About

Sundaresh Gurumurthy is a seasoned Product Manager with over 12 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. He possesses a unique blend of technical, business, and marketing skills that enable him to bridge the gap between different teams and develop successful products. As a certified Project Management Professional, Sundaresh has a consistent track record of delivering results. He is adept at strategy and investment planning for new product development and roadmap execution. He also has extensive experience in people management, having developed high-performance agile teams for over a decade. Currently, Sundaresh works at Nokia Networks as a Product Manager, where he is responsible for product roadmap and release lifecycle management, feature analysis, value argumentation, and prioritization across multiple releases. He coordinates and negotiates across marketing, operations, and R&D teams to ensure seamless integration of new product releases with global sales, marketing, and managed services functions. He is also involved in implementing process change, training, and tool transitions, as well as mentoring team members. Prior to his current role, Sundaresh worked as an R&D Manager and Solution Consultant at Nokia Networks. As an R&D Manager, he was responsible for project delivery, people development, and innovation. He fostered an atmosphere of engagement, trust, and growth, coached team members in career and skill development, and implemented a fault prediction model based on data analytics that improved test efficiency and fault finding. As a Solution Consultant, Sundaresh orchestrated project delivery, delivered live network deployments of Operations support system within budget and time frame, and managed a green field project for energy and fuel optimization in telecommunication towers. Sundaresh holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Telecommunication from Vishveshwaraiah Technological University and a Masters of Marketing from Melbourne Business School. His technical skills include product management, Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD), test, and integration.