Ram Prasad Vadde is a Program Manager (Quality) working with the Enterprise Solutions unit of Infosys. He has more than eight years of IT experience in the area of QA, including process definition, implementation, improvement, and training. He has sound knowledge of CMMI, ISO, Six Sigma, and IFPUG Function Point Estimation. Mr. Vadde has extensive process consulting experience in package implementation, upgrade, and rollout apart from development, maintenance, and testing projects. He anchored various process initiatives at Infosys, including definition of a sizing framework called Package Points for package implementation projects; definition of standard process for Oracle global rollouts; CRM upgrade; and small team projects. Prior to Infosys, he was with Conseco India (formerly known as Codelinks Data Services Pvt., Ltd) as a senior quality analyst and helped the organization to be assessed at CMM Level 5 as a key member of the Software Engineering Process Group. He holds a postgraduate degree in business management from the Institute of Public Enterprise, Hyderabad, India, and a bachelor's degree in electronics and communication engineering from Osmania University, Hyderabad, India.