Venkatesa Prasad Sethuraman is seeking a position that offers dynamic opportunities to utilize his expertise and allows for both professional and personal growth aligned with organizational goals. He has a PGDM in Marketing from The National Management School in collaboration with Georgia State University and a B.Tech in Information Technology. His work experience includes two years as a Software Engineer at Keane India where he received several awards and nominations for his work developing applications. He also has technical skills in languages, development tools, and databases. Notable projects include market research for retail loyalty programs and consulting on the economic impact of longtail applications.
1. Venkatesa Prasad Sethuraman
Mobile : 91-9884220801
E-Mail: svprasad1986@gmail.com
Career Objective
To join hands with a group of professionals in an organization which offers dynamic
environment and great scope for exhibiting individual expertise in a such a way that both
personal as well as professional objectives are well achieved in line with the goals of the
organization.
Education
PGDM (Marketing) - Currently am a first year student at The National Management School
(www.nms.edu.in) with CGPA of 3.48. The program is offered in collaboration with Georgia
State University.
B.Tech (Information Technology), from Sri Sairam Engineering College(www.ssec.edu.in)
affiliated to Anna University, Chennai from 2003-2007 with 74.32 %.
H.S.C (Computer Science), from D.A.V Matriculation Higher Secondary School (Gopalapuram)
affiliated to Tamilnadu State Board from 2002-2003 with 93.17%.
S.S.L.C, from D.A.V Boys Senior Secondary School (Gopalapuram) affiliated to CBSE from
2000-2001 with 88.60%.
Work Experience
Associated with Keane India Private limited as a Software Engineer from 2007 – 2009 and was
instrumental in anaylsis,design,development and maintainence of software applications for
Honeywell Corporation and Keane Internal Applications.
• Core member of the team which was instrumental in developing enhancement tools for
Keane Internal Applications.
• Team Lead in analysis,design and development of software applications for Honeywell
Corp.
• Project Lead in development and management of online applications for Walt Disney.
• Awarded with Keane - Employee of the year 2008 and Nominated for Keane - Employee
of the year 2009.
• Key member of the team redefining the internal applications within Keane.
2. Technical Expertise
Marketing : Brand Marketing, Customer Relationship Management, Market Research
Languages : C,C++,Java,TCL.
Developmental Tools : UML,Photoshop,Dreamweaver,Eclipse,Flash,3DS Max.
Databases and Scripts : Oracle,MS-Access,Java Scripts.
Web-Technology : HTML,XML,CSS,DHTML
Projects & Industry Exposure
• Intern Trainee with Central & Brand Factory, Pantaloon Retail India Pvt Ltd
(Future Group), was part of the Marketing & Customer Experience team and did a
market research project on area of “Loyalty programs and Consumer perceptions” in the
retail sector for Southern Region.
• Did a Understudy project under Mr.Suresh Sambandam, Founder & CEO,
OrangeScape Technologies, to observe and have a first-hand experience of how a senior
manager operates the business in day-to-day context.
• Did a consulting project with Orangescape Technologies which involved study on the
“Economic Impact Assessment of Longtail Applications”. Prepared an educational
document on Longtail applications for corporates and developed a cost model for finding
the Total Cost of Ownership of longtail applications.
• Did a brief group industrial project on Supply Chain Management at Redington India
and Reliance Retail.The scope of the activity was to understand the supply chain
function - automated distribution centre to gather relevant data, analyze the information,
and prepare a report.
• Visited Royal Sundaram to study their Organizational structure, interacted with CFO
and gained insights on the insurance industry in India; situation before private players
were allowed and how the entire industry changed and where Royal Sundaram stands in
the insurance industry and prepared a report.
• Has participated and actively involved in seminars on “Blue Ocean Strategy” by Dr.
Jaishankar Ganesh and on “Competitive Intelligence” by Dr. Stanley Ridgley.
• Developed an application on Constructing Inter-Domain Packet Filter to Control IP
spoofing based on Border Gateway protocol updates
3. • Developed a web site portal for the Department of Information Technology at Sri Sairam
Engineering college and many multimedia projects for several national and international
symposiums.
Achievements
• Successfully conducted inter-school cultural event for 2 consecutive years.It includes
marketing the event across schools in Chennai,finding sponsorships and managing and
conducting the entire event.
• Sucessfully conducted and marketed several inter-college and national level symposiums
and conferences during my under-graduation. It includes marketing the event across
India,finding sponsorships and managing and conducting the entire event.
• Athlete in my School days and has won track events.
• Green Belt holder in Karate.
• Student Editor of the college magazine for 2 years.
• Has participated and won prizes in several technical and non-technical competitions
across the country.
• Freelance Web Designer. Developed many multimedia projects for several national and
international symposiums.
Personal Details
Date of Birth : 29/05/1986.
Languages Known : Tamil,Malayalam,English,Hindi,German.
Hobbies : Traveling,Blogging,Philately,Browsing.
Strength : Flexible approach to situations and people, Dynamic Team Player with excellent
communication skills, Organizing skills.
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