A proven technology leader with over 22 years of Industry Experience. Rajah has the unique combination of business, leadership and technical skills to motivate the team and manage organizational performance.
His focus is on solution architecture, project execution and delivery involving all aspects of the project lifecycle. This is characterized by a hands-on approach, strong communication skills, People Management and the flexibility to contribute in a variety of roles.
Distinctive by its breadth and depth, project experience encompasses: architecture, design and development of projects, high-level communication and interaction with management/technical boards, project leadership and organization, software process analysis and implementation, analysis and data modeling, mentoring and the development of large software implementations.
Specialties: Enterprise Architecture ● Business/IT Alignment ● Solution Development ● Program/Project Management ● Change Management ● Team Management ● Oversight, Execution and Delivery ● IT Transformation Planning ● New Technology Deployments ● Application Development ● Business Process Re-Engineering ● E-Commerce Solutions Implementation ● Java/J2EE ● SOA ● BPM ● EAI ● Cloud ● Enterprise Content Management ● Information Management ● Distributed Computing ● TUXEDO
Technical Leader, Advanced Services @ Founding Engineering Member of Connected Real Estate and Smart+Connected Communities Practice.
Part of the Management Team that Envisioned, Conceptualized and Developed the Cisco's Service Delivery Platform (SDP) and strategic Smart+Connected Communities and IoE/IoT Solutions from ground up including Smart+Connect Home Tutoring, Smart+Connect Concierge, Smart+Connect Spaces and Cisco Collaborative Operations From September 2008 to Present (7 years 4 months) Principal Technologist @ Evangelizing strategic regional ISV/OEM/SI partners on Oracle Fusion Middleware From July 2008 to August 2008 (2 months) Strategic Technical Account Manager, WW Channels & Alliances @ - Growing Relationships with the Strategic SI partners based out of India and providing Technical Leadership
- Technical Enablement of Partner resources focusing on BEA Products and technologies
- Providing Architecture/Design guidance to partners and help in building joint Solution Assets that fits in GTM strategy From October 2007 to June 2008 (9 months) Head of Professional Services @ - Grow BEA's India Consulting and Education LOB
- Responsible for creating the budget, managing expenses and operations of India region
- Responsible for Hiring and retaining top talent From November 2006 to September 2007 (11 months) Sr Engineering Manager @ - Built a team from scratch whose primary focus is to make sure all of the BEA products would interoperate nicely and also selectively perform interoperability testing of 3rd party products.
- Building Applications using real-life customer usecases
- Publish Best Practices and Lessons Learnt Knowledge management modules. From February 2005 to October 2006 (1 year 9 months) Senior Architect @ Part of Founding BEA Professional Services organization and helped customers in the Design, Architecture and Implementation large complex TUXEDO/WebLogic based Enterprise applications that are critical to the success of their business.
- Some of large customers include FedEx, US Army, AmeriTrade, Chase, PECO Energy, PG&E, Bell Atlantic, GEICO, Washington Post etc. From October 1996 to January 2005 (8 years 4 months) System Analyst @ Designed and Developed CLASIK Toolkit using C/C++, Lex, Yacc that generated code for various layers of Client Server Solutions taking input in the form of CSL (Clasik Specification Language)
Design and Developed various modules of CUSTOMERview Banking Solution that provide 360 degree view of customer and used TUXEDO (Open/OLTP) TP monitor From 1992 to 1995 (3 years)
BE, Computer Science @ Bharathiar University From 1988 to 1992 Rajah Balu is skilled in: Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Software, Cloud Computing, Middleware, Solution Architecture, Software Development, SOA, Distributed Systems, Professional Services, Pre-sales, EAI, Technical Leadership, Java Enterprise Edition, SaaS, Agile Methodologies
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