Feroz Sheikh

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Career Profile

  • 10 years of software architecture, development and R&D experience in India and with international customers
  • CTO & Vice President of Engineering for Veloz Global Solutions Inc
  • Lead Architect at Planetasia Research Center
  • Hands-on developer and actively codes across various languages and technology platforms
  • Expertise in large scale XML based systems, Transformation Engines, Workflow Based Computing, Distributed Systems Architecture & Performance engineering
  • Experience in Healthcare, Education & Infrastructure Management domains
  • Research pursuits in Semantic Computing, Business Intelligence and Cloud Computing
  • Managed multiple delivery organizations and projects from conception to realization
  • Speaker at prestigious conferences

Summary of Consulting Assignments

  • Consulting Architect, Manipal Education, Bangalore
    • Designed and developed a large scale technology enabled learning platform
  • Consulting Architect, ServiceMax Inc, California
    • Designed and developed optimization engine for multi-depot, time window based vehicle routing problem

Summary of Employment Experience

  • CTO & Vice President of Engineering, Veloz Global Solutions Inc, (Oct’04 to Nov’09)
    • Instrumental in establishing the India R&D center for Veloz Global Solutions
    • Built a high performance engineering team
    • Managed and released multiple versions of the Veloz MCUBERT product
    • Managed, conceptualized and launched Veloz Healthcare practice
    • Architecture and design of MCUBERT platform
      • Technologies used – J2EE, ActiveMQ, SQL server
  • Lead Architect, Planetasia Research Center (now Collabera) (Aug’2000-Oct’04):
    • Part of the prestigious Planetasia Research Center
    • Developed core intellectual property for the company
    • Important Projects:
      • Passive Optical Network Management product for a leading optical network provider in US
      • Large scale data aggregation platform with a high performance XML engine built on .Net
      • High performance workflow based environment in J2EE for automating port operations in Hong Kong
      • Complete ERP system for the IC manufacturing industry
    • High performance UniTransformTM engine, customized for ACORD XML formats
    • Built a fault-tolerant distributed workflow engine

Summary of Teaching Experience

  • Enterprise Application Management, Sep’06
    • Three-day workshop on enterprise application management techniques, tools and methodologies
  • Upcoming Workshop on Unlocking the Semantic Web, Feb’10
    • Workshop on conceptualizing and building enterprise applications for web 3.0

Accomplishments

  • Facilitated by the Prime Minister of India at the Republic Day Parade 1995, for academic excellence
  • Led a team of students that successfully developed & demonstrated India’s first Super Conductor at Liquid Nitrogen temperatures in coordination with National Physical Laboratories, Delhi
  • Led an astronomy expedition that conducted several experiments during the total solar eclipse, 1995, and demonstrated several successful experiments in astronomy and astrophotography at National and International platforms

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