Lakshmanan Ramanathan Ph.D.
Intrapreneur | Automation & Purposeful AI
lakshmanan_r at outlook.com
Associate Vice President
Business Head - Technology Solutions & Automation
Infosys BPM Limited
Lakshmanan has extensive experience in Information Technology (IT) services and Business Process Management (BPM) sector including Solution Design, Delivery Management, Pre-sales, Program/Project Management, Software Development/ Maintenance, and Architecture definition.
Lakshmanan has over 25 years of progressive experience across roles in Infosys group. In his role as Solution Design Head, he established a Greenfield setup of Automation practice in Infosys BPM Limited and program managed org-wide productivity improvement\automation initiative. Lakshmanan has delivered over $200M Business benefits & 3000+ FTE savings over last 3 years.
Lakshmanan hold a Ph.D. in Information Systems with a specialization in Open Source Software (OSS) adoption. Authored journal articles related to OSS, adoption and related issues. The purpose of these papers are to identify the influence of outsourcing on open source software (OSS) adoption and further investigate the factors that impact the adoption of OSS in global Information Technology (IT) outsourcing organizations. Developed a conceptual model that describes the factors influencing the adoption by using the technology-organization-environment framework.
Project Management Professional (PMP)®
Certification Date Nov 2009 – Nov 2021 License 1301764
Lakshmanan is a certified Internal Auditor (Infosys)