QAGuild

Title: Sales & Marketing Director
Business Telephone Number: 020 7268 3283
Email address: julian.clarke@experimentus.com
Website: www.experimentus.com

Profile
Organisation: Experimentus Ltd.
Business Address: 85 Tottenham Court Road London W1T 4TQ

Summary of expertise
Julian is responsible for directing the firm�s overall marketing and sales strategy in addition to corporate communications for prospective and existing customers. He�s also responsible for establishing key partnerships and provides consulting expertise on business and IT alignment projects.

With over 14 years� experience in the Financial Services & IT industries, Julian has extensive experience in understanding the key issues facing FTSE 250 organisations in the current economic environment. Well-versed in how to use the power of IT to help deliver business strategies, Julian works closely with Board level Directors and Senior IT professionals to support their current corporate strategy, building solutions that provide a demonstrable Return on Investment.

Before joining Experimentus, Julian was Head of Sales for Mission Testing Plc and was instrumental in leading and expanding their Consultancy Division. Over four years, he identified and developed strategic consulting relationships clients such as Reuters, RJ Kiln, Brit Insurance and QBE. He was also actively involved when Capita Plc acquired Mission Testing Plc in 2003. Prior to this, Julian worked for Tescom UK Software System Testing Ltd, managing a variety of clients across a number of different sectors.
Useful Links:
TMMi Foundation - www.tmmifoundation.org
BCS SIGiST (Specialist Group in Software Testing) � www.sigist.org.uk
International Software Qualifications Board (ISTQB) - www.istqb.org

Title: Principal Consultant

Summary of expertise
Tony Simms is the Principal Consultant with Roque Consulting, having started his testing career in 1995, and has spent thelast few years undertaking mainly �project rescue' assignments, often helping a struggling test teams get the processes and resources required to gain control and start to �manage rather than cope'. Tony is widely recognized for his strong leadership and inspirational approach to Test Management. Tony has a mission to provide superior and measurable value to clients, who include, British telecom, Siemens Traffic Controls, The National Health Service, Merrill Lynch and CSC.

Tony is an experienced and versatile Programme Test Manager, having started his test career in 1995 by providing consultancy and direction to test departments in the Financial, Retail and Government sectors, Tony is used running full test and acceptance programmes, writing the testing elements of contracts, producing the Test Strategy, justifying the test and QA budget and managing all test planning and execution.

Tony�s normal roles, which bridge both business and IT, include resource management, budget control, responsibility for all documentation, managing third parties and responsibility for both the functional and non functional test cycles of large projects. Typically Tony is bought in to rescue failing projects, delivering against tight deadlines.

Tony is a popular speaker at a number of test and QA conferences.
Tony is available to assist your company now, whether through training, review and rescue, or providing management support. He can be contacted via tony.simms@roque.co.uk

Title: Software Quality and Testing Consultant

Summary of expertise
Alex has a firm analytical skill founded on his engineering education and with more than 10 years in Information Technology and Services. Together with different industry experience and with diverse domain knowledge, he has acquired the necessary dexterity to direct cross-functional teams and to perform mission-critical judgments. His experience with multinationals and executive-level management has equipped him to collaborate with varied backgrounds and to manage global projects. He is versatile and passionate leader, who is highly capable of programme management and regarded as having the capacity to perform multiple tasks.

Domain Knowledge:

• Quality Assurance and Control
• Supply Chain Management
• Project Management
• Process Improvement
• Release Management
• Configuration Management
• Change Management
• Software Development

 

Industry Experience:

• Antivirus and Internet Security
• Financial Services Applications
• Enterprise Application Integrators
• Airline Booking and Reservation Systems

Title: Head of Solution Delivery Office of QA, TEK Systems

Summary of expertise
Lohit K Lakshman is the head of QA operations at TEK Systems India. His career graph has an exponential growth from his very entry into the Information industry. He has a comprehensive work experience in Business Intelligence, Analysis, Design, Development and Quality assurance across all core modules. Lohit holds a very responsible and accountable position in a people oriented organization where there is a need to assure broad co operative effort through the use of sound planning, strong administration and skills of persuasion to achieve goals.

With over 14 years of rich quality experience, Lohit has extensively ventured into all phases of the global information market. Working across time zones, Lohit has deep understanding of the market needs and significance of quality in all phases of the market. He started his quality enforcement from his very first project in CPRI where he learnt the importance of quality which he firmly believes as his foundation to his current deliverance.
He then moved to Intellect Data System and then to Avaya communications before he moved to the anti virus giant McAfee. Carrying such versatile experience he works with the US market as a part of AOL Virginia.

He was then absorbed into MSI as the Head of Quality Assurance Engineering where he currently owns overall delivery on client engagements. He strategizes and business plans to take Test and Automation offerings to the Independent Software Vendors (ISV) market-place. Drives offerings for the Test and Automation domains and build collateral/material around the same. Work closely with sales and contribute to sales acquisition. Manages client relationships. He also validates products for performance testing, performance tuning and product testing.
Transitions projects in India based on Businesses from US. Lohit also works with key stakeholders (CEO and VP) in the US in evolving the skill sets and abilities to manage Indian workforce.

Title: Regional Business head
Organization: Wipro Technologies

Summary of expertise
Guruprasad (Guru) is primarily responsible for directing the firm's overall business development & sales strategy in the EMEA market. He is also responsible for establishing partnerships and alliances with strategic technology vendors.

With over 12 years of experience in the Banking, Financial Services, Insurance, Telecom and Pharma verticals, Guru has extensive experience in leveraging IT to help deliver true value to enterprises and realize their business vision. Guru works closely with CxO, senior professionals in client organizations to help build and augment true partnerships. Guru has versatile and varied expertise owing to his working in various roles including IT Development, Program and project delivery, Presales, Consulting and business development thereby giving him a unique 360 degree perspective across the entire lifecycle of IT.

Prior to Wipro, Guru was the Senior Manager at Ivega Corporation where he was instrumental in providing leadership to their business in the west coast of USA. He was also actively involved in their journey towards achievement of CMM level 4. Prior to this, Guru worked for India Satcom Limited managing a varied assortment of clients across multiple industry segments.

Title: Principal Consultant
Organization: Usability Consulting India

Summary of expertise
Muralidhar Koteshwar has nearly two Decades of experience after a B-Tech from IIT-Madras, rated as one of the top engineering academies in the world in a career that spans a complete product life-cycle � Product Conceptualization and Development, Market feedback to design teams, Usability design, Quality (ISO & SEI CMM), Sales, Marketing, Product management, Corporate Communications and Program management in cross-cultural transoceanic teams.

Muralidhar Koteshwar had Several Leadership roles at Tektronix / Celstream - Product conceptualisation, Product definition, Requirements Management, Program Management, Usability, Quality, Business Productivity Improvement Tools Development, Competency Development for various customers like Tektronix, Xerox, Thomson, Imation, Planar in high end computing products and web services.His experience at TATA ELXSI includes Business Development, Product Definition, Project Estimation and Management of Software & Embedded products and Corporate Communications.

Muralidhar Koteshwar had positions spanning Strategic Marketing, Solution Conceptualisation, Product Management and Development of high end IT products & solutions at the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC).

Scott is an award winning marketing professional renowned for producing successful and creative marketing programmes.

After a working a substantial apprenticeship at companies such as Tektronix and Bentley Systems, Scott now heads up the marketing function for Original Software.

A big believer in using technology in marketing, Scott can often be found sharing a coffee with the future, trying to glean information on the next big thing.

Dr Sukhdev Khebbal has extensive experience of academic and commercial R&D, consultancy, project and product management, and building and managing IT companies.Sukhdev is currently helping to develop new businesses in new media and developing his property portfolio.

Since 1993, Dr Sukhdev Khebbal was Operations Director, Company Secretary and one of the co-founders of Searchspace Limited. As operations director of Searchspace he was responsible for the day-to-day running of the company, as well as directing and establishing Project Management structures and company project delivery procedures.

His management experience within Searchspace included:

• Managing and delivering the first version of the Intelligent Alerting System for the London Stock Exchange.
• Managing and delivering the London Stock Exchange transaction reporting system.
• Managing and delivering the London Stock Exchange transaction SETS risk analysis system
• Managing and delivering the Automated Transaction Monitoring System for Lloyds of London.
• Managed the growth of Searchspace to include European and the US Offices.

Intelligent Systems Lab, University College London
Prior to setting up Searchspace Dr Khebbal was a key architect for the Intelligent Systems Lab at UCL, where he was responsible for securing finance, and for running a number of pan-European research projects.
Principal Architect and designer for the 4 Million ECU ESPRIT funded Heterogeneous Application Generation Standard Architecture (HANSA) project.
Also designed the UK funded Distributed Application Generation Standard Architecture (DANSA) project.

Qualifications

Dr Khebbal holds a PhD in Computing from University College London, an MSc degree in the Foundations of Advanced Information Technology from Imperial College London, and a BSc Honours degree in Computer Studies.
Dr Khebbal is a member of the British Computer Society and is a Chartered Engineer.

Publications

Sukhdev Khebbal has is the co-editor of two books exploring the design and development of intelligent Hybrid computer systems. Dr Khebbal has published several papers in the field of Rapid application development methodologies and Object-oriented architectures.