Rakesh Singh

With over 25 years of experience in the IT & ITeS industry globally, Rakesh Singh has been a catalyst to change with a distinctive record of successful business growth initiatives across the continent. With a unique blend of cross cultural experience and technical bandwidth from the industry, he has been instrumental in launching several integrated process change and benchmarking initiatives with the private and government sector.

Rakesh has been instrumental in creating sabbatical programs in advanced quantitative management & statistical management. Apart from modular requirements of various models & frameworks, he has pioneered a methodology of growth through an integrated portfolio of practices and benchmarks. With over 20,000 attendees over the years for his various public and corporate forums on “ Enabling Simple Metrics Drive Business Value of IT” , he has created a niche segment in the industry for rationalizing organizational change ( Technical & Behavioral). He has to his credit enabling several organizations gear up for High Maturity Benchmarks and sustain their growth across the years.

As a Business Growth/ Solution Advisor, he along with his team at Trendz Global have enabled companies move from A to B (in terms of growth- interpreted as turnover, profits, reduction of losses, expansion to green field segments). He holds credentials of being a Lead Appraiser/Instructor & Auditor for SCAMPI & ISO frameworks apart from being a Six Sigma Black Belt.

As an enthusiastic speaker and writer, Rakesh has been invited into various global forums across the years. He has to his credit several papers and books on Organizational Change through Process Discipline.

Dr. K. Muralidharan

Dr. K. Muralidharan is currently working as Professor and Head of department of Statistics, Faculty of Science, The Maharajah Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara. He is also the Director of Population Research Centre, MSU Baroda. Along with his teaching at MSU, he is also an adjunct faculty to IIT Gandhinagar Since 2012. He has obtained his MSc degree in Statistics from Calicut University, Kerala; MPhil and Ph.D. in Statistics from Sardar Patel University and has completed Post Doctoral Fellowship from Institute of Statistical Science at Academia Sinica, Taiwan. He is an internationally qualified Six Sigma Master Black belt from Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore.

He has about twenty four years of teaching and research experience and has guided about five research students for doctorate degree. He has about research publications in international and national journals. His research interests are in the field of Statistical inference, Applied Stochastic point processes, Reliability and Life testing, industrial statistics, Quality and Six Sigma. He is the Coordinating Editor of Journal of Probability and Statistical Science published from Taiwan, Associate Editor of Journal of Indian society for Probability and Statistics published from India, Associate Editor of International Journal of Mathematics, Statistics and Operations Research published from Singapore and Associate Editor of Investigations in Mathematical Science published from India.

He has won number of awards and fellowships including the Commonwealth Academic Fellowship sponsored by British Council, UK. Recently, he was awarded the “Young emerging future leader of Quality and Reliability” by Society for Reliability Engineering, Quality and Operations Management (SREQOM), New Delhi. He is a Principal member of the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) New Delhi. He has been the Secretary of Indian Society for Probability and Statistics for the terms 2013-2014 and 2015-2016.

Recently, He had published a book entitled “Six Sigma for Organizational Excellence: A Statistical approach (ISBN 978-81-322-2324-5, e-ISBN 978-81-322-2325-2 with Springer can be very useful for Six Sigma consultants and practitioners besides Statistics and Mathematics students. He has co-authored another book entitled “An Introduction to Parametric inference” (ISBN-978-81-8487-416-7) with Prof. B. K. Kale, and the book is published by Narosa, New Delhi. His first book on “Statistical Methods for Quality, Reliability and Maintainability” (ISBN-978-81-203-4543-0) published by PHI learning private Ltd, is a blend of three disciplines, namely: management, science and engineering and can be used as a text cum reference book for engineers and practitioners in manufacturing and maintenance area.

Prof. K. Muralidharan has completed five major research projects funded by UGC (2), DST, MoHFW, and NHRC New Delhi. Apart from this he has guided many student projects on statistical methods and Six Sigma. So far he has presented papers in about eighty national and international conferences and has organized a dozen conferences and seminars. He has chaired number of conference/seminar/workshops sessions and was resource person to many UGC refresher course programs at various universities across India. He had visited number of universities in India, Taiwan, UK and UAE.

Vishwas Mahajan

Kris Puthucode has over 25 years of experience in the Software engineering, Systems Engineering and Management Consulting in the IT industry. He has been working over the past several years with a diversity of companies including Fortune 500’s, Big Five Consulting Firms, Blue Chips and prominent outsourcing suppliers in all areas of software engineering, quality and process management.

Kris started his early career as a software engineer writing compilers and Operating System utilities at Center for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), an autonomous society under the Department of Electronics, Government of India, and then moved on to the IT Quality and process area. He has been working most of his career so far in the USA. Some of his significant achievements included leading large multinational corporations to adopt best practices from a plethora of standards and models like the ISO 9001 13485, 15507, Software- CMM, CMMI., and BD-CMM and help increase productivity, reduce rework and defects and reduce cycle time for product development.

Today Kris works as a consultant, trainer and lead assessor with over 80+ companies mainly including the DoD, Aerospace, Medical device manufacturers, Health I.T. (HIMSS)& global multinational/commercial organizations to help them improve their product/service quality, reduce rework and defects through process improvement.

Kris’s wide job experiences prior to his entrepreneurship, include companies like Raytheon BBN Technologies (formerly GTE/BBN Tech), PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC), and Department of Electronics in the Government of India. Kris has several years of consulting background in the above areas of quality management.

As an CMMI Institute Certified High Maturity Lead Appraiser, Kris has led several CMM & CMMI Class A/B/C assessments, and has led over 140+ formal Class A SCAMPI(SM) Appraisals since 2002 , worldwide, many of those being high maturity (Levels 4 and 5) appraisals. He has been an excellent trainer and has trained over 1000+ people in several companies in many advanced topics in software quality, high maturity and statistics and modeling methods/forecasting methods in countries across the world. As a certified instructor on CMMI DEV and SVC, Kris has conducted more than 75+ Authorized -CMM/CMMI Introduction training courses worldwide with an ‘average’ of 4.9 out of 5 rating on each class offered and specially appreciated for his communication style and extensive implementation experience translated into knowledge.

Kris has extensively traveled worldwide and has spent most of his career in the US, and has helped clients in all cultures (USA, India and the Middle East).

He writes and speaks in many international and national conferences and events/forums.

Kris holds a Computer Science Engineering degree, and Management and Executive education from Stanford University.

Our Team

Rakesh Singh

CH Murthy

Edmond Sung

Dr. K. Muralidharan

Vishwas Mahajan

Kris Puthucode