Omkar Systems has the business and technology expertise to deliver a cost effective, quality speech application resulting in faster development, deployment, and ROI.
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the mission of Omkar is to fundamentally re-think and drastically change the method of implementing business solutions using speech integration technology
- Knowledge and experience integrating complex backend data systems with speech applications.
- Knowledge and experience in Microsoft Speech Server, Microsoft Speech SDK and .NET system integration.
- Ability to understand business processes and translate into speech system implementations.
- Provide end-to-end speech solution (Design, Develop, Test, and Deploy, Tune and Report).
- Speech Integrator - provides a speech application development framework to reduce the cost of ownership and time to implement speech solutions. The framework consists of pre-built speech dialogue and data integration controls.
- Provide pre-built industry best practice based speech applications for Sales Order Processing, Client Service Management, and Payment Processing that can be extended per customer needs.
- Keep it simple solutions
- Customer involved and feedback driven
- Clarity of purpose and deliverables
- Phased implementation and improvised project cycle
With 12 years of dedicated IT experience Shailendra started his career as a junior sales rep promoting software applications and services. With a keen interest in software development, he began pursuing small software development work and consulting in areas of ERP applications including Baan and MFG/Pro. After coming to the U.S. as a trained Peoplesoft consultant the changing market shifted his expertise to Siebel CRM application development, consulting and implementation. For the last 8 years working as a Siebel Expert he helped insurance companies like Northwestern Mutual and Country benefit from Siebel CRM implementations, specializing in enterprise system design and system integration.
Shailendra strongly believes in making information tools less complex and easily accessible to businesses. In recent years he has dedicated his time to researching and developing speech recognition technology and pursuing the integration of this technology into mainstream applications. Omkar Systems was established for that sole purpose, and the company's brainchild, Speech Integrator, is seen as the first step to changing the way the human culture interacts with computers.
Ken Steponaitis started his career in the United States Air Force working as Microwave Communications Repairman. While in the Air Force, Ken worked to get his degree in Computer Science through the University of Maryland. After leaving the Air Force Ken's first civilian job was with Science Application International Corporation (SAIC) in Sierra Vista, Arizona. There he works as a computer systems integration engineer. After leaving SAIC, Ken spent about 8 years working with Hughes/Raytheon in Tucson, Arizona, at first as a Sun systems administrator but then transitioned to a test software engineer, writing software to control test racks for radar and communications systems.
Ken moved to Dallas, Texas with Raytheon and was promoted to a senior test software engineer. In 1999 Ken then took a position with Intervoice Inc. where he learned about the IVR business by doing training and software development for both the proprietary Intervoice IVR systems as well as being one of the first software engineers to work with Microsoft on their Speech Server systems. Ken became one of the few people in the world providing training for the Microsoft Speech platform. After 5 years with Intervoice, Ken was offered the opportunity to partner with Omkar Systems. In October 2005 Ken gave up his position at Intervoice and currently acts as the lead architect for speech integration at Omkar Systems.
After graduating from Cornell University with a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering, John entered the U.S. Navy and flight school in Pensacola Florida. After receiving his wings, John served as a Naval Flight Officer in the Navy's E-2C Hawkeye aircraft onboard the USS John F. Kennedy. John left the Navy after 8 years, serving his final tour as aide to Naval Air Systems Command in Washington, D.C.
While working as a software quality assurance engineer and later as a software engineer with Texas Instruments in Dallas, John earned his Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Dallas. John has worked as a software QA engineer, software engineer, software supervisor and software development manager for various companies from small startups to very large international companies. John has worked in a variety of sectors including defense, health care, oil & gas and the telecom industry. He has worked on numerous projects and has extensive knowledge of the software development life cycle and object oriented development. Over his career John has specialized in human-computer interactions and user interface design and development. During the last 10 years, John has worked in the IVR industry, architecting and designing speech development tools.