Rakesh Radhakrishnan is the Chief Identity Integration Architect and Lead Technologist in the Communications Market Area of Sun. He has covered Telecom Companies, Network Equipment Providers (NEP), Independent Software Vendors (ISV) and Service Provider accounts in Europe, Canada, USA and Latin America. He has over 15 years of experience and has an MBA (MIS) and MS (MIT). He is also the FAM Product Lead for the Software Sales Organization, in Sun. He is an active member
of Customer Engineering Council (CEC) and was the Chairman of a Working Group on Container Alignment Engine (CAE patent received from Europe and US) and the patent on STAR. He also has Defensive Disclosures on Correlated Identity.
He has published more than 50 papers on IT Architectures (Frameworks, Process and Techniques) and is a frequent speaker at conferences and events including IDTrust, ITU, DIDW, OMG, TOG, CMG, IRM, SuperG, SunNetwork, Java ONE, Stanford University and Oxford University, etc. He has led multiple Architecture Workshops and Architecture Assessments for
IT Consolidation and Network Identity projects. He was recently featured on Officer Outlook for his work on Aligning Architectural Approaches (Sun's WS-Incite Award for 2005). He is the recipient of the "Above and Beyond" award from the Sun/Nortel team in 2007 and also the "Outstanding Contributor Award" from SEI. He was selected as a "Stellar Volunteer"
-amongst 25 such volunteers from Sun Celebrating 25 years.
Rakesh is also certified by The Open Group (on TOGAF 8), SEI (as a SW Architect) and OGC (Prince 2 and ITIL). He has Green Belt Six Sigma training. He is a ECCSE (Enterprise Computing Certified Systems Engineer -Competency 2000- from Sun) and a Systems Architect Pro (from Peoplesoft). He is the Author of the Book titled "Identity and Security", "Identity and Policy" and its sequel "Identity and Context".
His blog can be found at _http://www.network-identity.com
<http://www.network-identity.com/>_