Biografisk notat

Dr. B V Kumar is currently the Director at Altius, Inc and is responsible for delivering technology-based services for corporate clients. Dr. Kumar has a Master's degree in technology from The Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and a Ph.D. from The Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He has over 22 years of experience in the field of information technology at various levels and in organizations such as Computer Vision Corporation (Singapore), Parametric Technologies (Seoul, S. Korea), Sun Microsystems (India) and Infosys Technologies Ltd. Prior to initiating Altius Inc, Dr. Kumar was the Director and Chief Architect at the Global Technology Office of Cognizant Technology Solutions (India). He has been working on enterprise technology solutions for more than 12 years, particularly focusing on Java, JEE, web services, service oriented architecture and open source technologies. He has also been working on content management systems through applications such as Joomla and Drupal, and mobile platforms such as Android and iPhone. As a Director of Altius Inc, Dr. Kumar is currently focusing on technology consultancy, technology training and evangelization, community development, and project support for corporate clients. Dr. Kumar has two patents in the IT space and has published many technological papers in national and international journals. He has also co-authored the following books on Information Technologies - J2EE Architecture (2007), Web Services 2e: An Introduction (2011) (McGraw-Hill Professional), Implementing SOA Using Java EE (2009) (Addison Wesley / Pearson) and Secure Java: For Web Application Development (2010) (CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group). Dr. Kumar is currently working on the second edition of the Java EE 7 Architecture book.