User:Richardvj11

Introduction

Hello Fedora Community Volunteers, Let me introduce myself, Iam Vijay Richard, I would like to be part of contributing volunteer Community.

Email address :richard.vijay@gmail.com

Homepage or blog : http://www.serverpress.wordpress.com

IRC channels you're typically in :--- I will try to join fedora channels for discussions

What you do,  : I work on IT for Manufacturing and Automotive research/design. my profile at http://uk.linkedin.com/in/4enterprise

would like to  : I would like to contribute to fedora staring with Documentation,testing (GNOME3 with Fedora15, may be). I would like to spread the word of fedora as an Ambassador for developing world/3rd world communities. I would also like to contribute on development of HPC,grid computing base with focus on FEA,CAE and advanced numerial methods. I like to harden fedora to make it more focussed enterprise level client server multi-tier Applications and workstation clients used for CAD,CAM,CAE and PLM applications

Well I can also start as Content Write for Manuals,blogs (iam already doing this). I can help in OS development and Web administration

kind regards --Richardvj11 16:24, 8 February 2011 (UTC)Vijay A Richard

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My Profile for Fedora Project Community

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Vijay Richard (richard.vijay@gmail.com)

Lead- (Jaguar & Land Rover HPC CAE/KBE/PLM/MFG-IT and PD Applications)

Location

   United Kingdom 

Industry

   Information Technology and Services 

Overview

Current

       * Lead C3P (CAD,CAM,CAE,PIM/PLM) at Tata Technologies
       * Consultant (Developer & PD-IT SME ) at Jaguar Cars
       * Project Management at TATA Technologies (formerly INCAT)

       * Team Lead at Tata Technologies (INCAT)

Past

       * Assistant Manager at EICHER Engineering Services

Education Highlights

       * Project Management -PMI 
       * PSG College of Technology
       * Amrita institute of technology and sciences

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         PSG College of Technology
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         Stanford University

Recommendations/References :http://uk.linkedin.com/in/4enterprise

Websites

       * Personal Website
       * Blog
       * Founder -PLM Initiative-2003

Twitter

   richardvijay

Public Profile

   http://uk.linkedin.com/in/4enterprise

Vijay Richard (richard.vijay@gmail.com)

Lead- (Jaguar & Land Rover HPC CAE/KBE/PLM/MFG-IT and PD Applications)

Location

   United Kingdom 

Industry

   Information Technology and Services 

Overview

Current

       * Lead C3P (CAD,CAM,CAE,PIM/PLM) at Tata Technologies
       * Consultant (Developer & PD-IT SME ) at Jaguar Cars
       * Project Management at TATA Technologies (formerly INCAT)

       * Team Lead at Tata Technologies (INCAT)

Past

       * Assistant Manager at EICHER Engineering Services

Education

       * Project Management -PMI (PMTI Certified)
       * PSG College of Technology (Master of Engineering)
       * Amrita institute of technology and sciences (Batchelor of Engineering)

       * PSG College of Technology (Diploma / Associate Degree in Engineering)
       * Stanford University (IT Certification)

Recommendations

   3 people have recommended Vijay and linked-in profile is connected to    428 connections

Websites (URL in Linked-in)

       * Personal Website
       * Blog
       * Founder -PLM Initiative-2003

Twitter

   richardvijay

Public Profile

   http://uk.linkedin.com/in/4enterprise

Summary

-Architect- Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) strategy & Implementing IT Enabled Product development Solutions to Automotive and Aerospace OEM worldwide -Reduced Product Cost and Product Development Time for Automotive and aerospace companies - Client Facing roles For IT enabled Product development across Asia and Europe in Automotive domain -Helped Companies to implement innovative digital product development for effective collaboration -Helped companies to adopt better processes to produce safe & Nature friendly products -Leading a team of consultants for implementing IT enabled solutions for OEMs -Management of IT systems for Product development - Working across corporate and coordinating across partner companies for resolving critical issues - Proven Track record of dealing Challenging situations with clients and creating a positive & congenial atmosphere for business continuity and growth

Goal : To help in the growth of society and industry through innovative methods in Management and Technology Specialties

Project Management,Architecting Systems,Innovative solutions for Product Development,CAD,CAE,PLM,Team Mangement,Automotive Business Process,IT Project Planning, Pricing,Resource planning,Recruitment,Projecting new business initiatives to Enterprise customers through technical presentation,Winning Business with a positive attitude and die-hard spirit Experience Lead C3P (CAD,CAM,CAE,PIM/PLM) Tata Technologies

Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry

January 2009 – Present (2 years 3 months)

Official Single point of contact for technical and project phase coordination between Ford and Jaguar & Land Rover for all KBE (Knowledge Based Engineering) & CAE Applications. Role involves coordination between various team from Ford,Jaguar,Land Rover,Satyam,Fijitsu and drive teams along preset project phases and ensure delivery on time for Transition & Maintenance of KBE & CAE applications, along with onsite and off-shore coordination Specialist in -GSPAS -Ford Legacy, Artificial intelligence based world class, manufacturing costing, process and labor management system -APDM -CAE Data Manager -CAEPIM - CAE data management tool which was groundwork basis for future Teamcenter for simulation (TC-SIM) MetalSpec MSDB Consultant (Developer & PD-IT SME ) Jaguar Cars

Public Company; Automotive industry

May 2008 – Present (2 years 11 months)

-J2EE based Application Migration,support and Maintenance (Using IBM RAD 7, Websphere WAS,ihs,JSP,Servlets,JDBC) -Suse Linux, Perl ,VC++ based Application Support -Uniface,Apache tomcat based Application Support and Maintenance -Windows 7 Configuration and implementation Certified Expert -Windows internals, Compatibility,benchmarking,reliability specialist -Win2K3,citrix,IIS based Application Support -Oracle based Application Support,migration and Maintenance -Virtualisation type 2 hypervisor based on VMware Server/VMBox -Cloud Computing (Paas) Microsoft Azure SQL Azure and datamart based .net C# development using Visual Studio 2010 (SME identified by Microsoft for Beta Eval) -RIA development knowledge based on .net C# ,XAML Silverlight 4 (SME identified by Microsoft for BetaEval) -participation role as TTL-UK Consultant Project Management TATA Technologies (formerly INCAT)

Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry

November 2004 – Present (6 years 5 months)

->PLM Lead for JAGUAR and LAND ROVER, UK -Application Transition (AT), Application Maintenance (AMS) Planning -Co-ordinating with FORD,Jaguar & Land Rover,Volvo for AT & AMS -Project Estimation for Quote & Projection Analysis for 5 years for SLA levels -Resource Planning for onsite and offshore structure. ->Solution Architect for TATA Motors EUROPEAN Technical Center–Coventry, UK -Installing, configuring, Vehicle project synchronization & collaboration setup. -Provided IT solutions for (Safe and Eco friendly vehicles) business process ->Solution Architect for TATA DAEWOO PLM implementation –Gunsan, South Korea 2005-2006 -Architecting PLM Technology map, Teamcenter Enterprise implementation,customisation Trained in Teamcenter enterprise and Teamcenter Engineering -Technical Negotiation, Installation, configuring and customizing PLM suite -Process study, Process Re-Engineering and Providing IT solutions for Homologation ->Upgrading Digital Product development system for Airbus A320 and A380 Projects to provide advanced platform for Aerospace Product data Management (Enovia VPM) Team Lead Tata Technologies (INCAT)

Information Technology and Services industry

November 2004 – Present (6 years 5 months)

TATA Technologies (INCAT)., Pune, India ->Team Lead for TATA Motors Ltd, PLM Project, India (onsite) 2004-Present -Reporting Manager for a team of engineers -Technical Lead- Leading a team of engineers (developers, consultants) on site -Reduced Time to Market and Time for product design of people`s car (NANO) -Helped Tata Motors to achieve collaboration across Europe, India and South Korea -Reduced Time to Market and Time for product design for various next generation platforms -Process study & Re-engineering (Design process, Business Process, Manufacturing Process) -Official Coordinator for Technical issues between Tata Motors and Siemens UGS & Single point contact for technical issues -Member of Recruitment team

Vijay has 2 recommendations (1 manager, 1 partner) including:

   * S.G Kulkarni, PLM Practice Manager, Tata Technologies
   * Ashok Murugesan, Technical Executive - Product Development, Switcher (India) Pvt Ltd

Assistant Manager EICHER Engineering Services

Information Services industry

June 2004 – November 2004 (6 months)

Managing CAD,CAe,PDM & PLM operations of EICHER group companies ->Eicher Engineering Solutions (EES), Delhi, India -Assistant Manager for PLM Business Vertical -Part of Negotiation & POC evaluation team for Eicher Motors PLM implementation (eMatrix) -Architect- IT PLM road map and Agreement between corporate (Eicher and Matrix one for PLM) -Managing (IT SAM) systems across various companies in Eicher group for effective Digital Product Management (Eicher Motors, Royal Enfield,Eicher Gears and Eicher Engineering solutions) -PTC Product including Pro/E and Intralink along with CAE tools for PD IT SAM - Software Asset Management for CAE,CAD,PDM space (Using Flexlm and other tools) -Licence Management (Inhouse usage study,allocation,monitoring,Maintain tools) -building requirement case study, recommend and finalise contracts for CAE Software assests)

Vijay has 1 recommendation (1 manager) including:

   * Amulya Gurtu, Senior Manager, Eicher

Certifications

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     Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist
         o Microsoft

Education Project Management -PMI PMTI Certified, Project Management

2008 – 2008

Project Management Training for PMI standards by Project Management Institute (PMI®) Registered Education Provider PSG College of Technology Master of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering (Product Design & Collaborative Commerce)

2002 – 2004

PSG Tech,Anna University, India, May 2004 -Specialized in collaborative Windchill PLM. -CFD & Applied Numerical Methods -J2EE Platform based Enterprise Engineering -Proven track record in Collaborative Product Design & Commerce. ->Built a Customer requirement mapping module with PDM tool on J2EE Platform -Paper published on the framework which was implemented in J2EE,Oracle,Apache Tomcat,AutoVue -Framework published in year 2002 presents enterprise framework based on Social Product Engineering-PLM -Published work presents basis for Product Lifecycle from Marketing perspective,Mathematical model,framework for integrating Social Networking

CAE Solver Development ->Development of Audio Simulator for Vibration of Strings and Membranes based on advanced numerical methods (A CAE Solver developed based on Finite difference method for Vibration, Hand calculation,derivation,C program based implementation, paper/project published internally ) C based Parametric CAD design entities development

Activities and Societies: -Drawing and Painting Club -Quiz team -Voluntary Blood Donor Amrita institute of technology and sciences BE/BEngg, Mechanical Engineering

1999 – 2002

Bachelor of Engineering Specialised in CFD Fluent and Gambit based CFD analysis to establish NACA/NASA aerofoil characteristics Axial flow Aerospace air compressor blade analysis Specialised in CAE Ansys based analysis for Centrifugal pump flow characteristics PSG College of Technology Associate Deg/Diploma, Mechanical Engineering

1996 – 1999

-Designed and Built Automatic Powered Compact Wheel Chair (sponsored & patent pending) -A good knowledge of Manufacturing Processes and machine tools -Specialisation in CAM and CAD -Industrial Training in Pump & Compressor Design and Manufacturing -Development of FoxPro based DB management system for Textile company

Activities and Societies: Drawing and painting club, Quiz team, Badminton, Mechanical Engineering Association Stanford University SCPD C, IT Benchmarking

Websites: (ref linked in url)

       * Personal Website
       * Blog
       * Founder -PLM Initiative-2003

Twitter:

       * richardvijay

Interests:

   1.Project Management & New Business Development
   2.Product Data Management
   3.Geometric Modeling (Software Customisation & Tools Development) .
   4.Computational Fluid Dynamics & Finite Element Techniques.
   5.Product Development

   Non-technical interests:
   - Managing and Team building & Leading Project Teams with members from different cultures.
   - Dealing with customers of different cultures and languages.
   - Coordinating between corporate
   - Market study & Strategy planning
   -Cricket, movie, bowling, reading, cooking, karate, music & browsing
   ->Other Activities of interest
   -Developing IT Applications for Social networking including Facebook (http://apps.facebook.com/richardsvijay/)
   -Opensocial based development
   -HTML5 standards
   -Web based Social Data Mining for OEM Products
   -Free Software Foundation
   -Virtualised Type2 hypervisors, (installing and maintaining Virtualised OS Windows client/servers, Open Solaris, FreeBSD, Fedora 14, OpenSUSE, Open Indiana)

Groups and Associations:

   -UNESCO and UNICEF & CRY Volunteer, voluntary blood donor
   -Creator and Moderator of PLM user group consisting of more than 600 PLM experts and related members around the world (http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/PLM-PDM/)
   -ASME, PLM group
   -Trained & volunteer for OFYC - Youth club, UK ( Initiative aimed at motivating youth in philanthropy and social cause) Certified as Youth Leader for club, helping them in team building, management and in IT operations 

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