User:Richardvj11

Richard Vijay
Richard Vijay
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Introduction Hello Fedora Community Volunteers, I am Vijay Richard, IT specialist from UK

IRC channel : As fedora_richie at fedora ,#fedora-test-day #fedora-ambassadors and #fedora-mktg and other channels

Contributor : For Fedora Testing GNOME3 with Fedora15, presently reported and following up bugzilla bug 688236,688247,688271,688274). Part of Upgrade day 3 testing for Fedora 14->15. My UUID pub_b997f715-39e9-4a12-96ca-0b6d4c8d89d0, started working on translation

Profession : I work on IT for Manufacturing and Automotive Research and Design.

Interests: I would like to contribute to fedora staring with Documentation,testing and translation and help in ambassador tasks.

My Aims for Fedora: I would like to spread the word of fedora as an Ambassador for developing world/third world communities. I would also like to contribute on development of HPC,grid computing base with focus on FEA,CAE and advanced numerial methods. I like to harden fedora to make it more focussed enterprise level client server multi-tier Applications and workstation clients used for CAD,CAM,CAE and PLM applications. I would like to support and help in localization and translation to Tamil. I have planned a roadmap for my core volunteering to fedora starting as tester,content writer for documents, while highlighting fedora in my external blogs. I will help in OS bug fixes,spins,translation and localization as i move forward.

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Career Highlights Role: Project Manager, IT, Jaguar and Land Rover,UK -Client server specialist for IT enabled Automotive solutions -Experience with AIX,Irix,Altix -Architect- Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) strategy & Implementing IT Enabled Product development Solutions to Automotive and Aerospace OEM worldwide -Reduced Product Cost and Product Development Time for Automotive and aerospace companies - Client Facing roles For IT enabled Product development across Asia and Europe in Automotive domain -Helped Companies to implement innovative digital product development for effective collaboration -Helped companies to adopt better processes to produce safe & Nature friendly products -Leading a team of consultants for implementing IT enabled solutions for OEMs -Management of IT systems for Product development - Working across corporate and coordinating across partner companies for resolving critical issues - Proven Track record of dealing Challenging situations with clients and creating a positive & congenial atmosphere for business continuity and growth

Activites and Interests Market study & Strategy planning Cricket, movies, bowling, reading, cooking, karate, music Developing IT Applications for Social networking including Facebook (http://apps.facebook.com/richardsvijay/) Opensocial based development,community member HTML5 standards community member Web based Social Data Mining for OEM Products Free Software Foundation member VMBox member in community, Virtualised Type2 hypervisors, (installing and maintaining Virtualised OS Windows client/servers, Open Solaris, FreeBSD, Fedora 14, OpenSUSE, Open Indiana) UNESCO and UNICEF & CRY Volunteer, voluntary blood donor Creator and Moderator of PLM user group consisting of more than 600 PLM experts and related members around the world (http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/PLM-PDM/) American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Society of Automotive Engineers, PLM group Trained & certified volunteer for OFYC - Youth club, UK ( Initiative aimed at motivating youth in philanthropy and social cause) Certified as Youth Leader for club, helping them in team building, management and in IT operations