Team Nete

Our experienced management and principal consultants team applies its knowledge, experience, and vision to ensure that each client engagement succeeds.

Sandeep is an entrepreneur with more than 15 years of managerial and technical consulting experience in the planning, review, analysis, design, construction, and implementation of information systems for both Government (Federal Civilian and Department of Defense [DoD]) and commercial firms (ranging from Fortune 500 to dotcom startups). His experience includes planning, managing, and reviewing full life cycle large-scale Web design and development engagements; Federal Program Management Office (PMO) initiatives, technology and system reengineering programs; Information Technology (IT) Architecture and Enterprise Architecture (EA) planning and management; Federal IT investment and portfolio management including Capital Planning and Investment Control (CPIC), Federal IT privacy and security life-cycle management, Internet, Intranet, Extranet, Web, eGov and electronic commerce technologies; and digitization projects. He has been a speaker at industry conferences and published in technical journals. Mr. Somaiya also served on the Advisory Board of technology and dotcom companies. Prior to co-founding NETE in 1999, Mr. Somaiya has worked for management consulting and systems integration firms including Perot Systems, Price Waterhouse Coopers (PwC) Consulting (IBM Consulting) (oldco PriceWaterhouse LLP), BearingPoint Inc.(oldco KPMG Consulting). Mr. Somaiya has experience working in Argentina, Canada, India, Japan, Kuwait, Poland, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, and the United States. Mr. Somaiya holds a MS degree in Computer Science from Virginia Tech and a BS in Computer Engineering.

Chris has extensive experience supporting large-scale programs and information system implementations in the federal government in the areas of information technology (IT) governance, Capital Planning and Investment Control (CPIC), portfolio analysis and management, decision support modeling, cost and budget analysis, program and project management and business and functional requirements analysis. Prior to joining NETE, Chris has worked for management consulting firms including BearingPoint Inc. (oldco KPMG Consulting and KPMG LLP), Grant Thornton LLP; US Government (GS-15)(Department of Homeland Security) and US Army (Commissioned Officer). He has an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin and BA in Political Science from the University of Vermont.

RK is a highly regarded senior engineer, architect, and developer. At NETE he manages the software engineering teams and brings best practices to support development of systems architecture, Web applications, software systems and databases. RK has several years of hands-on full Web and IT systems development life cycle (SDLC) experience in the design, development, and implementation of Web and wireless applications, two-tier and multi-tier applications, business to consumer (B2C), e-commerce sites and business to business (B2B) exchanges with strong problem analysis and technical team leading skills. Prior to joining NETE in 2000, RK worked with several leading software development firms. Mr. Allam has a Masters and Bachelors degrees in Engineering.