20 Years in the CAD/CAM, PLM Industry

Entrepreneurial leader with extensive PLM Deployment and Implementation experience. Adept at building offshore services delivery operations, build teams while collaborating with executive management to formulate strategic direction. Hands-on senior-level background in the full life cycle of PLM services engagements and project management with demonstrated cross-functional team leadership. Effective personal interaction and mentoring skills with the ability to work closely with technical, non technical teams to achieve business goals. Strong technical background in CAD/CAM, PLM with experience in working with customers from multiple industries. Unique set of skills and talents necessary to setup and manage offshore operations for software companies. Innovator with a blend of technical and business savvy.

Work Experience
Oct 08-Present: Barion Solutions Pvt Ltd
Director, Offshore Development and services

Nov 05-Sept 08: Siemens PLM Software (Pune)
Director, Offshore Services Operations

Sept 98-Oct 05: Barion Inc, USA
Founded Barion Inc, a PLM consulting firm providing implementation services to SDRC/UGS customers.

Apr 01-Oct 05: PLM Implementation Architect and Technical Advisor

Mar 00-Apr 01: Senior Member of the SDRC/UGS Pre-Sales Technical team.

Sept 98-Feb 00: PLM Implementation consultant

Dec 97-Aug 98: Formtek Inc. Palo Alto, California
Senior Software Engineer, Systems Integration

Nov 94-Nov 97: Metaphase Technology Inc. Arden Hills, Minnesota
Senior Software Engineer, Application Interfaces

Jan 91-Oct 94: Rasna Corporation, San Jose, CA
Systems Integration Engineer

July 89-Dec 90: OCTAL Inc. Bellevue WA
CAD software engineer

Sep 88-Jun 89: Computer Resource Technology Corp. Tempe, AZ
CAD/CAM development engineer

Education
CMII Certified. October 1999
MS Mechanical Engineering, February 1989, A.S.U Tempe, Arizona
BE Mechanical Engineering, June 1985, Osmania University, India

20 Years experience in the IT industry with focus on Software development and training.

Rajendra Tapadia is the co-founder of Barion Solutions Private Limited. He has over 20 years of experience in software development and training. He has conducted training for various corporates.

Tapadia started his career with CAD Graphics, Tempe. He Moved to India in 1989, joined OMC Computers Ltd., in their R&D department. After working 13 months in R&D of OMC, he joined Intergraph India Pvt. Ltd., where he worked for about 3 years. He was deputed to Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, Alabama, for about a year.

Tapadia has skills in the areas of Java and its suite of related technologies, PLM product (TeamCenter Enterprise), ASP, XML, WML, UML, C, C++, Visual Basic, Visual C++, COM/DCOM, Microsoft .NET (C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET 2/3.5, Ajax etc), PowerBuilder, Unix, Oracle, SQL Server etc. He has trained over 20500+ people during his career, and has executed several projects including www.arrayglobe.com, www.GenesisBrains.com, www.shareshout.com, www.alphametrix.com, EAMCETGuru, GenStocks, www.madcatz.com, www.hemametrics.com, PowerBuilderTools, Message Manager, Bug Reporting and Tracking System, Database Tools, Project Tracking Systemetc.

Tapadia leads the team working with TeamCenter Enterprise customizations. He is involved in areas related to Project Management, Resource Management, Scheduling, Client communication and helping clients take technical and design decisions. Besides, he is also involved in Software Design, implementations related to Model and Method coding, web customization, report writing, scheduling, preparing and exposing various work tools related to custom classes, etc.

Tapadia
received Gold Medal in Bachelor of Engineering.
was a consultant to Tanla Solutions Limited, Hyderabad from October 2007 to February 2008.
was a consultant to Virtusa India Private Limited, Hyderabad from February 2002 to December 2002.
was a consultant to iLabs, Hyderabad from May 2001 to Aug 2001.
was a consultant to D.E. Shaw India Software Private Limited from December 1997 to October 1998.
was the recipient of Regents Scholarship during Master of Science.
has to his credit a publication which appeared in "Computers & Graphics" journal.
Tapadia, R. K., and M. R. Henderson, "Using a Feature-Based Model for Automatic Determination of Assembly Handling Codes," Computers & Graphics, vol. 14, no. 2, May 1990.

Education
MS Mechanical Engineering, February 1989, A.S.U Tempe, Arizona
BE Production Engineering, June 1985, Osmania University, India

She is one of the founding members of Barion Solutions Private Limited. She has total of 16+ years of experience in the field of Software Development. She was the key member in the creation of SmartLab™ product and the ArrayGlobe.com portal.

Monika has skills in the areas of Microsoft .NET, ASP.NET, Ajax, etc, PowerBuilder, Star Designer, AppLib, Power Builder Foundation Classes, Java, C, C++, C#, Visual Basic, Visual C++, Oracle, Watcom SQL, SQL Server, Unix etc. She has implemented more than dozen projects in areas like PowerBuilder, MS SQL Server, Watcom SQL and Visual Basic for both domestic and international clients. She was involved in the requirements gathering, design, implementation, testing of SmartLab™ product and the ArrayGlobe.com portal along with its content management tool.

She has around 5+ working experience in TeamCenter Enterprise - a PLM product. She has actively participated in the following areas: system/requirements study, preparing data models for customizations, system/work-flow design and development/implementation on both server side and web side. She has built various tools/utilities around TeamCenter Enterprise product and was involved in report writing and custom services development.

Experience:
Mar 93-Mar 03: Genesis InSoft Limited (formerly Genesis Computers)
Apr 03-Present: Barion Solutions Private Limited

Education
Diploma in Mechanical Engineering from Board of Technical Education, Maharashtra, 1986
Bachelor in Automobile Engineering from Pune University, 1989