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Dr. Ram P. Rustagirprustagi@gmail.com, +91-80-42087127, +91-99161-03092I-205, Mantri Tranquil, Gubbalala, Subramanyapura Post, Bangalore - 560061

Professional Details

Feb 2011

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Overview Executive summary Academics & Research Technology achievements Leadership Careers chronology SWOT analysis Epilogue

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Executive Summary 25+ years of product/applications development

Key to success: execution Being realistic and getting things done

20+ years in Telecom & Networking domain Cellular & VAS applications, Switching systems and telephony, ISPs/Telcos AAA services OSS/BSS for WiFi/WiMax, Internet & enterprise networks

Exposure across the globe North America, Europe, South East Asia, and India

Richness of experience Consultant, invited speaker Academics, Starts-up, R&D organizations, large corporations End user domain (Both wholesale & retail segments)

Hands on to solve extremely critical problems

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Academics & Research Academic qualifications.

Ph. D (Comp. Sc. & Engg) IIT Delhi (Indian Institute of Technology), India. 1998

M. Tech (Physical Engg) IISc (Indian Institute of Science) Bangalore, India. 1981

M. Sc (Physics) Delhi University, Delhi, India. 1979

Date of birth April 20, 1958

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Academics and Research… Patents Applied

Client application presence detection in cellphones

Charging A-pty from Switch –B Peer to peer bi-directional session initiation and

communication in an environment with firewalls Accessing web resources of devices in protected

network from the Cloud/Internet

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Technology Achievements Cellular applications

Handling 4000+ ISUP calls/sec, Missed Calls Alerts Appln Call-Complete: convert incomplete calls, empower caller. Client based VoiceSMS application access

End user access – public hotspots Non-intrusive auto authentication (user transparent) Zero configuration change for end user Bandwidth/SLA support (without any support in backbone n/w) Segregating virus infected users

Telco/wireless ISP field operations Remote upgrade of cellphone client application Plug-n-play deployment of hotspot controller Concurrent remote software upgrade Remote web console/telnet operation without VPN setup, firewall

holes

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Technology Achievements… Performance Optimization

MCA Application: 8x improvement in handling missed calls OSS/BSS System: 10x performance improvement Web Transaction System: O(1) time scheduling algorithm

Auto VoiceSMS application Charging originating party from terminating switch side

Telecom switching systems Defined messaging communication architecture Real time scalable call routing of voice calls

High performance web transaction system Single system view to outside world Distributed algorithm to elect cluster leader

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Leadership Traits People

Delegation, imbibe ownership (buck stops at me) Accept mistakes – (review to ensure non-critical) Mentoring – to grow

Processes Key: requirements clarity Small achievable targets (incremental development) Involve QA early, manage with thin resources

Product development: Correctness, maintainability, efficiency, elegance End consumer and usability focus Plan and design future evolution Hands-on, fully involved in design/architecture

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Career Chronology PES Institute of Technology, Bangalore

Nov-10 onwards Professor, MCA Department

Teaching Web Programming Research and Projects activities

Moving IP access to internet to at SGSN level from GGSN

Near Field Communication Cloud based distributed systems and concurrency

control Data center management technologies

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Career Chronology - 2 Kirusa Software Pvt Ltd, India.

Jan-08 - Oct-10 Vice President (Application & Services),

Applications / Products Missed Call Alerts, Call Completion, VoiceSMS etc. VAS Applications (Contest, Tele-voting, phone client …) IN Integration for Charging/Billing

Managed multi-location in house/outsource teams Company information

Based in NJ, USA, leading provider of VoiceSMS and related VAS products Customers

Leading cellcos worldwide (India, APAC, ME, Africa) India – Vodafone, Idea Cellular, Tata Teleservices, MTNL etc. APAC – Grameenphone, Warid, Ufone, Phillipines EMEA – Etisalaat, Zain, MTN etc.

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Career Chronology - 3 Pronto Networks, CA, USA & Bangalore

Apr 2002 – Jan 2008 Head - India development center, and VP - Technology

Managed 100+ professionals Company/product info

Leader in public broadband wireless access Retail segment

Public hotspots (café, airports, malls), hotels, city wide WiFi mesh (20+ cities in USA), residential dwelling units

Wholesale/corporate Corporate visitor/employee WiFi access

Offers converged services platform to ISP/Telcos Back office and service control functions, Roaming - other ISPs/aggregator: Boingo, iPass, Syniverse.

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Pronto Networks… Customers…

Leading Telcos UK: British Telecom (OZIAB – Open Zone In A Box),

Malaysia: TMNet, Brunei: DST, TelBru, Philippines: PLDT, India – Aircel, Bharti Airtel, VSNL

Municipality: WiFi mesh 20+ cities.

Resellers & system integrators Nortel, Alcatel-Lucent

Enterprise SUN Microsystems (world wide campus)

100+ ISPs.

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Pronto Networks… OSS/BSS system for public access

Technology development and product delivery Developed on J2EE architecture Mentored a team 40+ technology professionals Hot standby, fault tolerance & scalability Credit card processing (Verisign, PayPal, WorldPay etc.) RADIUS, LDAP, SMPP servers, HLR and IN Integration

Access controller for hotspot locations Embedded device providing WiFi seamless access Interaction with external interfacing products

Property management system (Fidelio, IDS, HSIA) WiMax product

Requirements, analysis and design for CSN/WiMax

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Career Chronology... Abeona Networks, CA, USA

Oct’00 – Feb’02 Director of engineering,.

Product High performance web transaction controller

Technology development responsibilities Cluster administration & management

Monitoring, membership control, software upgrade Web content management with replication

Staging, versioning, deployment, synchronization N + 1 fault tolerance Integration with network switching fabric

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Career Chronology... Savera Systems, NJ, USA

Aug 1998 – Oct 2000 Director of engineering,

Product – Interconnect Billing System First 100% web based interconnect billing product

Engineering development responsibilities Interconnect billing settlement & reconciliation Requirement analysis and interconnect specifications

European Telco’s interconnect agreement National interconnect agreements

Mentoring a team of 10+ people Design/code review functions

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Career Chronology … I I T Delhi, India

Feb 1991 to Aug 1998 SSO-I (equivalent to Asst Professor) Ph.D, 1992-1998

Developed a unified framework for concurrency control Industrial Consultancies

Responsibilities Established first TCP/IP network in the country

Networked all the 6 premier education institutes Worked with all LAN/WAN technologies

10base5, 10base2, 10baseT, fast and Gigabit Ethernet ATM, OSI, X.25 networks Transitioned WAN connectivity from 1200bps to 2Mbps

Technology trainings/seminars/publications, industry consultancies.

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Career Chronology … C-DoT Delhi, India. 1985-1990

Designed & developed voice call routing Designed Inter Process Communication (IPC) architecture

Defined message fields, framing and format Support variable length message (a new concept then)

Designed CRM software module Defined software processes

Coding guidelines Code reviews Design walk-through etc

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Career Chronology … Harris Corporation, CA, USA.

Consultant, 1990-1990. Implement CCITT Q.931 based ISDN PRI call routing

HCL Ltd R & D engineer, 1981- 85 Developed COBOL compiler and runtime system Large Test suite of COBOL programs for compiler testing Prototype development of spreadsheet

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SWOT Analysis Strength

Strong Analytical skills and Research oriented approach Design practical, workable algorithms to solve complex issues Take complete ownership (successes & failures) Focus on end user usage convenience

Weakness On occasions too upfront, aggressive and politically incorrect

criticism Opportunities

Rapid assimilation & insight gain of new technologies Threats

Non-challenging, routine work

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Epilogue Excitement

Development of technology to develop systems that benefits a large user base.

Mentor and educate team members for professional advancement

Solve technical complex issues that initially appear undoable, considering both tactical and strategic needs.

Execution A go-getter and ‘put things together’ attitude Goal oriented and believes in putting best efforts to make

timely delivery even with thin teams

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Epilogue… Personal

Develops and maintains cordial relations with colleagues, subordinates, seniors and customers.

Mentors team members to achieve professional growth Continuous focus on innovation Welcomes open criticism/feedback to improve upon

References Available (on request) from any of past work associations Academics & Research

G B Meemamsi, founder Executive Director, C-DoT. Dr R N Moorthy, VP - Engg, Kirusa Inc, NJ, USA Prof S.N. Maheshwari, Comp Sc & Engg, IIT Delhi Prof B N Jain, Vice Chancellor, BITS

Pilani, Goa, Hyderabad, Dubai Prof P C P Bhatt, Consultant, (ex IIT Delhi, ex IIIT Bangalore)