This Senior Member Solves Complex Product Lifecycle Challenges

What do an instinct to fix things and the 1999 global panic over whether computers would survive the date change to 2000, known as the Y2K bug, have in common? Both helped shape IEEE Senior Member Ajay Prasad’s career.Prasad is an industry process director at Dassault Systèmes in Detroit. His focus is global oversight of industry process experts specializing in Enovia, a product lifecycle management (PLM) solution and one of the company’s flagship products.Ajay Prasad Employer Dassault Systèmes in DetroitTitle Industry process directorMember grade Senior memberAlma maters Bangalore University, in Bengaluru, India; and the University of Birmingham, EnglandAs a child growing up in Bangalore, India, his curiosity to build real-world solutions was ignited by his father, a mechanical engineer. Prasad’s father often fixed things around the house, including cars and bicycles. His ability to take something broken and return it to working order laid the groundwork for his son’s caree