Munwar Shariff is the CTO and EVP of EMEA at CIGNEX. CIGNEX is the leading provider of open source Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions for businesses and government agencies.
He has served as the chief architect and manager of engineering teams for 19 years in the areas of business application software, Internet applications, social media, and mobile applications for customers worldwide. He is an expert in Content Management Systems (CMS). Since co-founding CIGNEX in late 2000, he has successfully delivered more than 130 CMS applications using various open source technologies. He has written a number of articles on open source CMS, is an experienced trainer, and a frequent speaker at conferences related to this topic.
Munwar earned his M.S. in Digital Electronics and Advanced Communications from National Institute of Technology, Surathkal, India. He has authored three technical books on open source CMS: Alfresco 3 Enterprise Content Management, Implementing Alfresco, and Plonelive.
Amita Bhandari is a Senior Consultant at CIGNEX. She has extensive experience in implementing Enterprise Web Applications using J2EE technologies. For the past four years, at CIGNEX, she has rolled out numerous Alfresco deployments worldwide in the areas of Document and Web Content Management. She has worked on performance tuning projects where Alfresco was deployed in clustered and load balanced environments. She has also implemented Single Sign On for easy communication between two systems.
She has worked with clients in media, gaming, healthcare, and e-governance. She has trained many students in advanced Java technologies.
She holds a Masters in Computer Applications from Rajasthan University, India. She has co-authored a book titled Alfresco 3 Enterprise Content Management and has also worked as a Technical Reviewer for the book titled Alfresco 3 Web Services.
Pallika Majmudar is a Senior Consultant at CIGNEX Technologies. She has strong hands-on experience in Java-based technologies, such as J2EE, Object-oriented Architecture and Design Patterns, Frameworks, web services, and web scripts.
She has architected and led many content management projects for customers in the USA, Hong Kong, Singapore, and India. She has implemented Alfresco-based solutions for clients across verticals like media, healthcare, hi-tech, and communications.
Pallika has earned a Masters degree in Computer Applications from Gujarat University, India. She has co-authored a book titled Alfresco 3 Enterprise Content Management.
Vinita Choudhary is a senior consultant at CIGNEX. She has extensive experience working in a variety of environments with cross-functional, multicultural teams.
She has reorganized existing repositories of documentation; written guidelines for document creation, filing, and change control; and written reference material for software developers and published it. She is involved in providing pre-sales support to the sales team and has worked on process streamlining for the company and various documentation aspects.
Vinita holds a Masters degree in Computer Applications from Gujarat University, India. She has co-authored a book titled Alfresco 3 Enterprise Content Management.