Mr. Kumar is President and CEO of ApTSi (Applied Technology Solutions, Inc.) a visionary organization focused on SOA, EA, reuse and application architecture.  Nikhil is responsible for defining corporate strategy, direction and business development, while providing consulting services to key ApTSi clients.  His educational background includes graduate and postgraduate degrees in engineering and computer science, and he has been on the international who's who list and is the author of articles on SOA and papers on SOA and EA.  Some engagements with ApTSi include oversight architect for GMACs MIC subsidiary, establishing SOA governance at banks in Boston and a large New Jersey Financial institution, an engagement with a major utility to establish an ESB/SOA/ EII framework and a major enterprise reuse initiative.

Nikhil is currently leading ApTSi™s visionary SOA solutions stack with their patent pending SOA Solutions Framework™, their PPIT  methodology, their Fulcrum of Agility™  model and their SOASense?  and SOAReality™ Solutions.

Presentation
SOA Patterns: Security, Privacy and Governance
SOA is the new mantra driving the industry.  SOA Patterns are going to drive the consolidation and specification of reusable, functional SOA solutions.  This presentation focuses on the concept of "SOA Actionable Engineering" a process to construct SOA's and in particular, an SOA pattern language.  In focuses on the specification of:

• Cross-cutting Patterns - Patterns and Pattern Languages
• Governance - (Pattern Language & Catalog)
• Design time
• Strategic Time  Strategic Planning, Portfolio Planning
• Runtime
• Security Patterns Catalog
• Privacy Patterns Catalog

Successful examples of such an approach in other areas include the J2EE blueprints in the J2EE domain

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