Ram Venkat

Ram Venkat's Experience Cloud Computing Consultant Booz Allen Hamilton August 2011 – Present (7 months) McLean, VA Solr Search Consultant Federal Communications Commission Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Telecommunications industry January 2011 – May 2011 (5 months) Hadoop Consultant VeriSign Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; VRSN; Information Technology and Services industry April 2010 – October 2010 (7 months) Solr Search Consultant America Online Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; AOL; Internet industry January 2009 – March 2010 (1 year 3 months) Program Management Consultant Thomson West Public Company; 10,001+ employees; TOC; Legal Services industry April 2006 – February 2008 (1 year 11 months) Chief Technology Officer Democracy Data & Communications Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Government Relations industry August 2003 – March 2005 (1 year 8 months) Chief Technology Officer Ipelion June 1999 – July 2003 (4 years 2 months) Member, Technical Staff i2 technologies, inc Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ITWO; Computer Software industry January 1994 – May 1999 (5 years 5 months) Ram Venkat's Skills Management Consulting Cloud Computing Amazon Web Services Enterprise Architecture Solr Lucene Hadoop Nutch Object Oriented Design Software Development Java MySQL SQLite NoSQL Cross-functional Team Leadership Ram Venkat's Patents Systems and methods for spreading messages online United States Patent 7783710 Issued May 21, 2006 Inventors: Ram Venkat This invention consists of a restricted online social network system that does not expose one member's friends to other members and a method of spreading a message in the system by members asking the system to show the message to their friends, recursively. The system records each member's actions on a message and reports the message's overall reach, acceptance and effectiveness through various...more Ram Venkat's Education Duke University - The Fuqua School of Business MBA, General Management, Finance 2001 – 2003 Loyola University of Chicago MS, Computer Science 1993 – 1994 Indian Institute of Technology, Madras BTech, Engineering 1988 – 1992