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4825 NW 57 Lane Coral Springs FL 33067 |
Phone (954) 341 5773 Mobile (954) 501 1044 E-mail gireesh@bellsouth.net |
Gireesh Sadasivan
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Objective |
To assume leadership role in a growing, stable, and dynamic commercial software engineering company |
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Employment Eligibility |
U. S. Citizen |
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Summary of Qualifications |
§ Fifteen years of progressive experience in software development, from a programmer to Director of Product Engineering/Software Architecture § Diverse application development background including billing, telecommunications, engineering, and operations research § Strong leadership skills in all areas of product development including product planning, technology, architecture, design, implementation, and quality assurance § Seven years of experience in a startup software development firm § Provided technical and managerial leadership to multiple teams § Managed projects developed in multiple international sites § Co-managed staff growth from under ten to over a hundred engineers |
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Employment History |
1994 – 2001 Daleen Technologies, Inc. Boca Raton, FL Daleen Technologies develops and sells RevChainTM, which is an N-Tier Client Server Application built using technologies such as J2EE, C++, Delphi, and Oracle, for enterprise billing in the telecommunications industry.
Director, Product Engineering/Software Architecture Responsible for:§ Directing Systems Engineering and Software Architecture Groups § Managed multi-million dollar budget and made hiring and firing decisions § Project management of several product releases § Infrastructure Architecture of flagship product, RevChainTM § System quality, performance, scalability, and 24x7 availability § Vendor evaluations and management § Technology evaluations and introductions, Build/Buy decisions Achievements:§ Effectively led teams of thirty software engineers, test engineers, documentation specialists, SCM and DBAs through all phases of software development, requirements definition, high level design, detailed design, code development, quality assurance, beta testing and benchmarking. § Played a key role in structuring the development organization and creation and implementation of a methodology to recruit and retain the best and brightest software engineering talent § Proven track record of having made most of the best technical hires into the company § Conceived and implemented a development methodology, a hybrid of Rational processes and ‘water fall’ method § Co-developed and practiced project estimation and planning methodology that enabled delivery of software within two weeks of planned delivery dates on releases of duration between three and six months. The process was self correcting and convergent § Interfaced with product management, marketing and sales to give shape to major and minor releases, participated in maintaining a feature set pipeline that had an outlook of over eighteen months § Developed and maintained Architecture Roadmap and affected architectural changes throughout the five year life cycle of the product, including fundamental architectural changes such as migration to J2EE § Developed design objectives, design standards, coding standards, and tools/technology selection methodologies § Insured architectural integrity of the system while being developed in three locations in two countries using Software Architecture Forum § Led a composite team of BEA consultants, contractors, and in house developers to successfully re-engineer BillPlexTM from Delphi to RevChainTM Interact on the J2EE platform § Performed technical due diligence for acquisitions and co-development efforts § Presented and defended architecture, tools and technologies during due diligence conducted by analysts and investment bankers § Developed novel patented and patent pending algorithms and techniques and key architectural concepts and foundations § Improved product scalability from 100 thousand access lines in 1998 to 40 million in 2001. § Built Performance and Benchmark Laboratory in Boca Raton, with equipments such as SUN E6000, EMC2 Storage Array, NT Servers and several workstations; managed day to day operations § Conducted several benchmarks at performance centers at Oracle ASC, and HP CPC on high end hardware including HP Superdome, SUN E10000, XP512 Array, and EMC2 Array § Built and led a level three technical support organization that setup, troubleshot, and tuned multi-terabyte customer databases § Ported flagship product RevChainTM to Windows NT/2000 from Solaris, and then to AIX, and recently directed port of RevChainTM to HP/UX § Designed and managed development of Ryder’s Integrated Logistics Planning System for Just In Time delivery and routing § Functioned as Daleen’s Site Manager at Ryder Systems 1989 – 1994 Alpine Engineered Products, Inc. Pompano Beach, FL Alpine develops and sells software and connector plates to the construction industry. Their software was built on C, C++, Fortran, VB and desktop databases. Software Projects Manager § Responsible for management, architecture, design and development of Alpine’s Truss Layout, Beam Analysis, and Online Help System software § Optimized algorithms for engineering and drawing calculations resulting in orders of magnitude improvement in software performance § Enhanced Truss Designer software to automate solution of entire roof structure § Led re-engineering of Alpine Software from FORTRAN to C § Mastered languages such as C++, C, FORTRAN, x86 Assembly, and VB 1983 - 1984 University of Cochin Cochin, Kerala, India Research Engineer § Responsible for creation and maintenance of software for prediction of ship hull resistance |
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Education |
MS Engineering, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, 1989 MS Applied Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, 1986
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Patents and publications |
US Patent #6182054 B1 – Dynamically Configurable Rating Engine Masters thesis work published as reports and were quoted in several industry journals and publications |