Rakesh Bharania Email & Phone Number

Bainbridge Island, WA, US

Shaping the strategy and use of modern digital technologies in humanitarian crises.

Geneva, Switzerland

The Humanitarian Cybersecurity Center is a public-private partnership to protect the digital integrity of humanitarian and development nonprofits, who are under increased threat from organized cybercrime and State-sponsored threats. The HCC will provide free cybersecurity capacities - threat intelligence sharing, expert capacity building, legal support and.

All disasters - no matter how large - are local disasters. DAP engages a dedicated community to advance policy research and advocacy, promote transparency, and encourage the public to participate in oversight, community-based organizing, and discussions about disaster preparedness and relief.Dedicated citizen oversight is necessary to ensure resources.

Senior advisor to the Indiana University Crisis Technologies Innovation Lab (CTIL). The Lab explores innovations that exist at the intersection of emerging technologies and public safety and humanitarian response. Provided guidance to emerging global humanitarian challenges, informed direction of research and work streams.

Bainbridge Island, Washington, United States

Tarian Innovation is an advocacy and consultantcy organization focused on the intersection of humanitarian assistance / disaster relief, international development and the thoughtful application of technology. Tarian works with policymakers, researchers, academia, and practitioners to advance the technical capabilities in the global humanitarian/development.

San Francisco, California

Led cross-functional humanitarian/development NGO impact matrixed go-to-market team. Created data-driven strategy and business enablement. Thought leadership and engagement with INGO senior decision makers around the effective, secure and ethical use of impact data, program data, technology use in austere field environments. Internal subject matter expert.

Medical station and Field EMS supervisor. Provided emergency medical and firefighting support as part of the Black Rock City Emergency Services Department (ESD) to a community of 80,000+ participants during the annual Burning Man festival. Responded to both emergency and non emergency patient needs, RIT, and other various emergency duties within a formal.

Cupterino, CA

Privacy engineering at Apple focused on the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and related policy, compliance, and technical issues across all of Apple's products, services and systems (>1.5 billion customer devices). Represented Apple at cross-industry, academia and civil society collaborations around privacy and data protection. Primary author.

San Jose, California

Instrumental in creating Cisco's humanitarian response program. Team Lead for Cisco Tactical Operations'​ West Coast-based team. Network engineering in austere, time-sensitive crisis situations. Thought leader on cybersecurity for int'l development, humanitarians and first responders, including APT and Nation-State threats in crisis response.Provided.

As part of the S3BU Marketing team, acted as a technical resource for radio, networking, emergency response and procedure questions from customers and others relative to Cisco IPICS and other public-safety oriented products. Architected and implemented industry-first P.25-based ISSI interoperability network using DMVPN bringing together multiple radio.

Provided security consulting as part of Cisco's Advanced Services group to major enterprise and service provider customers. Delivered Cisco's Incident Readiness Assessment and Network Security Architecture Review services. Wrote whitepapers on risk assessment, audit, and network security methods for Cisco's MySDN website. Worked with Cisco's Product.

Worked with Cisco IT organizations in designing new company-wide applications by representing “the voice of security.” Drafted and evangelized several Cisco-wide Information Security policies. Presented multiple security training sessions on a variety of topics to large and varied technical and non-technical audiences. Evaluated security properties of.

Provided frontline phone and email support as part of Cisco’s Technical Assistance Center (TAC) with a high degree of customer satisfaction on simple to extremely complex customer networks. Occasionally provided on-site support to critical customers. Supported Cisco’s routing, switching and security platforms including PIX Firewall, Centri Firewall, Cisco.

Herndon, VA

Chair of the GVF Cyber Security Task Force, a cross functional group of GVF subject matter experts on security. Primary editor/author of the GVF Product Security Baseline(PSB), a specification that addresses secure development, vulnerability reporting and disclosure for VSAT (FSS/MSS) vendors along best practices such as ISO 29147 and ISO 30111. Primary.

Red Cross Disaster Services volunteer As part of American Red Cross disaster relief, managed volunteers, crewed Emergency Communications Response Vehicles (ECRVs), crewed disaster evacuation shelters, installed and managed networking and computer equipment, and other disaster relief efforts for major disasters, including Malibu-Calibasas, CA Firestorm.