Career Profile

• Over 15 years of software architecture, development and infrastructure management experience in India and with international customers
• Vice President Engineering for Veloz Global Solutions Inc, Head of Technology and CTO for Planetasia
• Worked in the Product R&D center for Veloz Global Solutions, Planetasia Research Center, and the Technology Support Group in Microland
• Workflow based Computing, Distributed Systems Architecture, Large Scale Content Management, Performance engineering
• Managed multiple delivery organizations and projects
• Speaker at prestigious conferences
• Holds 1 Patent

Summary of Consulting Assignments

• Consulting Chief Architect and CTO, Manipal Education, Bangalore (Mar’07 -Present)
  • Designed and developed a large scale technology enabled learning platform built on OpenSources
• Conducted Mentoring Programs for Collebera, Wipro and Cognizant Technologies
• Consulting Architect, Wipro Technologies – designed a solution for a digital publishing platform for one of their UK clients
• Consulting Architect, Veoz Global Solutions (Dec’06 – Jun’07)

Summary of Employment Experience

• Vice President of Engineering, Veloz Global Solutions Inc, (Mar’04 to Dec’06)
  • Established the India R&D center for Veloz from scratch
  • Built a high performance engineering team
  • Managed and released 2 versions of the Veloz MCUBE^RT product
  • Architecture and design of MCUBE^RT platform
    • Technologies used – J2EE, ActiveMQ, SQL server
  • Co-inventor of EPM method
• Head of Technology, Planetasia (now Collabera) (Nov’97-Jan’04):
  • Part of the founding team of Planetasia.
  • Created and led the New Media Research Lab and the Planetasia Research Center
  • Developed core intellectual property for the company
  • Delivery group head – managed multiple project delivery
  • Important Projects:
    • 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 HongKong
    • Complete ERP system for the IC manufacturing industry
    • First online trading application for ShareKhan.com
  • Build a fault-tolerant distributed workflow engine
• Engineer and Security Consultant, Microweb, Microland (Jan’96 to Oct’97)
  • Established a security consulting practice
  • Consulted with large banks and enterprises on drawing up security policies
  • First person in India to be trained on CheckPoint technologies
  • Worked with the early generation Internet products from Netscape, Sun and Microsoft for customer engagements
• Engineer, Technology Support Group, Microland Mumbai (Jan’94 to Dec’95)
  • Implemented large first generation wide area networks in India
  • Supported server side technologies such as SCO-UNIX and Netware
  • CISCO ACRC certified WAN Engineer,
  • Implemented large network management solutions
  • Won customer service awards and Club 100 award in 95

Summary of Teaching Experience

• Systems Thinking and Product Lines, Sep’06
  • Four day course on Software Product Lines and Systems thinking – this course is offered to Cognizant Technologies, India.
• Software Architecture – Do & Describe II, Sep’08, Bangalore
  • Three day public workshop on advanced topics in Software Architecture

Patents

• Enterprise Performance Management and method

Publications

• Enterprise Infrastucture Management, Published by Microsoft MSDN Architecture Center
• Knowledge Areas in Enterprise Infrastructure Management, Published by Microsoft MSDN Architecture Center

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