Nikhil Kumar - Freelance Health & Medicine (General) Consultant in Massachusetts, United States

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Industry expert in with multiple implementations and publications

•	Strategic Technology Planning 	•	Technology Development	•	Process Methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, RUP, etc.)
•	IT Governance & Security	•	Emerging Technologies	•	Requirements, Capability Based Management
•	Business Process Engineering	•	Program Management	•	SOA, API Management, IOT, Application, Enterprise, Business & Cloud Architecture
•	Vendor Management & Contract Negotiation
•	DevOps	•	Team Leadership
•	Budget and Portfolio Management	•	Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive, Affective Computing
•	ADDM and APM
•	Operational Readiness, ITSM and IV&V  •	Authoring

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS:
·	 “The Service Enabled Future: SOA, Web 2.0, and the Semantic Web”, CXO magazine, Issue 4, April 2006
·	April 25th, 2007, Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference - Paris, Paris, on Data Architectures and SOA, “The Actionable SOA™: Product Lines and Governance in Large Data Processing Environments”
·	February 4th 2009, 21st Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference, San Diego, CA, “Information Architecture and the Actionable Enterprise Architecture”, position paper on Information Architecture.
·	February 5th, 2009, 1st Security Practitioners Conference, San Diego, CA, “Understanding the Role of Security in SOA and Cloud Computing”, covers TRM, governance, issues, best practices.
·	March 5th 2009, 8th ACM International Conference on Aspect-oriented software development, “Enabling the adoption of aspects – Testing Aspects: a risk model, fault model and patterns”, Charlottesville, VA., 
·	April 20th 2009, Keynote Address Technology Executives Club topic: “The Role of SOA, Cloud Computing, SaaS and Web 2.0 in Business Optimization and Alignment”, Chicago
·	July 20th 2011, “The Actionable Use of TOGAF® to Define an Enterprise Architecture Engaging the Cloud Context”, with Tom Plunkett, Principal Consultant, Oracle, Open Group Conference, Austin, Cloud Track
·	Jan 31st, 2012,“The Realization of SOA’s using the SOA Reference Architecture”, with Ali Arsanjani, CTO Emerging Tech., IBM, The Open Group Conference, San Francisco
·	August 2013, “Implementation of Regulatory Controls in the Life Sciences Industry”, covering CFR 21 Part 11, HIPAA, with Dr. Nimita Limaye and Leon Dupree, in DIA Global Forum Reach, Vol 5, issue 4
·	Contributing author the “SOA Source Book”, the Open Group 
·	Co-author, “Protection and Privacy of Information Assets in the Cloud” chapter, Auditing Cloud Computing: A Security and Privacy Guide, John Wiley and Son’s Inc., July 2011
·	Panelist “Big Data - The Driving Force in Enabling Point of Care Personalized Medicine: Challenges & Potential Solution Strategies”, 5th Annual Personalized Medicine Conference, Boston, MA, October 21st, 2013
·	Webinar on “SOA and Open Platform 3.0 Enabling Big Data”, Nikhil Kumar, Dr. Helen Sun (Oracle), and Trinette Surles (IBM), Dec 17th, 2013 
·	“SOA for Business Technology (SOA4BT)”, Enabling Boundaryless Information Flow, The Open Group, July 2014 
·	“SOA4BT – The maturing of SOA and its role in Business Enablement and Transformation”, The Open Group, Edinburgh, October 2015
·	“SOA for Business Technology”, The Open Group, February 2017
·	Panelist, “IOT and Security”, Kinect365 Information Security Summit, NYC, NY, 10/23/2017

SELECTED ACHIEVEMENTS:
·	Co-Chair/Co-author of the SOA Reference Architecture Standard from the Open Group (V1 and V2)
·	Co-Chair/Co-author and visionary for the SOA for Business Technology White Paper
·	Chair, all Technology and GRC streams, the DIA 7th Annual Conference, 2012
·	Trustee, Behavioral Health Board, Henry Ford Health Systems (2010-2014)
·	Member, Technology Committee, Leader Dogs for the Blind
·	Member, IEEE, SCDM and ACM
·	Honorary Life Member, WWF
·	Listed in international who’s who of professionals
·	Fluent in English, Hindi, Marathi

EXPERTISE & PLATFORMS:
S/W Development (languages and platforms listed):
·	Javascript frameworks – Marionette, Backbone, Node.js, Bootsrap, Angular.js, Express JS/ JQuery, etc. 
·	Languages –  Java, C, C++, Scala, Ruby, Python, R, Perl, Unix stack (awk, Korn, etc.), COBOL, IBM Mainframe Assembler, numerous chip assemblers, Prolog, Scheme, Lisp, Erlang, Haskell, etc.; 
·	DevOps – Stash, Bitbucket, .git, ant, Jenkins, maven, Chef, Ansible, etc. sonatype, Parasoft, JIRA, cvs, rcs, Subversion, Panvalet, ClearCase, TFS, Visual SourceSafe, etc., 
·	Cloud – PAAS Platforms (OpenStack, AWS, Azure, PCF, IBM BlueMix, OpenStack); Iaas (OpenStack, SoftLayer, Azure IAAS, AWS S3, Route 53, etc.); Saas (numerous, e.g. SalesForce, Workday, etc.); iPaas – SFDC, Anypoint (Mulesoft) Cloudhub, etc.
·	Virtualization – VMware, Docker, Kubernetes; Server-less computing – AWS Lambda; 
·	AI – Watson, MS Bot, Apache MXNet, TensorFlow, api.ai; 
·	ORM – TopLink, MyBatis, Hibernate, Morphia, etc.; 
·	DBMS – Oracle/ RAC, SQL Server, MariaDB, MySQL, Informix, ElasticSearch, MongoDB, etc.
·	Modeling – Sparx EA, ARIS, MindMap, Visible Analyst, IBM Rational Architect, System Architect, etc. DBMS – ERWIN, CA Platinum suite, etc.
·	Legacy C/S – Borland Delphi, OWL, MS (OLE, etc.), PowerBuilder, VB, C++

Information Security:
·	Tokenization, Microtokenization, Segmentation, Security Architecture, JAAS, OpenAuth, OpenID, SAML, WS*, OWASP top 10, Common Controls, NIST guidelines, Risk (contributor/ reviewer of standards like OpenFair), etc. 
·	Full-lifecycle (OWASP), PCI, NIST/SANS driven controls, etc.
·	Policy writing and development.  Common Controls
·	PCI, HIPAA, CFR21 Part11, etc.
·	Network architectures and infrastructure security

Information Architecture:
·	Data Lake and Big Data Architectures 
·	Hadoop, Spark/ Kakfa/ HDFS implementation
·	VLDB (Netezza, etc.)
·	OLTP design and distributed and cloud databases (Azure and AWS platforms)
·	NoSQL (Mongo/ Cassandra/ ElasticSearch/ Volt/ etc.)

METHODS:
•	Enterprise Architecture (TOGAF, Zachmann, FEAF, etc.), Governance (COSO/ COBIT, SOA, Cloud, Data, Rules, etc.), Delivery Methodologies (PMBOK, Agile (Scrum, XP, Kanban, SAFe), TDD/BDD, Waterfall, DevOps(CI/CD), Unified Process (RUP), LEAN, Six Sigma, CMM/CMMI), UML

OTHER RELEVANT EXPERTISE:
·	Application Architecture – JEE (numerous server platforms (IBM, BEA/ Oracle, various Open Source (Tomcat, Jetty, Glassfish, JBoss), etc.)), .NET, Dropwizard, Mainframe and UNIX;  Parallel processing and SIMD/ MIMD architecture implementation
·	Integration/SOA/API – TIBCO, TALEND, Fuse, Fiorano, SeeBeyond, IBM stack (including IIB), ActiveMQ, JBOSS stack, Mule/ Anypoint, WSO2, IBM Data Power stack, Akana/SOA S/W API Mgmt and SOA Governance, CA Layer 7, Oracle (OSB, SOA Suite, WLS, API Gateway, OER, etc.), ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, Kafka, etc.; 
·	CRM/ CMS/ Portals/ Workflow – SalesForce, etc.; Portal servers (BEA, Oracle, IBM WebSphere, Sharepoint, IBM Domino, etc.). Open Source Portal/CMS (Liferay, Drupal, JBOSS, etc.); FileNet, etc.
·	Legacy (IBM MF, Base24 (ACI)/ Tandem/ HP NonStop, Hogan COTS)
·	IOT/M2m - M2M (OPC, SCADA, MODBUS, MQTT, etc.). Predix, Mendix; Embedded systems
·	Rules engines (DROOLS, ILOG, IBM ODM, Blaze), Robotic Process Automation tools
·	ITSM (ServiceNow, Cherwell, ZenDesk, etc.), CMDB, ITIL, etc.;

Subject Matter Expertise

Services

Writing
Research
Consulting
Data & AI
Product Development

Work Experience

President, Chief Technologist

Applied Technology Solutions, Inc

September 2002 - Present

Principal Architect, EAI for the Americas

Gedas USA/ Volkswagen

December 2001 - September 2002

CTO, Senior S/W Engineer

Analytical Design Services Corp.

December 1996 - December 2001

Anatec

Architect

July 1996 - November 1996

Principal Architect

Signature Group

May 1996 - July 1996

Architect, Personal Financial Planning Practice

Price Waterhouse

May 1994 - May 1996

Engineer Projects and Systems

Meltron Inc.

June 1988 - August 1989

Education

M.S. Computer Science

Northern Illinois University

August 1989 - May 2002

B. Engg. (Electronics and Telecomm.)

Marathwada University

August 1983 - May 1987

Certifications

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