Ravi Ravindra

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  • Ravi Ravindra's details
    • Title: Chief Technology Architect
    • Company: Blue Cross Blue Shield South Carolina
  • Ravi Ravindra's presentations
    • 2011 Local CIO/CTO Open Source Panel

  Ravi is responsible for current and future technology architectures including Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) to leverage mainframe assets, technical strategy, product roadmaps. Ravi was instrumental in bringing Linux on zSeries within a short period of time working closely with IBM implementation team. Today, BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina hosts most of its web applications in a Linux virtualized environment using industry standards like Web Services, SOA, Portal Frameworks, Content Management etc., on the Mainframe.

  Prior to joining BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina, Ravi served as Chief Technology Advisor at the Global CIO office, Siemens AG, where he was responsible for developing Architectural Governance, Roadmaps in several technology areas for all Siemens companies worldwide as part of its standardization efforts. Prior to Siemens, Ravi started a technology consulting company to provide architectural expertise, eBusiness technologies for several startups, brick and mortar companies. Ravi also worked at Prime Computer/Computervision Corp.in Boston for 10 years where he held several Customer Service and management positions.

 

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