Founder & CEO @ • Design, develop, and market mobile apps focused on the music and education industries.
• Classical Indian drone instrument app "RealTanpura" available in the Apple App Store (http://ios.realtanpura.com)
• Responsible for all design, development, testing, app store deployment, and marketing.
• See www.RealTanpura.com for additional details, including screen shots.
• Several more music and education related apps are planned for the future.
• Responsible for all product marketing & sales strategy. From January 2011 to Present (5 years) Madison, Wisconsin AreaChief Technology Officer @ • Primary contact for anything technical since the company’s inception.
• Responsible for having brought many products to the market from scratch.
• Started out as the first employee of the company as their sole software architect and developer.
• Responsible for our product road map, technology strategy, product architecture, user interface design and product release schedules.
• Responsible for maintaining and prioritizing product backlog of features.
• Defined and managed software development processes, guidelines, policies, and best practices.
• Responsible for / managed all Information Technology (IT) policies such as backup, disaster recovery, Active Directory permissions and security policies.
• Responsible for / managed the selection, acquisition, and disposal of IT hardware and software assets.
• Actively managed all people involved in software development, QA/testing, documentation, packaging/delivery, rule writing (a key part of our software's delivery), and all IT functions.
• Worked closely with the President/CEO and sales/marketing teams to sign on a vast majority of our key customers and partners.
• For many years, also managed all customer support processes and personnel. From 1998 to Present (17 years) Madison, Wisconsin AreaSoftware Engineer @ • Object oriented analysis and design using UML and tools such as Rational Rose.
• Primarily responsible for the C++ development of numerous components of a CORBA based distributed software system used to design, print, encode, and emboss plastic cards such as credit cards, employee badges, drivers license cards, etc. on sophisticated high end machinery. From 1997 to 1999 (2 years) Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul AreaApplication Specialist / Software Engineering Intern @ • Responsible for the design and development of the DeviceNET Schematics Compiler which is an add-on module to the promis●e Electrical Control Systems design software that runs on the AutoCAD platform.
• Developed many other utilities application for internal use to improve workflow / productivity.
• Routinely traveled to customer sites to offer multi-day onsite training sessions on the promis●e software. From 1994 to 1997 (3 years) Greater Milwaukee Area
Master of Science in Software Engineering (MSSE), Computer Software Engineering, 3.85 / 4.00 @ University of Minnesota-Twin Cities From 1997 to 1999 Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (BSEE), Electrical & Computer Engineering @ Marquette University From 1993 to 1997 International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma @ American International School, Vienna, Austria From 1990 to 1993 Arvind Ganesan is skilled in: Software Development, Mobile Applications, Android, Software Engineering, Software Project Management, SaaS, Software Design, Testing, Requirements Analysis, Enterprise Software, C++, Agile Methodologies, Business Analysis, Databases, Architectures