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Job Objective: Lead superior delivery & program management role Software

Development /Technology oriented organization engaged in developing scientific

application for Healthcare-Biomedical industries.

Give best visibility, bring passion to create world-class reliable & affordable

medical imaging application software’s, while continuously improve /adapt

innovative processes.

Accomplished professional seeking for excellent opportunity of growth

that allow my skills and in functional research and delivery to

contribute in varied roles to as assertive individual performer.

PROFESSIONAL SYNOPSIS

Offering contemporary knowledge and prolific experience with strong

engineering aptitude software design spanned over 15+ years, of which 4

years in software project/ research engineer, 5 years as General manager

(Research and Development) focused on new product development with good

understanding of real time medical imaging software/device development

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS

• Doctor of Philosophy(P.hD) – Medical Imaging,Bharathidasan

University,Trichy,Tamilnadu (Thesis Submission in progress)

• Master of Technology(M.Tech) - Bio Medical Engineering, 2004,

Indian institute of technology (IITMadras), Tamilnadu, India with first

class

• B.E. (Ins.&control Engg.) – Adhiyamman University of Madras

(1998)

SPECIALTIES

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Project management- hard /soft skills and delivery; Strong engineering aptitude

in software development based on SDLC process

NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS _Helathcare/ Medical Imaging

Software’s/Product

• Product Development: Developed DICOM printing software with

customizable film print layout with complete Architecture design and

unit coding and integration and performed and responsible for full

product development & product delivery

• Post processing algorithm optimization and product optimization for

A-Se/A-si based Digital radiography system

• Designed and developed the dual energy image acquisition

parameter and processing algorithm for A-si based flat panel

detector.

• Developed a Digital Radiography workstation with secondary post

processing tools with all DICOM communication option

• Developed a Structured Reporting Software for CT,MRI,DR,CR,US and

NM based on templates & E H R connectivity Solution to Different E H R ‘s

based IHE Profiles

• Designed and developed a Modality work list server DICOM

database server to communicate with modality from reception area

in the hospital and integrated various Modules of E H R

• Image Acquiring Software for CATH LAB and C-ARM Developed

• Developed optimized image processing algorithm for Digital

radiography system

• Complete validation of A-se & A-si based DRsystem performed

• Developed multimodality PACS with 30 viewing stations

• Developed Radiology Information system and integrated with third

party E H R

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• Optimized Post processing Algorithm for Flat Panel X ray

detectors

• Products Launched: Qview, QViewSR, QPrint, QPACS, QMWL,

QIPAD, ALLEN MRI workstation,CT workstation

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

1. Medical Image Processing and Reconstruction Algorithm Development

2. Image Acquiring software and its optimization for DR/CATH LAB & making

DICOM communication protocol implementation for New Devices

3. Integrating different vendors E H R/H IS/RIS of any data base with unique

interface with Imaging Modalities

4. Developing Imaging Application software –PACS,Teleradiology and Dicom

Workstations with necessary and advanced algorithms

5. Specialized in IHE profile implementation for Healthcare industry, HL7

interface development and CCD validation in HL73

6. Implementation of PACS, RIS and HIS with specific expert system.

A. TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES

• Provide strong technical leadership to team, build technical competency,

capture system requirements, scope analysis, technology gap analysis and

help in preparation of technical specifications.

• Provide system architecture & solutions and project estimation to achieve all

tangible elements of the system /deliverables in budgeted time / cost.

• Program/Product management- hard /soft skills & delivery: Strong

engineering aptitude in medical image processing and image reconstruction

development.

Proficiency inSoftware:

• Medical Imaging application software architect design/coding/porting -, boot

loader-platform support, feature enhancement, test software, integration,

unit testing of software for during comm. Protocols stack GUI.

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• Demonstrates excellent understanding of SW interfaces, platform enabling,

board bring up, boot loaders & device driver’s implementation while working

on board support packages and communications interfaces and networking.

• Participated in software application end to end life cycle from - Design,

coding, testing to deployment and have understanding of code manipulation

and optimization issues.

Proficient in software development tools such as IDEs, compilers,

debuggers, emulators, source control system and defect/ bug tracking

systems

TECHNICAL SKILLSET - TOOLS & UTILITIES AND TECHNOLOGIES:

Communicatio UART, I2C, SPI, RS232/485/422, 4-20mA, PCI, USB,

n-Protocols CAN, Ethernet, TCP/IP, basic knowledge of networking

and IPv4/6 concepts.

Software Strong programming skill in MATLAB Functional image

Languages processing and reconstruction algorithm prototyping for

Medical Imaging Application

Open Computer Vision library -Auxiliary (experimental)

OpenCV & GUI functions.

Intel Image processing library (IPL)& MMX techniques

GPU Programming using CUDA library

Complete Software life cycle Development Exposure

Net3.5 Framework Base Class library (BCL) utilization

for Windows form design and Application Development in

Visual Studio 2008 (C#),VC++(MFC,SDI,MDI)

development using Access,SQL and XML.

Platform/ OS Windows NT/XP,Windows 7

DICOM Tools Leadtools DICOM & PACS imaging Tools

GUI & Install shield and Dev Xpress

Deployment

B. MANAGERIAL PROFICIENCIES

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• Participation in recruitment drive to acquire talent, mentoring project

managers and leads to take higher role & responsibilities.

• Setting of team KRAs along with HR team and performance through yearly

appraisals process. .

• Participate in companies continuous process improvements activities

regularly from time to time.

• Develop program plans/schedules and manage cross-functional activities

like implementation, deployment and manufacturing support while tracking

and communicating the status/progress through reports to key stakeholders

and management.

S.N Organization Name & Department Designation Period Yr.

o

23rd July

1. Clientminders Research and Principal 1.1

Technological Solutions (on Contract) Architect – 2013 – Till

Medical date

Imaging

2 CURA HEALTHCARE PVT LTD General AUG’11- 2.0

22nd July

Manager

(R&D) ‘13

3 Allengers Medical Systems Pvt Ltd General AUG ’09 – 1.9

Manager- R&D MAY’11

4 DRTech Inc.,South Korea) Research/Proje OCT’06 – 2.8

ct JUN ‘09

Manager( R&D

)

5 ClientMinders Research and Researcher JUN’04 - 2.3

Technological Solutons SEP ‘06

6 Donix Electronics System Ltd., Trichy Software MAY’ 98 – 4.2

Engineer July’02

SUMMARY OF CAREER EXPERIENCE

CAREER HISTORY AND EXPERIENCE

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Clientminders Research and Technological Solutions

July 2013 – 14th Feb 2014

Principal Architect

Key Responsibilities: As Principal Architect performing functional

research on New Product requirement and defining the design &

functionality architecture of medical imaging application software and its

delivery

• Conduct brainstorming and knowledge sharing session for innovative

concept and foster collaboration with build engineering team technical

competency on latest technologies through reverse engineering and

competitive products studies.

• Direct and guide new product design/development team, validate design

& prototyping for customer approval, assure successful transition to

manufacturing and meet project commitments.

CURA HEALTHCARE PVT LTD AUG’2011

– July 2013

General Manager- R & D

CURA is an undisputed leader in the manufacturing of Digital X ray system

with different types of Medical imaging devices like

CT,MRI,Xray,Mammo,BMD,Mobile CR

Role- Techno-managerial- leadership: Direct and drive high profile team

of developer and designers in software/across multiple engineering/software

projects at different locations for organization's new product development.

Key Responsibilities: Project Management & Governance, Mentoring,

Guiding, New Product development & Introduction: Technical Innovation

• Interact with marketing/ business development team to identify/evaluate

competitor’s product features/specs, review customer’s requirements for

new business opportunities before presenting to management the

concept/roadmap for improvement of new product development .

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• Understand future market needs, provide technical leadership & vision

from an R&D, new concept and innovations perspective while working

with business leader, product team, application specialists and other

stakeholders co-creating the technical roadmap to build next generation

product line..

• Responsible for manage all activities necessary to take a product from

concept to production, initiate and define projects, strategically allocate

R&D resources and budget, writing functional / engineering / software

spec. driving design & code reviews, unit testing, show and validating

proof-of concept prototype, ensure compliance testing and successful

design transfer to manufacturing.

Allengers Medical Systems R & D Aug ’09 – May ‘11

Designation: General Manager

Allengers Medical System is a leading company in manufacturing of

medical equipments like x ray,DR,Mammography,Cathlab market for more

than two decade.

KRAs- Strategically manage delivery of HW /SW projects while

reporting to MD - status and other activities. Involved in strategic planning,

defining road map, enhance of existing customer relation while reporting

progress. Major KRA’s are-

• Maintain/build customer relationship with external/internal customer,

initiate cross selling, built new business while preparing technical

proposal.

• Conduct project reviews with customers, give presentation in technical

evaluation committee at customer site and follow-up on regular basis for

requirement analysis & elicitation,

• Conduct project reviews per plan and report any issues immediately to

management while weekly presenting to board.

• Create environment and implement best practices of project and program

management in organization.

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DRTech Inc., South Korea OCT’06

– JUN ‘09

Designation: Research Engineer/Project Manager

DRTech Inc., is a south Korean company located in sangdaewon and

manufacturing flatpanel detectors

KRAs -

1. Contribute in improvement plan/methodologies to reduce delivery

time/cost, drive change, build new competency /solution for service

offering by initiating new projects and govern & review project

performance

2. Involve in interaction and managing contact with - suppliers, vendors,

operation managers for compatible resource allocation, internal

procurement, corporate and network support teams for smooth execution

projects.

ClientMinders Research and Technological Solutons

JUN’04 - SEP ‘06 Designation: Researcher

ClientMinders Research and Technological Solutons,Chennai is a

medical software development company

Involving algorithm development

Major KRAs are (Medical Imaging Algorithm Development ): Worked as

algorithm developer and converted the application algorithms in MATLAB

image processing tools & Co coordinating with Product Head for its

implementation

Donix Electronics System Ltd.,

MAY’ 98 – July’02

Designation: Software Engineer

Major KRAs - (Application software in C& C++ ):

PROJECTS HIGHLIGHTS

Cardiology Workstation : Developed an cardiology workstation with all Post

Processing Methods with DICOM communication

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Stent boost Algorithm : Developed optimized stent enhancement method for

cardiology

MRI & CT workstation with 3D : VRT,Zoom,Layout based on Images & Series,MIP,Pan,CD Burning,MPR,Window level,Export images in

BMP,JPEG,MinIP,Annotations,Image Stitching SSD,Cine loop,Email of

Images,MPR Slab,Key image storage,No image Loss,Cross Hair,HW

compatibility check,Double Cut

Digital Radiography - Flat Panel Image Enhancement Multiscale Image

Processing algorithm :

• Decomposition and Modification based on expansion and reducing the a-

Se based digital flat panel image of size

• Decomposition: Different levels Gaussian filterModification: Based on

Optimized Contrast Enhancement with suitable parameters Reconstruction:

Pyramid Formation Method

• Algorithm Tested using in MATLAB 7.0 and implemented in C++

• C++ dll and code optimization using MKL,IPL libraries

Weak Structure Enhancement & Image processing Algorithm Developed

• Optimized Image Enhancement Achieved by constant sharpness factor.

• Contrast Enhancement Based on adaptive histogram equalization

• Enhancement based on modifying local statistics,contrast stretching,

piecewise &percentage method.

• Unsharp masking and homomorphic filters with LUT,kurtosis as the image

processing parameters with Rolling ball algorithm as Backgroud removal

method

• Coding : C++ dll and code optimization using MKL,IPL

Digital radiography product development Reference - Complete

Optimization of Image Quality

1. Vatech Panel (Xmaru)with Image Acquisition and pre & post processing

library

2. Thoshibha Panel (43x43R)with Image Acquisition and image processing

library

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3. Varian Panel with Image Acquisition and image processing library

optimization

4. DRTech Panel Integration with X ray generator and Image

processing Library Optimization

5. ATlaim Panel Pre & Post processing library integration and field trail

Dual Energy Subtraction System Design :

Collimation filter with Different thickness of filter (combination of Aluminum and

copper) at different KV and mAs Capturing High Energy and Low Energy Images

using a-si flat panels

Complete Design and Development, Integration of Flat Panel Digital X ray

system using A-se (DRTech Flat panels) of following modulels

Post Processing & Preprocessing algorithm development for DRTech(A-se)

flat panels Mutiresolution method implemented for image reconstruction &

Image Quality analysis by analyzing the statistical parameter of the image

Three Line Defect Pixel mapping with out Changing Image Characteristics:

Replacement of defect pixel area (limited to three lines) by performing pixel

mapping by calculating offset ratio and adding noise offset. Algorithm Tested

using in MATLAB 7.0 and implemented in C++

Preprocessing Method Developed for Flat panel X ray detector

Offset correction based on getting exposure image and dark image and modifying

the CF Gain correction based on computing the creating the gain map based on

mean and averaged WSI . Dead pixel correction based on gradient averaging

Intensity in homogeneity correction in radiography detectors

Elimination of Uneven illumination Difference and Removal of Defect:

Uneven illumination in digital radiography images removed -dodging principle

Speckle Noise Elimination:

Lee, Kuan and Frost Filter implementation

Implemented Noise Equalization

Scatter compensation techniques in digital radiographic

Images

Developed a Optical Tomography System

An Embedded system - 2D imaging device (proto type).

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implemented Convolution back projection Algorithm & image reconstruction in

C++

Case Study

Multiresolution Methods to Medical Image Enhancement for general

radiography

Scatter Compensation in Digital Radiography

Optimization of image acquisition techniques for dual-energy imaging of the

chest

Mutislice CT:

Detector configuration: Geomentrical relationship study,prepatient

collimation, Mutislice Helical reconstruction with selection of interpolation

samples,selection of region of reconstruction, different classes of

reconstruction algorithm

Developed Simulink models using Matlab:

• Modeling of circulatory control system: In this project the various

Parameters of human

• Circulatory system were simulated

• Volume visualization for MRI data using mat lab …

• Monte Carlo simulation of photon transmission through biological

tissues using Matlab

MutiModality PACS(Picture Archiving and Communication Systems)

• Server Model : Windows form design in VC#, Integration of server data

base in XML (data grid control) with all modality Server. Based on the tag

information in the image database will be updated

• Client Model :Retrival of all modality images based on patient ID,Modality,study date

• Standard TCP/IP model - by providing AE title, port number,ip address.

Developing environment : C# with SQL database using third part libraries

for basic database communication

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• Modalities: CT,MRI,DR,CR,US Dicom and non Dicom modalities

• Product Name : Allen PACs ( released in December 2010)

Design and Development of Radiology information and PACS and E H R

Integration

Developed a PACS system and integrated with the exiting E H R in the Hospital

and made thee connectivity solution to RIS

Product Development : Integration of Flat Panel detector(A-si) with X ray

system using (SAMSUNG Flat panels) Image Acquisition software

Development Varian dynamic panel interface software development using VIVA &

SDKs of bit

• E-com DROC analysis for Varian digital radiographic operating console

• 3D reconstruction algorithm Evaluation based on

GPU(NVIDIA)

• Stent Boost and QCA algorithm

CATH LAB & C-ARM Developed:

• Integrated a an image acquisition and Display system on a PCIe card

intended for use in Radiographic and Fluoroscopic, Digital DR, Angio, Cine or

Mobile C-Arm applications. This unique architecture features capabilities,

which allow for integration of system design goals such as:

• -Generator Interface

• -Integrated Flat Panel Image Correction algorithms

• Simultaneous Acquisition and Post Processing (Review or Reconstruction)

PERSONAL DETAILS

Nationality Indian DOB:29-07-1976

Marital Status : Married

Permanet Address : 3/292,Bharathi Nagar,Thuraiyur Road, Musiri –

621211,

Trichy (Dt),Tamilnadu

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