Vasanthkumar Nagarajan

Vasanthkumar Nagarajan began his AV career as a technician, installing, testing, commissioning and troubleshooting systems. Fifteen years later, he leads presales and design at Granteq, but the practical grounding from those early years still underpins how he approaches engineering.

His progression was deliberate. After joining his current organisation as a technician, Nagarajan moved into a project engineer role within six months, spent four years in project delivery, then another four as a design engineer before becoming manager - presales and design.

Over the past year, he has focused on strengthening design review and risk assessment during the presales stage. The aim is to catch problems earlier, improve execution and balance technical requirements with project budgets and profitability. Nagarajan says projects completed under his leadership have remained profitable, with no financial losses attributed to design-related issues.

He also holds AVIXA’s CTS-D certification, which he has maintained for more than four years, and applies those standards while mentoring his team and reviewing complex designs.

Nagarajan wants AV to be recognised as an engineering discipline. He argues for stronger links with universities and technical institutions, more formal learning pathways and greater awareness of careers spanning electronics, networking, IT, acoustics, software integration and systems design.

His own route, from field technician to design leader, is the progression he says makes him most proud.