Ravi Mynampaty

Summary

Expert in Enterprise & Website Search. Highly skilled in software development, systems programming, and Internet technologies.
Currently playing the lead role in jump-starting and running the findability program at Harvard Business School, including the design and implementation of search tools and user interfaces. Previous experience in the data storage and financial industries.
Very interested in human languages. Studied Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), and Sanskrit. Fluent in Urdu-Hindi and Telugu.
Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) volunteer for the town of Southborough, MA.

An Incremental Approach to Improving Enterprise Search, co-authored article published in Enterprise Search Sourcebook 2008.
Managing Your Search Engine, presented at Enterprise Search Summit 2008, New York, NY
Implementing One-Stop Enterprise Search, presented at Enterprise Search Summit West 2007, San Jose, CA
Implementing Enterprise Search at Harvard Business School, presented at Enterprise Information Management 2007, San Francisco, CA
User-Centered Search Results Page Design, presented at Enterprise Search Summit 2006, New York, NY

Harvard University: Candidate in the Master of Liberal Arts (ALM) degree program in Linguistics
Brandeis University: Master of Software Engineering (MSE)
University of Massachusetts: BS/MS in Engineering

UX/IA: Enterprise Search, Website Search & Navigation, Information Architecture, User Research, Web Analytics, Search Analytics, Usability Testing
Computer Languages: Java, Python, Jython, Perl, C, C++, UML, Unix shell, SQL, JavaScript, VBScript
Internet Technologies: JSP, Servlets, ATG Dynamo, JavaBeans, CGI, Apache, mod_perl, ASP, IIS, HTML, XML, CSS, XSLT, JSON
Search Engines/Technologies: Ultraseek, Lucene
Operating Systems: Unix, Linux, Windows, IBM VM
Databases: Oracle, Sybase, MySQL, JDBC, Perl DBD/DBI
Data Storage Concepts: RAID, DAS, SAN, NAS, Backup & Restore
Systems: Unix installation, configuration, system/network administration