Krishnan P. Iyer

Current

Founder & CEO at Expera LLC

Past

CoFounder & CEO at SunteRaho (means "Keep Listening" in hindi)
Personal goal attainer at Sabbatical
Group Manager at Microsoft – Microsoft.Com 2004 - 2006

Group Program Manager and Group Manager at Microsoft- Windows Core Operating System Division 2001 - 2004
Senior Consultant and Principal Consultant at Microsoft Consulting Services 1997–2001
Network Engineer, Technology Manager at Microsoft Information Technology Group 1993–1997
Escalation Engineer, Support Engineer at Microsoft Product Support Services 1991 – 1993
Network Engineer, Systems Administrator at University of Houston, Texas and University of Udine, Italy 1989 - 1991
Software Design Engineer - TCP IP at Hewlett-Packard & Hindustan Computers Ltd. (Research & Development) 1989
Software Design Engineer - Systems Networking at Zenith Computers Ltd. (Research & Development) 1988 - 1989

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Education

University of Houston
University of Mumbai

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Krishnan P. Iyer’s Summary

Seasoned leader/manager/inventor with over 15 year tenure at Microsoft & 3 years as a profitable entrepreneur with hands on experience in all aspects of sales, business development, strategic partnerships, software products and web services development lifecycle. Specific experiences include: Sales, Business Development, Revenue growth, Product Marketing, Business Operations, Product Incubation, Enterprise Sales, Business & Partnership Development, Fiscal responsibility, People Management, Technology leadership, Product Design, Product development and delivery (or ship as its called inside Microsoft), IT consulting, IT Sales, IT Architecture, IT deployment and product support.

I am always on the look out for building new profitable and sustainable businesses or teaming up with existing profitable businesses that can utilize the combination of skills and experience I have in software development, strategic planning, sales, leadership and shipping software based on my deep passion for customer satisfaction and consistent revenue growth.

Krishnan P. Iyer’s Specialties:

Doubling revenue consistently, expanding globally.
Business Development,Partnering with large corporations.
Incubating a mobile startup.
Strategic product engineering and management expertise to ship software.
Built & shipped the 1st version of the learning platform on Microsoft.Com. Shipped software for the Windows OS (VPN). Incubated annuity service for enterprise customers.
Successfully lead, evaluated, architected, engineered, piloted, deployed mission critical IT services.

Krishnan P. Iyer’s Experience

Founder & CEO

Expera LLC

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

June 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)

Vision: Growing a profitable consulting practice globally.
> Doubled year over year revenue growth since launch
> Go to partner for Microsoft in Core Infrastructure Optimization.
> Joint business development with Microsoft consulting services, sales and engineering teams.
> Very satisfied customer ratings & best practices speaker at worldwide Microsoft conference.
> Customers include: Paccar Corp, Providence Health Services, TrueBlue Inc., Davis Wright Tremaine Inc., Microsoft Corp.
> Built strong pipeline with enterprise customers & attained Preferred Microsoft Vendor status.
> Launching our offerings into APAC and Europe.
> Incubating a virtualization product / service for enterprise customers.
> Software reseller (Ingram Micro), Symantec, McAfee, IBM partner.
CoFounder & CEO

SunteRaho (means "Keep Listening" in hindi)

(Telecommunications industry)

June 2007 — December 2007 (7 months)

Vision: Building a startup for Indian mobile market.
Incubated a new business with a seasoned serial entrepreneur
> Created new company and team with well defined equity stakes and roles.
> Patent pending technology architecture with product scenarios, 3 year roadmaps & milestones
> Content Strategy and Dynamic advertising insertion model with economics
> Business Plan and prototype demonstrated to tier 1 venture capitalists
Personal goal attainer

Sabbatical

(Entertainment industry)

February 2006 — June 2007 (1 year 5 months)

After one of the good years at Microsoft in 2006 I chose to take time off and work on my personal goals.
Group Manager

Microsoft – Microsoft.Com 2004 - 2006

(Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

November 2004 — February 2006 (1 year 4 months)

Vision: Build and ship web services on the Internet.
Mission: Ship learning platform web services on Microsoft.Com

> *Acting* General Manager for Microsoft.Com Learning Platform Group.
> Implement product development / engineering best practices (dev/program mgt/qa)
> Manage remainder of FY05 budget ($15M) and drove FY06 costs/funding down ($9.5M)
> Full ownership of contract, delivery and management of offshore vendor ($4M, 40 vendors)
> Full responsibility of product ownership: Created product vision, release road map
> Delivered and shipped Learning Platform 1.0 & Service Pack1 on Microsoft.Com
> Improved team morale, manage attrition, hiring decision maker (AA), responsible for reviews & compensation.
Group Program Manager and Group Manager

Microsoft- Windows Core Operating System Division 2001 - 2004

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

November 2001 — November 2004 (3 years 1 month)

Vision: Incubate, build & ship products (offshore)
Run a mature product unit remotely at an offshore location
> Accountable for technical, business and strategy decisions for RAS/VPN components in the Windows platform (30 dev/qa/pm resources)
> Understand and modify existing Windows development process
> Ship: Service Packs (XPSP2), Productize Resource Kit (Server SP1)
> Relationship building and team alignment across groups in Redmond
Strategic Off shoring for product development
> Create the framework used to decide if a product can be offshored.
> Offshored Windows networking infrastructure components
Incubate and acquire funding for new service
> Justified need for a technology based offering for enterprise annuity customers
> Tactical - repackage and ship corporate error reporting server as an annuity value
> $6M in funding from 3 different Microsoft businesses: Server, Client & Office
> Build and mentor a team of full time and contract employees.
Senior Consultant and Principal Consultant

Microsoft Consulting Services 1997–2001

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Information Technology and Services industry)

November 1997 — November 2001 (4 years 1 month)

Vision: Use technology to deliver customer value
Lead technical architecture & consulting services for diverse customer environments
> Boeing, Starbucks, State of WA, Verizon, Nordstrom, Safeco, REI, LWSD
> Platform migration from NT4 to current systems Win 2000 (7 teams & 30 members)
> Authored part of Windows 2000 deployment guide textbook. Delivered Web seminars on the web. Technical evaluator for Microsoft Certified exams.

Create a technology partner ecosystem with strategic partner
> Overall technical and services lead for partnership with Avanade
> Transfer Microsoft best practices to partner and help engage with their customers
> Identify best practices from Avande to implement at Microsoft

Provide technical & service sales leadership
> Identified as the Windows professional lead for the district
> Created a model to sell services to breadth customers using partner ecosystem.
> Help close and create new services sales engagements with existing customers.
Network Engineer, Technology Manager

Microsoft Information Technology Group 1993–1997

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Information Technology and Services industry)

February 1993 — November 1997 (4 years 10 months)

Vision: Deploy mission critical services
Lead, evaluate, architect, engineer, pilot, deploy & manage mission critical services
> Metrics 10-40 people, 1-15months, 20-50,000 Systems
> TCP IP address management (DHCP) & Directory naming services (WINS)
> Network Protocol Migration (XNS to TCPIP)
> Remote Access Services (RAS) & Virtual Private Network (VPN) Services
> Internet Firewall Services & Application Proxy Services

Owned, drove, published and implemented Internet service strategy for Microsoft
> Metrics: 10-20 people, 4months, 1200 - 50,000 Systems
> Explored viability of using Internet as a WAN

Teamed with version 1 product team and help define customer requirements.
> Evaluated and provided ongoing feedback on features and needs.
> Products: DHCP, WINS, RAS, VPN, Firewalls, Application Proxies

Drove and implemented build / buy / license / acquire decisions
> Evaluated, deployed and contributed to acquiring 3rd party IT service
Escalation Engineer, Support Engineer

Microsoft Product Support Services 1991 – 1993

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

December 1991 — February 1993 (1 year 3 months)

Vision: Support enterprise customers
Setup a new support center for Enterprise Customers
> Helped startup a new Enterprise Customer Support site in Texas.
> Provide Technical support for Microsoft networking software products.
> Lead Escalation engineer for TCP/IP & networking.
> Publish documents and create training for other support engineers.
Network Engineer, Systems Administrator

University of Houston, Texas and University of Udine, Italy 1989 - 1991

(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Computer & Network Security industry)

August 1989 — December 1991 (2 years 5 months)

> Local & wide area network design & administration, including design and implementation of software to run on DEC Ultrix and Novell Netware operating systems.
>Design and implement Internet access and firewalls in Europe and USA.
Software Design Engineer - TCP IP

Hewlett-Packard & Hindustan Computers Ltd. (Research & Development) 1989

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer Software industry)

February 1989 — August 1989 (7 months)

Gain solid foundation in enterprise class commercial systems software
> Research & develop networking software for the ATT UNIX kernel; program network transport protocols & interfaces;
> Design & implement TCP/IP applications’ design & implement software to run on multitasking/multithreaded operating system. Utlized “C” & parsing languages.
Software Design Engineer - Systems Networking

Zenith Computers Ltd. (Research & Development) 1988 - 1989

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer Networking industry)

August 1988 — February 1989 (7 months)

Ship kernel level networking software targeted at enterprise customers
> Develop & research PC networking programs, to run on MS-DOS operating system, utilizing “C” language.
> Novell Netware 2.0c NLM development

Krishnan P. Iyer’s Education

University of Houston

MS , Computer Science , 1989 — 2001

Thesis: Graphical User Interface for distributed databases (SQL)
Funded by State of Texas grant
University of Mumbai

BS , Computer Engineering , 1984 — 1988

> University Rank Holder
> Thesis: PARAC - C Language PreProcessor that enables Parallel Programming
> Funded by Baba Atomic Research Center BARC - (Goverment of India Undertaking)
> First prize in state level thesis competition
> Thesis published in Supercomputing Conference - Singapore