Farhan Malik

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Chief AI Enterprise Architect and Strategist | Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models (LLM), Digital Transformation, AIOps, AI Ethics, Cloud, Open Source, Scaled Human Intelligence @ Architecture of Things
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About Farhan Malik

Farhan Malik is an accomplished Digital Transformation Strategist, Chief AI Enterprise Architect, and CxO Trusted Advisor with a wealth of experience in helping enterprises maximize the value of technology as a strategic digital asset and accelerate transformation. With a focus on enterprise architecture (business and technology), artificial intelligence, generative ai, large language models (llm) , open source, technology strategy and planning, cloud computing adoption strategy, enterprise program management, technology portfolio planning, technology roadmap definition, product management, technology product-market fit assessment, IT & AI governance, IT organization and process design, IT performance management (including benchmarking, scorecard, dashboard, etc.), and IT-enabled business transformation and change, Farhan has a deep understanding of the role technology plays in driving business success.Farhan is a dedicated participant in The Open Group standards organization, which is responsible for The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF), and has made significant contributions to multiple open standards and other industry thought leadership initiatives. He is also an active mentor for teams in iGEM’s synthetic biology competition, the National Security Innovation Network Foundry, and the Starburst Aerospace accelerator, showcasing his dedication to advancing technology and innovation.With exposure to a wide range of industries including aerospace, defense, automotive, government, biotechnology, synthetic biology, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, energy and utilities, telecommunications, financial services, and technology, Farhan has a diverse background and a unique perspective on how technology can be leveraged to drive success across different industries. He is known for his excellent leadership and management skills, and has a proven track record of leading large-scale technology-enabled business transformations and aligning business and technology initiatives.Farhan's practical experience related to technology investments and management processes is highly sought after by leadership teams across North America, and he has earned a reputation as a trusted advisor to CxOs and other senior executives. His broad understanding of technology and its impact on business, combined with his experience in leading technology-driven initiatives, make him an invaluable asset to any organization looking to leverage technology to drive success.

Farhan Malik's Current Company Details
Architecture of Things

Architecture Of Things

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Chief AI Enterprise Architect and Strategist | Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models (LLM), Digital Transformation, AIOps, AI Ethics, Cloud, Open Source, Scaled Human Intelligence
Farhan Malik Work Experience Details
  • Architecture Of Things
    Chief Ai Enterprise Architect And Strategist
    Architecture Of Things Jan 2013 - Present
    San Francisco, Ca , Us
    Led business and technology teams in translating the digital vision into prioritized, value-driven AI initiatives aligned with emerging technologies in AI, generative AI, cloud computing, robotics, and IoT.Partnered with senior leadership to identify high-impact opportunities for AI integration across business functions.Championed a culture of innovation and AI adoption through workshops, training, and cross-functional collaboration.Developed and spearheaded the organization's AI strategy, ensuring alignment between business objectives and technological advancements.Translated the AI strategy into clear, actionable initiatives with roadmaps for AI, generative AI, LLMs, machine learning, and AI cloud infrastructure.Established and operationalized AI governance mechanisms to ensure responsible and aligned AI investments.Built and led a high-performing AI team of machine learning engineers, data scientists, and architects focused on innovation and delivering impactful AI products, services, and solutions.Created AI vision, principles, and reference architectures, integrating seamlessly with the enterprise architecture.Established a best-in-class AI Center of Excellence with a clear mission and engagement model.Developed proof-of-concepts and minimum viable products to validate AI applicability and functionality.Mentored junior architects and data scientists in best practices for AI model development and deployment.Translated business requirements into technical AI specifications through collaboration with business analysts and product teams.Conducted technical assessments of new AI tools and technologies, advising on implementation strategies.Integrated third-party AI solutions with the enterprise architecture through collaboration with external vendors.Built and maintained strong relationships with business leaders, product managers, and stakeholders for agile delivery of impactful AI services.
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  • Change Healthcare
    Enterprise Architect & Open Source Initiative Leader, Cto Office
    Change Healthcare May 2018 - Aug 2019
    Nashville, Tennessee, Us
    Founded the Open Source @ Change Initiative, an enterprise-wide transformative program to transition a 15,000 person enterprise with 3000+ product engineers to consume and produce open source in a safe manner while accelerating open innovation.Crafted a vision which incorporated the safe use of open source, the creation of a sharing culture and the transition to becoming a global open source community member.Acquired initiative buy-in from CxO stakeholders.Created, staffed and chaired the Open Source Working Group with 25+ legal, security, architecture, artificial intelligence and engineering team stakeholders.Collaborated with the Chief IP Legal Counsel to craft a comprehensive open source policy.Initiated the process for Change Healtcare to join Linux Foundation’s TODO Group and become the first healthcare member in the organization’s history.Established collaborative relationships with TODO Group members including Google, Uber, Microsoft, Red Hat and Facebook to share open source knowledge.Initiated the process for Change Healthcare to conform to Linux Foundation’s OpenChain Specification.Collaborated with DevOps and AIOps Initiative Leader to standardize open source compliance automation into the toolchains and SDLC.Designed open source governance organizational mechanisms including the Open Source Program Office, Open Source Executive Steering Committee and Open Source Review Board.Designed overarching governance mechanisms that integrate open source, AI and product development workflows.Lead the vendor selection process for an open source compliance automation solution that resulted in the standardization of Synopsys Black Duck Hub for identifying legal, security and operational risks.Lead the design and implementation of a fully automated enterprise-wide mono-repository for all third-party source code including open source. Collaborated with corporate communications subject matter experts to craft and execute the communication plan.
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  • Juniper Networks
    Senior Director, Enterprise Architecture & Chief Enterprise Architect; Cto Office
    Juniper Networks Jul 2011 - Jan 2013
    Sunnyvale, Ca, Us
    Directed Juniper’s modern and lightweight Enterprise Architecture capability that was chartered to align technology investments with business vision and strategy.Chaired the executive level Enterprise Architecture Review Board and the Enterprise Architecture Working Group to drive alignment assurance and high quality decisions.Lead Juniper’s worldwide architecture community of practice to mature architecture thinking.Guided the Business Architecture, Application Architecture, Information Architecture, Infrastructure Architecture, Solution Architecture and Security Architecture Domain Teams in creating domain aligned vision, principles, guidelines, best practices, reference architectures, patterns, standards, roadmaps, transition plans, etc.Managed the integrated enterprise technology investment portfolio and roadmap in support of the CTO Office.Designed the Enterprise Architecture business and technology stakeholder engagement model for maximum alignment, effectiveness and benefit realization.Integrated the Enterprise Architecture process with capital planning & investment control, program management, technology vendor assessment & procurement and risk, compliance & security processes.Designed the Enterprise Architecture Capability Service Model which included vision & strategy management, knowledge capture, technology watch, governance and advisory capabilities.Lead Enterprise Architecture assurance engagements in support of enterprise reengineering initiatives including cloud adoption and migration, unified communication, enterprise resource planning, enterprise security services, enterprise integration services, enterprise infrastructure services, business process redesign and technology portfolio rationalization.Championed the digitization of the Enterprise Architecture processes by leveraging Troux EA Management System.Partnered with business leadership teams as trusted advisor to guide them through technology investment decision making.
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  • Independent Management Consultant
    Enterprise Architect
    Independent Management Consultant Nov 2007 - Jul 2011
    Provided CxO (CEO, CFO, CIO, CTO, CSO, COO, CMO, CDO ) business technology strategy advisory services.Assisted clients in creating strategies and designing operating models that drive innovation from strategy through execution.Participated as active member of The Open Group enterprise architecture industry standards organization. Contributed to defining the SOA Maturity Model, SOA Reference Architecture, and SOA Governance efforts within The Open Group SOA Working Group.Provided insights, actionable recommendations and advisory services by conducting fact-based analysis and by leveraging primary & secondary research, benchmarks, etc.Enabled key IT capabilities including enterprise architecture, IT governance, enterprise architecture governance, enterprise architecture technology standards governance, SOA governance, etc. by defining organization & process models, vision, principles, guidelines, best practices, methodologies, metrics, dashboards and transformation roadmaps.Provided guidance (organization and process model) for the design and creation of an enterprise architecture review board, an office of chief enterprise architect and centers of excellence.Designed IT governance decision rights model and identified its implications for key process areas including enterprise architecture, program management, finance, procurement, vendor management, systems development, systems management, etc.Designed technology portfolio management method in support of technology governance mechanisms.Benchmarked enterprise architecture capability and provided actionable guidance for improvementProvided findings and recommendations in support of Software as a Service (SaaS) adoption feasibility and implications.Provided findings and recommendations in support of Cloud / Utility Computing adoption feasibility and implications.Provided findings and recommendations in support of Green IT best practice adoption feasibility and implications.
  • Cisco Systems
    Enterprise Architect
    Cisco Systems Sep 2006 - Nov 2007
    San Jose, Ca, Us
    Provided advice and guidance to Executive Sponsors as trusted advisor.Partnered with key process area and business unit leaders to align business/technology strategy and plan.Participated as active member of The Open Group enterprise architecture industry standards organization. Contributed to defining the SOA Maturity Model, SOA Reference Architecture and SOA Governance efforts within The Open Group SOA Working Group.Provided Enterprise Architecture and SOA thought leadership and oversight.Provided insights and actionable recommendations by conducting fact-based analysis and advisory services and by leveraging primary & secondary research, benchmarks, etc.Lead efforts to define Enterprise Architecture (EA) process and method enhancements with all supporting roles, responsibilities and processes.Lead enterprise level (across process areas and business units) people, process, and technology capability maturity assessment efforts.Provided Enterprise Architecture planning input to Program Management Office (PMO) in support of EA sequencing plan coordination.Provided Enterprise Architecture planning input into capital planning and investment control (CPIC) process.Produced business cases to support strategic IT transformation initiatives.Conducted IT financial analysis, TCO, ROI, etc.Defined Key Performance Indicators (KPI), Critical Success Factors (CSF) and metrics reporting framework to ensure alignment and progress towards goals.Conducted business development activities.Lead efforts to develop business case and justification for EA initiatives.Lead efforts to define Vision, Principles, Guidelines, and Standards.Lead efforts to define and execute Enterprise Architecture communication plan.Lead business / technology strategy and plan alignment efforts.Lead efforts to define IT integrated strategic roadmaps. Lead efforts to design Enterprise Architecture governance process (COBIT).
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  • Ibm Global Services
    Enterprise Architect
    Ibm Global Services Nov 2004 - Oct 2006
    Armonk, New York, Ny, Us
    Provided advice and guidance to CIO and other CXO level sponsors as trusted advisor.Conducted readiness assessments using fact based analysis methods to provide findings, insights and actionable recommendations.Lead efforts to define Enterprise Architecture (EA) process with all supporting roles, responsibilities and processes.Lead enterprise level (people, process, technology) assessment efforts.Provided Enterprise Architecture planning input to Program Management Office (PMO) to coordinate EA sequencing plan.Provided Enterprise Architecture planning input into capital planning and investment control (CPIC) process.Produced business cases to support strategic initiatives.Conducted IT financial analysis.Conducted SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) analysis.Conducted business development activities.Lead efforts to develop business case and justification for EA initiatives.Defined new enterprise architecture framework and methodology based on Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA), META Group Enterprise Architecture Planning Process and Gartner Enterprise Architecture Framework.Lead efforts to define Vision, Principles, Guidelines, and Standards.Lead efforts to define and execute Enterprise Architecture communication plan.Lead business drivers / technology strategy alignment efforts. Lead efforts to define strategic IT roadmaps. Lead efforts to design Enterprise Architecture governance process (COBIT) .Lead efforts to define strategy and sequencing plan to evolve baseline architecture to new service-oriented target architecture (SOA). Lead efforts to define SOA Vision ( people, process, technology), SOA Reference Architecture, SOA Governance Model and SOA Transition Plan.Designed technology transformation strategies to support a complex business models.Conducted technology portfolio management, capability gap analysis, and operational & technical trade-off analysis.
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  • Mci
    Enterprise Architect
    Mci Sep 2002 - Nov 2004
    Basking Ridge, Nj, Us
    Performed lead Enterprise Architect role for entire Application Solutions organization. Define Enterprise Architecture (EA) process with all supporting roles, responsibilities and processes.Managed and lead domain architects. Defined next generation service-oriented reference architecture platform to support multiple product-lines. Addressed unique strategic needs of Application Solutions organization's product-line/SI/ASP hybrid business model. Addressed Application Solutions organization’s needs to provide specialized, high performance (millions of transactions) technical solutions for government vertical markets (state and federal).Defined strategy to evolve baseline architecture to new service-oriented target architecture (SOA).Conducted portfolio management, capability gap analysis, and operational & technical trade-off analysis. Defined strategy to identify and migrate legacy components to new architecture. Defined strategy to evolve architecture to support web services (WS-I.org compliant). Introduced new enterprise architecture framework and methodology based on Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA), DoDAF (C4ISR), TEAF, Zachman Framework, META Group Enterprise Architecture Planning Process, Gartner Enterprise Architecture Framework and Spewak Enterprise Architecture Planning.Incorporated FEA concepts of Technical Reference Model (TRM) and Service Reference Model (SRM) into new service-oriented architecture (SOA) framework. Researched, evaluated and recommended best-of-breed commercial components for incorporation into new SOA architecture platform. Incorporated expert analysis reports (Gartner, IDC, etc.) as input to tactical and strategic decision making process. Architected platform to meet availability, reliability, security, performance, maintainability and extensibility needs. Ensured individual initiatives aligned with tactical and strategic enterprise level initiatives.
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  • Avolent
    Senior Architect
    Avolent Sep 1999 - Sep 2002
    Us
    Analyzed, designed and architected a web based distributed java system to support online bill presentment and payment. Architecturally incorporated open technologies such as java, EJB, J2EE, JSP, XML and CORBA to support the design of a highly modular system and application architecture. Architecturally incorporated web servers, application servers, rules based engines, object request brokers (ORB) and messaging bus technology. Analyzed, designed and architected a system based on requirements for usability, reliability, performance, security and extensibility. Designed and conducted knowledge transfer activities including presentations and training to facilitate complete understanding of key architecture decisions. Led internal and external requirements analysis and design sessions. Produced use case, design and implementation models. Produced software architecture documents and supplementary specifications. Produced vision and stakeholders' needs documents. Acted as technical and management liaison to enterprise level external customers and systems integrators. Contributed to customer project proposals, statements of work and RFPs. Contributed to marketing and product requirements documents (MRD,PRD). Designed and deployed an organization wide knowledge capture and transfer strategy.Obtained high level stakeholder and upper management buy-in to adopt Unified Process (RUP) as software engineering process architecture and lifecycle. Conducted extensive knowledge transfer to introduce, implement and deploy Unified Process and UML best practices across the entire organization. Advised a variety of internal organizational groups including, strategic alliances, sales, engineering, technical publications, marketing, Technical Support, Quality Assurance, and Training concerning technical and process architecture issues.
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  • Parc
    Senior Architect
    Parc Jun 1997 - Nov 1998
    Palo Alto, California, Us
    Analyzed and designed an architecture for a multi-tiered Java/Smalltalk system. Advised clients concerning Smalltalk and Java interoperability. Designed and executed Smalltalk to Java migration strategy. Mentored project leads concerning object-oriented project management. Mentored developers concerning Smalltalk, Java, Corba and GemStone (OODBMS). Acted as team lead for Rational Rose / ParcPlace VisualWorks integration.Acted as liaison between Rational and ParcPlace upper management. Analyzed, designed and architected Rational Rose to VisualWorks forward and reverse engineering support. Designed and executed minimal impact migration strategy for ENVY server from Windows NT to Sun Solaris. Executed ENVY server configuration on Sun Sparc/Solaris. Configured ENVY clients. Trained ENVY Administrator on topics including startup, shutdown, statistics gathering, troubleshooting, backup and recovery. Documented all server administration topics. Analyzed, designed and extended Trading Post Framework (TPF), a telecommunications product definition application, using Visualworks and GemStone (OODBMS). Managed project life cycle including requirements gathering and object modeling. Managed a team of consultants and developers.Proposed and prototyped a project lifecycle management system based on intranet web based artifact navigation. Used Rational Requisite Pro for requirements gathering and process management.Used Rational Rose for object modeling and object model consolidation. Mentored other developers concerning Smalltalk, VisualWorks and GemStone.
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Farhan Malik Skills

Enterprise Architecture It Strategy Soa Cloud Computing Enterprise Software Architecture Business Alignment Agile Methodologies Saas Governance System Architecture Vendor Management Thought Leadership Artificial Neural Networks Machine Learning Big Data Management Consulting Technical Architecture Tensorflow Technical Leadership Open Innovation Application Portfolio Management Togaf Data Science Digital Strategy Natural Language Understanding Cio Advisory Services Cognitive Computing Internet Of Things Architecture Governance It Cost Optimization Solution Architecture Algorithms Roadmap Strategic Use Of Technology Architecture Assessment Technology Go To Market Technology Trend Analysis And Predictions High Performance Computing Systems Engineering Research And Development Robotics Cross Functional Team Leadership Deep Learning Ai Governance Digital Health Augmented Reality Synthetic Biology Digital Transformation Uav Unmanned Aerial Vehicles And Systems Ros Autonomy

Farhan Malik Education Details

  • University Of The Pacific
    University Of The Pacific
    Computer Science
  • Udacity
    Udacity
    Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
  • Udacity
    Udacity
    Artificial Intelligence & Robotics
  • Udacity
    Udacity
    Aeronautics

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