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CONTENTS

I A-D A-D 4 K 11

Abhishek Gupta Karthik Yalamanchili

Ajoy Stephenson 4 Kevin Currier 11

Amrendra Kumar 5 Kim Skov 12

Andrea de Freitas 5 M

Anil Vidya Sagar Adavi 6 Malleswara Rao Namburi 12

PM K Anna Pastore Pena 6 Mani Agarwalla 13

David Payne 7 Michael Drnec 13

Dawn Cassidy 7 Mike Bednar 14

Deepak Jain 8 P 14
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I Pavani Yerrabati

Igor Bril Pawan Kumar Joshi 15

Indra Bhanu Nandigam 9 Praveen Kumar Desam 15

Javan Tennant 9 R

Jordan Walters 10 Raghavendra Kiran 16

R Jos Vandevelde 10 Ramesh Verma Dandu 16

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Samant Debashish Ray 17 Uday Kumar

Satish Appasani 17 Vasantha Kumar Mannam 24

Sekhar Reddy 18 Vedantham S. Prasad 25

Shanti Kumar Sapa 18 Veerendra Kumar 25

Shanying Zhang 19 Venkata Shanmukh 26

Shashidhar Paruchuru 19 Vicki Rorie 26 VW

Shyam Sundar 20 Vijay Sai 27

Srihari Vadlamudi 20 Wei Song 27

Srikanth Chagarlamudi 21

Srikanth Kali 21

Srikanth Neelamraju 22

Subramanian Adaikalam 22

Subramanyam Pasumarti 23

Suchitra Subramanianr 23

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Abhishek Gupta Ajoy Stephenson

SENIOR DIRECTOR Sr. Manager, Software Development

FAV SUPERHERO: FAV SUPERHERO:
Iron-Man because that’s
Superman, may be
the decal I’ve on my because, the only
laptop, so can’t deviate.
Superhero comic I had
ABOUT ME
ABOUT ME access to as a kid
Hard core engineer, extrovert and loves to
connect with people. My love is for Cricket and As my name says, I am always A Joy to be with. Also
Travelling and only connection between two is, I
want to hit a century of exploring countries and my full name can be split into proper words:
culture.
My other half is also engineer and more educated A JOY STEP HEN SON (yes Ajoy Stephenson), can
than me and we are family with 6 years old
daughter and 2 years old son. you do yours?

MY SUPERPOWER I am married and have a daughter. I like travelling

Like ‘Professor-X’ – ability to read people’s mind and trying out local cuisines. Lately started trying my
to help them with the best of my capacity.
hands on cooking. I like all kinds of sports, mostly
WHAT I DO AT SUMTOTAL
outdoor.
I’m responsible for development and quality of
Mobile, Reporting and Automation practices MY SUPERPOWER
within engineering department.
Would like to Heal others’ pain and sorrows by my
MY SUMTOTAL EXPERIENCE
healing touch.
I’ve been with this organization for more than 15
years and best I like about is: PEOPLE. People, WHAT I DO AT SUMTOTAL
who work for you, whom you work for, whom you
want to work with, learn from, interact with and • Manage the Expense product Engineering team.
hang-out with ☺. Amazing talent around. • Work with PS to implement customer request as we
don’t have a PS Development/QA team for Expense
Product.
• Helping WFM team in migrating Clock firmware
from Win CE to Win 10 platform.
• Contribute to CSR programs.

MY SUMTOTAL EXPERIENCE

• 11 years with SumTotal
• Good work culture & enjoy the work that I do.
• Got to work on multiple products and technologies
(Toolbook, PM 8x, WFM Clock, TM SEG, Expense)
and got opportunity to lead teams and projects which
helped my professional growth.
• Got the opportunity to work with a group of talented
Engineering Leaders.

Abhishek Gupta Andrea de Freitas

Manager, Development Group Manager

FAV SUPERHERO FAV SUPERHERO
ANT MAN Changes with each movie I see.

ABOUT ME Right now it’s probably Dr.
Strange after seeing Benedict
Graduate from IIT (A highly competitive
university, acceptance rate < 1%) Cumberbatch play him.
Love walking, picture puzzles.
ABOUT ME
MY SUPERPOWER
• I have ten and twelve year old sons who make life
Incredible scalability an adventure – from camping to Comic-con to Legos
and nerf fights in the house.
WHAT I DO AT SUMTOTAL • Recreational triathlete
• My officemate and running partner is a four year old
I am currently leading a team of 9 engineers and Standard Poodle named Sweet Pea
owning following modules in the SumTotal Suite. • Book worm - read or listen to about 100 books a
My day to day activity with the team involves year. Since my boys are too we tend to have books
guiding and designing the product with them. littering every surface of the house.
• Recruiting
• My team MY SUPERPOWER
• Continuous feedback
• Unified Development plan Not sure about a super power, but I would love a
• User management Tardis if you’re making a Christmas list.

MY SUMTOTAL EXPERIENCE WHAT I DO AT SUMTOTAL

11+ year at SumTotal Lead the Maestro Engineering team
I feel most fortunate to be working with wonderful
people at SumTotal and my team. They keep me MY SUMTOTAL EXPERIENCE
going every single day.
• 17 years with the company
• I like working on a product that has value both in
terms of sales for our company and in terms of value
to our customers who use it every day. It’s always
cool to talk to customers about the things they love
about Maestro.
• Though of course the faces have changed over the
17 years I have been with the company, the team
has always been a lot of fun. Humor and games are
as important a part of the culture as customer service
and quality.

Anil Vidya Sagar Adavi Anna Pastore Pena

QA Manager Senior Program Manager

FAV SUPERHERO FAV SUPERHERO
IRON MAN
ABOUT ME THE FLASH
ABOUT ME
Outside of work, I stay busy with 3 young boys (ages
• Free time: Spending time with Wife, Baby Girl
• Hobbies: Playing TT, Snooker 6, 4, 1.5). Also, I love to travel and will gladly

MY SUPERPOWER vacation in any Caribbean island!

Unknown MY SUPERPOWER

WHAT I DO AT SUMTOTAL Flying

• Planning, Execution, Tracking related to QA WHAT I DO AT SUMTOTAL
activities for The Groot Squad
• Responsible for Quality Deliverables for the PMO for Core, 508, Social, UA
features on which the Groot Squad is working
• Mentoring the team members in the each phase MY SUMTOTAL EXPERIENCE
of the Sprint
• Been here close to 15 years.
MY SUMTOTAL EXPERIENCE • Best part of working here is the people and there is
always something new to do.
• It has been 12 years
•Good working culture, life balance and
motivation from Manager

David Payne Dawn Cassidy

Senior Manager, User Assistance Vice President Global Talent Management

FAV SUPERHERO FAV SUPERHERO
When I was a kid, the
golden age Flash. As an ABOUT ME Wonder Woman: First
adult, I’m fond of how female superhero
Hawkeye was represented introduced in the
in the Avenger movies 1940s

ABOUT ME After a day being focused on my laptop and in

• Father of 6 kids in a blended family meetings, I head outdoors. My favorite pastimes are:
• Writing is my passion
• Completed 7 out of 8 consecutive NaNoWriMo • Forestry
attempts
• Enjoy all things space and beach (just got back • Hiking
from Space Center Houston and Galveston
Beach) • Kayaking

MY SUPERPOWER • Getting my home ready for downsizing

The ability to survive in space. Because SPACE! • Growing and launching my 2 daughters

WHAT I DO AT SUMTOTAL MY SUPERPOWER

• Documentation The ability to travel through space and time. That
• User Assistance material way, I could show up live for meetings without having
• Coordinate readiness each release to deal with the banalities of transportation. Wonder
• String reviews Woman has her own invisible plane, so she’s pretty
close to my role model.
MY SUMTOTAL EXPERIENCE
WHAT I DO AT SUMTOTAL
• June 2000 – just shy of 18 years (Softscape to
SumTotal to Skillsoft) Enable employees, partners and customers to use
• Best part about being here: the people our products successfully including:
• Managing SumTotal Learn solutions for 60,000
users
• Designing new Adopt solutions to meet user needs
• Ensuring high-quality documentation and training

MY SUMTOTAL EXPERIENCE

20 years in June 2018
In my 20 years here, one year has never been the
same as the next, so my work changes dramatically.
I love the constant change, the edginess, and the
ability to contribute to building powerful solutions in
many different ways.

Deepak Jain Igor Bril

QA Manager Director, Engineering

FAV SUPERHERO FAV SUPERHERO
NAGRAJ SumTotal Engineer

My first Indian - fiction on a deadline
comic superhero
ABOUT ME
ABOUT ME
• I was born in Kiev, Ukraine
•Simple, down to earth, believer of Charles • I live outside of Boston with my wife, 2 kids,
Darwin theory and applied this to day today life. and 1 dog
• Love watching motivational movies
• Married , proud father of a darling son who is 5 MY SUPERPOWER
years old.
• Can find some needles in certain haystacks
MY SUPERPOWER • Can herd cats if they are trained
• Can sometimes exaggerate and embellish
I have the one, I can feel inside, if something is
not right. That is applicable wherever I involved WHAT I DO AT SUMTOTAL
myself personally.
• User Experience Team Lead
WHAT I DO AT SUMTOTAL • System Architecture Development and Analysis
• Burlington Soda Orderer
• Handling the SumTotal product SEG for Elix,
arch and TM products MY SUMTOTAL EXPERIENCE
• Handling QA part: Ant-man Squad that deal
with Social stories. • Started with Softscape in 2004
• I like being involved in the company’s continuous
MY SUMTOTAL EXPERIENCE growth and evolution

• Worked for 8+ years in SumTotal and then
re-joined again and now its almost 2+ years
completed.
•I feel the ownership working with SumTotal.

Indra Bhanu Nandigam Javan Tennant

Senior Manager, Development Group Manager

FAV SUPERHERO

GOD

(G-Generator,

O-Operator, FAV SUPERHERO
D-Destroyer)
BATMAN
ABOUT ME He’s just a normal guy who

• I am from Hyderabad, India. My family contains gets super things done.

Father (N.V.Rao), Mother (Indira Devi), Wife ABOUT ME

(Sreesathi), daughters (Druthi & Sruthi) • I love problem solving and designing simple
solutions to complex issues.
• I like playing with kids, watching movies, spiritual • I love the outdoors and all sports: hiking,
kayaking, tennis, soccer, etc.
teachings etc., • I love my girls – we’re always together!

• I like travelling & exploring new things MY SUPERPOWER

MY SUPERPOWER Avoiding meetings. I’m working on developing it.

I believe in Human power and can achieve anything WHAT I DO AT SUMTOTAL
with it.
• Manage the Core group
WHAT I DO AT SUMTOTAL • Work on Architecture
• Handle client escalations
• Lead DevOps team (onshore/offshore) to manage
sumtotal suite builds, deployment tools (Installers), MY SUMTOTAL EXPERIENCE
Propagations, Infrastructure for engineering, Source
control across products, Release management, This year makes 16 years for me at SumTotal. I
SaaS/Premised deployments etc. like the people I work with and the product we
• Design, Develop & improve sumtotal products by deliver.
providing constant technical guidance to teams
across organization
• SME on Installers & Build process across sumtotal
suite

MY SUMTOTAL EXPERIENCE

• Joined Sumtotal family on June 1, 2007 and since
then I servers in various roles & responsibilities in the
organization and enjoyed every moment of it by
growing along with it
• Sumtotal made me a strong & constant learner in
quickly adopting new technologies and culture to
compete market.
• Sumtotal Leadership always shows trust in the
team members and give opportunities to grow.

Jordan Waters Jos Vandevelde

Manager, Engineering Services Vice President, Engineering

FAV SUPERHERO FAV SUPERHERO

Doctor Who Hong Kong Phooey &
(Matt Smith version), Black Widow
Guardians of the Galaxy
ABOUT ME
(movie version),
David Dunn in Unbreakable • My real name is: Roeland Hilde Leo Van de

(2000 movie) Velde, but that is way too long in the USA, so I

ABOUT ME “Americanized” it to Jos Vandevelde

• My wife and I celebrated our 25th wedding • Hobbies: Running and Sudoku
anniversary last September
• I am a 4.0 USTA rated tennis player • I understand Dutch, English, French, German,
• Recently, I had a gig as a DJ, including live
dance remixing and overdubs Japanese, Portuguese, C, C++, C# and Java

MY SUPERPOWER • Just moved to Gainesville-FL last month; before

I’d be more along the lines of Iron Man or that in Orlando-FL, Las Vegas-NV, Napa-CA and
Batman, not really possessing any powers. If I
need some ability, I’ll build something. West Orange-NJ

WHAT I DO AT SUMTOTAL MY SUPERPOWER

• Lead the TM sustenance team I would like to be capable of reading other
• Help resolve cross-pillar customer issues people’s mind. That would make my life so much
• Mentor new developers easier, especially with my wife
• Provide support for legacy MindSolve
applications WHAT I DO AT SUMTOTAL

MY SUMTOTAL EXPERIENCE Lead some of the engineering teams:
Architecture, Development, QA
Hire date: January 2004
• I like the challenge of trying to solve the varied MY SUMTOTAL EXPERIENCE
customer issues that come in
• I like the flexible work environment Only 1 month at SumTotal
• I enjoy working with the sustenance team, I Like: being surrounded by many enthusiastic
especially helping new developers become and knowledgeable people, my boss , and the
proficient fact that SumTotal operates in Human Capital
Management, something that is dear to my heart.

Karthik Yalamanchili Kevin Currier

Senior Manager, QA SVP & Chief Architect, Engineering

FAV SUPERHERO

FAV SUPERHERO ABOUT ME CAPTAIN AMERICA

THE FLASH • Have been married for almost 18 years to my best

ABOUT ME friend, Kristy.

Spend lot of time with my daughter who keeps • We have 3 kids (Caleb-14, Caitlyn-12 & Cameron-10)
me super busy and I am gadget freak, always
looking for new stuff which is coming up. that keep us very busy.

MY SUPERPOWER • I spend a lot of time volunteering time and participating

Speed, love to move around in a matter of in activities at my kids’ schools and our church.
milli-seconds.
• I love playing sports, especially Basketball, but don’t get
WHAT I DO AT SUMTOTAL
to play often enough. ;). I also like watching sports,
Manage the Core QA Team
Take care of customer escalation mainly in especially college sports.
Search, Dashboard and other Core areas
• I have 2 degrees from the University of Florida here in
MY SUMTOTAL EXPERIENCE
Gainesville. Go Gators!
13 Years
SumTotal is a place where I met and worked with • In High School and College, I did a lot of water skiing -
some incredibly passionate, smart, funny, and
friendly people and in particular, did a lot of barefoot skiing and training.
SumTotal has helped me to innovate and
implement new ideas Nothing like sliding across the water at 40 miles per hour

on your bare feet!

MY SUPERPOWER

I swore I would never reveal my super-power to the world!
It would be really sweet to be able to fly like Superman
though.

WHAT I DO AT SUMTOTAL

Enable and empower the SumTotal Engineering team to
produce and maintain world-class solutions for our
amazing customers and prospects around the world.

MY SUMTOTAL EXPERIENCE

I started with the company in 1999 through MindSolve
Technologies -- so I have been here a few years now.
While I could give the cliché answers of the people I have
worked with -- ultimately I like working on something that
has critical value to companies around the world. I am
wired in a way that I thrive on taking in a lot of
information, processing it to then design improved
solutions; and I have had the opportunity to do this day
after day in this company.

Kim Skov Malleswara Rao Namburi

Development Manager, Workforce Management Manager, Development

FAV SUPERHERO

King Leonidas

(story has been pictured with the name,

300 – surprisingly that is my employee

FAV SUPERHERO ABOUT ME code in SumTotal)

Dr. Manhattan from Watchmen Married to Sujana(lovely wife)and having a 5

ABOUT ME years old daughter, Hladiny (she calls herself as

• I live in Wayne, NJ with my wife, our two cats princess.)
and our dog.
• I’m originally from Denmark and I’ve also lived Love taking photographs and capture lovely
in Belgium before coming to the US in 1999.
• My hobbies include soccer, video gaming, moments of nature and my family. Also like
miniature wargaming and RPGs.
travelling.
MY SUPERPOWER
MY SUPERPOWER
I would pick super regeneration/healing like
Wolverine. I wish to have… If I have, I could(like in the
movie 300) show the courage and unbreakable
WHAT I DO AT SUMTOTAL will of men(team) with determination and strive to
become legend
• Plan and manage dev sprint work for WFM
• Feature dev work, bug fixes and bug triage for WHAT I DO AT SUMTOTAL
WFM
• Manage security scan, build automation for • Managing customer issues which includes
WFM. backlog tracking, triaging and routing cases
• Leading Administrator and Learner manager
MY SUMTOTAL EXPERIENCE modules
• Managing customer escalations and resolutions
• I’ve been with SumTotal and previously • Team productivity metrics
CyberShift since 2007 (10.5 years)
• My favorite part of the job is the people I work MY SUMTOTAL EXPERIENCE
with.
Working with Sumtotal for 12+ years. Great work
culture and the table is always open for growth
opportunities. Sumtotal is good at putting people
in right positions to maximize their strengths.
They care about people and help us to grow,
strive to learn new skill sets and appreciate

Mani Agarwalla Michael Drnec

Program Manager Software Development Manager

FAV SUPERHERO FAV SUPERHERO

One-punch Man Professor X

ABOUT ME ABOUT ME

• Born and brought up in a small town in India. Everyone calls me “Drink”
Studied across different cities in India. • Work remotely in St Louis, MO
• Hobbies: Amateurish Trekking, Running, • Dad to 4 year old fraternal twins
Movies, Fiction, Thespian, Snooker, TT • Love tennis, board games, tinkering with PCs or
• I just got engaged on April 1 and will be mrried Raspberry Pi, Reading
on July 7. My fiancée works in IBM.
• I have a younger brother researching on Solar MY SUPERPOWER
energy in Lucern, Switzerland.
• My parents maintain a farm house and run a Sample text in Arial
plantation business for coconuts, banana, litchis,
eucalyptus and many other fruits and vegetables. WHAT I DO AT SUMTOTAL

MY SUPERPOWER Work primarily on SumTotal Growth Edition
(Maestro) product, where I:
Existence Manipulation
● Run the development side of the Features
WHAT I DO AT SUMTOTAL Sprints

• PMO owner for Percipio Experience Services ● Coordinate architecture for the product
and New Learner & Search Experience themes ● Manage my team of 5 dev direct reports
• Power BI dashboarding - Engineering owner ● Mentor newer developers
• Other PMO responsibilities - Revamping
Processes, Release planning, Security testing, MY SUMTOTAL EXPERIENCE
etc.
I’ve been at SumTotal for 7.5 years (acquired
MY SUMTOTAL EXPERIENCE with Geolearning). I love working on the Maestro
project with our monthly Agile releases, growing
5 years 8 months the product, constantly learning new technology
• Open door culture and making the product better for customers.
• Experimentation and Adaptation
• Amazing people to work with
• You get the chance to work on stuff you are
passionate about

Mike Bednar Pavani Yerrabati

Senior Director, Engineering QA Lead

FAV SUPERHERO FAV SUPERHERO

ABOUT ME SPIDERMAN CAPTAIN AMERICA

• My wife (Sona) and I recently celebrated our ABOUT ME

23rd anniversary. • I am working as a QA lead in SumTotal from
past 3 yrs. Before that, I worked with Infosys.
• We have two sons, both attend Ohio State • I like to do yoga, cook, travel and as usual
shopping (which is in built hobby for girls)
University • I live in Hyderabad, have 9 yrs old son and a 5
yrs old daughter .
• Avid audiobook & podcast listener: economics,
MY SUPERPOWER
tech, social, politics, science
If I have a super power, I would like to rewind
MY SUPERPOWER sometimes and correct them

To be able to score 50-yard line tickets to any WHAT I DO AT SUMTOTAL
NCAA football game at will.
• Involve in designing the product
WHAT I DO AT SUMTOTAL • Makes the product run smoothly without any
issues.
• Manage the Pathlore LMS, Mainframe, • Find out the issues in the product , before
Toolbook, TruTrack, Boomerang, Payroll, WFM, customer
and Expense eng teams
• Still actively coding on Pathlore MY SUMTOTAL EXPERIENCE
• Support the “Classic” iOS and Android apps
• I have been with SumTotal from 3 yrs.
MY SUMTOTAL EXPERIENCE • Best part of Sumtotal is the work culture.

• Worked for Pathlore since its inception in 1995.
Pathlore spun off from Computer Associates,
where I started in 1993.
• Pathlore was acquired by SumTotal in 2005
• Afraid to do the math ;)
• I appreciate the variety of work assignments,
flexibility, and the people.

Pawan Joshi Praveen Kumar Desam

Senior Manager, Development Group Manager – QA, Engineering

FAV SUPERHERO FAV SUPERHERO

BATMAN HULK and Superman

ABOUT ME ABOUT ME

New hobby - playing with my daughter. Love to play Cricket and have interest in multiple
Passionate about the game of football aka soccer sports, love to travel different places across
- Chelsea FC fan. world, Like to spend lot of time with my Wife and
8 year old son
MY SUPERPOWER
MY SUPERPOWER
If I could have a superpower, it would be to know
future beforehand so that can adjust present for a Power to control the future
more desired future
WHAT I DO AT SUMTOTAL
WHAT I DO AT SUMTOTAL
Manage Quality assurance of our Enterprise
• Head Payroll (Development) India team Learn platform, also managed the
• Manage Core Product suite releases for Payroll productizations
• Works on anything/everything we can’t get
resources for MY SUMTOTAL EXPERIENCE

MY SUMTOTAL EXPERIENCE • Have been with SumTotal for past 14 + years
• I have enjoyed working here due to the
• Will be completing 6 years soon rather very following
soon. Best team to work with
• I like the flexibility and overall positivity. New and interesting work to take up for every
release
Love the CSR initiatives that are taken up in Hyd
office

Raghavendra Kiran Rachuri Ramesh Dandu

Director, Engineering Group Manager

FAV SUPERHERO FAV SUPERHERO

Wolverine (Logan) My College Professor
who influenced my life
ABOUT ME
in many ways
• Love to spend time with my family - twins (girl &
boy) born in Aug’16 ABOUT ME
• Believe in Karma
• Sports enthusiast; love to watch any sport or Like to read and discuss Philosophy and
game leadership material
• Love traveling to new places Right now very busy with two teen age daughters
Love to cook whenever I get time
MY SUPERPOWER
MY SUPERPOWER
Mind control
If I had super powers, I would like to change
WHAT I DO AT SUMTOTAL myself into a more humble, grateful and truthful
person in life.
• Handle feature design, development and
sustenance efforts primarily for Learn and Unified WHAT I DO AT SUMTOTAL
platforms
• Most recent efforts include Percipio integration, • Engineering Owner for WFM Product
xAPI/CMI5 features, Harvard-ST Integration, • Responsible for Product Roadmap
Data Import, SFDC Integration etc. • Responsible for maintaining Release Discipline
• Work with PS, CS, CO teams on various for WFM product
customer escalations and in-house areas • Responsible for High Quality delivers in every
release and at the same time be agile and
MY SUMTOTAL EXPERIENCE responsive to Product Management changes

• Have been with SumTotal for past 15+ years MY SUMTOTAL EXPERIENCE
• Depth of the product and great customer base
• Every day I get to learn newer things along with Completed 4 years
product functionality, technical challenges
• People I work and interact with

Samant Ray Satish Appasani

QA Manager Senior Manager, Development

FAV SUPERHERO

He-Man

ABOUT ME (Masters of the Universe)

I born and bought up in Bhubaneswar, India. A

typical Odiya who can’t imagine life without Pani puri,

Chat & street foods. My love for food does not stop FAV SUPERHERO

at eating, in spare time I do cook to pamper my taste Captain America

buds. ABOUT ME

I am happily married and have a cute, little, loving • Married to Sheela and have a eleven years old
son.
daughter • Cycling is my fun activity and my stress buster.
• Like to learn new technologies and engineering
MY SUPERPOWER best practices. Read lot of books.
• Occasional posting pictures to Instagram
If I could have own superpower, I wish I could spread
happiness and love wherever I go. In today’s World, MY SUPERPOWER
when we loosing hope from Humanity and Sanity, I
would have tried my best to retain humanity, so that Tactical and idealist like Captain America
people would feel happy and strive to serve people to
make every person smile. WHAT I DO AT SUMTOTAL

WHAT I DO AT SUMTOTAL • Innovate
• Define, Develop & Deliver
• Predominantly I work as an IC and contribute via • Educate teams
automation framework development and
maintenance. Almost each day I am presented with MY SUMTOTAL EXPERIENCE
new challenges and situations, which really helps me
to stay focused and interested Been with SumTotal for 12+ years. I enjoy the
• Along with this I manage the core automation team challenging work, opportunity to work on a large
• Apart from above, I have also registered myself for enterprise application and innovation.
CSR activities

MY SUMTOTAL EXPERIENCE

• I have been working with sumtotal for more than 12
years
• I feel I am appreciated and allowed to take initiative
to get things accomplished
• I am trusted
• I have the freedom to do my job without being
micro-managed or questioned on decisions I make

Chandra Sekhar Reddy Shanti Kumar Sapa
Guntakrindapalli
Group Manager – PMO
Group Manager - Engineering

FAV SUPERHERO FAV SUPERHERO

THE FLASH SPIDERMAN

ABOUT ME ABOUT ME

I am a casual person. At work I work for results • I am simple, silent and little strict at work to get
instead of task completion. For every task, I the things done with positive attitude.
strive to take it to next level. • I love to play cricket (although getting little old),
Family: Wife and 2 kids are living with me in chess .
GNV. I have a big family at my native place and • I watch movies along with my family most of the
we do frequent video calls (thanks for times.
technology).
MY SUPERPOWER
MY SUPERPOWER
I would help people that need it really fast
Travel faster than the speed of light. (faster than
Flash) WHAT I DO AT SUMTOTAL

WHAT I DO AT SUMTOTAL Program Manage
• Multiple Product Releases
I do manage multiple pillars from QA (Arch, (Major ,Minor , etc, etc)
elixHR, Recruiting, TM, Social) • Productizations covering PS team
• Customer Audits Support
MY SUMTOTAL EXPERIENCE • Process Improvements
• Vendor Management
I have been at SUMT since 14 Years. Best about
being here : Challenging work has made my MY SUMTOTAL EXPERIENCE
tenure at SUMT enjoyable (Not sure whether I
always get challenging work or I do consider My 15th year will be completed on Jul 14th 2018.
every task that I get as a challenge) To be simple and straight fwd I like best being
here are :
• Work
• Culture
• People
• Innovation

Shanying Zhang Shashidhar Paruchuru

Director, Engineering Senior Manager QA

FAV SUPERHERO FAV SUPERHERO

UNKNOWN UNKNOWN

ABOUT ME ABOUT ME

I have one son and one daughter, they are the • Nature: Calm, introvert, hardworking and
best gift I got in my life. I love travel and watching honest.
movies for my free time • Hobbies: Listening music, Watching TV
• Family: Spouse in housewife, 2 teenage
MY SUPERPOWER children, Son (20) and Daughter(16)

Teleportation MY SUPERPOWER

WHAT I DO AT SUMTOTAL If I have superpower, I would like to go back in
time and live life again.
Lead talent management engineering group
WHAT I DO AT SUMTOTAL
MY SUMTOTAL EXPERIENCE
• Performance Validation of Sumtotal Suite
• Almost 14 years (including Softscape years) products
• I love the people I am working with • Hardware Sizing & Capacity Recommendations
• Support Customers in performance validation

MY SUMTOTAL EXPERIENCE

11.5 Yrs.
• Good environment for learning
• Good Career growth opportunities
• Employee Benefits

Shyam Sundar Srihari Vadlamudi

Architecture Manager Senior Development Manager

FAV SUPERHERO FAV SUPERHERO

IRON MAN Super Man,
the first superhero
ABOUT ME
movie I watched.
My wife and I love to travel and see new places. I
am also an avid reader of History and ABOUT ME
Geopolitics.
• Masters in Computer Science with ~14 yrs of
MY SUPERPOWER exp in product development.
•Married and have 2 daughters ( 9yrs & 3 yrs )
Being able to travel anywhere in this universe. • Love to listen to music & watch cricket.

WHAT I DO AT SUMTOTAL MY SUPERPOWER

• Help build systems that are scalable and Plant billions of trees and save the earth from
reliable. global warming.
• SSO, Enterprise Search, Container Technology,
Rest API, Machine Learning, Queuing WHAT I DO AT SUMTOTAL
Architecture, REST Api, etc.
Responsible for Development and SEG of
MY SUMTOTAL EXPERIENCE Reporting & Analytics.

I have been at SumTotal for 11 years. I enjoy the MY SUMTOTAL EXPERIENCE
freedom of technical creativity that an engineer is
allowed to pursue while solving complex I have been with SumT for 8.5 years
business challenges. That along with some of the Best part:
folks that I have worked with in the past and • Friendly colleagues
continue to work with currently have always • Opportunity to work with members from multiple
inspired me (and continue to do so) to become departments
better.

Srikanth Chagarlamundi Srikanth Kali

Manager, Engineering Group Manager, QA

ABOUT ME FAV SUPERHERO

SPIDERMAN

An accomplished QA leader with over 17 years of

experience in Quality Assurance and Automation

FAV SUPERHERO Opted Computers as the Major in my Engineering and my

IRON MAN 4 years at National Institute of Technology (NIT) was a
bliss
ABOUT ME
Started my career with Sun Microsystems, and then I
• Likes travel a lot, adventures, hiking,…
• Techie, passionate about Cars & Driving worked at Oracle for 9 beautiful years where my learning
• Single, going to marry soon
curve was just vertical all the way
MY SUPERPOWER Fixated on Cricket since I was 10. Now, I continue to play

Unknown corporate cricket

WHAT I DO AT SUMTOTAL I am happily married to Sushmitha for 9 years and

• Manage Engg HW by providing environments blessed with two beautiful daughters who bring lot of
required for QA and Dev delight into my life
• Manage DevOps Build & Release Team
MY SUPERPOWER
MY SUMTOTAL EXPERIENCE
Time Manipulation. With the power of time manipulation,
• 10 years, joined as fresher in SumTotal you could turn back the clock. Good times would last
•I like to be in SumTotal be because of flexibility longer with this superpower.
and working under great leadership team
WHAT I DO AT SUMTOTAL

Providing overall Leadership for Quality Assurance
activities for Talent Management, UDM and Recruiting
products
Driving Automation Development and Automation
Execution
Focus on High Quality release and on time delivery
Resource Estimation, Capacity Planning and Release
Planning
Team Building and People Development

MY SUMTOTAL EXPERIENCE

I am 6 years young at SumTotal
My work is challenging and in general, I love to tackle
challenges
The best part of my work are my colleagues, who are now
my close peers and coming to office is so much fun when
you have them around

Srikanth Neelamraju Subramanian Adaikalam

Director, Engineering - Development Senior Manager, Talent Management

FAV SUPERHERO FAV SUPERHERO

SUPERMAN SPIDERMAN

ABOUT ME ABOUT ME

I am a passionate developer by heart. What • Simple and easy going
inspires me are the innovations and challenges in • Interest in share trading, Investment ideas
transforming the products. I love animated • Family – Wife with 2 kids
movies and cartoons. I have two sons - 5 & 8. I
love to watch all kinds of cartoons including MY SUPERPOWER
Pokemon, Doraemon, Shinchan, Avengers etc
It would be to have all the knowledge in the
My wife works as a DBA in Bank of America. world. This way I could answer peoples
questions, or create new inventions that help the
MY SUPERPOWER society.

Fly away Like Superman WHAT I DO AT SUMTOTAL

WHAT I DO AT SUMTOTAL • Onboarding, Training and Development
• TotalDev Portal Management
• Development of Talent management, Talent • Learning Portal Management
acquisition and Social module
• Responsible for architecture review board MY SUMTOTAL EXPERIENCE
• Development and sustenance of Core common
objects • 11 Years and 6 Months
• Culture, Team Work and Working with Global
MY SUMTOTAL EXPERIENCE Teams
•Continuous Improvement, Change management
13 years • Learning our Products and its evolution
• Love the pace of product enhancements that we
do every year
• Energetic and passionate teams
• Highly technical teams

Subramanyam Pasumarti Suchitra Subramanian

Senior Manager, QA Director, Engineering

FAV SUPERHERO FAV SUPERHERO

IRON MAN Professor-X

ABOUT ME ABOUT ME

I am workaholic & always want to make sure I am • I have a 8 year old daughter.
there. I am a soft natured person. I love Tennis & • My husband is ex-SumTotal employee.
play in the USTA leagues. I also love nature & • I am a people person
also would like to visit different places with family. • I am deeply interested in spirituality.

MY SUPERPOWER MY SUPERPOWER

To have control on time, without aging myself Ensure everyone in the world has the basic
amenities – food to eat, decent shelter, clothes
WHAT I DO AT SUMTOTAL
WHAT I DO AT SUMTOTAL
I work in the DevOps group. I manage the
deployment team & the different propagation • Responsible for delivering ELM stories
needs for Engineering & other teams. This • Responsible for keeping customer backlog low
includes the different product lines Core, LM, TM, • Responsible for driving the IMT (India
WFM, Reporting, Maestro Integrations & Payroll. Management Team) initiatives
I also Manage about 200 pre-sales Demo & • Conflict management
Sandbox sites for the Sales team, pre-sales sites
for Partners & the customer training sites for the MY SUMTOTAL EXPERIENCE
training team. I also support the various
functional questions from sales team by • 8 months
collaborating with engineering. • Great people
• Great product
MY SUMTOTAL EXPERIENCE • Work culture

I have been with SumTotal since 15 years. I Like
the people & always challenging work the most
here.

Uday Kumar Vasantha K. Mannam

VP & GM Engineering Sr. Manager, Development

FAV SUPERHERO FAV SUPERHERO

ABOUT ME Superman, BLACK PANTHER
Ironman
ABOUT ME
I am supported by my wonderful wife and we
• Love playing Tennis and watch Cricket &
have two dynamic boys aged 7 and 5 who give Tennis.
• Favorite fun time is playing with Pranav (Son)
me an excuse to play with cool toys. and understanding his imaginary explanations.
• Love watching regional Movies and listening to
I like spending time on Home theater system songs with good lyrics.

build and config, thankfully my wife doesn’t MY SUPERPOWER

complain about the cost involved . I also enjoy Super power to explore outer space, other
Planets and Galaxies.
watching movies and TV series, and listen to
WHAT I DO AT SUMTOTAL
podcasts like Freakonomics
Managing SEG & Core development of ELIXHR
MY SUPERPOWER Pillar

Of course, it has to be mind control MY SUMTOTAL EXPERIENCE

WHAT I DO AT SUMTOTAL • Working with SumTotal for 14 years.
• SumTotal is an excellent work place
I manage group of super engineers who build • Opportunity to work with different products and
market leading Learn, Core and Maestro places.
products that help large enterprise/SMB
customers solve their learning and compliance
needs

MY SUMTOTAL EXPERIENCE

I have been at SumTotal for 15+ years. Things I
cherish most here:
• Wide range of opportunities and responsibilities
that I have been allowed to pursue since day one
• Great people with exceptional commitment and
ownership
• Constant transformation and evolution of the
organization that keeps things interesting and
exciting

Vedantham Srinivasa Prasad Veerendra Kumar

Manager, Development Senior Manager, QA

FAV SUPERHERO FAV SUPERHERO

Sankaracharya Hanuman

ABOUT ME ABOUT ME

• Energetic to do any work (at work/home) Married to Soujanya 12 years back and
• A son, studying 7th grade. Encourage him in all we have two beautiful and adorable daughters of
aspects to meet his goal of becoming Space 6 and 10 years
Scientist
Love to play badminton, TT, Volley ball
MY SUPERPOWER and Road trips with family and friends

My superpower is to not to store unwanted things MY SUPERPOWER
in my memory and ponder about This enables
me to move on without deviation in energy, Ability to fly, so that I can fly around the globe
free of cost
WHAT I DO AT SUMTOTAL
WHAT I DO AT SUMTOTAL
• Manage Mobile Development Team
• Take care of both Release work and Customer Responsible for Quality of Reporting and Mobile
cases
• Provide solutions to different challenges arise MY SUMTOTAL EXPERIENCE
during development
Completed 14 years
MY SUMTOTAL EXPERIENCE During these 14+ years of journey, worked in/with
Different products, processes, people, teams,
• This is my 13th year managers, roles, technologies and different
• I like the work culture, team work and responsibilities involves releases, sustenance,
opportunities automation. All these different things keeps me
interested and makes me feel young at
SumTotal.

The other best thing is people here. Most
of them are my friends than just colleagues.

Venkata Shanmukh Pachipenta Vicki Rorie

Senior Software Architect Senior Program Manager

FAV SUPERHERO FAV SUPERHERO

ABOUT ME BATMAN SUPERGIRL

• Reading technology blogs. ABOUT ME

• Participate in Technical discussions & learn • Gardening
• Family – I have a son , 2 nieces and 1 nephew ,
more. along with 6 great nieces and nephews ages
2-18.
• Watching cricket game. • I started with Cyborg Systems, Hewitt, Accero,
SumTotal, so I have been through several
• Going out for running mergers/acquisitions.

• Playing with my daughter MY SUPERPOWER

MY SUPERPOWER Sample text in Arial

An Iron Man suit WHAT I DO AT SUMTOTAL

WHAT I DO AT SUMTOTAL • Localization
• Client Audits
• Architect & design solutions in Learning • SOP’s
• Work with Leads and Engineers and ensure • PMO for
quality development
• Collaborate with PM and collectively work on Payroll
future roadmap of Learning product UDA
• Collaborate with external vendors & integration Maestro
partners and design seamless integration with Pathlore
SumTotal Learn.
MY SUMTOTAL EXPERIENCE
MY SUMTOTAL EXPERIENCE
20 years this July
5 months away for completing 10 years. I enjoy all the people I work with, many I have
Excellent work culture and great teams to work worked with my entire time here ( Payroll Team)
with. Working as a team – we really have amazing
Excellent customer base, that gives a great team work
feeling pride.

Vijay Sai Kalluru Wei Song

Director Director, Engineering

ABOUT ME FAV SUPERHERO

THE HULK

On the personal front, I love playing with my 4 yr

old, watching movies, playing cricket, poker (not FAV SUPERHERO

that I win always ) and any outdoor sports. I have Deadpool

chocolate addiction and can’t keep my hand off ABOUT ME

chocolate for too long so you now know how to I came to Boston for my graduate study in 1996
and have lived there since. My wife and I have
win me two sons, one is 15 and another is 6 years old. I
like reading of history and politics, and enjoy
MY SUPERPOWER playing video games, love my 5-time Super Bowl
Champion Patriots.
A super power to bring back all the extinct
animals (firstly dinosaurs) back to life. MY SUPERPOWER

WHAT I DO AT SUMTOTAL Teleportation, since I dislike travel

Between me & my team, we program manage WHAT I DO AT SUMTOTAL
the releases, define the processes, administer
mission critical applications, perform customer • Lead DevOps to better support Dev and CO
audits, handling localization needs, driving • Legacy environments expert
readiness & beta programs, deriving metrics and • Occasional deployment on call
KIPs, cross departmental collaboration and
unblocking teams wherever possible and MY SUMTOTAL EXPERIENCE
feasible.
I started in Softscape in September 1998, almost
MY SUMTOTAL EXPERIENCE 20 years ago.
• I enjoyed the people here the most, from the
I’ve been with SumTotal for 14 years now. My coworker who I have worked with for nearly 20
wife complains that I’ve celebrated more years to the interns who only started in my team
anniversaries with the company than wedding for less than 1 year.
anniversaries with her • I like being a problem solver.
There are many reasons why I like here at • I like learning new things.
SumTotal. Primarily it provides ample scope and
freedom to exercise new ideas and make
improvements. And we have a great bunch of
superheroes with whom working is such a
fun-filled journey.