Visionary, Helmsman, Change Agent – whichever
of these names you’d wish to call Ajay it doesn't matter.
All suit him to the “T”. In fact, he’s been
one of the pioneering forces of the Project Management movement
in India.
A B.E., M.S. and an Academic Associate at Golratt Institute,
USA, Ajay was the architect and headed the Center for Project
Management at S. P. Jain Institute of Management Research,
Mumbai. You can say he lives for Project Management; he’s
involved with teaching MBA, EMBA courses on Project Management,
Risk Management and Theory of Constraints.
Currently he heads i2mservices.com and is involved with leading
organization in implementing PM and PMO practices. He has
also developed and launched PM learning solutions designed
on the principles of Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networking
Akila
Manian
Akila Manian, Founder Director of Akna Infotech
Pvt. Ltd, has been instrumental in pioneering and guiding
the vision of Akna Infotech. Under her astute guidance and
unswerving focus, the organization serves multitudes of platforms
encompassing corporate training, architectural consulting
and solution development. We intend to expand and deliver
intelligent solutions globally, to fulfill the expectations
of our esteemed clients. With an experience of 8 years in
the IT Developer Training Industry, she has been uniquely
gifted with the ability to effectively communicate complex
technical jargons in user-friendly language
Arun Prakash Ganesan
(Development Lead, Microsoft India)
Arun Prakash Ganesan works as a Development
Lead at Microsoft India. Over the past year, he has been engaged
in one of the internal efforts aimed at making Microsoft Outlook
as a way to work with line-of-business applications' data.
An ardent advocate of Microsoft Technologies, an Early Achiever
of MCSD.NET and was a MVP for over 2 years. All his career,
he has involved himself in solving business problems with
Microsoft technologies and solutions. Before joining Microsoft,
Arun worked with Hewlett Packard at Bangalore.
Ashvini Shahane
(Member –Research Laboratory in Synergetics)
Ashvini Shahane is Currently a Member –Research
Laboratory in Synergetics. She has a Cumulative Experience
of 12 years in the Software Development/ Training Industry.
She has been a Trainer & communicator on Technology thru
out her career. She has knowledge which spreads across the
breadth of Microsoft technology, Her strength being Object
Oriented technology. At various stages of the evolution of
Microsoft Technology she was an early adopter of the technologies
& has been responsible for driving the new technology
adoption cycle for thousands of Developers in the Indian Software
Industry. She has been trusted By Microsoft (contact Person
Mr. Daniel) for conducting programs on SQL Server 2k for their
Key Clients, solution providers and channel partners.
She was also involved in executing a Special initiative on
.NET readiness driven by Microsoft under the Guidelines of
Mr. Ashutosh Dhanesha (Bangalore) “ Around the .Net
world in 80 Days” She has conducted Programmers to prepare
developers in appearing for MCAD Certification for various
Developer Organizations. As she progressed rapidly as a Developer
trainer she achieved a special role in Synergetics as a Training
Specialist on COM, .Net & SQL Server conducting sessions
on Performance Tuning & Optimization, During this period
she really made her contribution to the evangelization of
Microsoft Technology which made Microsoft choose her to conduct
a training on Yukon for the Training trainers (TOT) across
south East Asia. This was an “Ascend” initiative
for early adoption of Yukon driven by Microsoft to ensure
that trainers in this geography could contribute towards early
adoption of Yukon by the developer the community.
Her command over the Technologies and understanding of the
need of the Software Programmers has brought her a lot of
Success thru her training programs, Her strengths on Scaling
up on New technologies quickly & her interest in mentoring
technical people which she contributed to as a Resource Manager
in Synergetics has transformed her role into a leadership
role in Technology. As a Member Research Laboratory She is
involved in Researching on New Technologies, She is involved
in the process of understanding new technologies & mentoring
Technical trainers in Synergetics in adopting knowledge &
skills on these technologies.
The technologies she has worked on include, C, C++, Raw COM,
Visual Basic, SQL Server,.Net. She is a First Rate Technologist
with an undying commitment towards Mentoring Technical People.
Bright Augustus
(Lead at the Business Productivity Group of Quadrasystems.net
(India) Pvt. Ltd)
Bright Augustus works as Lead at the Business
Productivity Group of Quadrasystems.net (India) Pvt. Ltd.,
a gold certified Partner with Microsoft. A Master of Business
Administration, he has been in the knowledge transfer domain
for several years now. Over the past year, he has been engaged
in conducting Business Productivity workshops, seminars and
hands on training to corporate who use MS Office system components,
thereby improving their individual as well as team productivity
Bijoy Singhal
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.
Brij Raj Singh
(Developer Evangelist, The Perfect Future)
Brij Raj is a Developer Evangelist With The
Perfect Future. He's earned an Hon's Master's degree in
Computer Application from U.P Technical University.
He is an avid enthusiast for mathematics and algorithms, and
likes to spend most of his time in research related to
optimization of processes.
He loves to keep hold on the latest technologies getting
shipped by Microsoft, and loves to educate people over them.
When he finds time, he spends time watching movies, reading
books. He blogs about technology and philosophy at
http://spaces.live.com/brijraj
Deepak Gulati
(Developer Evangelist, Microsoft India)
Deepak works as a developer evangelist at Microsoft
and believes firmly in brevity being the soul of wit. He is
extremely excited about the Microsoft technologies due for
release over next 12 months and encourages you to attend his
session on Windows Presentation Foundation.
In his (exceedingly rare) free time he likes to travel with
his camera and occasionally posts the results on his photoblog.
Dhaval Faria
(Founder and MD for Hirdhav Software Pvt. Ltd.)
Dhaval Faria is from Mumbai, he is Founder and
Managing Directory for Hirdhav Software Pvt. Ltd., Prior to
working in his company, he worked as a freelancer. He started
his career with HTML and Visual Basic, and then he never stopped
exploring more languages like x86 Assembly, BASIC, Java, .NET,
etc. He has been in software industry for more then 7yrs as
a non-professional and professional. He has executed projects
in various languages like VB, Java, .NET, x86 Assembly, COBOL,
LISP, JSP, Perl, PHP, CGI-BIN, C/C++, Foxpro, etc. and platforms
like DOS, Windows, Linux, Third party Platforms.
His main interest involves doing research and development
on various new technologies, and exploring all Microsoft technologies
which includes DirectX, GDI+, SAPI, TAPI, XNA, and many more…
apart from programming field he also has interest in robotics,
electronics, science, history, and many more things. He is
not too active online in the usergroups and newsgroups, but
he is active on them offline, arranging user group meets,
taking sessions and many other things.
When he is not on his computer you can find him watching TV,
Reading, Eating, Sleeping, Hanging out with Friends, etc.
and also he knows to skates and play piano, he has taken professional
training for 3yrs in playing Piano.
You can read his blog at
http://dhavalfaria.blogspot.com/ And you can reach him
at dhavalf@hirdhav.com
DSK
Chakravarthy
DSK Chakravarthy, hails from Vijayawada, Andhra
Pradesh and is currently working at Bangalore as Project Lead
for XYKA Inc, Bangalore. He holds Bachelor of Science for
his credits, and currently pursuing MCA. He is also an MCP
from 96. His professional career has come close to a decade,
though he first started his programming since June 91 using
BASIC. He started his career with CMC Ltd., as freelancer
from 96. Apart of being a hardcore developer, he is also an
instrumental in playing a vital role in setting up infrastructure
and managing the same with his clients. He started his career
with dbase III+ programming and then moved on to, FoxPro,
C, C++, Power Builder, D2K, VB, Daphni, C# and finally into
.NET. His experience with Visual Basic is from version 4.0
onwards. He is also exposed with Application Center like server
side technologies. Apart of being expert in technology, he
considers himself as a constant learner, towards the technology
and attitude. He likes to improve the performance and reusability
of the code. His current area of work is into Mobile and Embedded
space. His favorite statement is, “Attitude is important
than Truth & Fact, and Imagination is important than Knowledge”
He is active in user groups (B.NET & BangaloreITPro) and
forms located in and around Bangalore. He likes to read adventurous
stories and action movies. You can read his blog at http://dskc.blogspot.com
Farzin
Faramarzi
Farzin Faramarzi is Currently a Member of the
Research Laboratory in Synergetics. He has a Cumulative Experience
of 13 years in the Software Development/Training Industry.
A Chartered Accountant by Education, he started his career
as a Lab Assistant and Programmer working on COBOL, and C
Programming. As he further explored the field of software,
he developed a liking for Training and began his quest with
learning new software Technologies. His liking for the profession
of teaching took him closer to taking it up as a full time
career.
Farzin over the years has conducted training programs for
over 3500 Software Professionals in India and has acquired
the distinction of being asked for by name to conduct training
programs in various corporate.
His understanding of the needs of Software Programmers has
brought him a lot of success and recognition through his training
programs.
As the years moved along, the love for new technology transitioned
into designing of Applications; by now Farzin was doing a
lot of work in Object Oriented Technologies and the logical
movement to doing work with Object Oriented Designing took
place.
All the Sessions he conducted on C++ started dealing with
designing issues and he began exploring best practices in
Designing Applications using Object Oriented Designing Principles.
During this period, he also managed a couple of Projects implementing
his knowledge of Application Design.
As a Member of the Research Laboratory, he is involved in
Research on New Technologies, and in mentoring Technical trainers
in Synergetics in adopting the knowledge and skills on these
technologies.
The technologies he has worked on include, C/C++, Windows
SDK programming, VC++ MFC, Raw COM, Visual Basic, and .NET.
He is a First Rate Technologist with an undying commitment
towards Mentoring Technical People.
Gaurav Khanna (Developer Evangelist, Microsoft India)
Mr. Gaurav Khanna works as a Developer Evangelist
at Microsoft. He owns the technical contents for developer
events like: Tech•Ed, MSDN, DevDays, etc. that Microsoft
executes in India, in addition to working with developer communities
across the country to help them understand and use Microsoft
technologies better and be more productive. Before joining
Microsoft, Gaurav worked with Hewlett Packard as a Software
Engineer in the Telecom BU and was a MVP for over 2 years.
He speaks at various Technical Conferences, runs:
www.wintoolzone.com, blogs at:
http://geekswithblogs.net/khanna/ and frequently writes
for IT publications in the country.
Gnana Arun Ganesh
G. Gnana Arun Ganesh, a Microsoft XML Web Services
MVP is a .NET Developer, Author, Editor and Reviewer, who
believes Microsoft .NET technology, is the ultimate solution
to real world software problems.
G. Gnana Arun Ganesh is currently with Accenture (Accenture-Microsoft
Engagement, Hyderabad). He has been working with Microsoft
.NET Technologies since its initial beta version. As a .NET
author, he has published more than 60 articles on .NET technology
in various top .NET Web sites, such as eXPerienceDotNet, MSDNAA
(MSDN Academic Alliance), Developersdex, etc and conducted
various .NET sessions in colleges. He is the Co-author of
the Prentice Hall PTR book, .NET Security and Cryptography,
part of The Integrated .NET Series from Object Innovations.
Being an active member of Prentice Hall’s technical
review panel, he has performed many technical reviews, beginning
with C# How to Program, written by Harvey and Paul Deitel.
He is one of the Managers of MUGH (Microsoft User Group, Hyd).
Arun is also one of the authors of ObjectInnovations.com,
which offers training course materials in fundamental software
technologies. He was the author and site personality of .NET
Reference Guide, hosting by InformIT. As the administrator
of Arun Micro Systems (2001 - 2003), he had provided online
.NET guidance all over the world.
Mr. Govind Kanshi has over a decade’s
worth of experience in designing and delivering solutions
in Travel and Finance industry. His interests lie in helping
clients design scalable, available solutions. He is passionate
about making technology easy to understand and work on. In
his last assignment with Microsoft, he used to work with the
company’s Redmond-based SQL Server integration team,
before moving back to India to join the DPE-India team and
work with local SI partners. He maintains a blog at: http://spaces.msn.com/members/govindk
Harish Ranganathan
(Web Developer Evangelist)
Mr. Harish Ranganathan, 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.
Janakiram MSV
(Developer Evangelist, Microsoft India)
Janakiram MSV is a Developer Evangelist with
Microsoft India. 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
capacity, he works closely with the developer communities
in India, evangelizing and sharing the vision on next generation
technologies from Microsoft. He is a Microsoft Certified Solution
Developer (MCSD) and Microsoft Certified Application Developer
(MCAD) Charter Member on the .NET platform. Janakiram is passionate
about XML Web Services and Mobile Computing. In his free time,
he enjoys making wide range of technologies interoperate with
each other.
Jayakrishnan Kurup
Jayakrishnan is the Director of Xtend Technologies
(P) Ltd. Cochin. His interest in programming started in the
early 90's , when he wrote his first anti-virus program, in
1993 he worked on Data Recovery, in 1996 he co-authored and
ran the first BBS in Kerala, In 1997 he co-authored ShellSock,
a popular winsock replacement that enabled internet shell
accounts to view graphics. He has been recognised as a MVP
by Microsoft for his expertise in VC++. At present, his company
concentrates on Interactive Voice Response systems and Fixed
Cellular Terminals.
Mr. Kashinath
TR
(MCSD (.NET), MCAD)
Kashi works for Intel Technologies, Bangalore.
Prior to joining Intel, he worked for Wipro Technologies,
First american corporation and Texas networks. He has been
speaking on .NET and related technologies in the local user
group. Kashi is Co-founder / Active Member/ Presenter of India’s
largest .NET user Group, the Bangalore .NET User Group (
http://groups.msn.com/bdotnet ).
Kevin
D'Souza
Mr. Kevin D’Souza, as an Academic Developer
Evangelist at Microsoft, owns various initiatives for students
& faculties and also, works with Universities & Colleges
helping them upgrade their technical curriculum. Since his
college days, he has constantly challenged himself to explore
next generation technologies and was instrumental in setting
up many .NET student user groups across the country. Kevin
delivered his first Tech-Ed session while, he was still a
graduate student of Madras University. He is passionate about
technology in general and the application of software to address
real world problems & challenges in particular. He is
very zealous about software development around Mobile &
Embedded devices and believes the day is not far away, when
every device including his mother’s rice-cooker, will
work smarter, due to the underlying software
Lakshmi Murthy is an MVP in BizTalk Server and
works as a Senior Software Engineer in Hewlett Packard, Bangalore.
She has been working on BizTalk Server for the past 2.5 years
and has a total of 5 years’ experience on Microsoft
Technologies to her credit. Lakshmi is extremely passionate
about BizTalk and has started a User Group in Bangalore called
BUG-i, focused at BizTalk enthusiasts.
Mahesh
Sabnis
Mahesh Sabnis has over 8 years of experience
in software development and IT education. He is a technology
specialist in .net center of excellence. He is Microsoft Certified
Trainer (MCT) and has extensive experience in corporate Training
and consulting on Microsoft technologies. He has played a
key role in implementation of dispatch management and accounting
system for Transport division of GACL.
Manoj Ganapathi
(Cognizant Technology Solutions)
Manoj G is a Computer Science engineer from
RVCE, Bangalore and currently works for Cognizant Technology
Solutions (http://www.cognizant.com/).
He has been working with Microsoft technologies from the very
beginning of his career and is currently a .NET junkie. He
takes a lot of interest in reading technical articles and
enjoys writing them too. His other interests include watching
motor sports, especially Formula 1! http://msmvps.com/manoj
M Rajesh
(Software Architect, 3i Infotech Ltd (formally known as
ICICI Infotech Services Ltd))
M Rajesh is a Software Architect in 3i Infotech
Ltd (formally known as ICICI Infotech Services Ltd, the software
arm of the giant financial group ICICI). He did his Masters
degree in Mathematics in “The Ramanujan Institute of
Advanced Studies in Mathematics” in the University of
Madras.
Having behind him a total of 11 years of experience in IT,
he has worked on some of the major technologies of Microsoft
starting from MS-Dos, FoxPro, Power Builder, Oracle both on
the UNIX as well as the NT platform, Visual Basic 4.0 up to
the latest version Visual Basic 2005. He has also worked on
several technologies like COM, MTS, COM+, VBA, etc. Recently
he has ventured into the world of Windows Mobile and worked
on a couple of Windows Mobile and Tablet PC projects for some
well known clients in New York.
He is passionate about Windows and has worked on Windows since
version 3.1 and is contributing a lot to the Vista communities
as well as ensuring that Microsoft hears his feedback on Vista
since the release of Longhorn build 4051 in PDC 2003. He has
been a MVP for the last 4 years in .NET, Windows Shell and
now Tablet PC. His aim is to ensure that people get well adapted
to the amazing world of ink and speech in the Tablet PC platform
and realize the potential that Windows Mobile platform offers
for business as well as entertainment use.
Nahas
Mohammed
Nahas Mohammed has over twelve years of experience
designing, architecting and implementing solutions on the
Microsoft Platforms. A graduate from MIT, Manipal, he has
been with Aditi Technologies – a premium Microsoft Partner
and has performed the roles of developer, technical lead,
project manager, architect and consultant as part of engagements
for various international clients. Having worked on large
scale projects, he is well versed with scalability issues
and has the acumen to successfully drive projects via technology
mentoring and team management. His early career role as infrastructure
support engineer has also led to infrastructure consulting
assignments where he has successfully migrated enterprises
from a WinNT setup to an Active Directory based network and
was also involved with the Microsoft evangelism team in the
initial stages to help setup the IT-PRO chapter of MSDN. He
is also a speaker at various Microsoft sessions
Nishith
Pathak
(MVP - Connected System Developer)
Nishith Pathak is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP),
an avid reader, prolific writer, Speaker,Published Author of
APress, and a Microsoft purist. He is working with .NET technologies
since its beta versions and has now dedicated himself to Microsoft
technology. Nishith has been involved in various Technical authoring/Consultation
and has written many articles, reviews, and columns for multiple
electronic and print publications. He has recently co-authored
a Book on Windows Comunication Foundation titled Pro WCF: Practical
Microsoft SOA Implementation for APress Publications. Currently
he is focused on key areas of the Microsoft platform, specifically
Distributed Computing, service orientation and exploring VISTA
and help companies architecting solutions based on Service Oriented
Architecture. During his free time, he can be seen perusing
his hobbies of listening music, playing cricket and reading
books/blogs on new upcoming technologies.
Dr. Nitin Paranjape
(Chairman and Managing Director, Maestros Mediline Systems
Limited)
Maestros, one of the most preferred partner
of Microsoft in India and the market leader,in providing Information
Technology (IT) services, is focused on converting technology
to business benefits.
Dr. Paranjape is responsible for the overall direction of
the company, and for strategic relationships with key partners,
suppliers, major customers and shareholders. Dr. Paranjape,
the ‘IT Productivity Guru’, co-founded Maestros
in 1992 with Dr. K.K. Menon. Passionate about learning new
technologies and being an excellent orator, Dr. Paranjape
explains complex ideas and technologies in palatable terms
– for varied audiences ranging from Senior Directors
to middle managers.
His contribution towards explaining and sharing technology
with professionals has been recognized by Microsoft as he
has been awarded Most Valuable Professional (MVP) title for
Microsoft Office System. He is the only Indian and among 15
global professionals with this certification. The MVP Award
is given in recognition of a recipient's technical
expertise, spirit of community, and their willingness to help
their peers by providing reliable and accurate answers to
technical questions about Microsoft products & technologies.
Dr. Paranjape is a prominent speaker at national Microsoft
conference including Professional Developer’s Conference,
TechEd and Office Deployment Conference, DevDays. He is also
a regular speaker at domestic and international industry events
by various corporate houses, and also a visiting faculty to
premier institutes across the
country.
Pandurang Nayak
(Developer Evangelist, Microsoft India)
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
Parag Paithankar
(ISV Developer Evangelist, Microsoft India)
Parag Paithankar works as a ISV Developer Evangelist
at Microsoft. Being a developer since the early days of ZX
Spectrum, when he was 16, Parag started his coding journey
from the very early evolution of the Assembly programming
language. He has been a Systems Programmer for a very significant
time of his IT career and is still very passionate about VC++.
Coming from a device driver development background, he loves
Systems Programming and likes to write system utilities to
improve user productivity. Currently, he is evangelizing Vista,
SQL Server 2005, Office 2007 and driving early technology
adoption of latest Microsoft technologies within ISV partners
in India.
Pandurang Nayak
(Developer Evangelist, Microsoft India)
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
Praburam
(Sr. Faculty with STG International Ltd)
Mr. Praburam works as a Sr. Faculty with STG
International Ltd. For the past 3 years he has been involved
in understanding and delivering new technologies for Microsoft's
SI Partners across India. The SharePoint Portal and BizTalk
Server training drive for Microsoft has been his KRA.
As he has a development and administration background on various
technologies, his delivery competencies have guided Microsoft
SI Partners to understand technologies in-depth for their
project needs. Before joining STG, Praburam has worked in
different training organizations and has an overall experience
of about 9 years. He is a Microsoft Certified Trainer. He
is also a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer in .NET Technologies.
Praveen Srivatsa
(RD MSDN, Microsoft India)
Praveen Srivatsa is the Founder and Principal
Consultant of Asthra.NET, a technology consulting company.
Praveen has worked on the whole gamut of technologies in the
Microsoft stack but is particularly passionate about SQL Server
and other database related technologies. Currently he is involved
in working with a set of clients in building solution showcases
on Vista (WinFX) and Office12.
Rajesh Makhija
(Architect Advisor)
Rajesh is an Architect Advisor at Microsoft,
working as part of the Developer and Platform Evangelism team.
With around seventeen years of experience, he brings extensive
skills in all areas of a software development life cycle.
He has worked on a variety of projects in various domains
using UML, C++/C/Assembly and Java for various architectures
and technologies including Windows drivers, COM, .NET, J2EE,
EAI as well as embedded systems.
Mr. Ramkumar Kothandaraman recently joined India
DP&E team as an Architect. Before that, he was working
as a Solutions Architect in the Architecture Strategy Team,
Mircosoft Corp. Redmond. He has been with Microsoft for more
than five years. During this time, he has worked with software
architects of various ERP vendors and Customers helping them
architect their product line for Microsoft technologies. His
prior experience includes designing and developing an ERP
product. His interests include Enterprise Architecture techniques,
Service Oriented Architecture and model driven approach to
building enterprise solutions. He also maintains a blog at
http://weblogs.asp.net/ramkoth
where he shares information about various topics.
Ramnish Singh
(IT Advisor - Microsoft)
Ramnish, a practicing PMP (Project Management
Professional) and CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security
Professional), is responsible for managing lifecycle solutions
developed in SI partner organization on future Microsoft products
and technologies. In his earlier role as the principal consultant
on Microsoft Platform in the Infrastructure Consulting group
in Wipro, Ramnish has provided consultancy services many clients;
executing projects ranging from Infrastructure Reengineering,
Active Directory deployments, Migration from multi-org Exchange
5.5 messaging infrastructure to deployment of Microsoft technologies
for operational excellence.
Ramnish is a Microsoft Certified Architect (Infrastructure)
and holds many certifications from Microsoft, Cisco and Sun.
Ramnish is married to Anubha and likes to spend his free time
playing keyboard (music), computer games and chatting with
friends and family.
Ranjana Jain
(IT Pro Evangelist, Microsoft India)
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.
Ravi Sankar
(IT Professional Evangelist, Microsoft India)
Ravi Sankar is an IT Professional Evangelist
at Microsoft. In his current role he works closely with the
IT Professional community in India and helps them learn and
adopt cutting edge products and technologies from Microsoft.
He conducts numerous training sessions, workshops as well
as provides support and consultancy to IT Professionals. He
is passionate about networking and security and works on products
like Windows Server, Exchange Server and ISA Server etc. In
his career he has worked as a support engineer, system administrator,
trainer and consultant with various Microsoft partner and
customer organizations. He is certified as MCSE (messaging
& security) and MCT.
R Pooran Prasad
R Pooran Prasad has started a company named
Zealous Solutions Pvt Ltd, working on latest Microsoft technologies.
He had completed the Entrepreneurial grooming program at NirmaLabs
[ http://www.nirmalabs.org
]. Before that, he has worked for Itreya Technologies Pvt
Ltd [ http://www.itreya.com
] for 3½ years. During his stay at Itreya, the open
work culture and very supportive environment helped him to
learn and hone his skills on latest Microsoft technologies,
and share the same within the organization and communities.
He has worked on almost all the Microsoft related projects
in Itreya, including 3 products from inception to deployment.
Saravana Kumar
Saravana currently works for Hewlett-Packard.
He is a Microsoft MVP in Visual Studio Team System. He loves
to work with technology that fascinates him, .NET being his
favorite. He blogs at http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/saravana
Sarvashreshta Paliwal (ISV Developer Evangelist, Microsoft India)
Sarvashrestha Paliwal is an ISV Developer Evangelist
at Microsoft India responsible for technical engagement with
ISV’s in India. He also runs the Microsoft India Ascend
program that help software companies learn and adopt upcoming
technologies of Microsoft like Vista, Office 2007 and LH Server..
Paliwal has MCA (Master of Computer Application) from MITS,
Gwalior.
Paliwal brings 7+ years of experience in onsite/offshore project
management, evangelizing Microsoft technologies, and designing
and developing applications. He joined Microsoft-India from
TCS, having started his career as a MFC developer in TCS Ex-NGN
(TCS accounting product) project and subsequently moving to
Microsoft, Redmond. He has worked in Microsoft Redmond campus
as a Microsoft Vendor Partner for nearly 4 years with DP&E
Architecture Strategy, Patterns & Practices and MSTV groups.
Saurabh Verma
(Co-founder & Chief Software Architect of "The Perfect
Future")
Saurabh is the Co-founder & Chief Software
Architect of "The Perfect Future"". Previously,
Saurabh has worked with Microsoft where he designed and implemented
core platform framework for MS internal applications. Saurabh
has been in the software industry for more than eight years.
During this time he has architected and developed solutions
for various clients like Microsoft, eBay, Pitney Bowes, R-Sys,
Eydeas among others.
He works on unleashing the power of ASP.NET web applications
and integrating the same with other MS Products. i.e. Sharepoint
Server 2007, Biztalk Server 2007, etc. He was awarded Microsoft
India Community Star and Microsoft Most Valuable Professional
for his contributions and efforts towards the community and
has MCT, MCSD.NET and MCDBA certifications. You can visit
him at http://www.saurabhverma.com
Soumitra Sengupta
(Microsoft MVP, IT Pro Group Leader)
Soumitra Sengupta is a Microsoft MVP, IT Pro
Group Leader-Culminis and a mentor IT Academy, Microsoft.
He is actively associated with Microsoft Communities. He is
a regular contributor to Microsoft Windows XP General News
Group.
Subratam Biswas
(Microsoft Security Expert)
Subratam Biswas is a security expert and loves
to fight against spyware and viruses. He currently runs a
Microsoft-approved community
website www.subratam.org
dedicated to keeping users current on the latest computer
news and any threats that may have a direct impact on their
safety and security online. Subratam maintains a Security
and Secure IT blog (www.blog.subratam.org)
on the community site and actively participates as a security
expert in forums such as CastleCops, Spyware Warrior, the
Gladiator Security Forum, and many others.
Subratam's memberships include Team Spybot and the Alliance
of Security Analysis Professionals, a joint effort dedicated
to providing
security-related support to computer end users. His interests
also include analyzing and testing viruses and spyware sent
to him from
fellow security enthusiasts worldwide.
Supreet Singh
Since starting in the Internet industry in 1995, Supreet has
had a hands-on role in almost every aspect of Web and
Multimedia development, from interface design and
programming to content development and high-level
human-computer interaction strategy.
His work has improved overall user experience and resulted
in bottomline benefits for clients like ESPN, SAPLabs, IBM,
Sun Microsystems, Toshiba, EDS, Gateway and Amazon among
many others.
Prior to Microsoft, Supreet worked for Trilogy, DigitalThink
and Planetasia.com, India's first Internet company. Supreet
is a member of the IIA, India Society of Ergonimics and
SIGCHI, India HCI group.
Supreet holds a Bachelor's Degree in Architecture from the
School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi and is a User
Experience Evangelist with Microsoft.
Tarun Anand
Tarun has been an avid technology enthusiast
for the last 15 years. He completed his B. Tech in Computer
Science from IIT Kanpur, and Masters in Computer Science from
University of Texas at Austin.
Tarun worked for Microsoft Corporation, Redmond and Microsoft
India from 1995-2004. During his tenure at Redmond, he was
on the design and development teams of several products like
Windows NT, and 2000, DCOM, COM+, and most recently the .NET
Common Language Runtime. Tarun has several US patents in the
field of Distributed Computing Systems. At Microsoft India,
Tarun was closely involved with evangelizing Microsoft technologies
to startups and product/solution software vendors. He was
awarded the "Worldwide Software Architect of the Year,
2003" award for his work at Microsoft
Tarun's current interests are the intersection of eGovernance,
Media and Mobile technologies
Tejasvi Kumar
(VSTS Technology Specialist, Microsoft India)
Tejasvi Kumar works as a VSTS Technology Specialist
with Microsoft India’s Developer and Platform Evangelism
team. He brings with him over 9 years of experience having
worked in the fields of software development, SDLC tools &
methodologies, pre-sales consulting & product management.
He has vast experience in software tools & technologies
that address: testing, software configuration management,
requirements & static analysis. His academic qualifications
include an engineering degree and an MS.
Dr. V. K. Malhotra
(Renowned Linguist in Hindi)
Dr. V.K. Malhotra is a renowned linguist in
Hindi. His early education was in Sanskrit and Hindi under
the most ancient Gurukul system of education at Hardwar ;
MA (Hindi) from Delhi University; PG Diploma in Linguistics
from Osmania University, Hyderabad and Directorate in Lexical
Transfer from English to Hindi. He has over 30 years of experience
of working in the Ministry of Railways in various positions
of decision making and implementation of Govt of India policy
with regards to Official Language and retired as DIRECTOR
(Official Languages),MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS,GOVT OF INDIA, New
Delhi.
As Nuffield Fellow taught Hindi & Sanskrit in the University
of York, UK and undertook a small project for developing a
Hindi Thesaurus by way of using Oxford Concordance Manual
developed by Oxford University during 1984.He has assisted
NLP Group of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
(U.S.) for the development of Hindi Parser during 1996. He
has also worked as Language Co-Coordinator for Microsoft for
Localization of Interface of Office Hindi and other applications
in Hindi and has also authored a book on Linguistic Applications
in Hindi.
Vignesh is an Embedded Developer Evangelist
with Microsoft. He has been developing software professionally
for more than a dozen years primarily using Microsoft tools
& technologies. Prior to joining Microsoft, he has also
had the opportunity to create several high performance teams,
wearing his other hat as a software project manager.
He has worked in a diverse set of domains and has developed
software for desktop imaging, digital photofinishing, POS
systems, CAD/CAM, precision measurement systems and various
embedded systems. When he is not reading about technology
or writing code, he enjoys spending time with his family,
listening to old Hindi songs, reading sci-fi and fantasy,
playing multiplayer games (AOE, Diablo, Starcraft…)
and finding new wines to taste!
Vineet Gupta
(Technology Evangelist, Microsoft India)
Vineet is an Technology Evangelist with Microsoft
India and has been around since last 8 years in the industry,
though he has been writing code for much longer. He's been
at Microsoft India for about five years, first working as
a Technology Specialist on integration middleware and later
in his present role. Prior to joining Microsoft he worked
with an Internet startup as a middleware expert + dev-process
owner, and before that as an instructor and technical writer
teaching COM, C++, OOAD and UML. When he is not working, he
enjoys playing chess, listening to music and sleeping. His
interests include reading sci-fi & fantasy, algorithm
design, gaming (AOE, Quake3, Rome Total War, Morrowind), 70s
Rock, theology, playing flute and checking out new eating
joints!
Vinod Kumar works as a Technology Evangelist with Microsoft
India specializing mostly on SQL Server. With the love and
passion for SQL Server would want to help the community to
maximize their investments on SQL Server by utilizing the
product in the right way in their deployments and implementations.
Has been working in the industry on MS technologies for the
past 6+ years and been an MVP - SQL Server for 3+ years. Regular
speaker at many of the MS Events like TechEd, MSDN, TechNet
and more. Also loves the passion the community has and helps
them in every single opportunity available.
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 (www.pcquest.com)
– 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.
Vipin
Aravind
Vipin is a Microsoft MVP. Graphics Subsystem,
Graphics Drivers (especially Printer drivers), GDI, GDI+,
WPF are his areas of interest.
Vivek
Bhatnagar (Architect Advisor - DPE, Microsoft India)
Vivek Bhatnagar is a Senior Architect and Solutions
Strategy Leader with successful record of architecting, building
and operating world-class solutions, programs, and products
teams. He works as an Architect Advisor with Microsoft India's
Developer and Platform Evangelism team. Having worked as an
Evangelist and a consultant at IBM, Oracle Consulting, and
Sun, he rounds off his experience with Microsoft.
Vivek started his career with Defense and worked in a real
Enterprise Firm (Maruti) prior to joining IBM. With more than
16 years of industry experience, and of working with ISV's
and in High End mission critical Enterprise projects, he brings
varied experience to the table. He has a graduation degree
in Engineering and Masters in International Business. He is
also a Microsoft Certified Architect.
