Ravi brings real-world PLM implementation experience in enterprise scale product structure / configuration management, search-based applications and process-driven system integration/design automation in the automotive, aerospace, high technology and medical device industries. Ravi Rangan was the CTO of Product Sight Corporation, a company he co-founded to address process-aware product lifecycle applications for the PLM market. He previously served as a WW Corporate Director for SDRC's ExperTeam program (now UGS), and worked as the Founding Technical Director of SDRC's Enterprise Solution Center and on-site Metaphase solution architect with The Boeing Company's "Define and Control Aircraft Configuration/ Manufacturing Resource Management (DCAC/MRM) Program", consulting with various business process/ IT architecture teams and providing leadership to the architecture, design, and implementation phases of the program. He has published extensively, organized symposia, panels and tutorials in the areas of business process modeling, systems architecture, design automation, and information/ knowledge management. He serves on the Exec. Steering Committee of ASME CIE Division, and is a founding member of the ASME's JCISE editorial board, and a reviewer for several journals. Ravi completed his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (specializing in engineering information management) from Georgia Tech. in 1990. |