Mr.Subburaj Ramasamy is Senior Director and Head of two leading service organizations namely Electronics Test & Development Centre (ETDC) and Centre For Reliability (CFR) at Chennai under the Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, New Delhi). He has been serving the Government of India organizations in various capacities during the last 32 years, which includes 10 years of service in the Ministry (known then as Department of Electronics). He holds M.Tech degree from IIT. Some of his achievements are given below: § Awarded the India's prestigious Lal C Verman Award for the year 2003 in recognition of his distinguished contributions in the area of Standardization, Quality Control & Precision Measurements. § He is a well-known software quality expert and is one of the authorized trainers of Carnegie Mellon University / Software Engineering Institute, USA for Software Capability Maturity Model (CMM). § He was the first project coordinator for the Soft QC/QM project which brought CMM technologies to India very quickly and it resulted in certification of many CMM level 5 companies in India and thereby accelerated growth of Indian software industry. § He has contributed to the setting up of India's prestigious Centre for Development of Advance Computing (C-DAC) as a mission mode project for development of Super Computers and 3 Electronics Research & Development Centres (now merged in C-DAC) during the late 1980s. § When personal computers were making their debut in India, he played a nodal role for formulating specifications and certification schemes thereby enabling fast growth of the industry, based on quality and reliability of the product and systems. § He was the coordinator of the high level team, which drafted the project report for Electronics Money Order Transfer Project through satellite for Indian Department of Posts during the early 90s. § As Chief Executive of Electronics Test & Development Centre, Chennai, since 1991, he turned it around through prompt services and TQM principles and enabled it to become the Nation's prestigious testing (including software testing) and calibration laboratory. § He is an author of 5 books that include Total Quality Management and Programming in C++. He has published and presented number of articles in National / International journals and conferences.
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