Speakers

Speaker Bio:

Vinod Kumar

Technology Evangelist – DB & BI, Microsoft

Vinod works as a Technology Evangelist (Databases and BI) with Microsoft India specializing primarily on SQL Server. With the love and passion for SQL Server he would want to help the community to maximize their investments on SQL Server by utilizing the product in the right way in their design, development, architecture and deployments. He has been working in the industry on various Microsoft technologies for the past 11+ years and has been working MVP - SQL Server for more than 3+ years before joining Microsoft. He has been a regular speaker at many of the MS Events like TechEd, MSDN, TechNet and many more. Also loves the local Microsoft Communities and has helped them in every single opportunity available. Apart from SQL, his part-time love is around Office suite of products which he plays a lot with. He codes, writes actively and shares his finding with the global developer and administrative community at his web space, www.ExtremeExperts.com and blogs about technology at http://blogs.sqlxml.org/vinodkumar. He also has been writing actively on many of the SQL Server Worldwide communities.

L Gopalakrishnan

Independent IT Consultant, with 23 yrs of IT ind exp

Gopalakrishnan is a Seasoned executive in the computer software industy with 23 years of total experience being a Gold Medallist from Madras Institute of Technology. He is Passionate about leadership and people, he was Senior Director, Service Engineering Group, Oracle and also a member of the core leadership team of Customer Services in Oracle India.He Handled global engineering deliveries with a team of Directors and managers He has Strong engineering background with end to end experience coupled with leadership and management responsibilities, Managed the India team which delivered the first version of Oracle databse on Linux He Was an official spokesperson for Oracle in India and Was the also a spokesperson for Linux and Oracle in India, to evangelise Linux and open source Distinguished speaker in several fora in Oracle and in the industry he has Experience in creating offshore development model in mid 1990s much before offshore development became a way of working Author of the book, How to use your Home PC, published by Tata McGraw Hill. Among other things Gopal currently advises organizations on their computerization strategy and architecture, one of his clients being Deeksha College which provides a highly successful integrated IIT coaching and PUC curriculum.

Madhusudan Rao

AVP Delivery, Mahindra Satyam

Madhusudan Rao is currently part of Mahindra Satyam, working as an Assistant Vice-President for the UK geographies. He comes with an experience of close to 15 years in the IT industry. He has worked in various roles in different organizations across multiple countries. He can be reached on mail, twitter, blog. He can be reached on mail (madhusudan.gr@gmail.com), twitter (@madhugr), blog (madhusudanrao.wordpress.com).

Mohamad Raja Gani

Principal Member , Technical Staff , Oracle

Mohamad Raja is the Principal Member of Technical Staff at Oracle, the provider of world’s most complete, open & integrated business software and hardware systems. He has 10+ years of software development experience. Raja is the technical architect of Oracle Directory Services products in Identity Management suite and is the Lead engineer in design & development of Oracle Virtual Directory. Prior to this, he was involved in the development of Oracle Financials & Oracle E-mail server. Raja is also an active contributor to open source projects viz. Identity Governance Framework & Higgins.

Dr. B. V. Kumar

Director, Altius Inc

Dr. B. V. Kumar, currently the Director at Altius Inc and is responsible for delivering technology based services for corporate clients. Earlier Dr. Kumar was a Director and Chief Architect at Cognizant Technology Solutions, has an M Tech from IIT Kanpur and a Ph.D. from IIT Kharagpur. He has more than 19 years of experience in the field of Information Technology at various levels and in organizations such as ComputerVision Corporation (Singapore), Parametric Technologies (Seoul, S. Korea), Sun Microsystems (India). Prior to initiating Altius Inc, Dr. Kumar was the Director and Chief Architect at the Global Technology Office of Cognizant. Dr. Kumar has been working on the Enterprise technologies for more than 9 years, particularly focusing on Java, J2EE, Web Services and Service Oriented Architecture technologies. As a Director of Altius Inc, Dr. Kumar is managing Technology Evangelization, and Community Development and Project Support for the corporate clients. Dr. Kumar has filed two patents in the IP space and published many technological papers in national and international journals and conferences. He has coauthored Web Services—An Introduction (2004), J2EE Architecture (2007) (McGraw-Hill Professional), Implementing SOA Using Java EE (2009) (Addison Wesley / Pearson) and Secure Java: For Web Application Development (2010) (CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group)

Clement Wesley

CEO, ANiFRAMES

A highly skilled, versatile and creative personality with over a decade of experience with Wide-ranging expertise in Brand Building & Marketing for companies in the Education sector. He has worked from the grass root levels for institutions during inception & has been instrumental in building & establishing a couple of todays top brands in the Animation Arena. He has also been instrumental in taking animation education to all parts of Karnataka by setting up over 30 animation training centers across the state. Pursuing his dream of establishing an organization catering to Fine Arts, Media & Entertainment that could be a role model for quality training in the Country, Mr. Clement Wesley resigned as the General Manager at ANTS – Animation Training School to start ANiFRAMES – School of Animation & VFX. A self motivated person who strongly believes that the root to perform in any sector is the passion to excel & achieve, has also developed the same culture at ANiFRAMES – “Persistently perform with Passion & Joy”.

Bhakti Pingale

Platform Evangelist, Adobe

Bhakti Pingale is a Platform Evangelist in Adobe. She has been a part of the ColdFusion QE team for 3 years and is now engaged in talking about the Flash Platform Products as an evangelist. Apart from this she drives the Flex@Campus program and is actively involved in Adobe’s association with Software Industries.

Shashirekha Ramesh

CEO, Breakpath

Shashirekha Ramesh is the CEO of Breakpath Information Technology. She has 18 years of experience in the Telecom and IT Domain, with strong focus on Product Testing. Her previous stints where as Director V&V at Trianz Consulting, Engineering Manager at Intel, Senior Project Lead at Mindtree and Project Lead at Sasken Communication.She has an expertise in building Test labs (TDMA,GSM,3G) for mobile handsets, Network elements, Mobile Content and VAS.She has a bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communication.

Pradeep Soundararajan

Director & Consulting Tester, Moolya Testing

Pradeep Soundararajan is a Director & Consulting Tester of Moolya Testing, a start up offering high skilled testing services and consulting. He is an awarded thought leader, renowned author and invited speaker around the world. His blog Tester Tested - http://testertested.blogspot.com is one of the most popular & influential blog. He developed India s first truly hands on testing coaching in partnership with Edista Testing Institute and has trained thousands of testers on Exploratory & Rapid Testing approaches. He has consulted organizations ranging from startups to multibillion dollar/pound/euro companies & helped them achieve fabulous results. He works with the brightest people of the testing industry and ensures his brain is constantly pricked. He loves testing challenges to the extent that he would forget his wife calling him when he is testing. His insightful humor is considered one of the best. Pradeep Soundararajan - http://testertested.blogspot.com - tweet: testertested - pradeep.srajan@gmail.com

Mujahid Z Mohamed

Director, Jetking

Mujahid Z Mohamed is a businessman, Electronic & Communication Engineer and One of the Founders of MIMS Group of Companies an IT Services, Consulting & Real Estate Company based in Bangalore. Mujahid, Graduated with a Degree in Electronic & Communication Engineering. Also trained in TQM on Philip Crossby Model & “ Creative Training Techniques” from Bob Pike. Spanning a fine career of 20 years, Mr. Mujahid has setup the first Jetking Learning Centre in South India at Sadashivnagar, Bangalore and Shivajinagar in the year 1993-94 ans 1999 respectively. Today the centre from TWO labs has developed into a Full Fledged campus with 24, State of the Art labs and High class InfrastructureHe is also instrumental in training more than 40 Thousand Students successfully in Networking & Hardware by using a Unique Teaching Methodology known as “SMARTLAB+”. . It is his idea which helped in tying up with Corporates and MNC’s to place these students in the organizations as Network and Hardware engineers. By this associations, we have been successful in developing and providing Trained Man Power to IT and other Industries. Mr. Mujahid is a Strong believer of Innovation and Execution. Innovation fuels PASSION & Passion makes 100% Execution. This Mantra has practically implemented and executed by all the TEAM members for consistent performance which made the centres remain as the TOP 10 centres in India. He himself is passionate about training and has trained the Trainers on “ CREATIVE TRANING TECHNIQUES” AND “ INNOVATIVE SALES TECHNIQUES, specializing in Retail Sales.

Sam Jobin Manohar

Director, HR, CDC Software

Sam Jobin Manohar is Doctorate in Social Work with 28 Years in Human Resource Management emphasing on Diagnosing Organizational Development (OD) Needs, Evolving and implementing HR policies and systems, Facilitating Training, Teamwork and HR interventions,Providing competency-based learning and development, Monitoring and improving Quality of Work Life, Coordinating Corporate Social Responsibility. Currently holding his position as Director HR for CDC Software, General Manager HR for SLK Group of companies, Deputy General Manager HRD at Kirloskar Computer Services,Assistant General Manager HRD at HMT Limited, Personnel Officer at Seshasayee Industries Ltd., (SIL),Resource Person for Management Workshops at Bangalore University Kuvempu University, Bangalore Management Association, Indian Society for Training and Development, National Institute of Personnel Management,Institute for HRD, Bangalore, YMCA Bangalore.

Bhooshan Iyer

Program Manager DSP & SoC, Cranes Software

Bhooshan is a Program Manager for DSP & SoC Systems at Cranes Software. He is a Passionate DSP & Embedded Systems Evangelist with exposure to multi-layer Embedded DSP Projects & Academic initiatives for over 10 years in India and across the globe. He has led several technical projects based on Texas Instruments C6000 range of DSPs & ARM Cores. He is a Texas Instruments & ARM Certified Trainer who has designed and delivered over 200 multi-day technical workshops with hands-on design/optimization labs and has delivered several seminars in Computer Architecture & SW Development Strategies on various TI platforms to corporate customers and universities in India. He is a passionate technical trainer & an evangelist of the latest of technologies, tools & trends for the academia in India. He is a member of Texas Instruments Expert Advisory Panel and he regularly speaks and trains in TI Developers Conferences. He is an active contributor to various DSP & Embedded technical usenet groups like C6x. Bhooshan has great passion for engineering & technology. His hobbies include photography and playing squash.