Summary


Siva Ramamurthy
SENIOR BUSINESS/TECHNOLOGY EXECUTIVE CIO/COO/Director of IT/Senior Manager
Business Leadership.. Technology Strategy.. Business Development.. Product Management.. Start Ups
A creative thinker, team leader, communicator and educator with a rare blend of business and technology with a strong record of success in creating value and leveraging technology. Consistent record in delivering top and bottom line business value through technology leadership, strong project management and managing the human side of change. Actively seeking a position in an organization needing a professional with solid business, analytical and management skills with experience in enterprise-scale software development, distributed computing, business development, product and project management and CXO interactions.
Accomplished and results driven manager with over 15 years experience in business and distributed computing and software. Proven ability to solve complex problems, leveraging a wide range of technologies. Principle architect experience in fortune 50 scale projects. Experience designing/architecting ERP/CRM scale applications for various industries and verticals. Demonstrated ability to develop new product ideas for large-scale deployment. Cross-functional experience in analysis, core issue identification and problem resolution. Excellent interpersonal skills, team building, staff management. Able to communicate and collaborate with co-workers at all levels. Leading expert in high volume, high reliability internet applications, LAMP and advance SOA. Continually developing new products and approaches to business, seizes opportunities, solves problems and streamlines processes to enhance efficiencies. Inspire employees with optimism and enthusiasm for both individual and group assignments while being recognized as a top producer who blends tactical process with attention to detail. Demonstrated ability to analyze complex data, draw correct conclusions and articulate clear and focused strategies and translate into value statements, actionable plans based on data analytics.
Successful fund raising experience
Conversion of complaints and user input into new product features.
Corporate building, establishing Centers of Excellence CoE Software and Engineering
Product definition and specification
Distributed systems architecture
High performance, High Availability Internet and Ecommerce.
Enterprise scalability of complex architectures
Fortune 50 Web, SSO, N-Tier multi million user
High availability, load balancing SOA
Extensive XML, native XML database
Relational schema design and optimization
OOA, OOD, OOP, C++, C#, Smalltalk, Java, Python, Ruby, SQL, Win 3.1API, Linux, Windows, SOAP
Agile Methodologies XP, SCRUM
Offshore management, training, mentoring
Process methodologies CMM, ISO, TQM etc
Formulate deployment options for emergent technologies.


Employment

2005 -  Present
Director

Created and lead the Project Office to govern IT activities and projects. Directly managed the large Datawarehouse creation, SOA implementation and Business Systems plan projects.
Led the implementation of a true service oriented architecture SOA and ESB to improve system integration and business process automation.
Managed the development, architecture, software verification and systems support teams for all ecommerce products and internal applications.
Aligned Project goals to Key Business Drivers to monitor the impact on business bottom line.
Provided technology leadership leading multiple project simultaneously in business inteligence, content management, search architecture.
Built a captive offshore product development team and had it operational in 4 months. Managed the senior management for the offshore team. Built the team to 20 developers over 2 year period.

Built 1 of the largest job search engines in the world with a solid revenue model and user experience
Extensive high performance indexing and cross taxonomy search semantics.
Sophisticated parsing for data and semi fuzzy query semantics
XSL output transformation auto selection of client or server side XSL execution.
Ideal platform for large scale data warehouse and BI Business Intelligence
Standardized and implemented agile systems development, management and support methodologies and processes.
Created and tested the overall Disaster recovery plan for IT.
Automated all the processes for data aggregation, cleansing and manipulation to create 1 of the fastest search and index architecture.
PMO process and methods implementation for portfolio alignment, quality metrics, tracking and oversight
Business Technology Management focused on Organizational/Business Process Development
Systems development with Product Releases, methodology and process management
Web Engineering and Applications, B2B, B2C, B2E, OLAP, ETL, e-reporting, e-commerce solutions with technical development supervision, budget management
Proven Knowledge of Information and Content Management, Knowledge Management Systems Management, Global Systems Architecture, Architecture Standards and Business Migrations across various businesses, hardware and software platforms and middleware solutions.
Budgetary financial planning, technology budget management and execution
Managed a team of 26 people in 4 time zones in application development, application support
Built solid sales channels through affiliate networks, advertising partnerships, co-branding, channel sales etc.
Presented solution at various conferences and prepared marketing collaterals.
Interacted with senior business leaders and CXO of various corporations
Served as a senior business/technology consultant to various startups in US and Canada helping them architect strong business solutions.
Proficient in : J2EE, Aggregation Technologies, PHP, DRUPAL/JOOMLA, JSF, extJS, Google Mashups, iceFaces

2001 -  2005

Development of product concept and market positioning as technical head/lead
Managed a practice of 30 technical people and 5 management professionals. Accompanied Sales team on business calls.
involved in proposal creation and management to large accounts.
Won accounts and lead large projects with leading companies like BankOne, Visa, Applied Materials, General Dynamics, Workscape, Yahoo, eBAY etc
Conceptualized and recommended solutions to Corporates that helped them increase uptime by over 20%, reduce costs by over 28% and increase time to market by over 22%
Created the project management framework that aligns business goals and operational goals. Was a lead technology and business consultant to a product company, V2R, that created a product in this space.
Forged alliances and partnerships with leading tool companies like Mercury, Segue, Compuware etc
Completed over 200 testing projects from Fortune 100 to SMB in 3 years.

Involved with design, development and product management of a biometric solution, OnlyU deployed in schools and educational institutions in chicagoland.
Created the corporate intranet and knowledge management platform on Sharepoint to leverage the knowledge acquired across all the projects.

Created Automation frameworks used in leading organizations like StateFarm to date saving companies from $500k to 28 million in savings.

Served as an auditor to Commonwealth Bank Australia to audit the work of EDS. Helped Commonwealth save over $ 9.5 million dollars through better organization, architectural changes and off shoring.

1998 -  2001
Senior Performance Consultant

Created the performance testing framework at StateFarm- Widely respected at the Client for achieving a testing framework to test peoplesoft 7.x largest implementation in the world on DB2 then, working on CARRAY hex buffers a task considered impossible till then
Worked with the Senior Deloitte team and system architects to roll out Peoplesoft releases and subsequent upgrade to 8.0

Advised other teams on performance testing methodologies and analytics to interpret the data.
Increased Intellisys s billing at StateFarm to over 2.4 MN USD run rate in 2 years.
Interacted with Senior Management at StateFarm devising solutions to complex problems on performance and architecture
Managed special cross functional teams of 5 - 7 members to address high priority issues.

Led the first fat client performance testing architecture using terminal services a methodology used at other corporations like Sears

1997 -  1998

Established the Indian Development center

Led the Business development activities in APAC Singapore and Malaysia
Created Competence programs in core platforms like Microsoft and Java

Created a product culture in the organization.

1993 -  1995
Senior Engineer

Education

Training

Certified SilkPerformer Expert , Segue Corporation

Certified Training in Oracle Applications , Oracle Corporation
Attended numerous training workshops and programs on leadership , sales management , Quality management , business analysis , fund raising
I will provide references according the position offered from VC s to CEO s to business leaders who have interacted with me . 80% of my connections are in Midwest and rest split between the coasts .
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Performance troubleshooting and optimization
Business Intelligence Cognos , SAS , Pentaho
Microsoft Technologies Silverlight , Sharepoint , WPF , WCF , IIS , SQL Server 2005
Open Source Technologies : RoR , PHP , Drupal , J2EE , jBoss , Apache , Tomcat , Linux
Frameworks Spring , Struts



Miscellaneous

Led the Sales and business development activities in Southern India reporting directly to the P and L head
Identified cost saving measures, researched key vendors and partners and initiated enhanced relationship with partners resulting in increased revenue by 40%
Improved relationship enhanced growth opportunities, go-to-market strategies, resulting in increased partner revenue by 18% - 22%