Sachidananda Kangovi is an Enterprise Architect, currently consulting at AT&T. He has over 20 years of experience in IT systems related to operations and business support systems (OSS/BSS) in Telecom. While working as a Distinguished Engineer at Comcast he developed a state machine called Service Linked Multistate System for which he was awarded many US and international patents. He was also VP for Telecom Systems at SCSL, which was a global IT company and Director of Systems Engineering at ADC/Commtech. Kangovi is also a former Adjunct Professor in Keller School of Management at DeVry University where he taught courses on Business Intelligence and Data Analysis, Advanced Program Management, and Managing Software Development Projects. He has a Ph.D. in engineering from Rutgers University and an Executive MBA from Universitas 21 - a consortium of 21 leading global universities. He did his MS from Indian Institute of Science and his BS from Jabalpur University.