V.v. Sumanth Kumar
Scientist
Education Systems Management
National Academy of Agricultural Research Management
India
Biography
Sumanth Kumar has started his career as Assistant Professor at Havard Insitute of Management & Technology, Noida. He served as a Teaching Associate at RFS of IASRI, New Delhi and was involved in software traning to ICAR Officials. He worked as a Software Engineer for a breif period at Bangalore. Next, he joined as a Programmer at Education Division of ICAR and was instrumental in computerising all the activities of ICAR JRF Exam-2001. He joined as a RA at NBPGR and developed Information Systems for National Gene Bank Database. In 2003, He joined NRC for Groundnut as a Scientist (Computer Application). He joined NRC for Citrus in 2009 and subsequently transferred to NAARM in 2011. Curently he is on deputation to international Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru, Hyderabad.
Research Interest
ICT4D; edX- A Open source MOOCs platform; ICT Solutions for agriculture specifically designing android applications; Designing, Building and maintenance of large distributed databases, Real Application Clusters & other HA options of Oracle 12c; PHP; MySQL, Linux & PostgreSql database administration; Replication, Duplication and migration of Datawarehouses; VMWare and Cloud Computing
