IT Architect @ Cisco. Passionate about Mobile Computing, Unified Computing & Social Computing. Curious about the rest!
San Francisco Bay Area
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- Information Technology Architect at Cisco Systems
- Past
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- Information Technology Engineer at Cisco Systems
- Information Technology Analyst at Cisco Systems
- IT Software Engineer at Lucent Technologies
- Web Architect at Avaya
- Web Technical Leader at Lucent Technologies
- IS Lab Lead at Arizona State University
- Education
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- Arizona State University
- Arizona State University
- National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra
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Anand Sharma’s Summary
After spending more than three years pursuing dual Masters degree from Arizona State in Information Systems (MSE) and Computer Science (MS) and having spent more than a decade working in IT for Fortune 500 companies like Cisco Systems, Lucent Technologies and Avaya, it's amazingly clear things that I like and don't like.
I like to read and learn and equally enjoy sharing what I have learnt. I enjoy giving talks and presentations to large audiences. Not surprisingly, I like to teach, although I have yet to formally do anything on that front. I enjoy solving problems, a trait that started when I was exposed to solving Trigonometric equations. I try to live by the maxim that context matters, that big picture viewpoint is necessary to better understand things. I pray at the altar of knowledge and worship intellect and insight when I see it. Hence, even after a decade in IT departments of large enterprises, my shangri-la continues to be an Ivy league University.
I like technologies that simplify interactions - be it between human-to-human, human-to-system or system-to-system and the infrastructure that makes it all possible. My experience and current interests includes designing and developing web applications using SOA/WOA paradigm and continue to evangelize the importance of Social Computing/Enterprise Web 2.0 tools in large global organizations. I typically code applications in Java/JEE liberally using frameworks like Spring/Struts in my professional work environment. However, in my own virtual fiefdom, I prefer dynamic languages/MVC frameworks like Python/Djangowith sprinkle of PHP and Perl. I also enjoy hacking away on Linux-based systems, preferably Fedora and Ubuntu. Lately, I have been involved in Dynamic/Adaptive Infrastructure initiatives. Specifically, my focus is around understanding the inner workings of Data Center, DC Virtualization and Distributed Computing.
I am passionate, pragmatist and consider work to be much more than just "work"!
Anand Sharma’s Specialties:
Software/Solutions Architecture,
Distributed Computing,
Social Computing,
Mobile Computing,
Infrastructure,
Data Center/Virtualization,
Fedora/Ubuntu tinkerer,
Java/JEE
Anand Sharma’s Experience
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Information Technology Architect
Cisco Systems
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CSCO; Computer Networking industry)
September 2005 — Present (3 years 11 months)
Went from building web applications to architecting them over the years
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Information Technology Engineer
Cisco Systems
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CSCO; Computer Networking industry)
August 2001 — September 2005 (4 years 2 months)
• Architected and designed web-based applications for Advanced Services business unit
• Developed web-based application services on J2EE platform primarily using open-source MVC frameworks such as Struts and WebWork
• Continued to act in the capacity of System Administrator of the Professional Services Automation application. Member of the core team responsible for both the US and Global launch of this application.
• Provided 24x7 systems and application administrative support to all AS-IT applications, including ASA (Advanced Services Automation) and ASAP (Advanced Services Account Portal). -
Information Technology Analyst
Cisco Systems
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CSCO; Computer Networking industry)
February 2001 — August 2001 (7 months)
• Responsible for understanding the business needs and assisted in authoring business requirements document (BRD).
• Worked with the Technical Lead (Team Lead) in authoring Systems Requirement Documents (SRD)
• Assisted in the formulation of Testing/Quality assurance scripts/plans for applications -
IT Software Engineer
Lucent Technologies
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; LU; Telecommunications industry)
January 1999 — February 2001 (2 years 2 months)
Played a lead role in designing and developing Lucent's first Single Sign-on solution for external web applications leveraging the Netegrity SiteMinder solution
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Web Architect
Avaya
(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; AV; Telecommunications industry)
March 2000 — February 2001 (1 year)
The New Technology/Architecture group architected the various components of the ebusiness infrastructure. It was also responsible for researching new technologies with the aim of building world class ebusiness services for customers.
• Researched ways to make AVAYA’s ebusiness applications WAP-enabled as well as researched new publishing frameworks based on Java and XSLT technologies -
Web Technical Leader
Lucent Technologies
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; LU; Telecommunications industry)
February 1999 — March 2000 (1 year 2 months)
Customer Self Suppot (http://support.lucent.com) has always been an extremely busy site. However, until Mar 99, the site was nothing more than a suite of poorly written Perl/LiveWire based server-side programs. As the lead developer of the first SSO pilot, I was given the added responsibility of leading the efforts to migrate the entire application into NES (presentation layer), NAS(Netscape Application Server) (business-logic layer) and Oracle 7.3.x (Data layer) framework
• Led the team of three developers and rewrote all server-side programs into Java applogics
• Administered the development NES/NAS/Oracle environment for the CSS project -
IS Lab Lead
Arizona State University
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)
May 1996 — December 1998 (2 years 8 months)
IS Lab (is.asu.edu) catered to the technology needs of Arizona State Instructors and Students. It focussed on helping the community embrace the new and upcoming technologies into their education needs.
As the lead student IS Engineer, I worked on many projects involving things like building web applications, doing PoC of new technologies and products and help the IS Lab customers get introduced to them
Anand Sharma’s Education
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Arizona State University
MSc , Computer Science , 1997 — 1998
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Arizona State University
MSE , Information Systems , 1995 — 1997
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National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra
Bachelor of Technology , Mechanical Engineering , 1991 — 1995
- Activities and Societies:
- Debate Champion of my year for all four years, Led the Debate Club in my final year
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Anand Sharma’s Interests:
New Gadgets and Gizmos, Politics, Travel (especially Road Trips)
Anand Sharma’s Groups:
IEEE, ACM
Anand Sharma’s Honors:
Third prize on a paper I co-presented at IIT Delhi on "Taguchi Methods"
Arizona Governor's Award while studying in Arizona State University
18 Certificate of Achievement Awards @ Cisco
IT Champion Award @ Cisco
CCSS-IT Innovation IT Champion Award for my work in Web 2.0
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