Ashwin Rao's Resume

1. ASHWIN RAO, PMP, CSM
9467 Lantern Way, Centerville, OH 45458
(513) 284-2914 (Cell)
ashwin@raohub.org
“My 3 goals: Believe in yourself; Overcome Adversity; Exude Positive Energy”
SUMMARY
Ashwin is known to:
 Be a learner: He relishes challenges & learns to overcome them using techniques learned from experience
 Question Status Quo: He believes that the organization needs to keep improving to be competitive
 Be Agile: He reacts to changes in a proactive manner.He believes that navigating using small strong strokes is
better than using a flurry of reactive strokes when itis too late
EXPERIENCE
eLending/Black Knight Financial Services 02/ 2016 – Present
Directory Software Engineering
 Coached Java software development teams in Cincinnati, OH, Portland, OR, and Hyderabad, India
 Worked with PMO office, Product Managementand other stakeholders to improve Agile developmentprocesses
 Directed multiple implementations with large customers thatrequire tightcoordination with multiple departments
 Coordinated the move into a new virtualized infrastructure
KNOVATION 04 / 2013 – 02/ 2016
Vice President Engineering
 Responsible for both Development and IT teams
 Defined Roadmap of all technology related deliverables for the organization (both, IT & Product Development)
 Worked closely with stakeholders to align technology strategy, processes, and IT assets with business goals.
 Re-architected platform to use AngularJS & Java Spring Framework, using RESTful SOA architecture
 Moved the flagship operation to the cloud in a mixed virtual environment
KNOVATION 08 / 2008 - 03 / 2013
Director of Product/Program Management
 Codified corporate strategy to allow items s to be executed and measured by rest of the organization
 Aligned company initiatives with strategy and transformed the organization into Agile way of thinking
 Developed prioritizing process to maximize resource utilization
 Improved processes that fostered accountability in project teams

2. VOCALINK LANGUAGE SERVICES 08 / 2007 - 05 / 2008
Operations Manager
 Supported Increased Customer renewals and new business by managing quality of translations
 Improved Profit Margins across the organization
 Introduced new products into pipeline
L-3 COMMUNICATIONS NOVA ENGINEERING 01 / 2006 - 08 / 2007
Program Manager
 Managed Software Defined Radios (SDR) projects of various sizes mostly related to Defense Departments.
ATREYA HEALTH TECHNOLOGIES, INC. 12 / 2002 - 12 / 2008
Co-Founder
 Developed Business Plan/Marketing Plan & Marketing artifacts for the fledgling organization
 Supervised/guided 6 .NET developers and testers during the development of Electronic Medical Records and
Content Management solutions and mobile billing solution
 Developed HL7 Interface to integrate solutions with other products in the market
 Helped small practices manage their desktop/networked environments
LEXISNEXIS 1994 - 2002
Project Manager/Staff Software Engineer/Search Engine Lead
 Managed development of multiple products that used SOAP interface for integration.
 Managed a 3 year, $5million software effortthat provided tools to index data for the LexisNexis flagship products.
 Managed all aspects of a text-mining product to extract relevant information from unstructured text documents.
 Collaborated with a European partner and Systems Research and Applications (SRA) Corporation to develop
deep indexing schemes for multi-lingual data.
 Served as member of the Technology Leadership Council (TLC).
 Contributed and supervised research efforts in the fields of Search and retrieval and Knowledge Management.
 Directed cross-company efforts in a data-integration effort using flexible SGML DTDs.
 Developed a new Billing System to enable LexisNexis to accept credit cards.
CINCINNATI BELL INFORMATION SYSTEMS 1993 - 1994
System Analyst
 Participated in the design and implementation of the CORBA based infrastructure for the next-generation client
systems.
CAP GEMINI AMERICA 1990 - 1993
Consultant
 Provided technical solutions to various clients in the St Louis area including Southwestern Bell Telephones,
Citicorp Mortgage and Cassens Transports.
INFORMIX SOFTWARE 1989 - 1990
Member of Technical Staff
Contributed as a software engineer in the developmentofthe WingZ spreadsheetsoftware on the Motif platform.

3. EDUCATION
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY 1990 - 1993
NONE , MBA Part-TIme (Incomplete)
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS 1986 - 1989
Masters ,Computer Science
BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 1982 - 1986
BE , Computer Science
ASSOCIATIONS
Reviewer, Online Content – for Project Management Institute
Publishing Manager for PMP Certification Courses – for Dayton Project Management Institute
Past President of India Club of Greater Dayton, a non-profit organization for Asian Indians in the Greater Dayton area.
Past Member of the Board of Directors for Expericenter, a non-profit organization that teaches science to the masses,
Coach for boys’ Basketball & Soccer teams.
CERTIFICATIONS
PROJECT MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONAL (PMP) - Project Management Institute (PMI) - 02 / 2001 - 02 / 2016
CERTIFIED SCRUM MASTER (CSM) - Scrum Alliance – 11/2008-
MISC
Holds an inactive clearance with the DOD at a “Secret” level
PUBLICATIONS
JOURNAL INFORMATION PROCESSING AND MANAGEMENT: AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL - THE SIXTH TEXT
RETRIEVAL CONFERENCE (TREC-6) - Pergamon Press,Inc. Tarrytown, NY, USA ;Authors: Ashwin Rao, PMP, CSM,
Allan Lu, Ed Meier, Salahuddin,Atmed;
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/els/03064573/2000/00000036/00000001/art00050
THE SEVENTH TEXT RETRIEVAL CONFERENCE (TREC-7), NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND
TECHNOLOGY (NIST), ONLINE PUBLICATION - Ashwin Rao, PMP, CSM, Timothy Humphrey, Afsar Parhizgar, Christi
Wilson, Daniel; http: //trec.nist.gov/pubs/trec7/t7_proceedings.html