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
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