Rajnish Prasad

Enterprise IT and Healthcare Architect

rajnishprasad.va@gmail.com

(571) 364-3812 (cell)

 

Profile

Mr. Prasad has functioned in a variety of roles, including as an executive leader, enterprise architect, analyst, management consultant and business development and marketing ranging from small and startup businesses to Fortune 500 companies. His experience is cross-technology and cross-industry, ranging from transportation, IT, communications, healthcare and utilities. His current focus is on evaluating cloud-based technology frameworks, establishing business partner relationships with cloud and big data technology companies, and developing cloud and big data-based solutions as VP Architecture and Technology for Integral and Open Systems.

 

Previously, he had his own startup healthcare company to capture patient medical data onto a smartcard. He has performed as a consultant to hospitals and clinics on their enterprise health IT capabilities and business operations. He has also worked at national levels and healthcare working groups to understand industry trends and contribute through leadership and analysis.

 

Most of Mr. Prasad’s IT industry revolved around his work at IBM’s National Architecture and Technology Center of Excellence for nearly ten years. He has over twenty five years of experience in computing technology and over seventeen years of experience in Internet technologies. Mr. Prasad has worked in various phases of project development ranging from defining business strategy, designing an enterprise architecture, designing service oriented and object-oriented IT architectures, delivering IBM methodology-based architecture solutions, work products and deliverables, developing customized and lean governance models, and providing thought leadership via white papers and instructional materials on high performance computing.

 

He has consulted for the largest Fortune 100 companies and government organizations providing IT assessments, architectural analysis, business architecture and processes, systems and performance review and design. His largest engagements included a federated enterprise architecture for the US Department of Defense business mission area and acting as their representative in business and technical working groups. In addition, he worked on a global Service Oriented Architecture design and implementation for IBM HR. He was a member of IBM’s Complex E-business Review Team to review and provide critical analysis for all large scale IBM customer projects at various stages in their solution lifecycle as mandated by IBM executive leadership.

 

 

Cloud/Big Data Activities

Mr. Prasad is currently working on training specific to the cloud technology stack at the infrastructure, big data, analytics and visualization layers. Specifically, this includes training leading to certification in the MapR Hadoop distribution and the MarkLogic NoSQL database. Both of these certifications will support the ability to manage virtual computing clusters, resource provisioning and allocation, and performance and application management. He is in process of installing MapR and MarkLogic images on Amazon Web Services platform. Also, he is training on the Talend ETL software for loading various source data sets into the operational environments and data analytics and visualization with Pentaho, Qlik and Tableau.

 

Mr. Prasad is currently developing an online lecture sponsored by the Harvard Innovation Labs for November release entitled “Introduction to Healthcare Data and Visualization using Medicare Part B Data Sets”. This course is intended for a broad audience and will explain the healthcare domain and associated data sets, as well as a process for visualization utilizing real-world data and visualization tools. The course will impart a basic capability to design, develop and implement data visualizations that may be performed across a variety of business domains and industries.

 

 

Work Experience

 

Integral and Open Systems Job Profiles

 

January 2012 – Present

Mr. Prasad is serving as Vice President of Architecture and Technology for Integral and Open Systems, an innovative solution provider open source applications and solutions, specifically focused on cloud-based technology frameworks. These frameworks include Hadoop distributions from MapR and Hortonworks, as well as the Apache Cassandra-based DataStax. These are distributed, high performance big data management and analytics platforms offering linearly scalable NoSQL databases, resilient and self-healing systems, automatic stack provisioning and scaling, and customizable platform solutions. Other databases MarkLogic‘s multi-modal noSQL database and HP’s Vertica. In addition, he has formed formal business partnerships with data analytics and data visualization companies Qlik, Pentaho, Tableau and Actian to form part of an integrated data stack for the cloud. Various service models including on-Premise Services, Platform-as-a-Service, Infrastructure-as-a-Service, and Software-as-a-Service. Customer deployment models include public, private, hybrid and community clouds. Additional hybrid variations range from combinations of open source and commercial cloud technologies, integration of multi-vendor Hadoop data hubs,

 

October 2014 – May 2015 (eight months)

Mr. Prasad worked to develop a conceptual behavioral health conceptual solution for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. This was a solution built on a cloud infrastructure and various technology layers including high-speed, NoSQL operational database, a data analytics middle layer and a data visualization layer to present key information to all authorized stakeholders. This solution was to be integrated with telehealth capabilities and a behavioral health electronic medical record, and a peer-to-peer online support community. The solution is currently in consideration by local government authorities for further evolution and implementation for the identification and treatment support of juvenile and potentially mentally ill offenders.

 

April 2013 – July 2013 (four months)

Mr. Prasad served as a business analyst in support of Monsanto and their business process management (BPM) and optimization requirements. This initiative requires the end-to-end management of the seed research, development, manufacturing and commercialization process. He designed and presented an educational overview of BPM and led workshop sessions in the analysis and capture of key attributes of their as-is and to-be processes. This initial consulting project culminated with the design and presentation of business process workflows along with key process attributes including process descriptions, key performance indicators, identification of process owners and stakeholders, and key governance factors.

 

January 2013 – March 2013 (three months)

Mr. Prasad performed as a lead solution architect to the US Mid-Atlantic region of Kaiser Permanente, which is the largest managed healthcare company in the US. Mr. Prasad analyzed government policies and mandates and ensuring that they are correctly converted to requirements, which would be subsequently mapped to healthcare business processes and workflows. He reviewed systems applications software configuration changes necessary to support the new Medicaid related services. Mr. Prasad analyzed the security policy and procedures necessary to support the new project for the development of Medicare Advantage for the state of Maryland.

 

August 2012 – December 2012 (five months)

Mr. Prasad was primary author for a proposal and business plan for an equity investment international medical tourism startup project. He defined the business case, defined the scope, and developed the business model and business requirements for the overall solution architecture and process overview to support the delivery of patients from the US and other countries to JCI certified hospitals overseas. He developed pro-forma financial projections based upon the hospital charge masters used in internationally certified hospitals and the overall financial model to make the business viable. The projections included sales forecasts, personnel plan, incomes statement and balance sheet. Mr. Prasad also researched the target consumer, business and their respective advertising markets, both traditional and online. The business opportunity was designed to deliver high-quality, low-cost healthcare to people with marginal healthcare coverage, to bring a high volume of patients to the foreign hospitals, to improve their care quality for their domestic citizens, and to have a viable and realizable business.

 

June 2012– July 2012 (two months)

Mr. Prasad was invited by Optimus Health clinic network in Connecticut to provide technical assistance in their transition from an as-is EMR implementation to a new EMR implementation. This was in support of the Medicare grant, as well as their own operational improvement plans. Mr. Prasad also performed an enterprise-wide organizational readiness assessment for Optimus. The scope of this work included organizational readiness to adopt new technologies and to offer new clinical services, validation of strategic objectives given current market conditions and mandates, analysis of governance processes, review of Medicare reimbursement rates and related anomalies, assessment of existing electronic medical record and hospital management systems, review of capabilities for information integration and interoperability with internal systems and external organizations and conducting interviews with doctors, administrators and directors. The results of the assessment were presented to their CMO and other C-level executives.

 

January 2012 – May 2012 (five months)

Mr. Prasad worked on a Medicare grant proposal team led by George Washington University Department of Population Health, Binary Fountain customer analytics team, and Optimus Health clinics. The objective of the project was to quantify and analyze the effects of patient satisfaction factors within the clinic and the effect upon patient outcomes. Mr. Prasad wrote the technical section of the grant to meet Medicare healthcare IT objectives, including the incorporation of evidence-based medicine practices, various patient support scenarios including on-clinic as well as within Patient Centered Medical Homes, measurements of patient satisfaction and the incorporation of key performance indicators to be utilized in the capture within clinical performance systems and presentation as executive dashboards.

 

Smartcard Health Care Technologies Job Profiles

March 2011 – July 2011 (five months)

In this capacity, Mr. Prasad also worked with the National Health Information Network (NHIN) Working Group on designing interoperability for Electronic Health Records. He authored various use case scenarios for the exchange of EHR data between different hospitals or other medical service providers. His company had been selected to be an invited member of Integrating the Healthcare Environment (IHE) International, with eligibility for participation in domestic and international technical leadership committees in the healthcare industry. He collaborated on EHR architectures with international leaders Ocean Informatics with the OpenEHR standards ISO 13606. This was the forerunner to many current EHR designs via the use of a hierarchical document storage paradigm leveraging XML. Mr. Prasad also worked with international leaders in the EHR field and technologies such as CDA, CCD, CCR, HL7v2.x, and HL7v3.0.

 

September 2009 – January 2011 (sixteen months)

Mr. Prasad functioned as a systems designer and consultant in the healthcare industry for his company Smartcard Health Care Technologies, Inc. He devised a solution for capturing patient medical data onto a medical smartcard and by integrating it with existing hospital IT systems to become an automated and authoritative source as a repository for patient medical data. This was done under a pilot contract for the Samaritan Health Services hospital network in Oregon. His focus was on point-of-care data capture, Electronic Health Record (EHR) interoperability via integration engines and health information exchange architectures.

 

 

IBM Job Profiles

September 2008-March 2009 (6 months)

Mr. Prasad was working as lead architect at the Federal Aviation Administration. He designed an approach to managing FAA business and technology through the use of enterprise architecture (EA) methodology. He wrote a roadmap for the transition from current processes to new EA based processes to manage the FAA as well as providing specific business and technical guidance based upon assessments performed at the client. He also designed workshop and interview sheets to assist in the data collection process.

 

June 2008 – August 2008 (2 months)

Mr. Prasad was engaged in developing a learning class for the global IBM IT Architect community. This class, entitled Enterprise Architecture Assessment, defines a common process and method for assessing and analyzing a customer’s entire business and IT environment based upon the Open Group’s Architecture Framework (TOGAF) and IBM work products and deliverables. He developed two of the learning modules: Introduction to TOGAF and Vision and Business Architecture. This process covers the business vision and strategy for a customer, its operating principles, its business architecture and organizational assets. These learning modules will be distributed globally across IBM to teach these fundamental architecture assessment processes and principles.

 

April 2008 – May 2008 (1 month)

Mr. Prasad was engaged in refining and modernizing the business process models for the Healthcare Payer Modernization Program. He conducted interviews with subject matter experts and validated and documented functional requirements in WebSphere Business Modeler. This included defining the use case models, interaction diagrams, and sequence diagrams for the healthcare payer process model. He used Service Oriented Architecture techniques to translate the business process model into a partial service model in the Rational Software Development Environment tool.

 

October 2007 – March 2008 (6 months)

Mr. Prasad was engaged in a continuous improvement program in the analysis of errors in financial and accounting systems in a transaction hub and the corresponding help desk problem tickets to analyze statistical performance, determine root cause failures, and identify potential recurring problems and potential solutions and new requirements for further capability enhancements. He received and analyzed raw data log files for both raw transaction data and helpdesk problem tickets. Mr. Prasad conducted monthly meetings with executives and business line managers from both IBM and the customer to present results of the analyses and collaboratively work to identify problem solutions. These data and results were also presented to senior customer executives to help quantify performance improvements delivered by the IBM operations and support team.

 

May 2007 – August 2007 (4 months)

Mr. Prasad was engaged in an IBM internal engagement called the Application Factory, a methodology by which to design and implement application/services projects and their constituent work orders. He designed the overall approach to developing the overall reference process model for the factory. In addition, he modeled reference processes in the Rational Method Composer tool for both governance and incident management processes. He researched and integrated other IBM leading practices via plug-ins, such as for SOA Governance, Compliance Management, and Portfolio Management. He has also designed the governance reference process model for the Application Factory and ensured that it had common interface points to enterprise and project governance control structures.

 

December 2005 – February 2007 (13 months)

Mr. Prasad was engaged in an IBM internal project for its Human Resources division called the Global Opportunity Marketplace. It is job applicant tracking system for IBM employees and candidate job seekers. Mr. Prasad worked through the entire first phase from an end-to-end lifecycle deployment starting at vendor and technology selection to design and testing. This was a Service Oriented Architecture deployment utilizing a third-party vendor solution for applicant tracking and integrating it with IBM data resources and global networks. This first phase is a pilot for India and five European countries. Mr. Prasad developed the integration requirements and high-level global integration design to support this solution. He also worked with the network design team to develop a bandwidth expansion solution for the India segment of the global network solution. He also helped in the integration and data standards management processes for the project technical team. Mr. Prasad attended HR taxonomy working group meetings in support of Global OM and was also its representative to the IBM HR Workforce Management Initiative Architecture Council.

 

July 2002-May 2005 (35 months)

Mr. Prasad was engaged as an enterprise IT architect for the Department of Defense Business Modernization Management Program (BMMP) since its inception in 2002. He worked on developing the Business Enterprise Architecture (BEA) for DoD. Mr. Prasad provided inputs to management on enterprise transformation, architecture requirements and usage, and conceptual design of a service-oriented architecture. He performed the functional analysis and design for a defense-wide, reference implementation architecture. Mr. Prasad represented BMMP and participated in DoD-wide working groups on the DoD Global Information Grid, Net Centricity and Net Centric Enterprise Services programs. These topics include Enterprise Services Management, Core Enterprise Service Metadata, Information Assurance, Messaging, Mediation, GIG Enterprise Services Strategy, as well as DoD Executive Boards and Steering Groups. In this capacity, he performed functional requirements analysis on DoD-wide functional requirements and also provided technical guidance on the design and performance of technical capabilities in a service oriented environment, using the DOD Architecture Framework (DODAF). Mr. Prasad co-authored two white papers: “GIG Mission Area Integration Strategy” and “Core Business Mission Impact on the DoD Business Enterprise Architecture”.

 

May 2001 -June 2002 (13 months)

Mr. Prasad functioned as a subject matter expert in electronic marketplaces and IT architecture in general for IBM’s Practitioner Support Network. The PSN responsible for supporting the entire IBM technical community, including developers, architects, and principals. Mr. Prasad performs as a consulting IT Architect by providing intellectual capital, recommendations on system design, short-term consulting, technical quality assurance reviews, and reviews for complex e-business engagements. The supported areas include patterns for e-business, e-marketplaces, reference architectures, enterprise application integration, security, application design, business process management and middleware.

 

Feb 2001 – April 2001 (3 months)

Mr. Prasad completed an architectural assessment and design for a B2B system for a transportation client. He was the lead architect for the team and worked closely with the CEO and Vice-President to establish requirements and with the IT team to deliver the technical solution.  This solution was a distributed Java application built around IBM WebSphere Marketplace Edition software, DB2 database, MQ Series for backend integration, WebSphere to deliver distributed Java components and Tivoli for security and systems management. Both the initial IT assessment and the to-be design were positively received by the client and went to funding.

 

Oct 2000 - May 2001 (8 months)

Mr. Prasad served as part of the Complex E-business Review Team within IBM. In this capacity and in conjunction with the chief architect of the team, he performed technical reviews and quality assurance on all large-scale technical solution and implementation designs on engagements larger than one million dollars for IBM customers. Reviews ranged from proposal definition and refinement to technical solution design to software coding and development guidance. Engagements included leaders within the automotive, distribution, consumer and retail, government, and transportation industries.

 

Sept 2000 – Oct 2000 (2 months)

Mr. Prasad finished the design of an IT architecture, including pervasive computing devices, for a leading beverage company. This included definition of business strategy, selection of systems technologies such as an application server, security and systems management, data mining, remote device management, wireless technology, and data translation. He incorporated new technology around the corporate business proposition to design an innovative solution capable of reducing loss of revenue and increasing operating efficiency and system maintenance. One of the significant components of the design is the use of pervasive computing devices, and wireless networks.

 

Oct 2000 – Dec 2000 (3 months)

Mr. Prasad worked on a pre-sales engagement to co-design a business-to-business solution architecture for the airline industry. This solution was built around Ariba, and i2 marketplace software, DB2 database, MQSeries for backend integration, WebSphere to deliver distributed Java components and Tivoli for security and systems management.

 

June 2000 – August 2000 (3 months)

Mr. Prasad worked on a B2B exchange project for IBM to design a supplier-based industry exchange for pharmaceutical companies. He evaluated core exchange software products from Ariba, IBM, and i2. He evaluated the entire enterprise architecture for the exchange. He helped design a messaging architecture for the exchange of business process flows and business data between companies. Mr. Prasad helped to define data formats and messaging infrastructure around which the exchange is dependent upon for reliable message transport. Mr. Prasad worked with XML and data standards organizations such as RosettaNet, OAG, XML/EDI, and Oasis to identify common data formats to be used in the exchange.

 

Dec 1999-April 2000 (5 months)

Mr. Prasad worked on a distributed Java-based, object-oriented electronic payment system for the city of New York. He was the subsystem architect for the sheriffs department for whom he designed an object-oriented applications architecture based upon Java, WebSphere, DB2, and custom software written to access legacy data sources. He also architected and designed a wireless system consisting of a wireless network, handheld terminal, and gateway to enable deputies to perform vehicle searches against computer databases in the field and to take electronic payments.

 

 

Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate April 1987-Oct 1999 (151 months)

Mr. Prasad worked as an electrical engineer at the US Army Center for Night Vision and Electro-Optics. In this capacity, he was a part of the ten person special projects office of the Elevated Target Acquisition System. Later, he worked on FLIR and optics testing by laser and where he co-published annual industry research reports for the industry. Also, he conducted lab testing of heads up display systems by automated data acquisition systems.

 

 

Education and Credentials

Mr. Prasad has a bachelor’s degree in computer science and one in electrical engineering from the University of Kansas in 1986. He received his master’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Virginia in 1992.

 

Mr. Prasad co-authored a white paper on IT systems performance and high availability, making the presentation at the IBM Academy of Technology in July, 2002.

 

Mr. Prasad was interviewed by CMP publications as their e-commerce specialist in April, 1999, which was placed on their Internet radio broadcasting system. Mr. Prasad is a member of the CMP Publications Computer Information Services advisory panel conducting periodic market research on the IT industry.

 

Mr. Prasad has made presentations to local and national chambers of commerce on e-business and electronic commerce. He has also made an invited presentation, by a branch of the Office of Secretary of Defense, on the future of IT technology in the government by the year 2020.

 

Mr. Prasad has healthcare industry memberships in HIMSS and IHE International.

 

Mr. Prasad is a US citizen.