Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence

In today's competitive marketplace, it is important to understand, embrace and master the cutting-edge technologies, that create and enhance value for customers. Stellar IT has and will continue to partner with our clients in their transformational journey from product and service-centric to customer-centric model. Data and information play a key role in getting a 360 degree perspective of the customer.
From inception, Stellar IT created a strong emphasis on Data Science and Analytics by addressing our client's data quality, transformation, governance and stewardship issues. Stellar IT clearly understands the importance of data and information visibility and application for real-time decision-making across the organization and most importantly for the executive leadership. 

Quality Assurance and Testing

Stellar IT's matured and talented team is equipped with well-structured QA processes and rich knowledge of latest testing tools and technologies. Our quality assurance model ensures that the client gets highest level of satisfaction, product quality and trust in our service delivery. Stellar IT's services cover independent testing for various customized solutions and products developed for variety of business packages and applications. Our service offerings include: 

•  Functional Testing
•  Validation Testing
•  Regression Testing
•  System Integration Testing
•  Automated Testing

Custom Applications Development

Stellar IT uses state of the art technologies and frameworks in application design, architecture and development to translate our client's IT vision into reality through a tighter alignment with business strategies and goals. Our team is experienced in building and supporting various internal and external facing portals and mobile applications. Stellar IT model is built on proven practices, controls, interfaces and principles that tightly align and harness the combined strength across people, processes and technology across the entire software development life cycle. 

•  Outside I Can [logo] (outsideican.org), is an example of our full-service, bottom-up web development.
•  Conduuit [logo], a platform to connect the Lone Eagle with the right opportunity by eliminating layers and middlemen allowing the Lone Eagle to keep the lion's share of their actual pay rate.

CRM and ERP

Stellar IT team of though leader's bring well-rounded experience gained through implementation of multiple ERP and CRM projects across a wide-range of industry verticals and a diverse body of clients. Stellar IT's emphasis on business process mapping, re-engineering and change-management had time and again ensured the successful on time and on budget delivery of large-scale programs meeting the requirements specified by each and every client that Stellar had and will serve. 

Cyber Security

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Advances in the field of artificial intelligence, particularly deep learning, allow machines to solve many problems that were previously considered intractable. Image recognition, voice recognition, and natural language processing are a few of the many areas that can now be automated to human level accuracy. Stellar IT has invested in the capability to develop and deploy machine learning solutions for a variety of use cases. Stellar can work with your organization to identify workflows best suited to machine learning and implement a solution that reduces costs, improves quality, and opens up new opportunities to serve your customers.

Applications

•  Image recognition to identify objects and human faces
•  Call center automation and chat bots to reduce dependence on human customer support
•  Text classification and summarization to determine the meaning of natural language text
•  Entity recognition to find names, places, times, and organizations within unstructured text
•  High quality conversion of voice to text and text to voice
•  Natural language translation from one language to another
•  Anomaly detection to identify irregular or fraudulent activity

Core Expertise

•  Identify problems suitable for machine learning
•  Collect and prepare training data sets
•  Develop and train machine learning models
•  Deploy machine learning solutions to practical problems

Dipak Thakker

PRESIDENT AND CEO

Dipak brings 20+ years of experience in data analytics, predictive modeling, software engineering and management. Earlier in his career, he worked at FINRA as Program Director responsible for research and development of a very successful market surveillance program using predictive analytics based on regression and artificial intelligence to detect insider trading and fraud in all the three major US stock markets. His team researched and developed many complex predictive models using various algorithms, theories and statistical analysis and heuristics.
As the President and CEO, Dipak leads the critical areas of the company's growth including business development, strategic planning, product strategy, strategic partnership & JV and setting company's goal. Dipak holds an MBA with major in Finance and Investment Management from the University of Maryland - College Park.  

Joshua Sircus

Chief Operating Officer

Josh has over 20 years' experience in building teams and managing operations in the finance and technology sectors. Before joining Stellar, Josh was the cofounder and Chief Operating Officer of Luav, a fintech company that was acquired by Digital Media Solutions in 2018.
Prior to Josh’s entrepreneurial experience, he served as a Special Agent for the FBI in the Criminal Investigative Division. Before serving as a federal law enforcement officer, Josh was a manager at FINRA, the largest independent U.S. securities regulator, where he was selected to build a new division and train a team of analysts. This division was the first regulatory unit responsible for investigating matters of insider trading, securities fraud, and market manipulation surrounding private placements in public equity.
Before FINRA, Josh conducted research and managed operations for hedge fund company Yashar Capital after starting his career as a securities broker for Friedman Billings Ramsey. Josh holds an MBA from the Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School and a BS in Finance from the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland College Park.

Prabhu Gowda

President - India Operations

Prabhu brings over 20 years of business and information technology leadership experience in healthcare and related verticals across several large corporations and start-up’s in North America. Prior to joining Stellar, Prabhu has served as Technical Advisor to the Office of the National Coordinator and as Systems Architect for the National Institute of Health (NIH). Prabhu has spearheaded successful projects for companies such as Deloitte, Northrop Grumman IT and SAIC and has a proven track record of architecting and delivering reliable and scalable systems for clients in various fields such as Bioinformatics, Medicaid, Medicare and Logistics. Prabhu has been an active contributor to open source implementations that involve FHIR specifications and has led high-calibre teams in J2EE software development with open source technologies.
As President of India Operations, Prabhu's leadership skills, subject matter expertise and focus on customer satisfaction continues to strengthen our onshore and offshore services and operations.

Sindhu J (Sandy)

Director of Operations

Sandy brings over 16 years of experience in the field of technology consulting & operations. As the director of operation and staffing, she works with the executive management team for decision making on operational activities as well as setting company’s strategic goal on staffing and consulting.
Sandy supervises day-to-day operation and monitors staff from different departments of the company. She oversees customer support and organizes the process to enhance customer support and manages relationship with external partners and vendors.

Cam Funkhouser

Advisor

Cam Funkhouser is a 35-year veteran of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority where he most recently served as the Executive Vice President of the Office of Fraud Detection and Market Intelligence. As a pioneer in leveraging technology to conduct big data analytics to perform market surveillance for securities traded on Nasdaq and the NYSE, Cam is well-respected in the financial industry for his expertise in exposing insider trading, market manipulation, corporate-disclosure fraud and other financial crimes on Wall Street. He brings the strategic insight of an experienced corporate executive and practical problem-solving skills to unique issues faced by government agencies and corporations.
Cam holds an undergraduate degree in business from Georgetown University and a J.D. from George Mason University School of Law. He is a member of the Virginia Bar Association.

Dr. Kashif Firozvi

Advisor

Dr. Kashif Firozvi is a practicing oncologist in Silver Spring, Maryland and faculty at Georgetown University School of Medicine. He specializes in both hematology and oncology and has been actively involved in clinical research and education for nearly 20 years. Dr. Firozvi has been the Medical Director for Cancer Care Services at White Oak Medical Center for over 10 years.
He also serves as the managing partner for his group of Oncologists at Maryland Oncology Hematology, the largest oncology practice in the state of Maryland.

Terry Lierman

Advisor

With over 40 years of consulting and communications experience, Terry Lierman has served clients within both private and public sectors across core industries including health, energy and education. Terry has provided a variety of organizations with media relations advisement, communications management, business sustainability, and program administration.
Terry is currently the founding partner of Summit Global Ventures LLC where he consults and invests in promising health, medical device, energy, and education related companies. Terry serves as the Chair of the Advisory Board of Stellar IT Solutions, and is a board member of The Institute of Human Virology, The Global Virus Network, The University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center, and the LaFollette Center, University of Wisconsin. Terry has previously served on multiple boards and community service organizations including New York Life, The Advocacy Institute, Alliance for Eye and Vision Research, Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities, and Children’s Research Institute.
Knowledgeable on legislative program development and initiatives, Terry worked as the Chief of Staff to U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations and the Majority Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives. During those times, Terry oversaw and directed various duties and responsibilities within the offices, including management of staff, policy, and floor initiatives and directives. Serving as White House liaison, Terry provided fundraising oversight, political direction and coordination between multiple groups. Terry also served as the Maryland Democratic Party State Chair, responsible for developing and managing statewide communications and fundraising operations. Terry has also been involved in multiple presidential campaigns.
Prior to being the State Chair, Terry displayed his health development and program administration skills in executive positions at Health Ventures, TheraCom, and Employee Health Programs, as he consulted on business plans, feasibility, and public relations.
Early in his career, Terry founded and directed a consulting firm, Capitol Associates Inc., where he provided government and public relations services for various organizations within a wide scope of fields. It was here that Terry honed expertise on health research, budgetary processes, services administration, and program development.
Terry spent his undergraduate career at Winona State University earning his degree in Political Science and shortly after his Masters in Public policy and Administration at the University of Wisconsin.