SAMIR VENKAT 

17790 WINDSONG TERRACE • FALLS CHURCH, VIRGINIA 21427

(H) 703-555-2780 • (C) 703-555-3467 • VENKAT122@YAHOO.COM

OBJECTIVE

Director Software Engineering/Information Technology

UNIQUE SELLING PROPOSITION

Seasoned Director of Software Engineering whose strength in planning and execution of large web-based solutions in Healthcare & Telecom industries has saved my previous two employers $23M in development costs.

KEYWORD COMPETENCIES

Project Management • Team Leadership • Client Relations  • Resource Allocation • Strategic Planning Prototype Design • Budget Management • Requirement Analysis • Test & Validate • Product Management

Information technology, software development, research, development, problem-solving/decision making, leadership, oral/written communications, team-building, performance and productivity improvement, results-driven, technical research, analysis, planning, management, motivate, mentor. 

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

OS    :  Windows 2000/XP/2003, Linux, UNIX

PROGRAMMING      : J2EE, JMS, JCA, JNI, JDO, Jaxb, Javascript, Swing, Applet, ASP.NET, COM+, SQL, HTML, XML, SOAP, C/C++, VC++,  IPC, RPC, Shell Scripts

DATABASES      :  MS-SQL, MYSQL, ODBC/JDBC, Oracle, PL/SQL

PROTOCOLS      :  HL7, DICOM, TCP/IP, HTTP, SOAP, ATM, RSVP, GMPLS, OSPF, SIP, SNMP

OTHER : Websphere, Jbuilder, Visual Studio, UML, Rational Rose, Clearcase, Source GearVault, Dragnet, MS Project, Soarian Clinicals, Siemens Servo Ventilator, BBraun IVpump, DataCaptor

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Novacheck, Inc.                                                                                           2006 - Present

Director - Software Engineering                     ~ ASP.NET, ORACLE 10G, SQLSERVER, HL7 ~

Responsible for managing & deploying Patient Safety Reporting Solution in Healthcare facilities.

ACHIEVEMENTS & RESULTS

●  Built, trained & directed strong team of developers & managers in short period & delivered quality product on time.

●  Rescued poorly managed outsourced project and built in-house development team that cut development costs down by $1M (50%).

●  Reduced development costs by $600K through reduction in re-work & bugs, improved customer satisfaction and increased productivity by advocating Agile Software process.

●  Eliminated errors and minimized the time required for software builds, installations and upgrades by creatively architecting Build/Release plan & Configuration Management plan resulting in a savings of over $30K.

OTHER DUTIES

●  Improved quality of software using techniques like Refactoring, unit test-frameworks, design-patterns.

●  Designed defect-tracking process and deployed a defect-tracking tool to maintain the defects & enhancements linked with the versioned code-changes.

GE Medical Systems                                                                                    2001 - 2006

Program Architect                                                    ~ COM+, J2EE, SQLSERVER, HL7, DICOM ~     

Architected integration of Departmental Systems like Oncology, Radiology, ORMS, Pharmacy, Critical Care Systems with the enterprise Healthcare Information System (Soarian).

ACHIEVEMENTS & RESULTS

● Championed & advocated Agile Software process that minimized delays, achieved quick feedback software cycles, and gained productivity & customer satisfaction.

● Reduced development time by 3 months ($500K) by advocating Agile Software process with the development teams located overseas, and increased productivity by minimizing misdirection and communication latencies.

● Architected & implemented integration of systems effectively, minimized on-site integration time, saving $200K in travel costs for the teams located overseas.

● Identified and developed solutions to eliminate performance bottle-necks in the system, improving the quality of the product resulting in $40K in savings in additional hardware that would be required otherwise.  This also reduced the cost of the product providing increased sales. 

OTHER DUTIES

● Architected the integration of Siemens Pharmacy system with Siemens' Enterprise Healthcare Information system; provided design & performance support; coordinated project with satellite teams.

● Investigated use of RFID in the Healthcare system; prototyped a solution, & demonstrated it to senior management.  This resulted in adding new feature & product line in the Siemens Healthcare system.

Cisco Systems                                                                                                2000 - 2001

Lead Software Engineer                                      ~ TCP/IP, SS7, ATM, BACKHAUL, RUDP, RSVP ~        

Led the development of Telecom & Datacom signaling delivery protocols to control circuit-switching & packet-switching equipment while bridging heterogeneous networks.

●  Lead dual-Ethernet development to provide IP redundancy to control SS7 signal link terminator device.

●  Designed, implemented, & maintained components of VSC3000 application; provided call management, including telephony switching, protocol termination, & protocol translation for media gateways.

● Devised & created test plans to perform signaling for ISDN-PRI over the IP network. 

● Actively aided in the ISO-9001 / GEM certification process.

Kforce Consulting                                                                                       1997 - 2000

Senior Technical Consultant                 ~ C++, JAVA, TCP/IP, RSVP, SIP, ATM, OSPF, SNMP ~

Provided technical & consulting services, developing telecommunication & web-based applications for clients like SPRINT, Sabre Group, & MCI-WorldCom.

● Designed & implemented an application integrated with SIP / RSVP / COPS protocols for Internet telephony & guaranteed QOS over the IP network.

● Redesigned & implemented a communication layer for a reservation bandwidth server application in a multi-threaded environment to create and manage reserved bandwidth network connections.

● Implemented a web interface to interface with a back-end legacy system to process booking air ticket through the Internet.

● Designed Multi-vendor ATM Provisioning System (MAPS), implemented its interfaces with Nortel / NEC's ATM switches / EMS, providing PVC's over the network & routing IP / FrameRelay traffic over the ATM backbone.

● Developed ATM adaptation logical trunk connections for signaling virtual channels (SVC).

Global Internet                                                                                                     1996     

Network Engineer                                                     

Provide troubleshooting & operational support to customers.

● Performed network monitoring & solved problems associated with IP Connectivity.

● Configured CISCO Routers, Firewalls, DNS, Newsfeed, & mail service.

EDUCATION, TRAINING & CERTIFICATIONS 

MS Comp Science, University of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ, 1996

BS Mech Engg, MS Ramaiah Inst of Tech, Bangalore, India, 1990

Advanced courses in networking, software economics, & GMU, VA                               

UML, J2EE, COM+, DICOM, Siemens' OPENLink, HL7 Certification, QMS

Agile Software Development, Scrum Master Certification

PERSONAL

Green card holder