Dr. Owns, President
Dr. Owns is a recognized Data Warehouse & Business Intelligent & Data Mining scientist,
practitioner, visionary leader, and has been practicing on cross-industry EDW/BI
& ERP solutions for past 15 years, of his 23 years of IT practice. He is a recognized
thought leader in the areas of business analytics and business intelligence. Dr.
Owns has built analytics strategies and solutions in Utility, Oil & Gas, Manufacturing
Holding, and Healthcare industries. He has advised several C-level executives on
how to leverage analytics to address some of the most pressing business problems.
Dr. Owns is a hands-on practitioner with deep expertise in building Enterprise analytics
and intelligence solutions. He laid the architectural foundation for few largest
Data warehouses in the world, HP, ERCOT, Halliburton/KBR, Department of Justice,
IDRO, Oracle and IBM to name a few. Dr. Owns as a pioneer since 1992 has extensive
experience in providing technology strategies in the areas of portfolio consolidation
and optimization; modernization strategies and offshore-ability of technology applications.
He has worked with several Chief Information and Technology officers to rationalize
and optimize their technology portfolios; determining the portfolio components that
can be off-shored; make business cases and eventually implement the strategy successfully.
Dr. Owns established Dss Solutions 1999 with Business Intelligent in mind, with
extensive industrial analytical awareness seminars in Washington DC area with Dr.
Ralph Kimball team, who is the father of Data Warehouse in the world. Dr. Owns has
Doctoral degree in Information Technology & Engineering from George Mason University,
majoring in Decision Support Solutions utilizing Business Intelligent and multi-strategy
Data Mining (Machine Learning (Symbolic Learning Classification), Genetic Algorithm
Classification (Co-Evolutionary Algorithms), Bayesian Classification, and Approximate
Classification) and has passion to speak on BI and data Mining on various forums
and seminars.
Dr. Owns has always been a pioneer in Knowledge transfer to other countries and
then utilize them for local and offshore practices. And with that believe, he started
the first offshore company on 1992. Since then, Dss Solutions owns two offshore
companies in ME and India. In addition to that, many other offshore development
partners provide Dss Solutions more flexibilities and technology enrichments on
many multi-industry ERP & BI practices. However, Dss Solutions made an exclusive
partnership agreement with $400M offshore EDW/BI & ERP solutions practice, Hexaware,
to provide very effective and seamless solutions in ME with Dss Strategy as a local
representative and with International technology resources and leadership support
so that ME’s clients won’t see and feel multi-vendor solutions challenges.
Dr. Owns utilized Dss Solutions’ ODCs, offshore and Onsite teams and resources to
developed many big projects ({HP Retail Analytics, Central Banking of ME Banking
Solutions architecture}, {Country Population Registration Lifecycle Simulation System
and architecture for ME, ERCOT Nodal project Market Participant Utility/Power Lifecycle
Simulation}, {Days Hospital Solutions}, {IDRO and Saipa Manufacturing and Holding
BI Solutions}, {Utility BI for Tavanir and ERCOT}, {Oil & Gas BI Solutions for IDRO,
NIOC and Halliburton/KBR}, E-Commerce BI for Ministry of Finance, and AmirKabir
University knowledge transfer) as well as solutions packages for USA and ME market
(DssPTMS®, DssMedical®, DssMedicalBridge®, DssMMS®, DssPowerMS®, DssAnalystics®,
DssBIModeler®, DssHR®, and other custom applications).
Dr. Owns has been a pioneer on training ODC resources as offshore development site
by establishing many ODC globally and encouraging the local investors on Investing
and focusing on this subject since 1992. Prior to establishing the Software development
company on 1991, Dr. Owns was a Computer Hardware technology researcher and a planner
for IBM Research in Austin Texas, with a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from University
of Maryland. He has patents on Built-In-Self-Test (BIST) within IBM that is used
on all memory and logic chipsets worldwide. He has thought in University of Maryland
and George Mason University, while doing his both PhDs.
Max Hester, CEO
Mr. Max Hester Has joined and led Dss Solutions since 2000. Before joining Dss Solutions,
Max established many startups companies and make them successful into key markets
including Oracle ERP, SAP and BI solutions, on Healthcare , Banking, Manufacturing
and Utilities verticals. His principal focuses on business strategy and leadership
development help taking Dss Solutions to the next level of performance. Max is a
CPA and MBA from George Mason University with over 20 years of varies experience
ranging from Sales & Marketing, Project Management, CFO, and Corporate Financial
Strategies and Planning.
Carlos Calderon, CFO
Mr. Carlos Calderon is the Chief Financial Officer of Dss Solutions and oversees
the Finance and Accounts function globally. He additionally helps Dss Solutions
implement US GAAP accounting standards. Carlos obtained his MBA from George Mason
University and was President and CEO of the South American Export Credit Union in
Washington DC.
Alex White, CIO
Alex White is responsible for entire global IT operations including Information
Systems Group and Systems Technology Group at Dss Solutions. He also heads Info
Security Governance and Infrastructure Management Services.
Mr. White has 20 years of industry experience in the field of Information Technology
(IT), Information Systems (IS) and Security. Before Dss Solutions, he was the CIO
of Aspen System where he was responsible for IT/IS/Security and Infrastructure Business.
Mr. White, an influential CIO among his peers is known for his technical know-how
and has received many awards for his IT implementation projects across different
industries. In September 2008, he was credited the CIO 100 Ingenious Award at the
4th Annual CIO 100 Symposium and Awards Ceremony by International Publishing Services
(IDG).
Mr. White holds dual degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics from University
of Chicago.
Paul Martin, VP of Sales and Marketing
Paul Martin is responsible for entire Sales and Marketing operation at Dss Solutions,
His consulting and analytical expertise is most developed in the Manufacturing and
retail, Healthcare, business-to-business, Oil & Gas and financial services industries.
He has a deep understanding of the payments industry and is well versed in the business
capabilities of POS, CRM and database technologies. He has a firm grasp on financial
modeling, ROI analysis and business case development in the customer management
arena. Paul also brings a unique perspective to the issues and processes surrounding
the sales and marketing of Marketing Services.
Mr. Martin holds dual degrees in Computer Science and MBA from University of Maryland.
Sam Jimal, VP of Enterprise Solutions
Sam Jimal heads the global Enterprise Solutions business at Dss Solutions. He leads
the horizontal units of CRM, ERP, Cloud and Online Solutions and Business Intelligence
& Analytics. He is responsible for identifying growth engines, building new service
offerings and business development. He has been a key player in driving Dss Solutions’
growth since 1998. Mr. Jima; was instrumental in building the Enterprise Cloud Solutions
at Dss Solutions. He conceptualized and incubated Dss Solutions Innovation center.
He guides Practices in creating POCs which benefits customers directly.
He was the management sponsor for certifying Dss Solutions at SEI-CMM Level 5 in
2007.
Mr. Jimal holds a Computer Engineering degree from George Mason University. He has
over 30 years of experience in the software services, Hardware and consulting field.
Ravi Reddy, VP of Operation and Offshore
Mr. Ravi Reddy heads the global delivery organization at Dss Solutions. All service
lines and horizontals report into him.
Mr. Reddy has been with Dss Solutions for over four years. He has been instrumental
in establishing new service offerings and growing the Testing (QATS), Big Data Analytics
and Business Intelligence & Analytics horizontal practices at Dss Solutions. He
continues in his technical role as the Chief Software Architect to provide architecture
solutions to customers. He has been actively involved in helping some of Dss Solutions’
large customers in re-shaping their IT eco-system and modernizing them.
He has over 20 years of experience in managing large delivery operations across
multiple geographies. He has extensive experience in providing technology solutions
for various organizations in India, Europe and USA. In his last assignment before
joining Dss Solutions, he was the Chief Architect for HP implementing Salesforce.com
Software solutions in the USA & European sectors.
Mr. Reddy holds a Post Graduate degree in Technology from I.I.T. Delhi.
Arindam Sarkar, VP of Resource Management
Mr. Arindam Sarkar has over 23 years of experience in HR, Compensation and HRIS
as an analyst, manager, executive, consultant and entrepreneur. His passion is manager
empowerment and employee engagement through total rewards management. It has been
the topic that he often presents to large audiences at national HR conferences such
as HR Technology, SHRM, PIHRA, and APA. He has been published in WorldatWork Journal,
HR Executive magazine and in other publications.
Mr. Arindam Sarkar holds a Business degree George Mason University.
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