User:Nickmalik

= Avinash Nicklas Malik =

Employment:
 * Senior Principal Strategic Architect, Infosys
 * Principle and CEO, Vanguard EA
 * Enterprise Architect, Microsoft Corporation
 * Application Architect, Sierra Systems Group
 * CTO/Director of Development, Acadio
 * Director of Development, Fine.Com
 * Consultant: BEST Consulting (Microsoft), Essex Consulting (American Express), The Experts Consulting (IBM Boca Raton)
 * Software Engineer: Racal Datacom, DeRoyal Business Systems

Affiliations, associations, and relationships:
 * Former member of the Board of Governors, EABOK Consortium
 * Close collaborator with the Federation of EA Professional Organizations
 * Close ties to the Center for Enterprise Architecture, Pennsylvania State University
 * Close ties to Microsoft Corporation
 * Member of the Business Architecture Guild
 * Weak ties to the IEEE Computer Society, CIPS, INCOSE, IIBA, Business Architecture Society, Object Management Group, The Open Group, and the National Defense University through personal relationships
 * Consulting relationships with a wide array of companies and government agencies or departments in multiple countries. All of these relationships are under Non-Disclosure Agreements.
 * Social media conversations on multiple sites, notably including LinkedIn
 * Occasional conversations with the University of Tennessee College Scholars Program over social media

Over 30 years in software development and software management

Bachelor's Degree as a Liberal Arts College Scholar from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville Tennessee USA

Areas of Expertise

 * Application Portfolio Management
 * Project Management Oversight
 * Strategic Alignment and Value Realization
 * Enterprise Architecture
 * Distributed Systems Architecture
 * Service Oriented Architecture
 * Message-Oriented Software Design
 * Object Oriented Analysis and Design

Functional Areas of expertise
 * Business Process Management
 * Business Strategy Management
 * Contract Management
 * Content and Document management
 * Order Management
 * Financial Management