Naresh Israni

About Naresh Israni

A seasoned, hands-on engineering leader with close to 29 years of multi-dimensional experience atforefront of Data Center to Cloud evolution. I have visible achievements in Tech industry and ademonstrated record of managing customers & leading teams to deliver high quality products/solutionsacross large scale complex projects in an enterprise-level product development and consultancyenvironments. I have close to 20 years of experience in various leadership roles, which includes engineering (R&D/Product Development), project & program management with complete P&L ownership, humanresource management, partners/stakeholder management (including CxO level) & Customer Success.I have a certificate in Executive General Management (EGMP) from IIMB (Indian Institute of Management,Bangalore) and a Masters Degree in Computer Applications (MCA/MS) from Gujarat University.As an offshore leader, have built & managed teams and products from scratch. Have been a Business Unit(BU) lead and represented 600+ org for the activities related to India operations. Have been a member ofthe “Core Operations Group” providing People & Thought Leadership to meet strategic organizationalobjectives for 1200+ India Centre and a member of POSH Internal committee (IC). Currently, leading D & IChampions for my BU.I love to take complete ownership, drive accountability & customer success. I am a firm believer of grassroots innovation, like to solve problems, build & nurture products and teams. Leadership & engineering style characterised as collaborative, innovative, efficient decision making, delivery/service excellence, customer & employee focus. Other interests include Macro Economics, Finance and Business Strategy. I have a strong financial acumen and am well versed various project management and development methodologies.Core areas of my expertise include Product Development, Product Strategy, Customer & TalentManagement and Program/Project management. Functional exposure includes but not limited toKnowledge Management, Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Master Data Management (MDM),CX/CRM - Service, eCommerce & telecommunications. On technical side exposure includes Semanticsearch, GenAI (LLM)- RAG/Prompt Engineering, Analytics, Automation, microservices based cloudnative architecture, Java/J2EE based applications, REST/SOAP and Big Data for enterprise systems.

Experience

1. Sr Director, Product Development

   Oracle

   Oct 2019 — Present

   Currently leading part of engineering team to build Knowledge Asset Management, Integrations & Convergence strategy for Next Gen (Cloud Native) Knowledge Management & enabling Semantic/AI Search and GenAI integrationsPreviously, responsible for facilitating customer delight, success & retention with complete ownership (ideation of new features to customer issues escalations – AAR in excess to USD XXM) of Knowledge Advanced (KA/OKCS) – a SaaS based product & Oracle Knowledge On Prem (OKOP). Led a team of Software Engineers focusing on the success of our SaaS customers and with a mission to enable and transition the On Prem customers to leverage Oracle Cloud Technology.

Education

• Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

  EGMP

  2007 — 2008

• St. Michael's Pusa Road, New Delhi

  10th

  1980 — 1987

• Springdales, Dhaula Kuan, New Delhi

  11th

  1987 — 1988

• DDIT, Nadiad, Gujarat India

  MCA

  1992 — 1995

• St. Xaviers Bhuj

  12th

  1988 — 1989

• Tolani Science & Arts College

  BSc

  1989 — 1992

Skills

• Analytics
• Cloud Applications
• Program Management
• Cx/Crm
• Software Development
• Team Leadership
• Integration
• Solution Architecture
• Service-Oriented Architecture (Soa)
• Natural Language Processing
• Software as a Service (Saas)
• Knowledge Management
• Product Management
• Project Management
• Web Services
• Oracle
• Software Project Management
• Requirements Analysis
• Cloud Computing
• Crm
• Consulting
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Business Intelligence
• Customer Relationship Management (Crm)
• Pmp
• Strategic Leadership
• Soa
• Product Development
• Distributed Systems
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Enterprise Software
• Enterprise Architecture
• Business Analysis
• Global Delivery
• Unix
• Oracle E-Business Suite
• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• Strategy