Prakash Iyer

Technology Consultant, Board member/advisor

2023

Managing Director, Trimble Ventures & SVP SW platform architecture

2021 - 2022

Senior Vice President, Software Architecture & Strategy

2017 - 2021

Vice President, Software Architecture & Strategy

2011 - 2017

Reporting to the CEO of the company as point person on initiatives that are critical to Trimble’s software strategy. Providing leadership to software focused development activities. Coordinating cross divisional software platform projects. Advocating for software innovation within Trimble. Providing organizational focus for identifying and adopting best available software technology. Providing leadership for diverse projects that involve analysis and/or integration and the development of strategies for capturing key accounts.

Division Vice President, Software & Technology

2008 - 2011

Cross-sector Software and Technology leadership role across various Trimble vertical segments. Involved in formulating product and market stratgey for emerging markets. Responsible for technical due diligence for M&A and joint venture projects.

SVP Products

2006 - 2008

Manage global engineering organization including product management.(@Road acquired by Trimble)

CTO, Founder & SVP Products

1999 - 2006

Everypath was founded on the vision to build a scalable mobile solution to address critical business problems for enterprises with large field teams in sales, field service or inventory management. As the Co-Founder and CTO, managed product development and several operational roles in the company, from early days of hands-on product development to being the Chief product evangelist. Managed diverse engineering groups spread across the globe; at the peak built and managed an engineering team of over 90 engineers in 3 countries.

CTO & SVP of engineering

1999 - 2006

Co-Founded the company and managed product and engineering organizations. Authored several patents and did pioneering work in mobile platform and application areas. Evangelized technology and presented at various technology forums.

Sr, Dev Manager/Sr. Architect

1996 - 1998

As a hands-on technical manager, engaged in leading a team of developers by providing technical leadership in architecting, designing and implementing the next generation DataWarehousing toolset for Prism. Lead Engineer and member of the architecture team in the Informix Database Tools team.

Senior Software Engineer

1995 - 1996

Major contribution to the Architecture and design of a 32-bit COM/OLE based OpenView (Network Management System) for NT.

Sr. Member of Technical Staff

1992 - 1995

Technology leadership, architecture and product development. Managing engineering organization and help define technology strategies for the company.

Member, Techncial Staff

1992 - 1995

Technical Lead for the Integrated Design Team (IDT) that had overall responsibility for product design, technical direction and advanced technology tracking. Represented the company in the HL7 (ANSII) standards body and co-led the creation of HL7 ORB special interest group.

Technical Consultant/ Lead Software Engineer

1989 - 1992

Lead Engineer - High Speed Image and Statement Tools Projects Part of IBM's Image recgnition software team that developed he system for automated check clearing for banks Develoepd a WYSIWYG tool for creting customized statements for combined accounts.