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 : 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 Testing,Documentation, translation and help in Ambassador tasks.

My Aims for Fedora: I would like to spread the word of fedora as an Ambassador for automotive R&D community and 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 interested to take up initiatives to harden fedora, make it more focussed on 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.

References' LinkedIn :[1]

Twitter Technical [2]

Career Highlights Role: Project Manager, IT, Jaguar and Land Rover,UK My Primary role is to provide expert consulting on Client server specialist for IT enabled Automotive solutions. I have wide experience with AIX,Irix,Altix and solaris based application maintenance. My previous roles in career include working as SolutionArchitect for Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) strategy & Implementing IT Enabled Product development Solutions to Automotive and Aerospace OEM worldwide. I have aimed and worked towards reductio in Product Cost and Product Development Time for Automotive and aerospace companies with innovation in process and IT systems. Having worked on client facing roles For IT enabled Product development across Asia and Europe in Automotive domain, leading a team of consultants for implementing IT enabled solutions for OEMs, I helped OEMs in Management of IT systems for Product development. I have Worked across corporate and coordinating across partner companies for resolving critical issues as single point interface contact. I have represented automotive OEMs in research conferences and published six works in IT enabled Product develoment, in which i hold a engineering masters.

Activites and Interests

I play Cricket,watch movies, badminton, bowling, reading, swimming and music are my free time activites. I have worked on developing IT Applications for Social networking including Facebook ([3]). I am a Opensocial community member,HTML5 standards community member,Free Software Foundation community member,VMBox member in bug fix community, I have Virtualised Type2 hypervisors, (installing and configuring Virtualised OS Windows client/servers, Open Solaris, FreeBSD, Fedora 14, OpenSUSE, Open Indiana).

I volunteer for UN, UNESCO and UNICEF & CRY Volunteer, voluntary blood donor. I have created and Moderating PLM user group consisting of more than 600 PLM experts and related members around the world ([4]) I hold/help memberships including 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

Thanks --Richardvj11 23:43, 3 June 2011 (UTC)