Mani Chandrasekaran

Current

Senior Manager/Enterprise Software Architect at Sun Microsystems

Past

Staff Engineer/Engg Manager at Sun Microsystems
Solution Architect at Fidelity Investments
Java Architect/Tech Lead at Sun Microsystems

Principal Consultant at iPlanet/Netscape
Tech Lead at Razorfish
Technical Team Lead at 4CS Inc
Project Leader at Honeywell
Systems Engineer at BFL Software

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Education

Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Bangalore University

S.J(Govt) Polytechnic

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Mani Chandrasekaran’s Summary

> IT Professional with 14 years of IT software experience, including 10 years in the Middleware technologies.
> Lead a team of senior solution architects, in the Software practice in Sun India. This team helps the sales team, in architecting major multi million dollar complex projects in India.
> Have helped setup Sun Center of excellence in SI's and partners.
> Have worked on Enterprise software architectures, for large customers in the US and India. Specialize in architecting end to end software solutions, translating business requirements to enterprise architectures. Skills include handling alerts, customer escalations, performance tuning and hardware sizing.
> Have worked in different business units - Software pre-sales, ISV engineering, Professional services and Product engineering.
> Expert on Java/J2EE, SOA, Identity/Security, Portal, Application server, Infrastructure products and Middleware products.
> Excellent communication, presentation skills. Work with senior CxO level executives. Good people management skills, mentoring architects and large number of engineers. Ability to work across business units, in distributed and cross-functional teams.
> Have presented at conferences and customers
> Worked in BFSI, Telco, Retail, Media/Entertainment, Healthcare and Government verticals.

Publications and Presentations:
http://developer.sun.com
Sun Blog: http://blogs.sun.com/cmani
Presented at Java One,Java China 2005
Software tech talks & Bootcamps in SE Asia, India.

Certifications:
TOGAF 8 Certified Enterprise Architect
CISA - Certified Information Systems Auditor
CISSP - Certified Informations Systems Security professional
Sun Certified Enterprise Architect for Java EE
Sun Certified Integrator for Identity Manager
Sun Certified Solaris Admin
Sun Certified app server admin
Sun Certified Java programmer
Microsoft Certified Professional

Mani Chandrasekaran’s Specialties:

- Software Pre-sales, ISV engineering, Professional Services and Product engineering
- Enterprise Software Architectures, Sizing, Tuning
- Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
- Java and Java EE -Performance Tuning,Design and Design Patterns
- Solaris
- Security - Identity and Access Management
- Web Services
- Application and Web servers, Portal and Middleware

Mani Chandrasekaran’s Experience

Senior Manager/Enterprise Software Architect

Sun Microsystems

(Public Company; JAVA; Information Technology and Services industry)

November 2007 — Present (2 years 1 month)

> Expert on Sun Java Middleware stack. Can architect and design end to end large scale enterprise architecture using various Sun Middleware architectures.
> Been involved in solutioning architectures of large multi-million dollar and complex projects in India and in the US.
> Hands-on expertise on Java, Java EE , Sun Middleware and MySQL products.
> Manage a team of Solution Architects.
> Pre-sales technical activities for Sun India Software practice.
> Have worked as an Lead Architect in projects in the BFSI, Retail, Telecom and Government verticals. Expert in solutioning in very large, complex n-tier applications.
Staff Engineer/Engg Manager

Sun Microsystems

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; JAVA; Computer Hardware industry)

May 2007 — November 2007 (7 months)

Technical Lead for the Sun OTP product in India.
Acting Manager for engineers in India.
Solution Architect

Fidelity Investments

(Privately Held; FMR; Financial Services industry)

September 2006 — April 2007 (8 months)

> Part of Enterprise Architects Group
Java Architect/Tech Lead

Sun Microsystems

(Public Company; JAVA; Information Technology and Services industry)

December 2001 — September 2006 (4 years 10 months)

> Worked with Fortune 100 companies in the US as part of Sun software services
> Worked as a Technical Lead in the ISV engineering team - ISV engineering activities, Working with System Integrators to setup Sun Center of Excellence, Porting and Tuning ISV products
> Worked on large scale web and enterprise integration projects, end to end
> Worked on Exec level Red alerts, crisis situations on production systems at customer sites
> Expert on Application Server, Java, J2EE, Portal and Identity/Security/Directory products
Principal Consultant

iPlanet/Netscape

(Public Company; Computer Software industry)

May 2001 — December 2001 (8 months)
Tech Lead

Razorfish

(Public Company; Computer Software industry)

May 2000 — May 2001 (1 year 1 month)

This job brought me to Boston from the Midwest, for which I am truly thankful and grateful. I also did my first iPlanet/J2EE project, saw a lot of the web design/artistic folks with red/green/blue hair, a very interesting "dot-com/dot-bomb" experience :-)
Technical Team Lead

4CS Inc

(Computer Software industry)

January 1999 — May 2000 (1 year 5 months)

How can I ever forget Moline (and Quad cities), 4CS and John Deere :-)
Project Leader

Honeywell

(Public Company; Computer Software industry)

May 1996 — January 1999 (2 years 9 months)
Systems Engineer

BFL Software

(Computer Software industry)

July 1995 — May 1996 (11 months)

My first job out of engineering school. Tested Unix device drivers by doing black box testing and white box testing (wrote test driver utilities).

Mani Chandrasekaran’s Education

Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore

Executive General Management Program , Management, Corporate Strategy, OR , 2008 — 2009
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

MS , Computer Science , 2001 — 2004
Bangalore University

BE , Electronics , 1991 — 1995
S.J(Govt) Polytechnic

Diploma in Computer Science , Computer Science , 1988 — 1991

Activities and Societies:

Topper (First Rank) in Karnataka State