Fireside Chat: Crafting Career Changes

What - Crafting Career Changes
Where - Over Buffet lunch at Mayuri Restaurant, Santa Clara
When - Nov 8th, Noon
Only 15 spots - Please reserve by mailing interest to
rkapoor2001@kellogg.northwestern.edu

Feel like you can add more value in a new career? Shaping yourself for the future? Preparing for the new job market? Ever wondered if you could discuss planning, pros/cons and outcomes of such transitions from people who have done it? Well, here is your chance.

As IIT graduates, we constantly evaluate opportunities and prepare ourselves for new challenges. As the first in the series of IITD fireside chats, we bring you face to face with two veterans who have successfully transitioned through careers and industries. Discuss your views and questions with them over an informal lunch. To further the informal nature and networking, the group size will be limited to 15 attendees. Here is a brief bio of the two discussion leaders, who are also your fellow IITD alums,

Ravi Oswal
Chemicals -> ERP Software
(B.Tech, IITD, Chemical Engineering 1978)
(MS, MIT, Chemical Engineering 1980)

Raychem Corp. 1980 to 1999 - Raychem (now Tyco) was Fortune 1000 high performance materials co. - Various positions in product development, manufacturing, quality assurance, product management, supply chain management, corporate IT - notable last two positions – Director of worldwide operations, Corporate Director of Supply Chain Systems implementing SAP worldwide

Zoho Corp. 1999 to 2001 - A dot com B2B startup marketplace for hospitality - VP of Content and Customer Operations

Telespree. since April 2001 - VP of Engineering and Operations. Telespree is a SF based startup that provides customer self-service software for automating customer acquisition and device activation, for wireless carriers.

Raj Kumar
Design -> Teaching -> Computing Architecture
(B.Tech, Ph.D, Electrical Engineering, IITD)

Raj completed his post doctoral research at University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Over the years, he has been on the faculty at IITD and Santa Clara University. He has also worked in high-tech at several leading companies (HP, National, Zilog). Currently he is an Architecture Manager at HP Labs, working on grid computing middleware.

His prior work related to computer systems architecture, processor architecture, and VLSI engineering. He has published extensively, has a dozen patents granted, and several more pending.