(Sa) Sadik Ali Email and Phone Number

(Sa) Sadik Ali is a Associate Director at Cognizant Technology Solutions at Cognizant Technology Solutions. Colleagues describe them as "Sadik Ali is a versatile personality. His free flowing and dynamic personality can never be bracketed in a role. However regardless of his area of function he can be very effective thanks to his varied experience and exposure. His humble attitude and superb interpersonal skills make him a formidable combination. I think 24 hours per day are less for what he aspires to achieve in life." and "I worked closely with Sadik from 2008 to 2011. He was a key member of the BFS Innovations Group I headed. In that role, he directed and managed the entire cycle from innovation, engineering, productization to evangelization of two ambitious and far reaching research projects. Sadik was the primary factor in taking both initiatives to completion and making them a success. Both of these innovations got wide traction and were widely adopted. While one was mandated for use organization wide, the second provides a competitive edge to the practice in responding quickly to business opportunities. Both were based on Artificial Intelligence techniques such as constraint logic programming in the case of one and semantics based information retrieval in the other. Taking research to market is a long journey requiring the research artefact to be first created, piloted successfully, engineered for real world use, productized in terms of usability, reliability, efficiency, documentation and then evangelized to the target market. The artefact goes through several stages each of which requires different handling and often different teams. Sadik managed to bring both projects home with great aplomb. He brings to the table great commitment, a calm unflappable temperament, has excellent soft skills in team, client and situation management, out of the box thinking and is a hands on programmer and architect in .Net and Microsoft technologies. I enjoyed working with Sadik and would gladly do so again if opportunity presents."