Dr. Sharada Alampalli, President of Prospect Solutions, has more than 25 years of industry experience, which includes business management and software development. She has designed and developed software in several programming languages, with various databases and on multiple platforms. She has provided valuable insights via data analytics and advanced data-driven methods in engineering and healthcare disciplines. She has also provided strategic market analysis for key business areas; developed competitor analysis; formulated short and long-term business strategy using financial, internal, and external market structure; and performed corporate analysis for acquisitions. She has knowledge and experience in obtaining and managing research grants. In addition, she has more than seven years of experience teaching both undergraduate and graduate courses in finance and computer science disciplines. She has been a panelist in the Entrepreneurial Assistance Program course at the Capital Regional Chamber of Commerce for eight years.
Sharada has a Ph.D. in Public Administration from Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, University at Albany, Albany, NY; MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY; M.S. in Computer Science from University at Albany, Albany, NY; and B.S. in Industrial/Mechanical Engineering from BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore, India.
Dr. Sreenivas Alampalli, Technical Consultant and Chief Operating Officer of Prospect Solutions, has more than 30 years of experience in infrastructure management and research. He is world renowned for his expertise in infrastructure inspection and evaluation, asset management, structural monitoring and technology transfer efforts, and his passion for bridging the gap between state-of-the-art and state-of-the-practice.
Sreenivas recently retired from the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) as the Director of the Structures Management Bureau, where he managed one of the largest structural inspection and management programs in the United States, with an annual budget of about $100 million/year, to facilitate preservation, integrity, and safety of bridge and other structural infrastructure in New York State. During his tenure at NYSDOT, he worked together with researchers, industry, and owners in development and implementation of innovative technologies to assure effective infrastructure management at reasonable costs. He led the information technology project to transform and integrate several software programs used for structures inspection, inventory, evaluation, and asset management, that resided on legacy platforms, to online web-based integrated system. These efforts included funding acquisition, scope development, software development, and testing, and implementation. This system is currently used, by 3000+ personnel, for all NYS structures including bridges, large culverts, and overhead sign structures. Data is made available to all stakeholders seamlessly on as-needed basis.
Sreenivas obtained his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering and MBA in Management and Technology from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Master