For a brief summary of our experienced and valuable team's background, read on ...

Corporate Culture : One common theme you will find when you work with any of our team members is the incredible attention to detail and commitment to providing valuable services to our customers combined with extraordinary talent.

Hari Thummalapalli, PMP -

Summary:

- PMP certification

- Member of American Mensa

- MS Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology

- 8 Years of Industry experience at Fortune 500 companies like Ford Motor and Delta Technologies; and startup companies like Trilogy Software and iXL Enterprises.

- Top 1000 Reviewer on Amazon.

He graduated from the School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology with a Master of Science degree in March of 1995 and graduated from the Mechanical Engineering Department, Osmania University College of Engineering with a Bachelor of Engineering degree in July of 1991. He is a member of the American Mensa and has attained the PMP status from PMI (Project Management Institute). He is also part of the back up Project Management instructor team at the Austin Community College helping teach the Project Management classes there on a need basis.

Currently, he has assumed the roles of Technical Project Manager and President & CEO of Small Biz Niche and Thummas Corporation.

He has over 8 years of industry experience and has worked at various large corporations in project lead roles on both engineering and technology projects. He started out his career as a contract engineer at Ford Motor Company on the 1997 Ford Escort and 1998 Ford ZX2 launch teams. This provided him invaluable practical experience in using the complex systems principles he learned in graduate school that were also being used extensively at Ford Motor Company. He then worked in the Advanced Technology Division as a Project Manager at United Technologies Automotive and officially moved into the Information Technology field. This was followed by working for Internet services company iXL and software development company Trilogy before establishing Thummas Corporation and now Small Biz Niche. He worked as a Technical Project Manager on the Call Center Renewal project at Delta Technologies while working at iXL.

He believes that attention to details is paramount to success in any field and is bringing the complex systems design principles from the Aerospace Engineering field and the highly successful change management principles from the Automotive field to the Information Technology field. In his opinion, cross-industry application of these highly successful principles will result in revolutionary advances in the Information Technology field.

On a personal level, on top of being a Vegetarian, he is an avid fan of racing (motorcycle and car), photography, hiking in the Himalayas, and is trilingual (fluent in English, Telugu and Hindi in that order). Also, in his spare time he writes book reviews on http://www.amazon.com/ to share his knowledge and findings with others. He feels that it is his duty to give back to this virtual community that has given him so much in terms of valuable book advice.

Erin Griffin

Summary:

Erin Griffin will be your primary contact doing marketing, project execution and ongoing maintenance. She checks her email several times a day and can be reached at (214) 206-4850 ext. 110. If you call her and leave a message, she will get back to you within 24 hours. She is very detail-oriented and will work with you to understand your exact business objectives. This will help her find a perfect solution for your needs.

Erin graduated from Southern Methodist University in May 2005 with a bachelor’s of art degree in journalism. Before transferring to SMU in 2003, she attended Louisiana Tech University for two years. During her time at SMU, she held two internships in public relations with Laurey Peat & Associates and Richards/Gravelle, the PR affiliate of The Richards Group. She was also a volunteer for Young Life, a high school outreach ministry where she got to hang out with kids and develop friendships with them. She lives with her husband David, and they plan to add to their family soon by adopting a puppy.

Sanjay Gulabani

Summary:

- Sun Certified Java Programmer, etc.

- 8 years of Industry experience

He has several degrees and certifications in the computer field, he is our Senior Programmer Analyst. He has a Master of Science degree in Computing from University of Technology Sydney that is based in Sydney, Australia. He also has a Certificate Diploma in Information Technology from Monash University that is based in Melbourne, Australia and Masters Diploma in Software Engineering from Aptech Computer Education that is based in Bombay, India on top of a Bachelor of Science degree from Bombay University in India. He is a Sun certified Java 2 Programmer.

He is currently on a full-time contract engagement with Xtria and helps out on a part-time basis with any internal technology and external small business projects.

He has over 8 years of industry experience and has worked around the world in countries like India and Australia before coming to America in 1999. To keep his extensive work history short, his most recent engagements were in America with iXL and Trilogy.

He believes that the right designs involve extensive creative thinking and will save an enormous amount of effort in later stages of software development. He is also actively involved in the Art of Living, a non-profit organization that is dedicated to making the world a better place for everyone through ancient yogic techniques. He is thoroughly committed to giving back to the community by participating in this and other volunteer organizations in community service.

He also spends his time traveling, experimenting with photography and hiking. He too is a Vegetarian. We can't keep track of how many languages he can speak but we are confident that he is fluent in English, Hindi, Marathi, and Sindhi.

John

One of our newest team members that works on our projects on a need basis. He is an experienced Database and Java developer. He also has expertise in .NET technologies. His full bio will be posted here very soon.

Rosalinda Thummalapalli -

is a native of Texas and has a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Southwest Texas State University. She has worked in governmental accounting for 4 years at the University of Texas at Austin before joining Small Biz Niche and Thummas Corporation in October 2002. She recently sat for the CPA Exam in November 2003.

She is deeply involved in the business side of the company and manages all the accounting, reporting, legal aspects of the business. She is working on Accounting Corner http://www.AccountingCorner.com/ a spin-off company that is focussed on offering accounting services including accounting software setup as soon as she obtains her CPA.

She too is a vegetarian and is bilingual (English and Spanish). Her personal interests include reading, traveling, word puzzles, and logic problems.

Amy Naumann -

is also a native of Texas and is currently attending Austin Community College. She is our Executive Assistant who keeps us organized, does our book keeping, and works on anything that has an administrative component to it. She is currently being trained in Sales & Marketing so you will see her at trade shows and recruiting events.

She has many creative talents and is also involved in graphics design, and anything requiring creativity around our office.

Her personal interests include photography and music. She can't wait to throw our best Christmas party ever in 2003.

She is a very high energy individual with a positive attitude. You will probably run into her at some point working with us either on the telephone or through email.

Sarat Madipalli -

is based in our India R&D Center. He has a Master of Computer Applications degree from the prestigious University of Hyderabad, India. He also has a Bachelor of Science degree from Andhra University, India and his master's paper was recently selected for presentation at a national seminar in Chennai, India on Algorithms and Artificial Systems. He is a co-author on this paper.

He is currently finishing training in the J2EE technologies and is involved in the administrative setup of our R&D operations in India.

He will be supporting our offshore software development on some product ideas that we have. He will also be directly involved in our technology research efforts at both a theoretical and practical level.