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Ram Chillarege

Ram brings a new order of insight into measuring and managing software engineering.

Prior to starting his consulting practice, he was with IBM for 14 years where he founded and headed the IBM Center for Software Engineering. He then served as Executive Vice President of Software and Technology for Opus360, New York.

In June 2004 Ram received the IEEE technical achievement award for the invention of Orthogonal Defect Classification (ODC). The methodology brings value through fast measurement, sophisticated analysis and targeted feedback. ODC is widely adopted across IBM and is rapidly gaining acceptance among several high maturity organizations.

In 1995 Ram led the IBM Academy study on Software Testing culminating in forming IBM’s company wide Test initiative. Led by a corporate director, this continues today to be credited for far reaching impact touching tens of thousands of engineers.

Ram is IEEE Fellow, and author of ~50 peer reviewed technical articles. He serves on the steering committees of Dependability and Software Reliability, and the board of the University of Illinois Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He founded and chaired the CTO council for NYSIA in 2001.

He received a BSc degree from the University of Mysore, BE and ME from the Indian Institute of Science, and PhD from the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign in Electrical and Computer and Engineering.