Nara Chilluvuri
Vice President Of Product Engineering at Hāpara- Claim this Profile
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Johan Vendrig
Nara was a delight to work with. Based on good understanding of the customer requirements he takes a pragmatic approach to challenges whilst keeping the long term direction in sight. He successfully mentors his team to do the same.
Matt Hector-Taylor
Nara was a key part of the company's leadership team. Nara lead his own team well. He gave clear direction and feedback and built up a very effective analysis and design team and engineering capability. Nara was influential in the successful delivery of a number of complex internal and customer projects. He has excellent organisation and communication skills and clearly identifies and manages risk, scope and people's delivery. Product leadership and vision is also one of Nara's strengths. He works well with domain experts and facilitates clear and effective interchange of ideas between engineering and the business need. I highly recommend Nara.
Johan Vendrig
Nara was a delight to work with. Based on good understanding of the customer requirements he takes a pragmatic approach to challenges whilst keeping the long term direction in sight. He successfully mentors his team to do the same.
Matt Hector-Taylor
Nara was a key part of the company's leadership team. Nara lead his own team well. He gave clear direction and feedback and built up a very effective analysis and design team and engineering capability. Nara was influential in the successful delivery of a number of complex internal and customer projects. He has excellent organisation and communication skills and clearly identifies and manages risk, scope and people's delivery. Product leadership and vision is also one of Nara's strengths. He works well with domain experts and facilitates clear and effective interchange of ideas between engineering and the business need. I highly recommend Nara.
Johan Vendrig
Nara was a delight to work with. Based on good understanding of the customer requirements he takes a pragmatic approach to challenges whilst keeping the long term direction in sight. He successfully mentors his team to do the same.
Matt Hector-Taylor
Nara was a key part of the company's leadership team. Nara lead his own team well. He gave clear direction and feedback and built up a very effective analysis and design team and engineering capability. Nara was influential in the successful delivery of a number of complex internal and customer projects. He has excellent organisation and communication skills and clearly identifies and manages risk, scope and people's delivery. Product leadership and vision is also one of Nara's strengths. He works well with domain experts and facilitates clear and effective interchange of ideas between engineering and the business need. I highly recommend Nara.
Johan Vendrig
Nara was a delight to work with. Based on good understanding of the customer requirements he takes a pragmatic approach to challenges whilst keeping the long term direction in sight. He successfully mentors his team to do the same.
Matt Hector-Taylor
Nara was a key part of the company's leadership team. Nara lead his own team well. He gave clear direction and feedback and built up a very effective analysis and design team and engineering capability. Nara was influential in the successful delivery of a number of complex internal and customer projects. He has excellent organisation and communication skills and clearly identifies and manages risk, scope and people's delivery. Product leadership and vision is also one of Nara's strengths. He works well with domain experts and facilitates clear and effective interchange of ideas between engineering and the business need. I highly recommend Nara.
Experience
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Hāpara
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E-learning
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1 - 100 Employee
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Vice President Of Product Engineering
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Apr 2022 - Present
Hapara is an EdTech company founded in New Zealand with its headquarters in Silicon Valley and over 3 Million licensed users worldwide across 40 countries. Hapara provides a Cloud based platform, sold on an annual subscription basis, to K-12 (Primary – Secondary) schools.Key responsibilities: As VP of Product Engineering, I am responsible for both product and engineering team outcomes for Hāpara. So in addition to managing product operations, setting Product Vision, Roadmap, Strategy and working with C-Suite and key customers I am also responsible for managing our Engineering operations and setting technology objectives, hiring, growing and mentoring both departments.
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Vice President Of Products
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Apr 2020 - Apr 2022
As VP of products, besides the focus on our product vision, strategy, roadmap, development and management I now had added focus on product roadmap alignment to company strategy, Sales targets, Product market fit.Key accomplishments: Improved product operations practices, hired and mentored new members to an expanded product team, streamlined agile development & release processes. increased focus on lean development philosophy, introduced new product practices and tools to streamline operations, introduced new product analytics tools and processes to improve data driven decision making, reduced overall tools cost while increasing effectiveness by shifting from a myriad of disparate tools to a unified product analytics and user education platform. Successfully launched two new products during this time to cope with the changes enforced by COVID19.
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Director Of Products
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Mar 2018 - Mar 2020
Key Responsibilities: Set strategy, vision and roadmap for multiple product lines. Lead product Research & Development effort, manage and mentor the product team with dotted line management of Engineering team assigned to product development. Develop new products from conceptualization to launch. Track and measure product adoption/growth. Maintain relationships with premium customers.
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Independent Consultant/Director
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Mar 2017 - Feb 2018
NextGen Consulting is a NZ IT consulting company that focuses on Product development, Project management, Analysis, Strategy & Process Improvements.Client list includes:Genesis Energy - projects for Security & Operations groupsNZ Post - Salesforce CRM projectUniversity of Auckland - Project Management servicesHapara - Product Management support servicesNZ Financial Markets Authority (NZFMA) - Business & Regulatory compliance Analysis HSA Global - Engineering & Product Management servicesWorked on a major digital transformation project for NZ Post and managed multiple Security and Infrastructure projects for Genesis Energy. During this time I continued to provide services to Hāpara as an independent consultant.
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Hāpara
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E-learning
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1 - 100 Employee
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Product Manager
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Oct 2015 - Mar 2017
Hapara is an EdTech company founded in New Zealand with its headquarters in Silicon Valley and over 3 Million licensed users worldwide across 40 countries. Hapara provides a Cloud based platform, sold on an annual subscription basis, to K-12 (Primary – Secondary) schools. Key Responsibilities: Set strategy, vision and roadmap for our foundation product `Teacher Dashboard`. Lead product Research & Development effort, manage the product development team which included Product and Engineering team members. Key accomplishments included overseeing the porting of the application to a new technology stack without disruption of service, porting it to work on the Office 365 for education platform in addition to the Google Apps for Education platform, partnering with Microsoft to do a joint promotion and launch of our Microsoft Office 365 offering in ISTE 2016.
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HSAGlobal
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New Zealand
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Director Of Engineering/Product Architect
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Jan 2008 - Aug 2015
HSAGlobal specialises in solutions enabling connected care in order to reduce the impact of the heaviest users on the healthcare system. The product offerings are in use in NZ, Australia, Singapore, America and Canada.Key Responsibilities: Responsible for all aspects of the Engineering team of up to 30 members. This included planning, budgeting, development oversight, quality assurance and delivery to time, quality and budget constraints. Programme (Project and Release planning) and Product management (Vision, Backlog, Roadmap). Customer, ISV and Business partner relationship management. End User Interaction & Usability improvements, workshops with Partners, Customers, End users and other stakeholders. Pre-sales activities and demos to acquire new customers globally.
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Air New Zealand
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New Zealand
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Airlines and Aviation
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700 & Above Employee
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Project Methodology Team Leader
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Nov 2005 - Jan 2008
Air New Zealand is an international and domestic airline group based in New Zealand which provides air passenger and cargo transport services. As a member of the Customer and Distribution solutions team I interfaced with project teams, Enterprise architecture group and customers to assist with initiation, approval and delivery of solutions to various groups within Air NZ.Key Responsibilities: Implementing software process improvements across Group IT (300 staff). Leading and mentoring BA team. Reviewing & improving project performance. Direct involvement in multiple challenged projects.
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Medtech Global
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New Zealand
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Software Development
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100 - 200 Employee
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Project Manager/Senior Business Analyst
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May 2003 - Nov 2005
MedTech is New Zealand's leading provider of Primary Healthcare Practice Management software. The product is an integrated system with Patient management, Clinical information, Billing & Debtor Management and Appointments booking modules. MedTech’s products are sold globally.Key Responsibilities: Project Management, Requirements prioritisation, Analysis & Design. Stakeholder and project sponsor communication. Customer relationship management. Handling large custom enhancement requests. Managing and mentoring BA team. UI & workflow improvements.
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Keane India Ltd
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India
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Project Manager
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Sep 2000 - Jun 2002
IT Solutions (Rebranded to Caritor Inc and then Keane, NTT Data group) was an American IT consulting & solutions development company headquartered in San Ramon, California, USA. Key Clients include EDS, Lucent Technologies, Honeywell, General Motors, Bank of America, Teradyne Inc, Unisys, Scottish Life and Marshall School of Business.The company is CMMI level 5 & ISO 9001 certified and has 2500+ employees spread across USA, UK, India, Singapore, South Africa, Dubai and Australia.Key Responsibilities: Project Management, Stakeholder management, RFP and Bid process inputs, Contract negotiation, Business development.
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Project Leader
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Mar 1998 - Aug 2000
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