Ravi Rajaram Email Address

Vice President and Associate Director

Global research firm

Resourceful, Performance driven and Award-Winning IT Program Manager with over 25 years of experience in Software Development. Over 10 years of experience in managing a portfolio of IT projects for Cancer Trials Support Unit (CTSU), a service sponsored by the National cancer Institute (NCI). An expert in understanding the client needs (“big picture view”) and coming up creative and efficient solutions for complex problems. • Areas of oversight include systems Architecture, analysis, design, development and maintenance. • Vastly expanded the scope and reach of the CTSU Enterprise system, a suite of integrated databases, applications, websites, and capabilities that support the CTSU activities and operations. • Strong proponent of the iterative software development methodologies such as RUP, Agile. • Regularly represent organization and present to stakeholders. • Lead and direct project managers to successfully achieve goals of their projects. Provide functional and administrative management for a large team of IT staff organized into teams based on the technology or task type. • Java applications development team • .Net Applications development team • Oracle Applications development team • Testing team • Informatics Infrastructure team • Quality Assurance Made multiple presentations at Oracle Health Sciences User Group meetings, National Clinical Trials Network (NCTN) group meetings, Drug Information Association (DIA) meetings and other professional meetings. Specialties: IT Strategy development, Resource and Cost estimating / control / projection, Budget monitoring and control, Contract Negotiation, Proposals, Technical Solution Development, Application Development & Support Services, Offshoring, Outsourcing, Testing, Process Improvement, CMMI, Oracle Database Tuning. Clinical Trial Management, Clinical Data Management, Safety Reporting, GCP, 21 CFR Part 11, Oracle Clinical, Oracle RDC, Medidata Rave, iMedidata, Safety Gateway.