RESUME

Goparaju P. Sudhakar

E-mail: [email protected]

Experience Summary

Having 10 years experience in IT industry. Worked in USA, UK, Ireland, India and Finland.

Worked in both technical and managerial roles in IT industry.

Having interests in management consulting.

EDUCATION

Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), India

Executive Master of Business Administration, 2004

Devi Ahilya University (formerly University of Indore) Indore, India

Master of Technology in Computer Science, First class with Distinction, 1995,

*** Recipient of Government of India scholarship for 18 months

Osmania University, Hyderabad, India

Master of Computer Applications, First class with Distinction, 1994

Hindu College, Guntur - Nagarjuna University, A.P., India

Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, First Class, 1991

EXPERIENCE

2005 Interwoven Bangalore, India

As Test Lead worked on a Enterprise Content Management (ECM) product

called WorkSite MP for Interwoven, USA.

2004 – 2005 SIEMENS Information Systems Ltd. Bangalore, India

As Test Lead worked on a Nuclear Medicine project for SIEMENS Medical Solutions, USA

2003 - 2004 &nbssp; IBM Global Services Bangalore, India

As Consultant, worked on Websphere MQ series Integrator (WMQI)

product support. WMQI is a middleware messaging software.

2001- 2003 Citicorp Overseas Software Limited Hyderabad, India

(Citigroup company) Saloman Smith Barney, NY, USA

As Project Manager, lead a team to work on Citibank Derivatives System(CDS), a financial derivatives trading system.

Responsible from project planning to delivery. Also, Worked as Project Manager to Japanese bonds trading system called IMACE.

1999-01 Wipro Technologies Hyderabad, India

Nokia Helsinki, Finland

As Systems Manager, worked for Open Market Inc. and Nokia on e-commerce and mobile display appliance software projects.

1998-99 Zeus Software Private Limited Hyderabad, India

IONA Technologies Dublin, Ireland

Sr. Software Engineer, responsible for porting of Orbix 3.0 product from Solaris to IRIX at IONA Technologies in Dublin, Ireland.

1998 DSET Corporation NJ, USA

As Member of Technical Staff, involved in development of a distributed system called DSG (Distributed Systems Generator).

1997-98 Frontier Systems Inc. NJ, USA

Securities Industry Automation Corporation New York, USA

As Software consultant, worked at SIAC on NYSE trading news display board project (network programming) on UNIX platform.

1996-97 Pertech Computers Limited Mindware New Delhi, India

As Junior Fellow, worked for NEC, Japan on CORBA middleware software.

1995-96 Birla-Horizons International New Delhi, India

As software engineer, worked on network management software projects.

PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS

* Worked in USA, UK, India, Ireland & Finland as Consultant

* Worked as Executive Vice President & President of VSPGS Alumni Association

* Published papers/articles in Management and Computer Science

* Speaking, writing & reading fluency in English, Telugu & Hindi

* Software skills UNIX/C/C++/CORBA/Orbix/Java/TCP/IP

PLACES WORKED

International : Securities Industry Automation Corporation (SIAC),

New York, USA

DSET Corporation, New Jersey, USA

Saloman Smith Barney, New York, USA

Nokia, Helsinki, Finland

IONA Technologies, Dublin, Ireland

India: Interwoven, Bangalore, India

SIEMENS Information Systems Ltd., Bangalore

IBM Global Services India Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore

Citicorp Overseas Software Ltd., Hyderabad

Wipro Technologies, Hyderabad

PCL Mindware, New Delhi

Birla-Horizons International, New Delhi

Books Written:

Business Essentials for Software Professionals, 2005

PAPERS/ARTICLES PUBLISHED

1. G.P.Sudhakar, "CORBA: An Overview", CSI Communications, pages 16-19, February, 1997

2. G.P.Sudhakar, “Advancements in Distributed Systems”, Wipro Tech Forum, November, 1999

3. Sudhakar Goparaju, “Tapping Managerial Talents”, Computers Today, page 82,16-30 June 2001

4. G.P.Sudhakar, “For a Global Career – International MBA degree”, The Hindu, Open Page, 18 June 2002

5. G.P.Sudhakar, “Visa to the global World – Management Consulting”, The Hindu, Open Page, 27 August 2002

6. G.P.Sudhakar, “Why Young Engineers hop Companies?”, The Hindu, Open Page, 17 December 2002

7. G.P.Sudhakar, “Management Consulting as Career”, Indian Management, October 2002

8. G.P.Sudhakar, “Software Engineers need Mentors”, Indian Management, March 2003

9. G.P.Sudhakar, “Skills Versus Experience”, Businessgyan, 14^th August 2004

10. G.P.Sudhakar, “Role of IT MNCs in Indian Economy”, Business & Management Chronicle, August 2004

11. G.P.Sudhakar, “Flying high, the IT way”, Businessgyan, 14^th September 2004

12. G.P.Sudhakar & G.Manjula, “Protecting the Programmer’s Productivity”, Businessgyan, October 2004

13. G.P.Sudhakar, “Management Consulting in US”, The Global Educator, January 2005

14. G.P.Sudhakar, “The Land of Opportunities: USA”, Business & Management Chronicle, June 2005

Panel Discussions Participated in:

Participated in a panel discussion on Best Practices of the Organization, published in 15^th Dec 2004 – 14^th Jan 2005 issue of Businessgyan magazine

TRAINING PROGRAMS UNDERGONE

Project Management - Wipro Technologies and Citicorp Overseas Software Ltd., India

Managing Innovations - ICFAI Business School, Hyderabad, India

Software Inspections - HP, USA

ISO 9001 Awareness - PCL Mindware, India

Unified Modeling Language - Wipro Technologies, India

Rational Rose - Wipro Technologies, India

SEI-CMM, Six Sigma - Wipro Technologies, India

SKILL SET

Project Management Strategic Management

Program Management Business Strategy

New Product Development Organizational Restructuring

IT Strategy Balanced Score Card

Product Testing Strategies Business Process Reengineering

PERSONAL DETAILS

Name: Goparaju Purna Sudhakar

Father’s Name: G.K.V.A.Sarma

Date of Birth: 24-May-1971

Nationality: Indian

Qualification: B.Sc., M.C.A., M.Tech(CS), Executive MBA

Marital Status: Married

Hobbies & Pastime: Reading, listening to Music, traveling, writing industry articles