Experience

novaCITYNETS

• Information Technology and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Vice President, Research and Innovation

  • Feb 2018 - Present

  Working on exciting new possibilities with BIM, rule checking, AI, data analytics. The future is getting more exciting ...



Invicara

• Ireland
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Software Architect

  • Jul 2013 - Jan 2018

  Innovation is critical to make a startup company successful. That is exactly I am in charge with. Several key concepts have been developed for our product that aims to assist users to perform rule checking on BIM models in the cloud.I continue to lead the innovation in the rule checking domain with relevant knowledge and work coming from my Ph.D. research, which I did in Georgia Tech together with Prof. Chuck Eastman as my advisor and completed at the end of 2015.

• Principal Solutions Architect

  • Oct 2012 - Jun 2013

  Taking charge architecting and developing core products of novaCITYNETS for model checking and city planning solutions involving BIM and GIS, using the power of cloud and the increasingly popular mobile devices.



Autodesk

• India
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Development Manager

  • Nov 2005 - Sep 2012

  Manage Software development team and product development of Autodesk products that includes Navisworks, AutoCAD Architecture and MEP, and Civil3D. Responsible for new and innovative development of model analysis functionality in Navisworks product, core 3D modeller migration and AEC industry interoperability feature using IFC that involves obtaining international standard certification.* Filed two patents for model analysis in construction* Built 6 fantastic working prototypes for model analysis on construction that run in the cloud in the first 6 months of the new team being assembled. They were exceptionally well received by customers and Autodesk business development team.* Developed IFC support from scratch in AutoCAD Architecture and had it certified within just one development cycle.* Defined systematic approach for migration of 3D modeller for AutoCAD Architecture and MEP. Improved performance variation from 650% to 160%. This is significant considering the different types of modeller, which comes with many improvements over the existing one, and their performance characteristics.* Recruited, trained and assembled high performing teams twice; once for AutoCAD Architecture and recently for Navisworks model analysis.

• Head R&D

  • Jul 2000 - Oct 2005

  Headed R&D teams and managed several turnkey projects. The R&D teams were responsible for the two flagship products: automatic building code-checking system (FORNAX) and enterprise toolkit for Rights, Document and Workflow management system (PAVO) that powers most of large turnkey projects. Mapped product development strategy to move the company from project based to product based.* Secured R&D funding from IDA Singapore* Developed and implemented agile approach to address very challenging nature of the model checking engine development (FORNAX) that powers CORENET ePlanCheck system, which is the first in the world.* Successfully updated the PAVO toolkit to the next major release suitable for quick deployment in many large turnkey projects.* Successfully managed the following turnkey projects: • CORENET ePlanCheck • CORENET eSubmission desktop • eNPQS for standard construction project specifications • SLA LandNet Lite for GIS data exchange



Siemens Business Services

• Germany
• Individual and Family Services

• Senior Consultant

  • Apr 1999 - Aug 2000

  Managed two GIS maintenance projects with URA and HDB and provided technical expertise to the business development team to develop key accounts in GIS related project* Defined and launched URA’s Master Plan 2003 project and solution using new GIS desktop application



SICAD Geomatics

• Senior Software Development Engineer

  • Sep 1995 - Mar 1999

  Designed, developed and supported Geographic database system of SICAD GIS software (now owned by ESRI).* Improved robustness and performance of database access significantly. In some cases, performance improvement was up to 2000% by replacing the algorithm altogether.* Introduced many features that improved usability of the software, allowing ease of out-of-the-box setup and yet provided tuning parameters for more advanced setup.* Recognized as the expert on the RDBMS (Oracle and Informix), solving many RDBMS issues and tuning performance internally and with external customers.* Developed a toolkit that repaired complex database corruption cases, minimised the loss of data and improved the software to be free from the database corruption issue. It was successfully applied in 12 different cases worldwide.