Ganesh Baskaran

Seattle, Washington

Ganesh Baskaran

Seattle, Washington

Cross functional leader with proven ability to make tough trade-offs by balancing between entrepreneurial spirit and need for cost reduction in large organizations. Known for building customer facing products ground up and leading large cross functional programs - involving more than 50 teams - from conception to completion.

Experienced in making international expansions scalable & repeatable, doing market research, writing business cases, managing prioritized road-map, user experience design, creating product requirements and user documentation, managing localization technology & process, presenting to prospective clients, people management, leading through influence, driving agile software development methodologies, Service Oriented Architecture, building web-services, cost reduction by simplifying large legacy software systems etc.

Recognized for meticulous planning and execution, customer centricity, bias for action and driving organizational change.

Pursuing MBA at Foster School of Business, University of Washington, Seattle (Expected to graduate in June 2013).

Specialties: International Expansion, Localization Strategy, Cost Optimization, Driving Organizational Change, Leading by Influence, Online Payments Business, Open-Source platform integration, Web-service APIs & Security, Customer focus and Supporting Social activities & Start-ups.

  • Work
    • Manager, Program Management, Amazon.com
  • Education
    • MBA, University of Washington, Foster School of Business
    • B.E. (Hons) Computer Science, BITS Pilani
    • M.Sc. (Hons) Biological Sciences, BITS Pilani