Mr. Basu Ghosh is a serial entrepreneur. His two current enterprises are Omnikron Systems, Inc, a software consulting company servicing Fortune Five Hundred clients for the past 30 years, and Basu’s Homestyle Indian Cuisine, a company five years in the making, dedicated to bringing high quality Homestyle Indian cuisine to the mainstream American market (Costco, Whole Foods, Kroger, Ralphs, etc.). Before founding Omnikron Systems, Inc., Ghosh managed the implementation of the enterprise-wide retail banking application for First Interstate Bank. His career includes training and development of large-scale transaction processing systems for organizations such as Federal Express, IBM Canada, Bank of America, VISA, Citicorp, and Marriot Hotels. He has more than 20 years of experience in all facets of software design and implementation of enterprise-wide applications. Over the last five years, Ghosh has put in 10,000 hours in becoming an expert in manufacturing Homestyle Indian food in industrial scale. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science from UCLA. He received his BS (1968) and MS (1970) in Applied Geology from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and MA (1973) in Geology from Boston University.

The meetup opens at 7 PM for networking, the presentation will start at 7:30 PM to give people time to arrive comfortably. Most of our meetups will be mashup between LA PHP, LA MySQL, LA LAMP and LA Semantic Web groups -- all members are welcome here.

CTC meetings are held every other month on the third Thursday of the month beginning in January. Meetings are preceded by an optional dinner ($5) at 6:00pm, followed by the meeting at 6:30pm.