Ananth Krishnan

Background

About Ananth Krishnan

Profile: Engineering leader who has helped bring to market multiple products enhancing the quality of life for patients/customers and has institutionalized organizational change in Fortune 500 companies. Key Accomplishments of Last 16 Years: • At Baxter: Global Design Quality QMR for pre and post market for business unit. Pre-Market - Design Assurance oversight and milestone approval for the launch of multiple medical device products. Post-market - Execution of design-related CAPA's and field actions. • At Roche: Delivered two new blood glucose meter platforms over a 4-year period through a 40+ person firmware team on time and on budget. Initiated and institutionalized organizational change towards agile for embedded medical device development. • At Boston Scientific: Delivered on-time, on-budget five major implantable products (2 pacemakers, 2 defibrillators, one clinical study product), and 14 maintenance projects in 4 years. Pioneered an innovative system-engineering-based system evaluation methodology which found defects much earlier in development cycle with significantly higher catch rate on critical issues. Summary of Skills: • 20 years of engineering leadership, global development, in Fortune 500, through manager-level direct reports the last 16 years. • Direct leadership experience in successful change transformation of complex global organizations; • Large-Program Management: 20 years of successful experience leading large project teams and multi-year, multi-million-dollar projects; • Medical Device Engineering: 16 years’ experience in highest-safety-critical Class medical device development • Automotive Controls: 12 years’ experience in the safety-critical auto industry focusing on electronics, software, control systems • Domain Expertise: Software/Electronics Engineering, Systems Engineering, Safety Critical Systems, Risk Assessment, Data-Analytics & Machine-Learning