I am an educator, researcher and an experienced consultant in the Information Technology and knowledge management areas. I educate, motivate and train users in the technologies and the methodologies relevant to and prevalent in their verticals. I create and develop course materials for IT professionals and for students pursuing IT coursework.
I assumed several diverse roles in the education sector, in USA, as a contributing member to advisory board for McHenry County College and as a technical advisor to Technical Directions committee for School District 300 expanded. In those roles, I assisted in developing course materials for students pursuing associate degrees at the colleges.
In the skills management area, I developed strategies to facilitate and foster partnerships to source diverse skills for a successful project delivery. This included recruiting, providing project specific contract staff and providing consultations in finding the right resources for the job.
As a researcher, I formulated QTIME learning framework to facilitate learning in any industry sector with minimal tools to acquire information distributed across many platforms. I have presented QTIME learning framework and concepts, and, its approach as a new way of learning through talks, speeches and discussions to many organizations including McHenry County College, Camden County College, in USA; National Skill Development Corporation, Infosys, PES College, COEP, Mahajanas, EduSat and many other professional bodies around the country, in India.
I have managed, consulted and researched diverse industries including health, finance, manufacturing, warehousing and transportation in private sector and cargo processing in public sector. As a process consultant, I have provided services in both private and public sectors. I have managed software quality assurance services under various project management methodologies. I have assumed other management roles, as and when it was necessary, including program management, client management, vendor management and resource management. In my C-level roles, I created strategies to manage internet technologies that included web technologies, cloud computing, virtual data centers, distributed software development and BYOD adaptation.
As an Information Technology professional, I started my career at Tata Consultancy services (TCS). Over a period of five plus years, I managed several projects for TCS, both overseas and in India working closely with end clients in collecting requirements as a business analyst and managing development teams to design and deploy IT systems as a project manager. As a provide of BPO services, my work involved projects in USA, UK and Europe helping me to grow professionally, culturally and globally. As an independent consultant I continue serve clients in Australia, USA and India.
I graduated with top honors with a B.Sc degree from Bangalore University and a M.E degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Science. I tinkered with the prospects of getting an MBA degree from University of Canberra and a Diploma from Securities Industries of Australia.
I enjoy reading books related to technology, education, and philosophy; playing games like Chess indoors and games like Golf outdoors. I meditate and practice yoga. I connect on LinkedIn and Twitter. I am a member of many educational discussion groups following the chatter and to learn and apply the shared info as opportunities come by to serve and contribute.