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ATUL K. BHATT (U.S. CITIZEN)
(919) 848-1297, 919-539-8562 (cell), atulb@juno.com
541-302 Bridleridge Drive, Raleigh, North Carolina 27609
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Dr. Atul Bhatt is a consultant in Information Technology
and Business Strategy. He helps organizations enhance their effectiveness
and competitive position through application and integration of existing
and emerging information technologies. He has over 24 years of system design,
project management, and technology planning and integration experience in
computers and communications across various industries. He has consulted
for over 20 clients, including IBM, Nortel, Caterpillar, NCR, GE, Sprint,
and the US Army.
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
- Over 24 years of experience in IT and business analysis
across various industries.
- Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science, following graduation from IIT (Indian Institute of Technology).
- Consulted for over 20 clients, including
IBM, Nortel, Caterpillar, NCR, GE, Sprint, and the US Army.
- Principal skills
: IT Strategic Assessment and Planning, Requirements
Mgmt., System Design, Process development. - Principal
IT areas
: E-business, Enterprise Architectures, Knowledge
Mgmt, Software Engg., Expert Systems, DBMS. - Communicating
complex technical concepts to non-technical personnel throughout the enterprise.
- Developing and teaching educational courses,
both in-class an online (e-learning.
- Global business culture, including skills
in French, Japanese and five languages from India.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
AKB & Associates, Raleigh, North Carolina 1/01 - Present
Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon Univ. – Invited
as a Visiting Scientist to work on a pioneering effort on Enterprise Integration.
Contributed to the following as an expert with industry perspective:
- Detailed Roadmap defining salient aspects of the Enterprise
Integration field
- An architectural model for Enterprise Integration
- Workshop presentations – IBM’s CASCON (Toronto), and DoD (Washington,
DC)
Principal Financial Group – Led the requirements gathering
process using Use Case Modeling and Rational Unified Process (RUP) for the
following projects:
- Knowledge-Based Personalization: Business use cases
- Residential Mortgage Post Closing – Imaging & Workflow:
Business use cases, technical use cases, mentoring/coaching of team members
in the use case and RUP methodologies.
digitalESP,
Raleigh, North Carolina 9/00 - 1/01
Practice Director, Solutions Group
Responsible for defining e-business service offerings, and
developing customer-specific solution approaches, specifically in the areas
of Business Webs, Enterprise Portals, Digital Marketplaces, Supply Chain
Integration, and Knowledge Management. Gained familiarity with the offerings
of digitalESP's strategic partners, namely, IBM (WebSphere), Ariba, Bowstreet,
WebMethods, and the Concours Group.
Make Systems, Inc., Raleigh, North
Carolina 4/99 - 9/00
Senior Network Consultant
Responsible for setting up a consulting practice in computer
networks modeling, design and planning; pre-sales consulting support for
Make's flagship product NetMaker MainStation; clients included Sprint, US
Army 5th Signal, IBM, PSINet, Lucent, and AT&T.
MindLever Corporation, Raleigh, North Carolina 7/98 - 4/99
Director of Business Consulting Services
Responsible for account management, high level product design,
marketing, and new business development for KaleidoScope Enterprise, a comprehensive
set of WBT tools for enterprise-wide learning and knowledge management, built
on a 3-tier client/server architecture called Online Learning Infrastructure
(OLI) that is integrated with Microsoft BackOffice, IIS, SQL Server, Site
Server, COM, ASP, and ActiveX technologies. Technical contributions include
requirements management, system design, UI design, performance and QA, and
end-user and design documentation.
CGN & Associates, Cary, North Carolina
2/95 - 6/98
Principal Consultant, CTO
Responsible for the development of new businesses, services,
and methodologies for optimal solutions using existing and emerging information
technologies.
1. CGN-Internal
- Spearheaded the development of a consulting service
around IT and Systems Integration, which became CGN's flagship offering.
The service was founded on the ITSAP (IT Strategic Assessment and Planning)
methodology that I have developed over the last 5 years.
- Helped with the internal assessment of CGN's
business, and the formulation of critical processes, especially, in the areas
of client development, project marketing, project delivery, and software
engineering.
2. Client Development and Projects
- BNR/Nortel
Prime investigator in the project on FODA
(Feature-Oriented Domain Analysis), a methodology from Carnegie Mellon's Software
Engineering Institute. The main accomplishments of this 2-year effort were
- Development of an expert system (using SmartElements)
for domain analysts.
- FODA customization and application within Nortel.
- Development of a 2-day comprehensive course in FODA
- FODA training of interested groups within Nortel.
- Publication of a guidebook for FODA pragmatists
- Development of ISA (Inductive Scenario Analysis),
a technique for information elicitation in a group setting.
- Caterpillar
Led the following efforts:
- IT strategic assessment and planning (ITSAP) for
Caterpillar's E&E R&D department, a 500+ strong services group in
Caterpillar's Technology Center.
- Oil Analysis Expert System - Knowledge acquisition
and representation, tools evaluation, knowledge engineer training in Neuron
Data's SmartElements.
- Materials & Process Selection Expert System
- Knowledge acquisition and representatiion,, tools evaluation, knowledge
engineer training.
- Requirements analysis for fuel system test benches.
- Data acquisition and visualization tools development.
- Y2K assessment for embedded systems.
- Ford
Client development, and launch of a project
in object-oriented development of their engine simulation database.
- JP Pearl & Associates
Client and strategic partnership development
- GE Appliance Center
Client development, and project launch for
their One Call 32 help desk tool.
AKB & Associates, Raleigh, North Carolina 11/93 - 12/94
Worked with several independent consulting companies in
the areas of IT strategic planning, advanced software development, and training.
- Taught a one-week hands-on course on Neuron Data's
SmartElements, a knowledge engineering software tool.
- Boston Dana Corporation
- Developed a rule-based expert system (using
SmartElements) for selection of hoses and chemicals. - Becton Dickinson Microbiology Systems
- Consulting on applications of Neural Network
technology for bacterial identification. - Began
work on a methodology for strategic assessment and planning of an organization's
IT infrastructure. Known as ITSAP in its current form, the methodology
aims to systematically align three critical perspectives of an organization
- Business, Information flow, and Technologggy. While the methodology does
not require the use of any expensive CASE or ERP tool, it can be easily adapted
to any of the known assessment tools.
- NCR
- Applied ITSAP for strategic assessment
of NCR's Financial Enterprise Architecture, including IT requirements for
their worldwide banking customers. - Carson
Pirie Scott
- ITSAP for the department store's major
branches and distribution centers.
Becton Dickinson Research Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
2/87 - 10/93
Project Leader, Knowledge-Based Systems
Directed the development and dispersion of knowledge-based
systems and other Artificial Intelligence (AI) or related technologies for
use within Becton Dickinson (BD) or to add value to its products. (BD is
a $3+ billion global medical technology company).
- Five embedded knowledge-based systems on the market
adding value to BD's diagnostic instruments. One of these, in hematology,
enhanced its division's revenues by at least $4 million in its first year.
Its newest version, spurred by customer demand is expected to continue this
revenue growth and open up new markets.
- Designed and implemented a strategy for
dispersing within BD the capability to develop knowledge-based systems,
resulting in increased awareness of this technology, training for around
50 employees, and development start of more than 15 applications.
Sperry Corporation
(Unisys, since 5/86), Roseville, Minnesota
9/79 - 2/87
Principal System Design Engineer (9/79 - 5/85), Professional Consultant II (5/85 - 2/87)
Architectural definition, system design and performance
analysis of new generation computers.
- Developed a spreadsheet-based software tool for evaluating
the fault tolerance of large electronic systems, simplifying such evaluations
for Sperry's managers and engineers, and resulting in more robust estimates
and designs.
- Contributed to a corporate-level technical
committee on expert systems and AI, whose recommendations led to the formation
of a core AI group at Sperry.
- Developed an expert system for the field
diagnosis of Sperry's 1100/90 mainframe, resulting in increased effectiveness
of field service engineers.
- Led a pioneering effort for resolving testability
issues in the 1100/90 follow-on system early in its development cycle, resulting
in a more testable and robust design with savings in the actual test phase.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., E.E. University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, Minnesota - December, 1979 (GPA: 3.94/4.0)
Minor: Computer Science, Operations Research
M.S., E.E. University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, Minnesota - December, 1976 (GPA: 3.94/4.0)
Minor: Computer Science
B.Tech.(Hons.) Indian Institute
of Technology, Kharagpur, India - May, 1974 (GPA: 3.96/4.0)
Degree: Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering
COMPUTER SKILLS
Systems: Workstations
(Sun UNIX, Symbolics), PCs (DOS/Windows, Mac), Mainframes (Unisys OS 1100)
Programming: C, HTML, XML,
LISP, FORTRAN, ALGOL, PASCAL, Assembly Language
Software: Several
Knowledge System shells (SmartElements, Level5, KEE), Network Planning &
Design Tools (NetMaker, Sniffer, W&G), e-business tools (Ariba, IBM WebSphere),
Object-Oriented tools (Rational Rose), and Office Productivity suites (Microsoft
Office, Lotus Notes)
TEACHING SKILLS
- Developed and taught executive-level courses on topics
related to knowledge-based systems and AI, database systems, client/server
computing, user interfaces, systems thinking, and domain analysis.
- Developed and taught a Ph.D.-level course
on fault-tolerant computing in the University of Minnesota's Electrical
Engineering Department.
- Developed a beginners' course on Japanese
language, and taught it to computer professionals at Sperry Corporation.
AWARDS
- Graduate School Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, University
of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 1978.
- Herman Lukoff Award for excellence in technical
communications, Sperry Univac Spring Technical Symposium, 1980.