Sun STARS around the globe: Anshu Mehra
Monday Mar 12, 2007
How long have you been employed with Sun?
I have been working at Sun for the past seven years. During this time, I have worked in Sun Professional Services, including Sun Java Center, at Sun Client Solution Services, and most recently in Sun Global Systems Engineering.
Where are you located?
I am based out of Sun's East Coast campus in Burlington, MA . Since most of my work involves spending time with my customers and partners in the Greater Boston area, I am often on the road. Thanks to Sun's Open Work policies and technologies, I also at times work from my home in the historic Town of Lexington.
What is your current job role?
My current role as an Engagement Architect in the Global System Engineering practice is to help solve Sun's customers' business problems with Sun's technology. My role includes mapping customer business requirements to technical solutions and providing technical leadership towards their implementation. I also provide technical oversight for the overall design of complex business initiatives in customer-consulting engagements. My role spans all layers of the business interfaces -- from defining requirements to recommending solutions. I have helped establish an architectural center of excellence, standardized development methodologies, advised on both pre- and post-sales efforts, helped develop architecture service offerings, and devised business development and go-to-market strategies.
The fun part of my role is the multitude of technology (from hardware systems and software to storage and services) and business/technical conversations with CIOs, business unit VPs, and IT managers. In a typical week, I may be having a Service-Oriented Architecture and Center of Excellence conversation with a Chief Architect of a large insurance company to Next Generation Enterprise Computing Architecture and Virtualization discussion using Solaris 10 and VMware with another customer. Several of my customers are deploying Sun's Identity Management solution (for HIPPA and Sarbanes Oxley compliance) and Information Life Cycle Management solutions.
Overall, I have a very satisfying and gratifying job and I am glad to be a Sun citizen!
Please highlight past or current special projects that you have worked on at Sun.
1. I was Sun's chief architect for one the largest RFID deployment at a major manufacturer in Boston. My role included developing the IT architecture, SOA Strategy, designing/developing the EPC Information Services, and participating in EPCglobal EPC Information Service to help develop a description of Web Service interfaces for capturing, securing, and accessing EPC-related data with supporting data meta-models. We also gave first ever live demonstration of Secure EPC Network Web Services during the EPCglobal annual conference.
2. I was also Sun's chief architect at one of the largest U.S. pharmaceutical companies (4000+ stores). I helped develop their next generation IT architecture and EAI/SOA strategy.
3. Before joining Sun, I spent a lot of time in the Intelligent Agent technology to solve complex problems using emergent behavior. I was the product manager/architect for an agent development environment that was used to simulate and deploy Java based agents over a distributed network for supply chain management, network transaction management, and CRM applications. I have a Ph.D. from the Institute of Systems Research at University of Maryland, College Park in the area of solving complex operational research problems using distributed computing.
Name 1 - 2 people (internal or external to Sun) that you would like to have lunch with.
External: Warren_Buffett
Internal: Greg Papadopoulos
Favorite blog or website?
Internal: Onestop and CEpedia
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