-shore software development teams that are extensions to the USA’s development organization. Solid experience in
recruit, develop, energize and motivate highly skilled workforce at onsite & offshore and in turn delivering high quality products and services.

Accomplishments
Ø Enabled revenue generation of $640 million from customers thru vSAN Sizing and VVT ROI solutions.
Ø Generated revenue of $160 million from customers in South Korea, UK and USA and effectively handled a budget of over $10 million for
SDP Platform. This cloud enabled platform as a service enabled several solutions which cater to Service Provider, Enterprise and City iconic
market segments
Ø Lead a dynamic team to file multiple patents in “Apparatus for Generically Integrating Websites with Multiple Web-based Payment
Gateways" and “Zero Touch Deployment” with US Patents Office.
Ø Received Best Research Poster for API Validator in R&D Innovation Offsite.
Ø Achieved CIO award for innovation, leadership and value for Cisco Virtual Office product.
Ø Managed development & deployment of On-premise and cloud-based customer focused solutions with web & mobile interface.
Ø Extensive collaboration with Business Units, Engineering & Product Marketing teams to drive several highly secured and scalable solutions
for Customers & Partners at VMWare & Cisco, with 99.999 uptime.
Ø Built strong technical teams from ground up ODC setup & expansion for Cisco Architecture & Business Services group.
Ø Excellence in doing Customer driven technical presentations to help Sales teams for selling the solutions.
Ø Managed several web-based enterprise apps in the areas of Configuration Management, Service Costing, Billing, Mobility, Web
Conferencing, Exchange, Epage, Networking, Infrastructure, Security and Finance for entire Cisco.
Ø Recipient of Championship award & numerous other CAP achievement Awards at Cisco.
Ø Managed ISO and SOX auditing approvals for SDP product and services.
Ø ITIL V3 certified in applying the correct methodologies for software development & service lifecycle management.
Ø Lead Emerge Leadership Program for managers.
Ø Highly experienced in product roadmap, budget and resource planning.

Core Competencies
• Strong background in technical & engineering management • Product Prioritization
with outstanding leadership abilities • High integrity and strong ethics
• Project management in matrixed and geographically • Build high energetic teams & mentoring
distributed organizations. • Service management & integration
• Strategic Planning & Vision • Customer/Partner relationship & communication
• Managing diverse technical workforce & career development • Focal Planning
• Diversity & Inclusion • Cross functional leadership
• Budget planning • Vendor management

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Career Progression

Associate Director, VMware Software, India 2015 – Present

Senior Manager & Manager, Cisco Systems, India/USA 2009 – 2015
Technical Leader, Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA, USA 2001 – 2009
Sr. Software Engineer, Xoriant Corp, Santa Clara, CA, USA 1998 – 2001
Sr. Software Engineer, IT Solutions, San Ramon, CA, USA 1997 – 1998

Technology focus areas

• On-prem enterprise Apps • Agile & Waterfall methodologies
• Cloud Native enterprise Apps • Dev Ops
• Bigdata Systems • REST API
• SaaS • Web & Mobile frameworks
• PaaS • Quality Automations frameworks
• RDBMS & NoSQL databases • Security framework
• ORM technologies • AI & ML
• Containers • UI & UX Design frameworks
• Kubernetes • Data Analytics
• Micro Services • Architecture & Design

Education

Embedding Leadership Excellence, IIM Bangalore

ITIL V3 Foundation Certification, Pink Elephant, Palo Alto
M.Tech (Computer Science), M.N.N.I.T, Allahabad (MNREC)

Professional Meetings

2018 VMWorld, VMware Business & Customer Event, Las Vegas, USA
2017 VMware Global Site Leaders Strategy Offsite, Palo Alto, USA
2016 VMWorld, Vmware Business & Customer Event, Barcelona, Spain
2015 RADIO, Vmware Innovation Technology Event, San Francisco, USA
2007 Cisco Virtual Office (CVO) Program Offsite, Austin, TX
2006 VPN token (RTM) Program Offsite, San Jose, CA
2004 Mobility Program Offsite, New York, NY

Honors & Activities

Served as a VP of Education at Toastmaster International Club at San Jose.

Achieved CIO award for innovation, leadership and value for CVO product.
Received IT Championship award & numerous other CAP achievement Awards at Cisco.
Volunteered services at the Family Giving Tree, Milpitas, CA and Second Harvest Food bank, Santa Clara.
Raised funds to give back to Cisco facility staff for Diwali in Bangalore.

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Professional Experience Details

Associate Director, Software Development, Apr 2015 to Present

VMware Software, India

Current Profile: Management of Value Added Products/Solutions Development and Deployment; Product Architecture & Design; Technology
Integration; Resource Management; Product Release Management; Budget planning & management; Vendor negotiation; Team Building; Training
and Development; Focal Planning.

Key Achievements:

Partner & Customer Web Tools/Solutions development

® Leading Central Engineering Customer Solutions/Tools team of 40+ resources, managing 20 tools. Working as an acting Director and as an
engineering leader for BLR team, reporting into Executive team in USA.
® Managing VMware Compatibility portal providing VMware compatibility information to 500K+ customers and 75K Partners. Deployed on
One Cloud infrastructure and providing fraction of a second performance to our customers. Extensive cross-functional collaboration among
Product management, Program management and engineering teams working across theatres.
® Managing development of web tools/portals & API needed for partners to collaborate with VMware to certify their products with VMware
product releases.
® Architected & designed VCG & VSAN API & Services for cross functional BU’s across VMware for product integration. Leveraged in vSphere
Health Check tool, VSAN Configurator.
® Generic Data analytics platform for capturing ecosystem analytics across various Central Services.
® Managing development of BU specific tools for their business success such as ConfigMax, Ports & Protocols, VSAN Sizing, VVD Sizing, TCO,
VSAN Ready Node Configurator and Partner API.
® These products are developed as Micro services, deployed on Containers using DevOps model. The micro services are built using Spring Boot,
using Eureka for service discovery and Zuul for API gateway.
® Building native mobile app for vSAN Sizer using Ionic framework for Android and IOS devices.
® Building solutions in VMWare UX standard using Clarity and Angular technologies.
® These tools are access controlled via WS1 for SSO for employees, Partner Central for VMware Partners and MyVMware for Customers.
® Extensive cross-functional collaboration among Product management, Program management and engineering teams working across
theatres.
® Generated multi million dollars to Vmware and hosted from Vmware.com, the availability of this Portal is 99.999%

Technical Leader, Manager & Senior Manager, Software Development, Feb 2001 to Mar 2015
Cisco Systems, India/USA
Key Achievements:

Service Delivery Platform (SDP) Product Development

® Successfully managed development of a highly innovative Service Delivery Platform (SDP) under Cloud Service Management Technology
group; managed 30+ resources as an acting Director, reporting to a Sr. Director.
® Played a key role in operating it through all the phases of Product lifecycle gates from Business committee to FCS, addressing three main
market segments: Enterprise, Service Provider and service exchange markets.
® Deployed several releases in progression at various customer sites. The latest release 2.5 is under deployment for at Inmarsat, UK a Satellite
based company. Earlier releases were done at uLife, Songdo, South Korea and EMC.
® The platform, SDP provides extensive SDK with option of multiple run-time for customers and partners to build variety of solutions and it can
be shared in the eco space, deployable on premise or on the Cloud.
® Brought in high performer Scalable Customer Portal, Reseller Portal & Admin Portals which are built using Web 2.0 technologies and can
generate JSR 286 complaint portlets, if demanded.
® Drove the mobile version of Customer Portal as a native App for Google Android and Apple IOS mobile devices, built using Dojo Mobile,
JavaScript and SDP REST API.
® Facilitated the generation of revenue of over $160 million for Cisco through above mentioned product development by successful
collaboration with cross-functional teams.
® Guided, motivated and mentored a strong technical team from ground up ensuring peak performance and quality product.
® Seamlessly collaborated with the Product management team for product requirements, drove SFS, Architecture and Design discussions for
product development.

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 Cisco Virtual Office (CVO) Provisioning Product
® Played a key role in architecting & designing zero touch provisioning for Cisco Virtual Office solution. The provisioning extends into several
other products such as Cisco Software Manager and Configuration Engine.
® Managed team of 20+ resources, engineers, tech leads and architects across 3 theatres (North America, EMEA and APAC) with extensive
cross collaboration across BU’s.
® Ensured quick development and deployment of multiple services through creation of XML based SOA.
® Efficiently managed service lifecycle through Integrated Service management framework.
® Delivered Customer and Operator Portals to manage the service lifecycle from request to retire.
® Provided scalability through configurable and extendable hub concept.
® Integration with various Map engines such as Google, Bing and OSM for enhanced user experience.
® Generated revenue of over $20 million for Cisco through successful deployment at customer sites such as AT&T and Oracle.
® Built strong teams with varying technology need to cover the automation, as well as other Cisco product knowledge.

Managed Element Management System (MEMS) Product

® Managed design & development of MEMS, a Change and Configuration management system consists of various Configuration Items such as
Applications, Databases, JVMs etc., and their relationships across the organization.
® Provided access to MEMS data through North bound web services API and via JMS based events. Also, designed configurable MEMS
schedulers to pull the data from various data sources on periodic basis.
® Leveraged this information in variety of applications such as Change Management, Incident management, Service Costing and Service
Catalog apps.
® Deployed in Cisco IT and other enterprises such as Marvell and provided integration into Remedy.

Generic Provisioning Framework

® Managed a team of 20+ technical engineers, Designed & developed highly scalable web applications using modern technologies by steering a
team of 20+ technical engineers.
® Expertly created asynchronous JMS, XML based service-oriented generic provisioning system using JAVA technologies.
® Contributed to deploying several IT services using this generic framework.
® Architected, designed various web applications for Cisco such as SSOT web system to manage employees, VPN provisioning, mobility, Service
Costing, Billing, Web Conferencing, Exchange, Epage, and finance.

Sr. Software Engineer, Oct 1998 to Jan 2001

Xoraint Corp, Santa Clara, CA, USA
Key Achievements:
® Played an integral role in the management of several web-based projects at various customer sites, such as MovePoint, San Francisco and
Ascend Communications, Alameda.
® Delivered applications in the areas of business-to-business and case management with key success.
® Guided assigned team in system design and development for web-based business- to- business (B2B) application.
® Performed code reviews & ensured quality software thereby enhancing customer satisfaction.

Sr. Software Engineer, Jan 1997 to Oct 1998

IT Solutions, San Ramon, CA, USA
Key Achievements
® Successfully deployed several HR related projects to various customers, such as Silicon Graphics, Mountain View, Sybase Inc., Emeryville and
AT&T San Ramon.
® Designed & Developed applications in the areas of inventory, bill of materials, purchase order and finance.

Current Location: Bangalore

Dual Citizenship for USA & India