Software Council of Southern California

Offshore outsourcing of IT jobs is a phenomenon that is here to stay despite the fierce political debate. It is driven by global trends and forces that for the most part are beyond the control of any nation-state. So how do you deal with these forces and trends so as not only to compete better, but to create higher paying and better quality jobs at home, and of course, increase profits. Can you ignore the risks of not evaluating what can be outsourced and where, what to keep in-house, what to pay etc?

Please join us on October 7, 2004, when our panel of experts discusses current trends in, and the benefits and pitfalls of, offshore outsourcing.

As one of the founders of Murano Software and its CEO, Dimitri focuses primarily on managing and growing the company and working with our customers. Dimitri is a software industry veteran with extensive business and technical background, including over a decade of experience in senior positions with several southern California software firms. Prior to founding Murano, Dimitri was a chief technical architect for the nation's largest real estate website, Realtor.com. He played an integral role in designing the architecture and managing the development of the highly-scalable, innovative real-estate search engine technology that became the crown-jewel and main traffic draw to the highly successful Realtor.com website. Before Realtor.com, Dimitri led application software development efforts for Treasury Services, a Santa Monica-based financial applications provider, until the company was acquired by Oracle to become a part of Oracle's Financial Applications division. While there, he was instrumental in developing a complex financial analytical engine that was adopted by the largest financial institutions in the world.

Satish has 16 years of experience managing large technology teams and delivering enterprise software products. Satish has worked at large companies like Wipro and BEA and has helped build companies from the ground floor, including PointCast (acquired by AOL), KnowNow Inc., Good Technologies and Women.com (acquired by iVillage) - the last of which he helped take public. He has successfully raised capital, been instrumental in key sales and partnership opportunities, and built large and small teams from scratch both in the U.S. and off-shore. Immediately before coming to CoreObjects, Satish was the head of Weblogic Integration at BEA. Satish was the original VP of Engineering at KnowNow Inc. where he launched the company, championed new product development, acted as the primary contact for prominent clients such as Morgan Stanley, PeopleSoft, and others and managed the release of five cutting-edge products. At PointCast, Satish was the VP of Engineering where he led over 140 engineers and spearheaded the company's first web portal effort while managing a scalable system that distributed more than 400 million pages daily. Satish earned a BS in Computer Science from Mysore University where he graduated fourth in his class.