Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Technology Expertise
Expert in folllowing XR and Immersive Devices
Accomplishments
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GANESH VENKATRAMAN

Solution Architect | Technology Consulting | Tech. Evangelist - Extended Reality, Metaverse & Emerging Technologies
Chennai

Summary

Technology Enthusiast with about 16 years of extensive IT experience with proven success in Technical Architecture & management, Product Development, Business Analysis, Knowledge Acquisition in Mobile, Digital & Immersive technologies- Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Mixed Reality & Emerging technologies.


Overview

15
15
years of professional experience

Work History

Assistant Director- Technology Consulting

EY Global
04.2023 - Current
  • Technology Consulting & Strategic assessments for Global Clients
  • Client Relationship Management, Communication and Collaboration, Strategic Planning, Cross-Selling and Upselling
  • Tech. solutions in Metaverse, Extended Reality, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, & Mixed Reality, Blockchain, Multiparty System, NFT, IoT, Digital Twin
  • Managing cross-functional teams with experts in diverse domains such as 3D design, AR/VR software development, Blockchain, AI, IoT, SAAS, PAAS
  • Leading transformational technology initiatives across its lifecycle & incubating new business value for clients in Metaverse tech.
  • Worked closely with management to provide effective assistance for specific aspects of business operations.

CLIENTS:

MONDELĒZ INTERNATIONAL, SAUDI ELECTRICITY COMPANY, CHICK-FIL-A, CLEAN PLANET CHEMICALS

Solution Architect- Extended Reality & Mobile Technologies

HCL Technologies
03.2018 - 03.2022
  • Worked with customers to develop integrated solutions and lead detailed architectural dialogues to facilitate delivery of comprehensive solution
  • Managed and worked with more than 10 global clients from diversified domains
  • People Management & Solution Architecture – App Development in Emerging Technologies & Mobile
  • Building Center of Excellence for Emerging Tech and mobility
  • Product Development- Conceptualizing, developing and implementing solutions
  • Translate complex business & technical information to stakeholders
  • Project management and execution, Stakeholder training, potential risk and mitigation strategies
  • Enterprise Management, Sign-off and approval requirements
  • Guided and influenced existing partners on recommended upgrades and enhancements to integrated solutions.

CLIENTS:

THULE, GRUNDFOS, ABBOTT, AXCELIS, J&J, JCI, MERRYCHEF

Technical Architect- Mobile Technology

Virtusa Polaris
11.2014 - 03.2018
  • Mobile/ Digital Venture for BFS, Telecom, Insurance, Healthcare and Life Sciences clients
  • Collaborating with SME's to conceptualize vertical industry solutions and products
  • Establish competency and mentor team to handle Mobile development across all key mobile technologies
  • Instrumental in building competency and partnerships with Key Mobile Product leaders in emerging technologies
  • Ensuring technical process compliance.
  • Performed quality code review and removed technical debt and security vulnerabilities.
  • Pre Sales Support in Mobile Practice.

CLIENTS:

STANDARD CHARTERED BANK, VIRGIN MEDIA, BRITISH TELECOM, AVIVA, ICICI PRUDENTIAL, IMS HEALTHCARE

Technical Specialist- Research & Innovation

iGATE Global
04.2014 - 11.2014
  • Performed Product Consultant roles for various solutions in Emerging technologies
  • Expanded business opportunities by introducing new solutions to existing customers
  • Research - Internet of Things, Augmented Reality, Gamification, Indoor navigation, context aware computing

CLIENTS:

BLACK AND VEATCH, PERRY ELLIS, COOPER STANDARD

Senior Developer- SMAC

Cognizant Technology Solutions
12.2012 - 04.2014
  • Design and development of projects that focuses on Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud
  • Hands on Tech lead for Projects leveraging Mobile Technologies.

CLIENTS:

ANMedia, FairPrice. Reliance JIO, ANZ Cognizant, Kimberly Clarke.

IT Analyst

Tata Consultancy Services
12.2008 - 12.2012
  • Developer- custom mobile applications using native technologies.
  • UI/UX Designer- Mobile Apps
  • Trained- 500+ Science and Engineering graduates on mobile development, 2D Animation (Adobe CS), Photoshop and Flash, A/V editing suite
  • Task monitoring, planning schedule, estimation, review of deliverable, and process compliance.
  • Collaborated across multi-disciplinary teams using Agile development frameworks.
  • Mentored junior staff within the IT department, guiding career growth through hands-on training exercises and constructive feedback sessions

CLIENT:

GOVT. OF INDIA, TARGET

Education

Master of Business Administration- Marketing - undefined

Madras University
Chennai, AR
08.2010 - 05/2012

Bachelor of Technology (CHEM) -

Anna University
Chennai, AR
08.2004 - 05/2008

Skills

    Technical and People management

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Technology Expertise

  • Extended Reality Applications (AR, VR, MR & Web AR) for Wearables/HMD devices and Mobile
  • MR/AR Tools - MS D365 Guides, Remote Assist, Reflekt AR, Unity 3D, Unreal Engine, Vuforia SDK, AR Foundation, AR Kit, AR Core, 8th Wall, Zapworks, Blippar, WebXR, WebGL, Google Model Viewer, Scene Viewer, Apple AR Quicklook, Babylon.js, three.js, AFrame, ML, Neural network for Immersive technologies & Mobile, Adobe Creative Suite-Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Google Tesseract, Abbyy, Kofax, lead tools,
  • In-depth technical knowledge of CREO, SolidWorks, 3DS Max, PiXYZ, Unity 3D
  • Mixed Reality, Immersive apps, and Mobile apps, AR Kit, AR Core, WebGL, Google Model Viewer, Scene Viewer, Apple AR Quicklook, Babylon.js, three.js, AFrame, ML, Neural network for Immersive technologies & Mobile, Adobe Creative Suite-Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Google Tesseract, Abbyy, Kofax, lead tools, Technical understanding of CREO, SolidWorks, 3DS Max, PiXYZ, Unity 3D
  • Metaverse spaces- Meta's Horizon, Spatial.io, Microsoft Mesh, Decentraland, Sandbox
  • XR Services- Azure Spatial Anchors, Remote Rendering, cloud XR, NVIDIA Omniverse
  • Mobile Applications Architecture and technical design- iOS Native, Android Native hybrid cross platform- Flutter, React Native Xamarin and mobile analytics.
  • Automation- Appium, Blazemeter-Jmeter
  • Analytics- Fabrics, Firebase, Glassbox, Adobe, Flurry
  • Notification: FCM, APNS, Airship
  • MDM/MAM/EMM- VMWare Horizon, MobileIron, Microsoft Intune, Apple Business Manager, App center
  • Mobile IOT-Internet of Things, Mobile Security, Robotic process
  • Vast knowledge in TOGAF 9.2

Expert in folllowing XR and Immersive Devices

  • Meta Quest 2 & 3
  • Microsoft Hololens 2
  • Realwear HMT & Navigator
  • HTC VIVE
  • Magic Leap
  • Leap Motion

Accomplishments

  • Won the prestigious People Choice award at the International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge 2011 hosted by the National Science Foundation (NSF), USA.
  • University Rank Holder in B. Tech. - Anna University.

Timeline

Assistant Director- Technology Consulting

EY Global
04.2023 - Current

Solution Architect- Extended Reality & Mobile Technologies

HCL Technologies
03.2018 - 03.2022

Technical Architect- Mobile Technology

Virtusa Polaris
11.2014 - 03.2018

Technical Specialist- Research & Innovation

iGATE Global
04.2014 - 11.2014

Senior Developer- SMAC

Cognizant Technology Solutions
12.2012 - 04.2014

Master of Business Administration- Marketing - undefined

Madras University
08.2010 - 05/2012

IT Analyst

Tata Consultancy Services
12.2008 - 12.2012

Bachelor of Technology (CHEM) -

Anna University
08.2004 - 05/2008
GANESH VENKATRAMANSolution Architect | Technology Consulting | Tech. Evangelist - Extended Reality, Metaverse & Emerging Technologies