IT Architect at Cisco Systems
San Francisco Bay Area
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- IT Architect at Cisco Systems
- Past
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- IT Software Engineer 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
A bonafide "social media addict", I am passionate about technologies that simplify "interactions", be it between human-to-human, human-to-machine or machine-to-machine. Not surprisingly, my current areas of interest are in figuring out the business applications of Social Computing along with helping design and build Solutions based on SOA/WOA.
After graduating from Arizona State with my dual Masters degree in Industrial Engineering (Information Systems) and Computer Science, I have had the good fortune of working in two great Fortune 500 companies in these past ten years - Lucent Technologies and Cisco Systems.
I live in "the" Silicon Valley with my wife, a daughter and our Wire Fox Terrier. When I am not at work and I am not on my laptop reading about the latest political chicaneries of US Politics or Blogging or Twittering, or dealing with the latest fad rolled out of the Web (2.0 or n.0) assembly line, I like to take short and/or long road trips, watch movies and enjoy fast-food delicacies..;-)
Anand Sharma’s Specialties:
Software/Solutions Architecture,
Open Source Tools Advocate,
Social Computing,
Web Oriented Architecture,
SOA/BPM (Oracle/JBoss),
Cloud Computing (GAE/AWS),
Ruby/RoR Programming,
Java/JEE Programming,
LAMP Stack Hacks,
Virtualization (VMWare)* ,
Cisco IT Standards,
Cisco IT AFS
Anand Sharma’s Experience
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IT Architect
Cisco Systems
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CSCO; Computer Networking industry)
February 2001 — Present (7 years 8 months)
Went from building web applications to architecting them over the years
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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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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
Additional Information
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Anand Sharma’s Interests:
Enterprise Architecture, Software Architecture, Enterprise Web 2.0, Social Software, SOA, SaaS, Cloud Computing, Virtualization Java, LAMP, Ruby, Fedora Linux
Anand Sharma’s Groups:
IEEE, ACM
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Java Posse
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 (so far)
Anand Sharma’s Contact Settings
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