7x24 Exchange Fall 06' Conference

Dr. T.K. Srinivas

Dr. T.K. Srinivas
Director
Avaya Labs

Avaya - Squuezing the Last Nine in Reaching Five Nines Availability

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TK Srinivas is a Director at Avaya CTO organization responsible for End to End Strategy and Architecture for factors such as Reliability, Manageability, Serviceability, Security, Voice Quality and performance. Prior to this he was Director of Engineering and held other roles such as Chief Architect for Avaya Global Services organization. In those roles he led the creation of Avaya's next generation Service Delivery Platform and Remote Monitoring and Management Service Systems.

In 2005 TK earned the coveted IEEE Region 1 Award reserved for 0.01% of engineers in the technical category and cited for "Outstanding leadership and development of IP Telephony Systems"

Over the last 20 years TK has led teams in all facets of product development from systems engineering & architecture to system maintenance & support at Bell Labs (AT&T, Lucent, and Avaya ). In these roles he has been involved in architecting and developing Network Management Systems utilizing the appropriate use of technologies such as J2EE, XML, Directory and Identity Management etc, evolving current Management systems to support the converged networks and publishing papers in conferences and journals. TK Srinivas joined the Bell System in 1981. He has BSc Honors degree in Physics from St Stephens College, Delhi University; an MS in experimental physics from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) at Kanpur; and an MS degree in Computer Science and a PhD in Theoretical solid state physics from the State University of New York at Buffalo.