Pradeep Henry

BIO

Currently: IT-to-BT Change Leader
Previously: Director at Cognizant Technology Solutions
Played key role in Cognizant's competitive differentiation & growth
Innovator of three software methods that garnered Global interest and delivered business results
Author of book & articles – all published in the US
Columbia Business School alumnus (exec education).

Consultant since October 2007 (completed 3-month Consulting at Cognizant end of December 2007)
Director: Cognizant Technology Solutions, October 1996 – September 2007
Assistant Manager: Tata Consultancy Services, 1989 – 1996
About a year each at three other companies.

Columbia Business School, Certificate in Business Excellence (Executive Education), April/May 2008
Indian Institute of Management, Management Development Program for Senior Managers, 2003
University of California, Berkeley (Extn), User Interface Engineering, 1994 – 1995
University of Madras, Bachelor of Science, Physics, 1981 – 1984.

Business Process Centric Software Approach: This is a holistic approach that brings together business process and business software. In several projects executed for global companies, this approach has helped software teams deliver process innovations alongside process-centric applications. Related articles have been published at Columbia Business School website and at BPTrend.com.
Business Process Centric User Interface Design: Used in several dozen projects executed for North American and European companies, this method views the user interface as business process. Dramatic user productivity and business process improvements (at software level) are common outcomes from this method. Pradeep institutionalized this method at Cognizant Technology Solutions through a Change initiative (one of the reasons for company's fast growth)
Software Usability Driven Technical Writing: An integrated method for technical writing, driven by software usability improvement as the goal. First introduced through Pradeep's 90s book, the idea is now standard practice in the US.

Book: User-Centered Information Development for Improved Software Usability, published by Artech House, USA
Article: Aligning Technology with Business Strategy at Columbia Business School website
Article: Process-Centricity and the Business Analyst's NEW Role, Business Process Trends
More articles: Published by ACM (USA), STC (USA), and IGI Global (USA), Etc
Blog: The Practice of Business Technology

Nasscom events in New Delhi and Cochin
Lectures at Anna University of Technology, Hindustan Inst. of Tech & Sc, and Great Lakes Inst. of Management
CHI 2005 Conference, Portland, USA
CHI 2005 Conference, Portland, USA
HCI 2005 Conference, Las Vegas, USA
QAI and STC conferences, India
Corporate training at Unisys and Sallie Mae in the US.

Founder/Chair, Institute for Process-Efficient Technology, www.chi-si.org/instipet/index.html
Founder/Chair, An ACM chapter, www.chi-si.org.

Through the ACM chapter (www.chi-si.org), organized/chaired India’s first (2001) and subsequent 6 annual national conferences on human-computer interaction
Through Institute for Process-Efficient Technology (moved to www.chi-si.org/instipet/index.html), organized India’s first Business Process Management conference in 2007.

Pioneered 5-credit User Interface course for Masters degree program in Software Engineering (2004), Birla Inst. of Tech & Sc (BITS) Pilani
Proposed the course, designed it, trained the faculty, and facilitated teaching and student evaluation.

Described as “innovator of the business process centric approach” in CSI Communications, India, March 2007
Profiled as "Distinguished Professional" in IEEE Professional Communication Society, USA, 1993
Profiled in Who’s Who in the World Millennium Edition 2000, USA.

Forrester Research, USA (industry analyst firm)
eWEEK, USA (Pradeep could not honor invitation to travel to the US for “GREAT MINDS” video interview)
CIO India
The Times of India
The Financial Express
The Hindu Business Line
The Week
Express Computer
Gravity (magazine of Great Lakes Inst. of Management).