Bio of Srikanth Raju

Srikanth Raju works as Senior Technology Manager and Head of Technical Services and Consultancy, Forum Nokia - Americas at Nokia. In this positin, Srikanth and his team will be working feverishly to help ISVs, network operators, and developers learn and adopt Nokia technology platforms and solve their problems. Prior to joining Nokia on Jan 31, 2005, Srikanth worked atSun Microsystems as a Staff Engineer and Chief Wireless Technology Evangelist .

Srikanth has extensive experience in Software Development, specifically in Java, Distributed, and Wireless Technologies. Srikanth has and continues to consult, speak, teach and write about Java and Wireless technologies. Srikanth has published extensively and has spoken intechnical conferences around the world. Srikanth's publications appeared in noted journals such as ACMQueue, JavaWorld, etc., in addition to many of Sun's on-line resources such as Evangcentral, Sun's wireless portal, Sun Developer Connection, etc. Srikanth is also a owner of two patent pending inventions using the J2ME, and JavaCard Technologies. Srikanth is also a Sun Certified Programmer for Java 2 Platform( ceded to Sun).

Prior to joining Sun, Srikanth spent close to 3 years as Lead Software Engineer at Oracle Corporation. Prior to that he spent over 5 years at Borland International, Inc., holding positions as Software Developer, Software Development Manager in various Product Development Groups. Srikanth has a BS degree in Electrical Engineering and a MS degree in Computer Science