Utah Chapter

Raju Pusapati - Chapter President

Raju Pusapati is an excelling Software Architect who is currently working as Sr. Principal Software Architect at Hospital Corporation of America ( www.hcahealthcare.com) and has 15 years of extensive experience in IT Application/Solution/Infrastructure architecture, design & implementation of high performance SOA Based Windows & Web applications utilizing a wide technologies, methodologies and patterns. Raju has an Engineering degree in Computer Sciences & Technology and he is expected to graduate from Masters in Business Administration (with specialization in IT management) in summer of 2012. Apart from these credentials, Raju has multiple certifications including Microsoft’s MCSD, MCSE and MCDBA and a Sun certification. Raju is a founding member (President) of Utah IT Architects association (www.utarch.org), founding member (President) of Telugu Assn of Utah (www.taofu.org), and currently serving as executive committee member for APNA Foundation (www.apnafoundation.org) for also which he served as technology committee chair in the past

Rich Uhl began his career in infrastructure and networking while working for one of the first ISP's in Utah, XMission. During his time at XMission, Rich started consulting for various sized customers connecting their Windows and Microsoft platform networks to the Internet. After working for Novell and Microsoft partners, Rich continued his consulting career at Novell Corp in 1998, followed by Microsoft Corporation in July of 2000.
In October of 2003 Rich moved into Enterprise Infrastructure Architecture, building a Microsoft based platform to replace a Legacy HP3000 airline reservation system for Accenture owned Navitaire Inc. The demanding and High Availability requirements of the Airline and travel industry provided a proving ground for the previous 10 years of Infrastructure Architecture experience.
Successful launch and operations of the NewSkies reservations platform enabled Rich to branch out inside of Accenture focusing on industry verticals including Financial, Utility, Chemical, Mobility and CRM. Rich worked closely with the Microsoft and Accenture owned business of Avanade Inc. in the launch of the SaaS platform Avanade Online Services (AOS). Rich then joined Avanade in their SaaS business division AOS in January of 2011.
Rich currently provides his Infrastructure Architecture oversight to Avanade as well as Accenture and Microsoft partners. He is engaged in the design and transition to a cloud based world and focuses on enabling cloud infrastructure to match business and technical needs.

Mike Wimberly - Chapter Secretary/Treasurer

Tom Creighton - Chapter Board Member

Tom Creighton has more than 30 years' experience in software and systems engineering. Over the past 15 years he has contributed as principal engineer, architect, or lead architect on a variety of IT projects. His experience centers around creating scalable IT systems supporting large data sets and providing access across the Internet to 10s of thousands of concurrent users.

He is currently working as CTO and Chief Architect at Family Search, the largest global genealogical society. In this role he has critical architectural responsibility for the systems built by Family Search to enable genealogical research. This includes infrastructure, software, and system design to support search across billions of vital records, access to digital images of vital records comprising petabytes of storage, and management of a combined pedigree system holding more than a billion individual records all interconnected by lineage relationships.