Head, Antispam at IBM LotusLive iNotes
Madras Area, India
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- Head, Antispam - LotusLive iNotes at IBM
- Coordinator at CAUCE Asia Pacific (APCAUCE)
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- Head, Antispam Operations at Outblaze Limited
- Consultant at International Telecommunications Union
- Director at Asia Pacific Internet Association (APIA)
- Systems Administrator at BPL Innovision
- Associate, Security and Abuse Desk at Juno
- Education
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- Osmania University
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Suresh Ramasubramanian’s Summary
Suresh has extensive experience in handling e-mail abuse and postmaster work, heading all anti-spam operations at Outblaze Limited, which has been acquired by IBM as part of LotusLive iNotes.
Suresh directs Postmaster and Abuse teams responsible for setting and enforcing Acceptable Use Policy, most recently across the almost 40 million active email accounts operated by Outblaze. He additionally provides strategic vision on antispam filtering, and has been a widely quoted media spokesman for Outblaze on spam and cybersecurity issues.
Previous jobs included a stint on the Security and Abuse desk at Juno.com (now United Online) and then setting up the anti-spam operations at BPL Innovision before joining Outblaze in 2001.
Suresh has been actively lobbying for realistic solutions at technological, legislative and policy levels to spam since 1998. He is coordinator of APCAUCE (the Asia Pacific wing of the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email), as well being the vice chair of the management committee for the APRICOT network operators conference.
He has worked on a field research project on cybersecurity for developing countries for the ITU, in association with the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC), and has earlier written research papers on spam for the OECD and for UNDP/APDIP.
He has given well-received talks and keynote speeches on spam around the world at conferences organized by the OECD and ITU, as well as at industry events such as MAAWG and APRICOT. He has been widely interviewed in publications including Businessweek, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Wired and PC Magazine.
In recognition of his tireless work against the growing spam problem, Businessweek magazine profiled him as one of 2002's top 25 e-business professionals.
Suresh Ramasubramanian’s Specialties:
spam, acceptable use policy, filtering, deliverablity, public policy, botnets, malware, internet governance, cybersecurity
Suresh Ramasubramanian’s Experience
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Head, Antispam - LotusLive iNotes
IBM
(Public Company; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)
April 2009 — Present (4 months)
Transitioned to IBM on IBM's acquisition of Outblaze
(http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/27214.wss)
Heading antispam for LotusLive iNotes - a security-rich, Web-based messaging service
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Coordinator
CAUCE Asia Pacific (APCAUCE)
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)
February 2003 — Present (6 years 6 months)
I was founder-president of, and am currently coordinator of CAUCE Asia Pacific (http://www.apcauce.org) and have been active in CAUCE since the late 1990s, when, as a student, I helped start CAUCE India. CAUCE - the Coalition against Unsolicited Commercial Email - is the largest volunteer antispam organization in the world, with a presence in the USA, Canada, Europe and the asiapac region.
APCAUCE is an informal grouping of CAUCE organizations from different economies around the asiapac region. Its activities (and mine) include organizing regular technical and public policy conferences around the asiapac region, as well as contributing responses to commens solicited from different governments in the region on current or proposed antispam legislation.
Oh behalf of APCAUCE, I also participate in antispam activities organized by groups in industry (such as MAAWG), as well as inter-governmental organizations such as ITU, APECTEL and OECD. -
Head, Antispam Operations
Outblaze Limited
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
August 2001 — April 2009 (7 years 9 months)
Heads all anti-spam operations at Outblaze Limited, directs the Postmaster and Abuse desks and is responsible for setting and enforcing Outblaze’s Acceptable Use Policy across the almost 40 million active email accounts operated by Outblaze He is responsible for setting up and enforcing spam filtering and blocking decisions for Outblaze clients and users and his team serves as the single point of contact to discuss blocking and filtering issues.
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Consultant
International Telecommunications Union
(Telecommunications industry)
August 2007 — February 2009 (1 year 7 months)
Consulting with the ITU on a cybersecurity related field research project till end 2008
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Director
Asia Pacific Internet Association (APIA)
(Internet industry)
February 2006 — January 2009 (3 years)
The Asia Pacific Internet Association (APIA), established in 1997, is a non-profit trade association whose aim is to promote the common business interests of the Internet-related service industry in the Asia Pacific region. APIA is the managing organization for APRICOT, the Asia Pacific Regional Internet Conference on Operational Technologies, the largest network operators conference in the Asia Pacific region.
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Systems Administrator
BPL Innovision
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)
2000 — 2001 (1 year)
Managed spam filtering for various divisions of the BPL Innovision Group, such a small free webmail service oyeindia.com, as well as on the SMS to email gateways for BPL Mobile, a cellular carrier with a presence in 4 indian states. Assisted administrators of BPLNet - an ISP.
Left within a year after the BPL Innovision group did a fairly spectacular crash and burn - all those three entities above are defunct now, and BPL Mobile's cellular service license was taken over by Hutchison. -
Associate, Security and Abuse Desk
Juno
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; UNTD; Internet industry)
January 2000 — August 2000 (8 months)
Part of a team enforcing the acceptable use policy on Juno, Netzero, Bluelight and other email / internet providers that were part of United Online
Suresh Ramasubramanian’s Education
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Osmania University
MBA , Human Resources Management , 1998 — 2000
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Suresh Ramasubramanian’s Interests:
antispam, security, internet governance, cybersecurity, wsis, public policy, quizzing, reading, movies, music
Suresh Ramasubramanian’s Honors:
Businessweek top 25 eBusiness Professionals of 2002
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