Vasantha Kumar M

About Vasantha Kumar M

Evident as a Techno-Commercial Leader, I have broad Project & Engineering skills with proficiency to effectively interface with people at all levels of management & business, exploring cost-effective solutions to complex problems and promote a positive team-oriented environment. The major chunk of my career revolved around implementing a long-term engineering vision and plan, aligning resources, and delivery with ambitious business growth and diversification, whilst improving cost-effectiveness. My major highlights have included surpassing business revenue growth by ideating, building & delivering successful, game-changing solutions by offering best-in-class customer solutions leveraging Global Roadmaps, Strategic NPDs, R&D Plans & Product-Market Strategies. Evangelized product innovations that create significant cost advantages or differentiated customer experience. Gained enriched experience in utilizing New Age Technologies – AI, Robotics, and Data Science for building/enhancing products. In my present association at Altair Engineering India, my primary role includes managing large-scale engineering projects while mentoring diverse teams of (CFD, CAD, EM, and Structural) 30+ engineers; overseeing the business development for Energy, Defence, and CFD/Thermal verticals while developing advanced engineering offerings. Vast exposure in directing the virtual product development process while ensuring designs are properly translated till new product launches. Please feel free to drop me a line at r••••••••@gmail.com

Experience

1. Director, Product Design

   Altair

   May 2005 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   I joined as Team Leader and rose to the position of Project Manager in Apr’07, then Sr. Project Manager in Apr’12, Manager – Business Development in Jun’14, Sr. Manager – PD in Nov’15 and currently working as Director – Product Design since Jan’18.\\\\n\\\\nThroughout my tenure, my responsibility has been to manage a portfolio of projects with the accountability of planning, defining scope, budgeting, setting timelines, analyzing requirements, identifying dependencies and evaluating risks. Meanwhile, I led techno commercial negotiation with customers, prior to executing the plan for engineering support, while managing supply and services contracts.\\\\n\\\\nI am currently leading an engineering team and grooming customer accounts which resulted in multi million revenue streams. Further, my emphasis has always been on identifying opportunities for workflow/process improvements and working with stakeholders to jointly develop ways to enhance productivity, efficiency, and effectiveness through the appropriate application of technology.\\\\n\\\\nMoreover, I have also established relationships with principal suppliers, while working on business plans and with the stakeholders to investigate workflows or business processes to be augmented or enhanced with technology.\\\\n\\\\nAs a Solutions Leader, I work with applications teams, internal & external customers to understand needs and translate to application solutions. Collaborate with internal planning and analysis, product management, development and partners for application requirements definition, functional specifications and scoping of product features and enhancements.\\\\n \\\\n\\\\n \\\\n \\\\n\\\\n \\\\n

Education

• S J college of engineering

  Master of Technology (MTech), Mechanical Engineering

  1994 — 1996

• Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies

  Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Marketing

  2014 — 2017

• RV College Of Engineering

  Bachelor's degree

• RV College Of Engineering

  B. E, Mech

  1989 — 1993