Management and Engineering Team :

The management team consists of senior management professionals with over a hundred years of combined experience in Telecommunications, Information Technology and Business Management. Our management team is well structured and continues to excel in providing world class, cost effective business solutions to our customers worldwide.LCSI employs quality engineers with decades of combined experience in Telecommunications and Information Technology, to provide the highest quality solutions.


Terry Beckett, PhD - beckett@lcsi.net

Dr. Terry Beckett was a Technical Manager at Bell Laboratories, in both Columbus, Ohio and Naperville, Illinois. At AT&T Bell Laboratories, Dr. Beckett was instrumental in both hardware and software architecture design and support. This included real time operating system design, software performance analysis, highly reliable computer design (the 3B20D processor), micro programming, software debugging tool design, 5ESS System project management, integration testing, customer support of the 5ESS Switching System and the 2STP Signaling System, and migration of the 2STP development platform from an Amdahl mainframe to a SUN based distributed computing environment.

Thomas M. O'Leary - oleary@lcsi.net

Tom was employed by AT&T for over thirty (30) years. He held many different positions including: Director of Manufacturing and Development. In this position, Tom was responsible for changing out the main processor for all toll-switching systems in the AT&T network. This project was defined as critical due to the potential disruption effect on AT&T's major revenue stream. Tom was also the Chief engineer for reconfiguration into a high velocity, high product mix environment. This project consisted of infrastructure facilities, layout, product flow and procedures.

Dilipkumar B. Patel - dbpatel@lcsi.net

Mr. Patel brings more than 27 years of business and technical operations experience to LCSI, He has experience in business analysis, strategy planning and implementation, general and program management, technical management and operations management across a broad range of products within Lucent Bell Labs. He recently retired from Lucent Technologies as Director of CRM -IVR R&D programs. Mr. Patel has successfully planned and launched new products into the global market by working closely with marketing, manufacturing, engineering, customer support, sales and other business functions. In 1996 - 1997 he was the Managing Director of the Tata/Lucent joint venture in India and Managing Director of the first Bell Labs in India at Pune of which he was also the founding father. He has BS and MS degrees in Eng from the University of Portsmouth and Columbia University respectively

Uday Rangaswamy - uday@lcsi.net

Uday brings several years of experience in Telecommunications and Information Technology in the areas of Systems Engineering, System Architecture, Software Design and Development, Embedded Systems, Professional Services and Technical Marketing. Prior to joining , Uday worked at Lucent Technologies in lead engineering management positions in various departments including Intelligent Networks, Switching and Access solutions, Messaging and Voice Response Systems. For the last 3 years at Lucent prior to joining , Uday was the lead systems engineer involved in providing comprehensive solutions in the area on Intelligent Network with particular focus on customers (Telecom Service Providers) in the Asia/Pacific region. In addition Uday has worked extensively with customers all over the world.

Padmanabhan (Sathya) Sathya - sathya@lcsi.net

Sathya was a Systems Engineer for AT&T Bell Labs, Columbus, Ohio. There he Engineered nationwide messaging systems for 80 million people. As a software developer, Sathya developed and designed development and maintenance software tools for the 2STP, network software for signaling, and performed integration of SS7 based signaling software.

Raghu Venugopal, PhD - raghu@lcsi.net

Dr. Raghu Venugopal worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories, in both Columbus, Ohio and Holmdel, New Jersey. During his 10 year tenure there Dr. Venugopal was instrumental in a wide range of activities spanning manufacturing, telecommunications, and software development. Dr. Venugopal Designed and developed ``Manager Controller" which was patented. He designed and developed Workflow systems for Lucent Technologies. Dr. Venugopal received the Extraordinary contribution award each year during the 10 years he was at AT&T.