VISWANATH “VISHY” RAMAKRISHNAN

.Net/Asp, VB/Office/Visual C++/MFC/, Java/JDK/Swing/XML, HTML/Photoshop, SEO, TCP/IP, Datacomm

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Aug. 2005 – Present--------Retired!

Aug. 98 – Aug. 2005--------President/Chief Architect-------Madras Software, Cary, NC

· Incorporated and successfully conducted a small business software consulting business, growing to a maximum development and documentation staff of five, with annual revenue growth of 25%.

· Principal consultant & advisor for Spirent Communications, a major manufacturer of network performance evaluation systems including their flagship product “SmartBits”. Helped the client immensely in designing competitive router testing applications, which played a key role in their revenue growth from $50 million to $200 million in three years.

· Principal architect for ProcessRegister.com, an aesthetic and powerfully designed online yellow pages service. Applied advanced Search Engine Optimization techniques resulting in 4 million pageviews a month for the portal!

· Provided valuable expertise to clients in VC++/MFC/VB/Office and COM/Active-X/XML/ASP/ADO technologies.

Sep. 96 – Aug. 98--------Software Development Manager-------Hummingbird Communications, Raleigh, NC

· Successfully lead a high profile, challenging project involving a three-tier Java based management platform for thin client applications including Thin X and Thin Terminal Emulator. This middleware project involved delivering a comprehensive Network-OS API and a comprehensive Java based remote management applet using JFC/Swing.

· Played primary role in product conception and as a leader in an engineering centric company, took the initiative to research, recommend and utilize technologies such as LDAP for user management, CORBA/IIOP with the Visigenic Java ORB for distributed computing and PKI for certificate based security.

· Effectively accomplished the shaping of the Raleigh development team by helping to recruit highly skilled staff and earned the prestige of leading the “least maintenance” and “high productivity” team of Hummingbird.

· Tactfully lead the entire Raleigh R&D team comprising of 15 software developers and coordinated development efforts between R&D teams located in four geographic locations.

Sep. 94 – Sep. 96--------Senior Windows Developer-------------Beame & Whiteside Software, Raleigh, NC

· Mentor and leader for the development of TCP/IP client and server applications involving protocols such as NNTP, IMAP, SMTP and HTTP, which ship with the NFS-Maestro and Exceed products. As lead architect, developed an object oriented infrastructure to ease Winsock/ IO completion ports and threads based development on Windows.

· Proud lead for an intuitive win32 Internet newsreader & a WYSIWYG Windows HTML Editor using VC++/MFC.

Aug. 93 – Sep. 94--------Software Engineer III---------------------Wandel & Goltermann Technologies, RTP, NC

· Acted as key development member for the DA-3x protocol analyzer for Windows involving extensive VC++/MFC use.

· Recommended changing the existing high maintenance compiler to a theoretically designed compiler. Lead the implementation of the scanner, parser and semantic components of the new compiler using C++, LL (1) grammar.

Aug. 91 – Aug. 93--------Software Engineer II----------------------Wandel & Goltermann Technologies, RTP, NC

· Completed QLLC & OSPF decodes for the DA-30 protocol analyzer in record time with record quality gaining the respect of QA and management and resulting in quick adoption as mentor by fellow developers.

EDUCATION:

Aug. 89 - May 91---------MS in Computer Engineering-----------North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

Major G.P.A. 4.0, Overall G.P.A 3.75, Earned 100% of educational and living expenses.

Aug. 85 - June 89------Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science-------------University of Madras, India

First Class with Distinction.