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| Steve Ballmer |
CEO Microsoft
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Steven A. Ballmer is Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft Corporation, the world's leading manufacturer of software for personal and business computing. Ballmer joined Microsoft in 1980 and was the first business manager hired by Bill Gates. Since then, Ballmer's leadership and passion have become hallmarks of his tenure at the company.
Ballmer and the company's business and technical leaders are focused on continuing Microsoft's innovation and leadership across the company's core businesses. Microsoft's goal is to provide an integrated platform to enable a seamless experience across a wide range of computing and non-PC devices and services.
Variously described as ebullient, focused, funny, passionate, sincere, hard-charging and dynamic, Ballmer has infused Microsoft with his own brand of energetic leadership, vision and spirit over the years.
Ballmer was born in March 1956, and grew up near Detroit, where his father worked as a manager at Ford Motor Co. He graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in mathematics and economics. While in college, Ballmer managed the football team, worked on the Harvard Crimson newspaper as well as the university literary magazine, and lived down the hall from fellow sophomore Bill Gates. After college, he worked for two years at Procter & Gamble Co. as an assistant product manager and, before joining Microsoft, attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
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| Abhinaba Basu |
Senior Software Development Engineer
Microsoft India Development Center
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Abhinaba is a developer working in the .NET Compact Framework team at Microsoft India Development Center. He owns the memory sub-system and other parts of the execution engine. He divides his work time between writing code for the Compact Framework and blogging at http://blogs.msdn.com/abhinaba. He spends his free time mostly hiding from the garbage collector.
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| Abhinav Gujjar |
Consultant
Microsoft Global Services India
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Abhinav Gujjar is a Consultant with Microsoft Global Services India and is part of the global mobility practice. As part of this team, Abhinav helps customers get value out of the Microsoft mobility platform and build applications that extend the reach of their business to the field. He has been involved in the envisioning, development and deployment of numerous mobility projects and has worked on the many emerging technologies around Mobility. He has a blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/agujjar and you can follow him on http://twitter.com/abhinavgujjar
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| Abhisek Banerjee |
Microsoft India
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Abhisek Banerjee is a Technology Architect at Microsoft Technology Center (MTC), Bangalore. He works as a trusted advisor for Microsoft customers and helps them discover how Microsoft technology can bring about a positive impact to achieve their key business objectives. Abhisek has 10 years of experience in the industry and currently focuses on enterprise applications for the information worker. Prior to joining Microsoft, he worked for Sapient as a Technology Manager.
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| Abid Khan |
Program Manager
Microsoft India Development Center
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Abid has over 9 years of Industry Experience with 5+ years in Microsoft, currently he is a Program Manager with 'Embedded Databases Group' at Microsoft India Development Center. He is member of team working on Microsoft project codenamed "Velocity" - which is a distributed data cache solution from Microsoft. He is very passionate about business solutions, database and systems domain, at the same time solving tough customer and business problems with the magic of software.
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| Aditee Rele |
Architect Advisor
Microsoft India
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Aditee works for ‘Developer & Platform Evangelism’ group at Microsoft as an ‘Enterprise Architect Advisor’. She focuses on addressing architectural challenges in the Manufacturing and Public Sector space. She has over 10 years of industry experience with first hand exposure to large implementations on various technology platforms across Microsoft Technology suite.
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| Amit Bansal |
CTO
eDominer Systems
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Amit Bansal (CTO, eDominer Systems) is a professional consultant, writer, speaker & trainer on SQL Server. He speaks at major summits and conferences of Microsoft worldwide including TechED, TechReady, MCT Summits, MSDN & TechNet conferences. Over the last 8 years, he has consulted, trained & mentored more than 3000 IT professionals on SQL Server & Business Intelligence and worked with top notch blue chip companies worldwide. Apart from holding many Microsoft credentials, he is also a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) awardee on SQL Server. He is also one of the first Microsoft Certified Trainer in India. Amit has worked with Microsoft in India and US as a Subject Matter Expert in various capacities participating in OD sessions, technical reviewing, etc. He is also a very active community lead in Asia Pacific. Amit is a full time partner in eDominer Systems & Peopleware India and contributes in business development and technical consultancy in various capacities. Visit www.amitbansal.net and www.peoplewareindia.com/aboutamit.htm to know more. He blogs at www.BlogBoard.in/AmitBansal and moderates www.WeTogether.in & www.DelhiDevs.com.
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| Amit Chatterjee |
General Manager - Visual Studio Test Business
Microsoft India Development Center
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Amit is the General Manager for the Visual Studio Test Business at Microsoft India Development Center. Amit leads a distributed development team located at Hyderabad, Redmond, and Raleigh, on a mission to establish Microsoft as a key leader in the testing industry. Great Tools, Great Testers, Great Software is the vision that Amit and his team pursues. Amit has spent more than 20 years at Microsoft, and has played important leadership roles for Windows 3.0, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Direct Show and Direct X Media, Services For UNIX, and Networking technologies developed at Microsoft. Amit holds a B. Tech (Honours) degree in Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering, and M. Tech degree in Computer Engineering both from I.I.T Kharagpur. After 11 years in Redmond, Amit relocated to Hyderabad India, where he lives with his wife, two sons, parents, and two dogs. In addition to family time, Amit enjoys sports, reading, and learning about spirituality.
You can find Amit’s blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/amit_chatterjee
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| Amol R Bhandarkar |
Technology Specialist – Identity & Access
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Amol has about 11 years of experience in the IT industry, out of which more than 9 years have been around various Security Technologies. Amol has been working in Identity & Access Management stream of Information Security for about 8 years.
Amol has in the past worked with large organizations like IBM, CA (Computer Associates), McAfee, Wipro & Rolta India.
In his current role Amol leads the Technology aspects of Security Business and provides sales and consulting support across India for the Microsoft Identity & Access Management Solution. He has been an invited speaker at various Security events and member of Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA).
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| Ananth Seshachalam |
MTC TECHNICAL ARCHITECT
Microsoft India
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Ananth Seshachalam is Technology Architect with Microsoft Technology Center, Bangalore with 16 years of industry experience starting from device drivers to ERP. In his current job he helps enterprise customers architect solutions using Microsoft and Partner technologies. Prior to his current job, he was a software design engineer with Microsoft Corporation, Redmond close to 9 years working for different product teams designing and building world class products.
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| Anil Gupta |
Software Development Engineer
Microsoft India
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Anil works as consultant with Microsoft (MGSI). He works as technology specialist for Silverlight and C# applications. He holds more than 5 years of industry experience and specializes in developing, designing and architecting applications. In his tenure at Microsoft, he has immensely contributed towards designing and developing various solutions for Media and Entertainment sector.
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| Aniruddha Deswandikar |
Technical Architect
Microsoft India
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Aniruddha Deswandikar is Technical Architect with the Microsoft Technology Center (MTC), Bangalore. Aniruddha takes care of Application Platform practice at the MTC and helps customers with Architecture and Technology Strategy for building their next generation systems and products. He also helps customers do Performance Monitoring Exercises for Web based and Client-Server applications. Aniruddha has 15 years of Industry Experience and has been with Microsoft for 3 years. Before Microsoft, he worked Netflix.com as a Senior Developer.
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| Anirudh Singh Rautela |
Technology Specialist in Security
Microsoft India
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Anirudh holds a degree in MCA and is a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and a BS 7799 Lead Auditor, with nearly seven years experience in the field of information security.
His experience spans designing Layered Security Architectures for large enterprises, vulnerability assessments, device risk assessment, and application security testing. He has steered information security policies and procedures, conducted BS 7799 audits and formalised Business Continuity Plan for various organisations.
Anirudh has executed numerous penetration testing exercises (zero information base testing, targeted pen-tests.) exposing vulnerabilities in the most secured systems. He was also been involved in developing a base methodology for penetration testing of environments involving high risk.
He has conducted security audits for clients in companies from the BFSI, BPO, Manufacturing, Heavy Engineering and Software Development industry segments.
In his current position at Microsoft, Anirudh is a Technology Specialist in Security where he architects security solutions around messaging, collaboration and network edge infrastructures.
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| Arunjeet Singh |
Consultant
Microsoft Global Services India
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Arunjeet Singh is a consultant with Microsoft Global Services India and is part of the global mobility practice. As part of this team, Arunjeet helps customers get value out of the Microsoft mobility platform and build applications that extend the reach of their business to the field. He has been involved in the envisioning, development and deployment of numerous mobility projects and takes particular interest in building compelling user interfaces for mobile applications. He started his career with Microsoft in 2007, working on Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server (MOSS) projects and eventually moving into the mobility practice. He has 6 years of experience on the Microsoft platform and has been working on the .NET platform since 2003. He has a blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/knowledgecast
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| Ashwani Sharma |
Consultant
Microsoft India
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Ashwani is a consultant with Microsoft working on architecting, developing and deploying Information Worker solutions. He has over 8 years of industry experience and currently focuses on designing and developing industry solutions mainly for Media & Entertainment sector. During his 3 years tenure at Microsoft, he has contributed in developing and deploying complex solutions like Microsoft Mediaroom and Interactive Media Manager. Ashwani has been a technology specialist in ASP.NET, WPF, WCF and various other technologies.
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| Bijoy Singhal |
Microsoft India
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Bijoy is an Evangelist with Microsoft India and he works on evangelizing development technologies. His responsibilities include driving the awareness-excitement-readiness cycle around these areas, build a community and help incubate solutions on these technologies with the SIs and ISVs in India. He's been at Microsoft for two years, first working as a Technical Lead on the VC++/C#/.NET framework support team and recently moving into the present role. Prior to joining Microsoft he worked with a product development company on installation technologies and before that with a B2B startup as a software developer. When he is not working, he enjoys reading, watching movies, listening to music and sleeping.
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| Blaine Wastell |
Program Manager
Microsoft India
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Blaine Wastell is a Program Manager for the Microsoft patterns & practices group. During his time with patterns & practices Blaine helped develop guidance on how to create composite clients in Windows Forms, Web Forms, WPF, and now Silverlight. Additionally Blaine helped create guidance on how to improve application security using Visual Studio 2005. Prior to Microsoft Blaine was a consultant where he spent almost 15+ years managing large enterprise projects to create line of business applications using Microsoft technologies. Additionally Blaine help develop methodology and project tools for a large systems integrator. You can check out his blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/blaine.
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| Bob Brumfield |
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| Bobby Davasia |
PTS - MANAGEMENT
Microsoft India
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Bobby Davasia works as a Technology Specialist for Management Technologies at Microsoft India, based out of Bangalore. In this role, he is responsible for technical pre-sales for Microsoft’s management products across India. He has been in the industry for more than 10 years and holds several certifications. He is a regular speaker at Microsoft technical events.
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| Brajendra Singh |
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| Deepak Gulati |
Lead Architect
Cricinfo.com
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Deepak works as a Lead Architect at cricinfo.com. He loves web development and enjoys designing and developing products and solutions that scale to millions of users worldwide.
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| Deepinder Gill |
Director
MS INDIA (R&D)
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Deepinder Gill – Director – Application Services Management (ASM)
Deepinder Gill heads the Application Services Management Division working out of the Hyderabad Center. Application Service Management Division is the one foundation for running MS Business and Software as a Service through industry leading people, process & tools (MOF/ITIL). ASM supports Microsoft internal IT applications that help run Microsoft business … be it HR, Legal, Finance, B2B, B2C, Enterprise solutions, Sales, Marketing etc. Deepinder has spent over 10 years at Microsoft and has played important leadership role in Windows 2000 Active Directory Migrations, Identity and Access Management and designing enterprise Provisioning systems. He has also led Engineering organizations that build solutions for different Microsoft businesses. He has a Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering (Gold Medalist) and M.B.A from University of Washington – Seattle. He presently lives in Hyderabad with his wife and two daughters Anya and Naina. In addition to family time, he enjoys reading, watching movies and travelling.
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| Dharmendra |
Operations Engineer
MS INDIA (R&D)
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Dharmendra is a SCCM (system Center Configuration Manager)administrator for Microsoft. In his current role he specializes on software distribution component of SCCM.
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| Don Smith |
Lead Program Manager
Microsoft India
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Don Smith is a Lead Program Manager on the patterns & practices team at Microsoft and is focused on distributed application development and architecture. As a team member, Don was responsible for helping build all releases of the Web Service Software Factory and other Web service-related guidance. He has over 12 years of development experience and during the 6 years at Microsoft before he joined p&p 3 years ago, Don provided design & code reviews, training, and consulting for Microsoft customers on their distributed solutions.
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| Dr. Nitin Paranjape |
CEO, MaxOffice
Chairman, Maestros
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Dr. Nitin is the CEO of MaxOffice and Chairman of Maestros. His area of interest and expertise is workplace productivity using Office Platform. He has coached over 40,000 professionals across 1000+ organizations worldwide, and is one of the Office System MVPs.
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| Govind Kanshi |
Architect Advisor
Microsoft India
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Govind works as architect advisor in Microsoft Technology Center at Bangalore. His job function involves understanding customer business challenge and formulate efficient solution. He had wealth of experience across various industries for over 14 years.
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| Govindaraj Rangan |
PTS - INFRA
Microsoft India
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Govindaraj Rangan is a Technology Strategist with Microsoft India, helping Enterprise Customers align Technology initiatives with their Business Priorities. He has 13 years of industry experience in areas such as Technology evaluation and Implementation, System Automation, Project Management, IT Security and Technology consulting. He has travelled across most part of the Technology Universe working with multiple Operating Systems, Networking, Application Development, Data Management etc.
He has a B.E. in Electrical Engineering from Madras University, M.S. in Software Systems from BITS, Pilani and an M.B.A. from ICFAI.
He holds many Industry credentials such as MCSE, CISSP and ITIL Foundation Course. His passion is to improve IT Operational Efficiency and use Technology as a key driver for Business growth.
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| Harish Ranganathan |
Microsoft India
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Harish, a Web Developer Evangelist, helps companies and enterprises realize business value in adopting the latest Microsoft Next Web Technologies and helping them address their real world challenges over the web. Harish Ranganathan has been a Technology Specialist in ASP.NET and other web technologies. You can find a lot of his contributions in various technology forums. He is passionate about technology in general and the application of software to address real world problems & challenges in particular.
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| Jagninder |
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Jagninder has 8 Years of experience in Software Product Pre-sales, Business Consulting, Product Management, Business Analysis & Project Management and Enterprise Architecture. He is well-equipped with broad technology background and hands-on experience in ECM suites as FileNet P8, Documentum & Newgen Omni suite.
He has successfully implemented various enterprise solutions for varied domains – Insurance, Retail Banking, Universities, Publishing industry & Government in India, US and Australia.
In his current position at Oracle India, Jagninder as an Enterprise Architect is regarded as a thought Leader on Oracle’s architecture, technology value propositions & integrated product set. He has been driving technology revenue through the merits of architecture solution selling and improve customer executive relationships in the process for various nominated strategic accounts in India.
He has done MBA (International Business) and B.Tech (Electrical).
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| Janakiram MSV |
Senior Technology Strategist
Microsoft India Development Center
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Janakiram MSV works as a Senior Technology Strategist with Microsoft India Development Center. He started his career with FoxPro development and subsequently moved to Visual Basic and the .NET platforms. He has been a trainer, project leader and consultant. He joined Microsoft India as a Technical Specialist where he worked with the corporate and enterprise customers. In his current role, he enables the product teams at Microsoft India Development Center engage with customers and partners. He is a regular speaker at various premier events and forums. Janakiram is passionate about Cloud Computing and Web 2.0 technologies. In his free time, he is either watching an action movie or playing a high definition action game on his Xbox 360.
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| Kalyana Sundaram |
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| Karthik Bharathy |
Program Manager
Microsoft India Development Center
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Karthik is a Program Manager in the SQL Server group in Microsoft India Development Center. His passion for technology started since the glorious days of ZX Spectrum where BASIC programming was the order of the day. He is passionate about SQL Server and drives the next generation database features around the developer and manageability space. He has been involved in Security improvements in SQL Server Management Studio and gets excited on discussion around Auditing and Policy Based Management. He has presented at various MS Events including Virtual Tech Days, TechForge, MCT India, SQL Heroes Happen Here launch and various SQL Server focus groups.
Outside databases, he enjoys travelling and photography.
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| Kevin D’Souza |
Microsoft India
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Kevin works with Indian Internet businesses helping them succeed by leveraging cutting-edge web platforms, technologies and tools from Microsoft. In his previous role as an Academic Evangelist, he owned Microsoft’s initiatives for faculty & students, and worked with Universities helping them upgrade their technical curriculum.
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| Kirushna Kumaar |
Software Development Engineer
Microsoft India
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Kirushna works as Software Development Engineer with Microsoft Global Services India. In 5 years of professional work experience, he has gained experience in developing enterprise level distributed application & solutions engineering using Microsoft technologies covering domains like supply chain management, insurance, e-learning and communication sector.
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| Kunal Mahajan |
Technical Lead
Microsoft INDIA PSS
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Kunal is a Technical Lead with Microsoft Global Technical Support Center, Bangalore with 5 years of Industry Experience. He has experience of working in various roles on products of Microsoft, Symantec and DLink. Currently he is leading the Team that is working on and supporting Exchange for IGTSC. Kunal holds a Bachelors Degree in Electronics Engineering and has Industry Certifications such as MCSE and VCP (Veritas Certified Professional) to his credit.
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| Lenny Ankireddi |
Consultant
Microsoft (MGSI)
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Lenny is a Consultant with Microsoft working on architecting, developing and deploying Information Worker solutions based on the Office Server system – predominantly on Office SharePoint Server 2007® for over three years. He is passionate about driving the value for Office Business applications and the use of the Office System as a platform to develop solutions that will boost everyday productivity.
Lenny has spent a large amount of his time at Microsoft working directly with customers, translating their vision into implementations based on MOSS 2007® and optimizing the capability of the product to their needs. He has been a speaker at MSDN Day events and SharePoint Community events presenting field inputs and best practices around SharePoint implementation and development.
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| Madhusudan Kohli |
FIELD SR. IT MANAGER
Microsoft India
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Madhusudan Kohli was associated with Microsoft since last 6yrs. In his current role he is responsible for driving the IT strategy, Business management, Readiness and availability of Microsoft IT’s end-to-end service portfolio (Infrastructure, services, product deployment, IT budgets). Success in this role is defined as ensuring that the client and customer experience is optimized through access to a world-class IT delivery practice and delivery of world class IT solutions.
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| Manish Tandon |
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| Manoj Agarwal |
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| Meena K. |
Technical Director, SymIndia
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Meena, Technical Director, SymIndia, along with Ranganathan S, started Symbiosis (SymIndia’s original name) in the year 1993, to realize their dreams and vision of building a consulting organization that would meet the highest technical and management needs of the IT industry. Meena has a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics and Communications from Guindy, Madras. She also holds a Post-Graduate Degree in Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (Gold Medalist). She has several years of Industry experience in various technology domains, having worked for companies like Wipro, Citibank, Citicorp Software, and Deutsche Software etc.
Meena specializes in Microsoft Technologies with particular focus in COM, .NET Technologies and Servers such as BizTalk Server 2004, MCMS 2002, SQL Server 2005, Commerce Server 2002 etc. She has in-depth knowledge of Microsoft technologies, starting from Windows 32 API to the latest, .NET enabled suite of Servers from Microsoft. She has conducted several intensive workshops on these technologies to clients like Wipro, Satyam, Infosys, Cadence Design Systems, Siemens, Honeywell, Pivotal, HCL technologies, HP India, SAP India, Genisys etc. Meena has in-depth industry experience in Object oriented technologies and Application design and development using Design Patterns. She conducts trainings with industry focus in the areas of OOAD, UML and Design patterns. She also conducts training on SDLC phases like Requirements Gathering, Requirements Management etc. The profile of the participants, with whom Meena interacts in her programs, includes Senior Architects, Designers, Developers, Project Managers, QA personnel and so. She provides rich perspectives, tailored to the specifics needs of every type of audience she meets. She has been a regular invited speaker (invited regularly by Microsoft India) to talk on state of the art technologies in forums like PDC, TechEd, and Software Architect Meets, Product launches etc. She has been associated in such events, every year, since 1998 with Microsoft India, both in the design as well as delivery of various sessions. She has received excellent feedback ratings consistently across the years and events.
She has done high-end consulting and training workshops in Microsoft technologies to almost all the clients that SymIndia has built a relationship with in the past. She has, for example, conducted code review of more than 100 COM components. The consultancy domains that she specializes in include Architectural Reviews, Design and Code reviews and Performance Tuning. Meena meets specialized requirements made by clients effectively. She has designed training kits, Question Banks on various Microsoft technologies to various clients. Meena, with her unquenchable thirst for knowledge, loves to read on diverse topics, loves classical music, and plays the violin. She loves to keep herself updated continuously about developments in various technology domains across the world. Meena can be contacted at: meena@symindia.com
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| MS Anand |
Product Technology Specialist Networking
Microsoft India
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M.S.Anand is a Product Technology Specialist (Infrastructure) with Microsoft India. His expertise lies in directory services, identity/access management, virtualization and security. He has a wide range of experience with similar technologies during his 11 year career in the IT marketplace and has undertaken numerous projects in assisting medium and large customers architect and design their infrastructure. He is a familiar face at Microsoft events and is a MCITP Enterprise Administrator on Windows Server 2008.
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| Nahas Mohammed |
Technology Advisor
Microsoft India
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Nahas works a technology advisor at Microsoft working with leading organizations in the industry, enabling and empowering these companies to harness technology innovations available on the Microsoft platform. Over the 14 years of his career, he has worked in various capacities with organizations in designing, architecting and implementing large-scale solutions on the Microsoft Platforms for various global customers.
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| Nandan Patil |
Technology Specialist
Microsoft India
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Nandan Patil, is the technology Specialist on Windows Client technologies . He comes with industry experience of 12+ years ranging from infrastructure management , enterprise systems management, managed services and virtualization technologies. He is certified on various Microsoft technologies with specialization on Desktop Deployment and holds a ITIL certification. When he is not evangelizing the cool new features of Windows 7 and MDOP he is busy trying out the various eateries in Mumbai.
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| Narendra B |
Director, APAC - Software Development Products
Intel® Corporation
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Narendra Bhandari focuses on the software solutions market across Asia Pacific. Bhandari’s team drives engineering and business relationships with ISVs and software developers in the region across consumer and enterprise segments. He joined Intel in 1993 and has worked in the areas of systems software, CAD tools, and 3D graphics. After returning to India from the United States in 1998, he was the general manager of the Internet Solutions Group, working with e-business solution providers. Bhandari was awarded the Intel Achievement award for delivering high-performance graphics software and has written technical papers in IEEE and ACM publications. Bhandari earned his BE in computer science from Bangalore University in 1990, followed by a Masters from Arizona State University. He also did project and research work at CDOT and IIT Madras in the areas of supercomputing and telecom infrastructure.
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| Nauzad Kapadia |
Quartz Systems
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Nauzad Kapadia is the founder of Quartz Systems, a company based out of Mumbai that does corporate trainings and offers consultancy services for the Microsoft platform and range of products. Since Oct. 2002, for 6 years running, Microsoft has conferred on him the MVP (Most Valuable Professional) status in recognition of superior technical contribution to the user community in general. He was instrumental in the formation of the INETA (International .NET Association) Academic Committee which was responsible for spreading .NET awareness and assisting various educational institutions in coming to grips with new technology. Since Oct. 2003, Nauzad has been a regular speaker at major Microsoft events like MSDN, DevDays, TechEd, Devcon and Innovation Days to name a few. He has also been working as a SME (Subject Matter Expert) and has authored content on ADO.NET 3.5, Web services, SQL Server 2005/2008, Windows Workflow Foundation and C# 2.0.
Nauzad has a total of 12 years of experience in the IT Industry and has worked on almost all technologies right from COBOL and Dbase to .NET. However lately he has become passionate about BizTalk, SQL Server and SharPoint and devotes most of his time and efforts towards these technologies. Apart from computers, he relishes National Geographic, bikes, rock music, beer, pizzas and anything else that comes in the category of “fun and entertainment”
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| Naveen Gv |
Technical Consulting Engineer
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Naveen Gv is a Technical Consulting Engineer in the Performance Library Lab at Intel. He provides core technical support to customers across Asia Pacific to use Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives and Intel® Math Kernel Library. Naveen has worked with several Universities across Asia Pacific to implement Multi-Core programming in academia. His professional interests are teaching Multi core Programming Methodology to software community and implementing Digital Signal Processing algorithms on x86 platform.
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| Neelesh Kamkolkar |
Senior Product Manager
Microsoft India Development Center
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Neelesh Kamkolkar has 12+ years of experience in software design, development, product strategy and management. He has worked on performance management and diagnostics tools amongst other technologies that bridge the gaps between application development, quality assurance and operations teams. He is currently working as a Senior Product Manager in the VSTS team responsible for the testing and virtual lab management portfolio of products at Microsoft.
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| Niraj G Bhatt |
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Niraj is a Technical Architect for a Bangalore-based CMM Level 5 company. He is a frequent speaker at various technical forums on cutting edge technologies including MCT Summit, Developer Summit, Virtual Tech Days, etc. Niraj enjoys working on integration, architecture, performance, & review of enterprise applications with a specialized focused on enhancing team's productivity.
In his glorious past bitten by entrepreneurship bug, Niraj successfully ran a consulting firm called Ardent Collaborations which he started right after graduating from college. During that tenure Niraj has done assignments for companies like Tesco, Wipro, Infosys, SAS, Synechron, HCL, IBM, Mphasis, L&T, Dun & BradStreet, Mastek, Logica CMG, etc.
When he is away from his laptop, you will find him taking deep dives in automobiles, pottery, rafting, photography & financial statements though not necessarily in that order. He blogs at http://nirajrules.wordpress.com and is a manager/speaker at http://bdotnet.in, India's largest .NET user group. You can reach him at niraj@indiamvps.net.
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| Pandurang Nayak |
Microsoft India
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Pandurang works as a Developer Evangelist at Microsoft focusing on next generation web technologies. He is very excited about the Microsoft technologies around Windows Live, ASP.NET AJAX, SharePoint Portal Server and other web technologies that herald the beginning of a new era on the Internet. He has over 8 years of industry experience creating complex web applications and working on several Microsoft technologies.
Apart from technology, his interests include reading, writing, travel and photography. His blog can be found at www.thinkingMS.com/pandurang.
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| Paresh Sen |
Software Development Engineer
Microsoft India
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Paresh is associated with E&D systems, Microsoft for more than 2 years. He has done Masters in Computer Application from NIT Warangal. He is passionate about technology, in his current role he designs and Develop solutions based on SharePoint Technology, InfoPath, Windows Workflow Foundation.
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| Prashant Kumar |
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Prashant is a Program Manager on the team that is building the Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager. He has worked with Microsoft India Development Center for five years. Prior to this he has worked as a developer with i2 technologies in Bangalore. Prashant holds a Masters degree in Mathematics and Computing from IIT Delhi.
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| Praveen Srivatsa |
CEO,
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Praveen Srivatsa is the Founder and Director of AsthraSoft. He has over 14 years of experience in the software industry and has worked at Oracle Financial (CITIL), Aditi Technologies and Orbit-e Consulting. Microsoft has recognized him as the MSDN Regional Director for Bangalore, India. In addition, he has also been nominated the Most Valued Professional (MVP) from Microsoft since 2006 for his contribution. He is a well know industry speaker and has delivered sessions for iNETA, PASS and at various Microsoft events like DevDays and TechED in India and abroad.
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| Presenjit Bose |
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| Prince Vijan |
Development Lead
Microsoft India
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Prince Works as Development Lead in E&D Systems, Microsoft. He has more than six years of experience in Software Design and Development. Prince is associated with Microsoft for Last 2 years. In his current role he is working on Designing and Developing SharePoint based application also using InfoPath, Windows Workflow Foundation and Rules Engine. He has been involved in building some of the complex features to make User experience much easier. In his free time he loves to watch movies, Cricket and listen to music.
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| Rahul Johri |
Software Development Engineer
Microsoft India
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Rahul has over 8 years of Industry Experience with 3+ years in Microsoft. Currently he is a SDE -II with “Mobility Global Practice” group at Microsoft Global Services, Hyderabad. He is a member of team working on asset development for Mobility Solutions to be used for customer based engagements. He is very passionate about Windows Mobile platform and enjoys developing applications for it.
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| Rahul Marathe |
Consultant
Microsoft Global Services India
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Rahul is employed with Microsoft Global Services India (MGSI) as a consultant. His area of expertise includes building enterprise applications using technologies like SQL Server, C#,ASP.net & for sure Windows Mobile. He is a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist in Windows Mobile Application Development. He has spent past 2 years in building windows mobile based occasionally connected systems.
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| Rahul Pahwa |
Field IT Manager
Microsoft India
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Associated with Microsoft and in current role for last 2.1yrs. In my current role Rahul am accountable for assisting in delivering and supporting world-class IT applications and infrastructure.
Here we adopt a proactive and systematic approach to deliver consistent corporate programs with the objective of achieving productivity and realizing value for both internal and external customers through established global programs, such as Insight, ITCC, and EPE.
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| Raj Chaudhuri |
Independent Consultant
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Raj is an experienced senior-level IT trainer and consultant with an extensive and in-depth background in Microsoft developer-oriented topics, including .NET Framework technology, SharePoint Products and Technologies and Microsoft Business Intelligence technologies such as SQL Server Analysis Services. He has been an independent consultant since 2004, prior to which he worked with Microsoft in various roles. He is a frequent speaker, blogger and a VB.NET enthusiast.
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| Rajagopal A |
Intel
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Rajagopal. A (rajagopal.a@intel.com) is an expert in delivering innovations that changes people’s life. In his profession at Intel, he consults for leading technology industries to improve healthcare by applying digital technologies. Outside work, his enthusiasm has led to development of successful technology innovations towards social causes. He is interested to talk with people on using technology for social development for “a better tomorrow for everyone” He did his B.Tech for IIT and joined Intel after his M.S.
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| Rajapadmanaban Narayanaswamy |
Consultant
Microsoft India
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Rajapadmanaban Narayanaswamy is a consultant with Microsoft. He has over 8+ years of industry experience with 3+ years from Microsoft. Raja is focused on Performance testing, tuning and framework development. He assisted various project teams in Microsoft with application performance reviews and guided them in performance tuning. He is passionate about Microsoft technologies and loves product engineering.
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| Rajeev Krishnan |
Senior Consulatant
Microsoft (MGSI)
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Rajeev is a Senior Consulatnt for Unified Communciations and member of the OCS Centre of Excellence team in Microsoft. He is currently working with partners and customers in the APAC region for the TAP/RDP program on OCS 2007 R2. Rajeev is a certified Micorsoft Certified Master ( MCM) for Office Communications Server 2007.
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| Ramalinga Reddy |
Professional dev. Resource MGR
Microsoft India
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Ram spent over 7+ years in Microsoft serving various roles in Premier Customer Support Services and in Microsoft Consulting. He was one of the first consultants who started delivering Windows Vista deployment engagements across the globe and has successfully helped customer in US and in India deploy Windows Vista. He is also part of the Microsoft Worldwide Deployment SMEs and has been working actively on DDPS and DOVO deliveries for fortune 500 customers over the past 3+ years.
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| Ramkumar Kothandaraman |
Microsoft India
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Ram has been with Microsoft for around 10 years and currently he is managing the Microsoft Technology Center at Bangalore where he and his team of architects help customers envision, architect and build solutions on top of Microsoft platform. Over the past 10 years at Microsoft, he has played multiple roles – including architecture evangelism, architecture strategy, product development teams focusing on working with large ISV vendors etc., He is passionate about enterprise computing and his areas of interests include building large scale scalable applications, database platform, master data management and Service oriented architecture.
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| Ramnish Singh |
Senior Architect and Solutions Strategy Leader
Microsoft India
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Ramnish Singh is a Senior Architect and Solutions Strategy Leader with a successful record of architecting, building and operating world-class solutions, programs, and project teams. He works as an IT Advisor with Microsoft’s Developer and Platform Evangelism group.
Ramnish joined Microsoft in 2005 as an IT Advisor for infrastructure solutions, products and services. Ramnish has more than a decade of industry experience, working with customers in high end mission-critical Enterprise projects. He brings varied experience to the table. He has a graduation degree in Computer Engineering. He is also a Microsoft Certified Architect (Infrastructure), a practicing PMP (Project Management Professional), CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional) and holds many certifications from Microsoft, Cisco and Sun.
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| Ranjana Jain |
Microsoft India
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Ranjana Jain is an IT Pro Evangelist with Microsoft India. In her current role, she works closely with the online IT communities and is passionate about spreading excitement about the latest in the Microsoft Infrastructure field. She conducts regular events and live sessions for the Microsoft SI Partners and online community. In her carrier she has worked as a trainer and consultant for leading corporates in the IT and non-IT field. She is certified as an MCSE NT/2000/2003, MCT, RHCE and a CIW Certified Security Analyst.
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| Ravi Joshi |
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| Ravi Sankar |
Microsoft India
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Ravi Sankar is a Technology Evangelist at Microsoft and has more than eight years of experience in the field of Windows Server and related technology areas as a system administrator. He works closely with the IT Professional community in India and helps them learn and adopt cutting edge server technologies from Microsoft. He loves technology beyond work and is very passionate about security, virtualization and high performance computing. He enjoys sharing his knowledge with others and spends a significant amount of his work time in delivering presentations and demos.
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| Ravichandran Arunachalam |
Senior Consulatant
Microsoft (MGSI)
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Ravichandran is a Senior Consultant with Microsoft. He has spent the last 4 years working primarily on SharePoint-based solutions. He has co-authored a white paper on “Using Team Foundation Server to Develop Custom SharePoint Products and Technologies Applications”, which will be published on msdn soon.
Ravi is a frequent speaker at various community events. He recently presented a session on ‘MOSS Best Practices for Internet Facing websites’ at TechReady, an event focused at Microsoft’s field technical readiness.
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| Ritu Patney |
Microsoft India
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Ritu Patney is part of Technical Sales Team for Enterprise & Partner Group as the Technology Specialist – Windows Client. She works across all the sectors – Large Corporate, Public Sector Units, Communication, healthcare as well as Manufacturing . She is responsible for driving revenue as well as deployment for Windows Client and MDOP technology stacks for North and East region of India. She was the speaker for the launch event of Windows Vista in India across different cities. She has also spoken in many Microsoft Business and Technical events for Customers and Partners.
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| Rohin Jaisinghani |
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| S. Ranganathan |
Executive & Coach Corporate Mentor, SymIndia
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Ranga, Executive Director, SymIndia, along with Meena K, started Symbiosis (SymIndia’s original name) in the year 1993, to realize their dreams and vision of building a consulting organization that would meet the highest technical and management needs of the IT industry. Ranga has a Post Graduate degree in Management from IIM Bangalore preceded by a Post Graduate degree in Mathematics from IIT Chennai.
Over these years, he has gathered immense knowledge and experience in the area of Organization Development and Leadership domains. He has led many seminars and intense workshops on related topics for many big Corporates in India. He conducts management sessions in various Industry forums with the intent to build credibility for soft-skills. He was selected, among stiff competition, to design and conduct different seminars relating to “Leadership and Managing Corporate Change”, for a select group of nearly 200 CXOs across the country. These sessions were part of the forum called as “Wired to Growth” and were spread across different cities in India and across a few years. He has successfully mentored different Corporates in developing their Vision, Mission and Values. In most instances, he also partners his clients in converting the set Vision into reality.
Ranga is a regular Executive Coach, with very high performance record, at ISB (Indian School of Business)—wherein he partners the different foreign trainers in their Global Leadership Programmes, through Executive Coaching. Ranga is also the Chairman for a Non Government Organization (NGO), based in Chennai, which executes social projects in the domains of Child Adoption, Destitute-women Rehabilitation, Old-age home etc. He has great interest in wide reading, spirituality and classical music.
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| Sachin Filinto |
PFE Solution Support Engineer
Microsoft India
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“Sachin Filinto comes with Strong services delivery experience around cutting edge Microsoft technologies with special focus on Messaging, and Virtualization. In his current role as a Premier Field Engineer with the Solutions Support Team he supports Customers & partners running Hosted Messaging & Collaboration solutions.”
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| Sachin Vinod Rathi |
Architect Advisor
Microsoft India
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Sachin Vinod Rathi is Architect Advisor with Microsoft India. Over the period of 12+ years he has been leading and architecting enterprise products, provided architectural direction, technology assessment, and technical team leadership on legacy product re-architecture and modernization.
Prior to Microsoft, he was with SAP (Research & Innovation) as Architect and was leading ESA, Office Integration, Output Management and Forms Integration functionality for Business by Design (A1S) product line. He has led Intellectual Property (IP) initiative that resulted in the filing of four Patent disclosures and more than a dozen patent applications.
Prior to SAP, he was with Hyperion (now Oracle) & i2 as Technical Architect wherein he Instituted & Implemented Strategic Direction for Technology across all the solutions in i2 SRM Suite & Hyperion BPM Suite.
His education qualification includes MBA (Finance), Symbiosis and B.E. (Industrial), RKNEC.
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| Sagar Mishra |
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| Sai KrupaSagar |
Chief Architect
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Sai KrupaSagar is a Chief Architect at Cognizant Technology Solutions. He has worked on different roles delivering custom enterprise software solutions for Fortune 500 clients in his IT career of 18 years. He is a practicing Solutions Architect and has helped several customers by architecting enterprise applications and automating SDLC processes. He is a Microsoft Certified Architect in Solutions and a Certified ScrumMaster. He has a degree in Computer Science, Masters in Software Systems, and a Ph.D in International Business.
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| Sanath Kumar |
SymIndia
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| Sandeep Alur |
Architect Advisor
Microsoft India
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Sandeep works for 'Developer & Platform Evangelism' group at Microsoft as an 'Enterprise Architect Advisor'. He focuses on the Financial Vertical, and works with the top financial firms in addressing their Enterprise Challenges. His experience ranges from the days of COM/DCOM to the next generation distributed computing technologies on the Microsoft Platform.
He has over 10 years of industry experience with first hand exposure to large implementations in the area of Distributed Computing. He has architected solutions across Microsoft Technology suite and is a stern believer of his own philosophy which says "Enterprise Architecture is an evolution and it grows with Innovation". He has authored quite a few articles in the area of SOA, ESB, Enterprise Framework, Distributed Computing technologies on Microsoft Technologies to name a few.
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| Sanjay Agarwal |
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Sanjay Aggarwal, General Manager (Operations) has joined the E-ticketing project of Indian Railways in September 2005 and in 3 years has been able to increase the volume by more than 30 times. Apart from time during his tenure, E-Ticketing was extended to all trains and Tatkal bookings, Scheme for Frequent Travellers (SOFT) & Mumbai Suburban Season Ticketing (MSST) were launched.
Special contribution is towards containing the Chargebacks (Frauds) which is biggest issue in today’s online world. The fraud in IRCTC is significantly lower than others online operators in India.
Before joining IRCTC, Sanjay Aggarwal has spent around 10 years in Indian Railways in Materials Management Department looking after Purchases, Warehousing, Logistics etc.
A career bureaucrat of Indian Railways with more than 20 years of experience in Construction, Logistics and General Administration.
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| Sanjay Vyas |
Independent Professional
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"Sanjay is an IT professional with 25 years of experience and has worked with a wide variety of technology at various engagement levels. He has innovated and perfected effective visual communication called Concept Visuals which makes complex technical communication easy to grasp and has longer retention. Sanjay has been at the forefront of technology and spearheading new technology adoption with customer around the globe. Sanjay has been speaking at various Microsoft events like TechED, DevDays, PDC since 1996 and is a well known speaker at these events."
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| Saranya Sriram |
Microsoft India
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Saranya works as a Developer Evangelist in Microsoft India focusing on Microsoft’s latest cloud services technology. Inherently interested in Microsoft technologies and developer tools, she has spent considerable time in other Microsoft business units in India and Redmond. She is a graduate from BITS Pilani in Computer Science and Masters in Physics. She is passionate about technology, community meetups, presentations , demos and 2 way dialogues. Through upcoming TechEd, she seeks to reach out to the developer community audiences to make aware & impact of the latest tools & technology both in .NET fundamentals, middle tier & cloud technology.
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| Shankar Kambhampaty |
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| SJ Haribabu |
Lead tele partner tech special
Microsoft India
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“Haribabu has been working with Microsoft for the last eight years and has eleven years of experience in the IT Industry. Haribabu regularly delivers at Partner Tech Events and in Technology Workshops. In his current role, he works very closely with the Certified and Gold Certified Partners and helps them learn and adapt to cutting edge products and technologies from Microsoft, by providing solution selling and consulting in Pre Sales environment.”
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| Srinivas L |
Technology Specialist in Security
Microsft India
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Srinivas is part of the Technology specialist team at Microsoft.
He primarily engages with the enterprise group customers to provide a host of security solutions from Perimeter to the client, remote access to network protection and Messaging Security.
He has vast consulting experience in Perimeter, Server , Client and Data Security and has worked with top Security Companies like McAfee and Nevis Networks. In his previous position as a Network Security Consultant, he has offered professional services to companies like Raytheon (UK) , Samsung (S.Korea), Citibank, ICICI, Reliance, Satyam, Patni Computers etc.
Apart from this he is an avid photographer and a traveler.
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| Stephen Walther |
Senior Program Manager
Microsoft India
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Stephen Walther is the author of the best-selling ASP.NET book of all time, ASP.NET Unleashed. He also is the author of the forthcoming book ASP.NET MVC Framework Unleashed. Stephen has lived a year in Borneo, taught classes on metaphysics at Harvard and MIT, helped found two very successful startups, and ran a training and consulting company. He currently is a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft where his official title is ASP.NET MVC Ninja. He has spoken at numerous conferences including PDC, MIX, TechEd, ASP.NET Connections, and VSLive.
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| Sudarshan Yadav |
Microsoft India Development Center
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Sudarshan Yadav works with Microsoft Remote Desktop Virtualization product team as a Senior Program Manager. He is has been part of two major releases of Terminal Services product under Windows Server. Currently Sudarshan’s responsibility is further improve IT Pro experience for RDV product.
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| Sudhir Mody |
Founder, CEO
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Sudhir Mody - Founder, CEO, Indigo Architects. Over 19 years of experience within the Information Technology sector. Led multi-million dollar mission-critical project teams, including the “Integrated Logistics Capability” for the U.S Marine Corps and Power Trading Exchanges for Pacer Power Inc, USA.
In 1998, the Auditors’ Workstation application which was conceived and developed by Sudhir Mody was nominated for the Smithsonian Award for “Innovation in Technology” and is now part of its permanent collection. Sudhir is a graduate in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur.
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| Sudhir Rao B |
PTS - WINDOWS CLIENT
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“Information technology Industry experience for over 12 years in various roles and through various products of Microsoft, HP, Cisco, etc in the infrastructure domain. Currently working as technology specialist with Microsoft India.
Major activities actively involved in pre and post sales activities for core infrastructure which involved Active Directory, Exchange, SMS and Windows Client Virtualization etc.
Industry certifications on Microsoft Windows, Cisco and HP”.
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| Supreet Singh |
Microsoft India
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Supreet (a.k.a Surdyman) has been a hands-on designer for more than 12 years and a ...fierce proponant of user experience, design and technology for today's rich internet environment. Over the past 10 years, he has been involved in building user experiences ranging from the simple to the very complex involving dynamic UI with rich components and multimedia. As a user experience evangelist, his primary passion is to change perceptions of people around design and UX and to showcase the cutting edge work that might redefine what we feel about UX and the new paradigm of design in today's context.
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| T.N.C. Venkata Rangan |
Chairman & Managing Director, Vishwak Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
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T.N.C.VENKATA RANGAN (Venkat) is a Technocrat Businessman. He is the Founder & Chairman of Vishwak Solutions Pvt. Ltd., India and its two wholly owned subsidiaries in US and UK. Founded in 1997, Vishwak is a pioneer in Web solutions for Media and Newspaper verticals. Under his leadership, Vishwak has grown into a multi-million dollar software services company. Venkat enjoys playing the dual role of Businessman and Technology expert; he has been the key strategist behind Vishwak's flagship Media Publishing solution - VPF which is powering the online properties of many a leading News and Media companies in India including Hindustan Times Mint, NDTV Convergence, Sakaal Group, Malai Malar and others.
Venkat believes in the power of delegation and follows his signature style of non-confrontational management. He encourages his team to first identify and understand the problem areas of customer before proposing or developing solutions. In today's highly competitive Software Services market, this has ensured that Vishwak gets repeat businesses year on year. Venkat is an active speaker and has presented in various industry events and conferences. He is the Microsoft Regional Director for Chennai – an honorary title from Microsoft that he holds from 1999. He is also the Microsoft MVP (Most Valued Professional) as a Solutions Architect. Venkat believes in giving back to the community what he has received, helping him achieve this is the nomination as a Charter Member in TiE Chennai – a Non Profit Organization for Entrepreneurship. One of the areas he is very passionate about is Tamil language computing and he formalizes this by being the Vice-Chairman of International Forum for Information Technology in Tamil (INFITT), a Non-Profit Non-Government organization registered in California, USA.
Apart from Vishwak, Venkat serves as the Director in LIFCO Publishers Pvt. Ltd, a 79 year old book publishing firm in South India. Venkat has a Bachelors Degree in Engineering from University of Madras. He is married and the couple has a playful 5-year old son. Venkat is a regular globe-trotter and a passionate book-reader. Being a voracious blogger, Venkat can be easily reached at his popular blog at www.venkatarangan.com/blog.
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| Tejasvi Kumar |
Developer Technology Specialist
Microsoft India
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Tejasvi Kumar works as a Developer Technology Specialist with Microsoft India’s Developer and Platform Evangelism team. He brings with him over 11 years of industry experience having worked in the fields of Software Development, Product Management & Pre-sales Consulting in addition to having spent a considerable amount of time on software engineering tools and processes over the past few years. In his current role at Microsoft, he evangelizes on the Microsoft development tools and technologies across the country. And, additionally, works closely with the large SI’s in the country to define software development best practices in order to improve developer productivity and software quality through the usage of tools. His academic qualifications include a BE and an MS.
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| Tim Sneath |
Director - Windows and Silverlight Technical Evangelism Team,
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Tim is director of the Windows and Silverlight technical evangelism team, based out of Microsoft's corporate headquarters in Redmond. His mission is to see developers create stunning applications built on the Microsoft platform, and to persuade his mother that computers aren't out to get her. Amongst other strange obsessions, Tim collects vintage releases of Windows, and has a near-complete set of shrink-wrapped copies that date back to the late 80s, as well as a 'museum' of Virtual PC images from Windows 1.0 to the present. Tim spent the first thirty years of his life in the UK, and his occasional attempts to speak English with an American accent for ease of comprehension cause much hilarity amongst his colleagues.
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| Vijay Rajagopalan |
Principal Architect
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Vijay Rajagopalan is a Principal Architect in the Microsoft Interoperability team with the Platform & Interoperability Strategy division at Microsoft. His team is chartered to create & drive Interoperability Initiative across the company. His team collaborates with the Standards & Competitive Strategy teams at Microsoft on a number of projects – some recent interoperability efforts that were driven by his team include the Silverlight Tools for Eclipse, Software as a Service using Cross Platform SDK for Azure Services Platform, OpenXML, Federated Identity & CardSpace.
Vijay has about 15 years of experience in the enterprise space, has worked with customers and partners such as Oracle, SAP, Siebel, Intel, Fujitsu, Microfocus, Accenture among others; he has been at Microsoft for over 11 years working in the capacities of Architect & Development Manager. Most recently Vijay drove modeling, business frameworks & extensibility for Developer Division. His areas of interest are broadly in Software + Service, Federated Identity, data management, Domain Specific Languages, Formats & Protocol Interoperability, management of metadata and operational management but most of all in driving business value from technology investments.
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| Vikram Rajkondawar |
Architect Advisor
Microsoft India
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Vikram Rajkondawar works as an Architect Advisor with Microsoft’s Developer and Platform Evangelism team. Vikram has more than 12+ years of professional experience and has worked with multiple customers during his tenure. In the past he has spent a lot of time in evangelizing the latest of Microsoft technologies with customers and developers and has ensured adoption of the same.
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| Vinod Kumar |
Microsoft India
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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 8+ years and been 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.
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| Vinod Unny |
Managing Director, Enterprise InfoTech
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Vinod Unny is the Managing Director of Enterprise InfoTech, a technology consultancy company based in New Delhi, India. Vinod has also been appointed as the Microsoft Regional Director for the entire North India Region. Vinod has been an extremely active member of India’s Information Technology community for many years. He is a regular contributor to India’s leading computer magazine, PCQuest, on many areas of technology. He has lead both technical and techno-business teams in the United States, Japan and of course in India. Vinod has traveled widely and regularly, both in India and around the world for projects and events.
Vinod has also been an active and popular speaker in many different technology seminars across the country and has been invited by organizations such as Borland, Microsoft, Caldera, Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) and many management and technical institutes and organizations to speak at many of their events. Being a Microsoft Regional Director has not restricted Vinod’s area of expertise. Although very well versed in Microsoft technologies, Vinod has also worked on many other technologies including competitive ones. Vinod works regularly on Linux and Open Source Software as well – and in doing so gains a much larger appreciation for the work done by Microsoft. He passes on this knowledge and appreciation regarding Microsoft technologies in comparison to Linux/OSS to audiences, clients and readers in his various evangelism efforts.
Having started working with computers at a very young age when computers were not publicly around to programming for the Internet much before it was commercially available in India, Vinod has tried to keep himself one step ahead of the learning curve to be able to give his clients the best informed and most effective solution that is technically possible.
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| Vishal Shirodkar |
Technology Specialist for Windows Server
Microsoft India
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Vishal Shirodkar is the Technology Specialist for Windows Server working with the Enterprise and Partner Group of Microsoft India. His current role involves articulating the value of Windows Platform and ensure that customers are adopting and optimizing their investments in Microsoft technologies to the fullest. His area of expertise includes the entire gamut of infrastructure solutions with special focus on Security , Management, Interoperability, Virtualization, Green IT and Networking. He has close to 12 yrs experience in various functions across system administration, designing and implementing solutions across the infrastructure stack. He is a CISSP and MCSE 2003.He is a regular speaker at Microsoft Events.
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| Vishnu Vardhan |
Engagement Manager
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Vishnu works as an Engagement Manager at Microsoft Global Services India managing complex deliveries .Vishnu has worked as a lead consultant with leading organizations in designing, architecting and implementing large-scale Exchange solutions on the Microsoft Platforms for various global customers. He is also a Microsoft Certified Technology specialist and a practicing PMP (Project Management Professional) and holds many certifications from Microsoft.
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