Research, Demonstrated a successful career path leading software product development and strategy. E-Mail: harshverma2000@gmail.com Cell: +1 (650) 224-2108 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-harsh-verma-97765024/ A technology leader and the recipient of Award of Excellence for Extraordinary Contribution to Technology by NECCC, an association of the State CIOs of the US and Best of California Award for IT Collaboration Intel Software Top Innovator Award and Future Worlds Exemplary Leadership Award Winner 2019 Consulting, Business, Operational and Management Expertise 25+ yrs of experience in Project Conceptualization and Delivery, In-depth understanding of core Business Processes, responsible for Global Innovation, Software and developing Road Maps for Management Summary Harsh Verma, Ph.D. Elk Grove, California, CA 95758 As point-of-contact lead and product SME, for about 2500+ computer software and industry projects/clients for customers with focus on various domains- healthcare, automotive, power-sector, agriculture technologies and industrial IOT, with a focus on supporting new venture development, he has held various leadership roles and positions focused on enabling funding and new venture support mechanisms to support teams engaged in applied research, development and proof-of-concepts and pilots with various research institutions and labs. Dr Verma is also currently the Chief Engineering Architect and Head of IOT Future Technologies Center and Vice-President, Global Innovative Research, at R Systems, a global SEI CMMi Level 5 certified Software Development Company and heads the Mobility Solutions Practice and AI, Machine Learning, Automotive & Intelligent Transportation Systems Group. He is responsible for bringing innovative ideas and technologies to practice as well as product development at R Systems, where he partners with companies like Intel, Nokia, Panasonic, Hitachi, Cisco Systems, Excelfore and many others. As Vice-President Global Innovation, he has been mentoring and leading the Innovation & Technology processes and commercialization for the company's 16 centers worldwide, and has developed strong collaboration for computing, data science, data analytics and partner-based solutions for customers and partners like Intel, Hitachi, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Software AG, Excelfore, for the development of new product portfolio ventures, starting from ideation, to to algorithm development and systems to extract knowledge and insights for automotive markets, to predict repairs, forecast repairs, provide total cost of ownership and tools for internal product usages, sales, and retention, develop proof-of-concept development to deployment and sustenance phases. He helped develop and contributed to pSuite, an internal suite of tools, resources, and services to implement processes and metrics to ensure the software development organization is extremely efficient and focused for product delivery, market ready, highly reliable, scalable, and maintainable. IOT Future Technologies Center started up by the company for quick-start and starter-kits for early-stage startups and also collaborated with various business incubators and innovation centers like Impact Velocity, AWS IOT Cloud, Hacker Lab, Microsoft AI & IOT Design Lab, Intel Innovation Center, Excelfore AWS Automotive IOT for distributed research incubation. He has helped in tracking and evaluating unit metrics with a focus on customer service and quality improvement amongst 3000+ strong developer teams of RSystems. The diversity, increased control and interaction of IOT devices, and the fact that IOT systems use public networks to transfer large amounts of data make them a prime target for cyber-attacks. In addition, IOT devices are usually small, low cost and have limited resources and require a hardware-enabled Chain of Trust from Silicon to Customer Activation - worked and collaborated with Intel SDO processes to provide features like Zero Touch Onboarding for unique security requirements of IoT devices, Intel EPID Vs PKI and deployed in various IOT Projects, currently scaling with Amazon AWS Greengrass, Linux environments and IOT Core to enhance IOT compliance framework and ensure controls validation across various IOT architectures to enable better adoption of established DevSecOps methodologies. He has been responsible for managing programs and providing resources to support technology delivery by worldwide development teams and commercialization by sales and marketing heads and the formation of new venture partnerships with industry partners. Harsh Verma, Ph.D. Elk Grove, California, CA 95758 Dr Verma is also the Chairman of ACM (Association for Computing Machinery - https://www.acm.org/) Sacramento Chapter, (http://sacramento.acm.org/) and has been on the Advisory Board and Chairperson of Future Worlds Symposium 2018, 2019 and 2020 - http://futureworlds.city He founded and currently chairs the Future Worlds Symposium, a highly successful annual symposium, now in the 3rd year - this year, working in collaboration with California Governor Office for Business and Economic Development, to present 'Future of Work', as a long-term strategic plan at the virtual event in Oct 2020. This panel identified required workforce training activities for engineering and economic engagement activities and facilitate connections between industry, academia, research communities, startups and regional innovation and economic development ecosystem like the Innovation Hub and Regions Rise Together initiatives, to develop collaboration between university faculty members, researchers and engineers of different professions, and private industries - working together and complementing each other on designing and establishing unique applications for Neural Networks and Machine Learning around 70 Neural net Nodes in a partnership provided by Intel Corporation. Leading the thrust area for AI, IOT and Cyber-Security, with a collaborative effort along with Intel IOT Group, National University of Singapore and IOT Future Technology Center - keynoted by Director for Cybersecurity Operations, National Security Agency (NSA). He has delivered the Opening Keynote on AI and Machine Learning, with state of the next generation of autonomous vehicles and robotics industry that can operate on all types of terrain and conditions at the California ICT Advisory Group, Nov 6 2020.

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Companies I like:

Intel Corporation

• Management
• Security
• Cisco
• Amazon Web Services
• Facebook
• Hub
• Networking
• Transportation
• Wireless
• CMM (Capability Maturity Model)