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An Independent Software Testing Firm
“Business Assurance through Quality Assurance”

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Srinivasan Desikan, Master Level
Technologist - HP
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• Srinivasan Desikan is the author of one of the best selling book "Software Testing - Principles and Practices" which is
being used by more than 50 universities across the world.
• He is the recepient of "Testing Thought Leadership Award" from Test2008.in for his contributions to both academia and
Industry
• He has occupied a variety of technical and management positions at Novell Inc., Wipro, Talisma, Siebel and Agile
Software
• He has received one of the biggest engineering awards "Employee of the Year-1999" at Novell for setting up system test
team and the lab from scratch
• He currently works as Master Level Technologist at Hewlett-Packard (HP) playing a role of Capability and Strategy
management for Testing with HP Enterprise services.
• He has more than 20 technical publications with magazines such as CTO Forum, PCQuest, Times of India, Deccan
Herald, Express Computer, SEA Software
• Holder of two patents on Regresson testing and white box testing
• A post-graduate from Pondicherry Engineering College, he is currently serving as honarary advisor to colleges and
Universities in course design, delivery and Instruction methods for software engineering and design
• He is currently part of the Govt of India HRD dept's Pedogogy initiative to design courses on Software Testing for IITs
and other profressional courses.

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M. Rajamanickam, Principal Consultant -
ProXL Consulting
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• Over 25 years of experience in quality engineering and management, right from ISO 9000, CMM, CMMI and Six Sigma
• A SEI Certified CMMI Lead Appraiser conducting CMMI appraisals on behalf of Infycareer PVT. Ltd, Chennai and ECCI,
Malaysia
• Raja is a Agile Alliance Certified Scrum Master (CSM) & on the way to become Certified Scrum Professional (CSP) and
PMI ACP.
• Raja has provided SPI consultancy and conducted CMM/CMMI appraisals to many prestigious clients in countries like
the US, Japan, Australia, Brazil, China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Malaysia and Singapore
• Was President and Chief Process Officer of Trimentus Technologies, (Jun 2005 – May 2009) Chennai
• Was Vice President of Corporate Quality at HCL Technologies, (Nov 1999– Jun 2005)
• Prior to HCL, Raja was heading the Quality Management function at Oracle India Development Center (IDC) (Oct 1996 –
Nov 1999)
• Raja is a visiting Professor to many prestigious universities and Business Schools including the following:
 Visiting Professor at Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai.
 Visiting Professor at Amrita School of Business, Coimbatore
 Adjunct Professor at SMOT Business School, Chennai
 Visiting Faculty at the College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University.
• Raja holds ME in Industrial Engineering from PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore (where he was awarded as
the 'Best outgoing student') and Executive MBA from Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai (Off campus Exec
MBA program of Stuart Graduate School of Business, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA)

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Vaidhya Raman, Head - Cloud
Operations, Meru Networks
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• Over 22 years of Industry experience in the role of technology, people and business management
• Senior management executive with strong technical background and business leadership skills in IT/Networking/Cloud/ISP
• Have lived in various geographies which includes India, Middle East and USA.
• Currently at Meru Networks Inc, a NASDAQ listed organization who are one of the leaders in Wireless LAN systems
• He is in Meru as "Head of Cloud Operations" leading the Cloud initiative for Meru to take the Meru software products over
Cloud.
• Before joining Meru, he was VP - Global Service Delivery for Jam cracker, which is a cloud service broker platform that
aggregates On-demand services.
• Previously, he was VP - Operations & IT, at Pronto Networks which provides carrier-class Operations Support Systems
(OSS)
• Vaidhya holds an MBA and academic credentials in Electrical and Electronics Engineering.
• He also has many technical certifications including Cisco (CCNP, CCNA), Microsoft (MCSE) and ITIL Foundation
(ITIL v3.0)

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