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Sumeet Kumar, Dr.

Verified Expert in Product Management

Product Manager

Location

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Toptal Member Since

August 13, 2019

Dr. Sumeet Kumar is a technical product and project manager with deep experience in ideating, designing, and architecting business software solutions, setting up global teams, and leading the implementation of software solutions that delight clients. Over the past 20 years, Sumeet has designed and delivered complex standards-compliant solutions in healthcare, CRM, eCommerce for clients in Asia and the USA. Sumeet loves coding and has developed many of the core libraries in his projects.

Software Project Management Product Owner Product Management Project Management Minimum Viable Product (MVP)Technical Project Management Product Requirements Documentation (PRD)Web App Development SaaS Mobile Applications B2B Healthcare Agile Product Management Agile Project Management Agile Data Science Product Management

Project Highlights

Benefits Admin and Consumer Benefits Portal for Brokers, Employers, and Members

Worked with the client's leadership team to clarify requirements, build a product roadmap, and detail product requirements. Shortlisted, interviewed, hired, and led a cross-functional agile India-based technical development team. Launched the portal.

Cross-platform FHIR Native Electronic Medical Records

Worked with the CEO and founder to build a product roadmap. Recruited and managed a remote full-stack agile development. Designed the solution architecture. Built a proof of concept of the web and cross-platform mobile application.

Digital Health Platform for Lifestyle Management

Led the entire product development life cycle from ideation to deployment, launch and support and also wrote core components and libraries.

Expertise

APIs ChatGPT Healthcare Retrieval-augmented Generation (RAG)Technical Product Management User Experience (UX)

Work Experience

Technical Product and Project Manager

2020 - PRESENT

US-based Toptal Client

Worked with a client that offers customized consumer benefits and COBRA solutions to employers in the US.
Worked with the client's leadership team to clarify requirements, build a product roadmap, and detail product requirements.
Shortlisted, interviewed, hired, and led a cross-functional agile India-based technical development team.
Launched a successful portal with SAML SSO for employers, brokers, and members.
Worked on the client's leadership team to chalk out further features and modules over the next year.
Integrated SAML SSO with six consumer benefit technology platforms used by the client.

Chief Executive Officer

2004 - PRESENT

CyberMed Solutions, India

Developed and launched multiple products including patient engagement (CRM), electronic medical records, eCommerce, and online publishing.
Worked with leading open source Platforms such as SuiteCRM, SugarCRM, OpenEMR, WordPress.
Worked with Microsoft-based technologies, including C#, VB.NET, and ASP.NET.
Actively researched applications of artificial intelligence technologies to solve domain-specific problems and build personalized assistants using proprietary hosted and open source embedded platforms with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).

Technical Product and Project Manager

2019 - 2020

UAE-based Toptal Client

Worked with a client that's developing a bespoke FHIR first EMR for the Middle East.
Collaborated with the CEO and founder to build a product roadmap.
Recruited and managed a remote full-stack agile development.
Worked with team leads to design the solution architecture, including FHIR, API integration, and cross-platform mobile development using Flutter.
Built a proof of concept of the web and cross-platform mobile application using Microsoft FHIR Server and Flutter.

Chief Technology Officer

2017 - 2019

Sympatica, Singapore

Researched the digital health market and identified product features for our tech platform for the lifestyle management of chronic diseases.
Ideated product UX and design in collaboration with the CTO and designers.
Set up and managed a remote team of 15 developers from India, Vietnam, and Singapore.
Ideated solution architecture, database design, and component design.
Built, tested, and launched the product over nine months.
Scaled the platform to manage thousands of patients and medical coaches.

Senior Vice President, Healthcare Division

2000 - 2003

Eutech Cybernetics, Singapore

Managed the budget ($3 million USD/year), strategic planning, product, sales and marketing, recruitment, and divisional performance.
Sold and implemented HIPAA compliant Copernicus HIS at one hospital in the USA.
Established an offshore development center in Chennai, India with 30 developers for faster development at reasonable costs.
Remotely coordinated divisional activities across teams in Singapore, Malaysia, India, and the USA.
Steered healthcare division to a positive cash flow and gross profit.

Vice President, Healthcare Division

1997 - 2000

Eutech Cybernetics, Singapore

Joined Eutech as vice president, products, healthcare division after Eutech’s purchase of Consultant+ from CyberMed Solutions for $200,000 USD.
Developed Copernicus Hospital Information System (HIS) over 9 months with a team of 12 developers with a budget of $1 million USD. Played roles of product manager, team lead, and lead developer.
Sold and implemented Copernicus HIS at Subang Jaya Medical Center (SJMC), Malaysia. SJMC is the premier private hospital in Malaysia with 1,000+ OPD visits a day and 400+ inpatient beds. Project size was $700,000+ USD and the product went "live" in 1998.
Sold and implemented Copernicus HIS at five other large hospitals in Malaysia and Singapore for a total revenue of $2+ million USD in the next 2 years.

Chief Executive Officer

1994 - 1997

CyberMed Solutions, India

Established CyberMed Solutions in 1994 for developing software solutions for healthcare and other domains.
Developed and deployed Consultant+, a MS Access based solution in small nursing homes in Bangalore, India in 1996.
Sold IP rights for Consultant+ to Eutech Cybernetics, Singapore in 1997.

General Surgical Practice

1986 - 1996

Various Hospitals, India

Completed surgical residency in Delhi.
Practiced as a surgical consultant at hospitals in Bangalore, India.

Project History

Benefits Admin and Consumer Benefits Portal for Brokers, Employers, and Members

The product is a "simply smart" consumer benefits portal for brokers, employers, and members. The portal is integrated with SAML SSO, with six vendor platforms being used for benefits admin and consumer benefits. The portal checks files uploaded by clients via a custom-built file checker for format and accuracy of information.

The technical stack includes SAML2, Laravel, WordPress, MariaDB, Dell Boomi, C#, ASP.NET, Blazor

Cross-platform FHIR Native Electronic Medical Records

The product is a cross-platform, native FHIR electronic medical records targeted to the Middle Eastern market, integrating clinics, labs, and patients.

Technologies: Flutter front end (web, Android, and iOS) and Azure API for FHIR.

Digital Health Platform for Lifestyle Management

Led the entire product development life cycle from ideation to deployment, launch and support and also wrote core components and libraries.

An online platform for lifestyle management for chronic diseases such as diabetes with Android and iOS Mobile apps for patients and a responsive web application for health coaches
• Front end: React and React Native
• Database: PostgreSQL 10.x
• Platform: AWS
• Development team size: 14 (Singapore, Vietnam, and India)
• Development time frame: 11 months

CyberMed EMR for Hospitals

https://emrsante.auroville.org.in/interface/login/login.php?site=default

Developed and implemented CyberMedEMR at the Auroville Institute for Integral Health.

CyberMedEMR is a significantly enhanced fork of open source OpenEMR.
• Project duration: nine months
• Project revenue: Voluntary basis
• Roles: Product manager, developer, DevOps
• Technologies: PHP, OpenEMR, Ansible, MariaDB, Linux

Copernicus Hospital Information System

http://www.ecyber.com/copernicus-overview.htm

Developed, sold, and implemented Copernicus HIS at six large hospitals in Malaysia and Singapore.

Copernicus HIS is an enterprise HIS and EMR for large hospitals.
• Led the development of Copernicus HIS and played roles of product manager, team lead, and lead developer.
• Development team size: 12 (Singapore)
• Development time frame: nine months
• Technologies: Visual Basic 6, Oracle Database, Delphi
• Some clients: Subang Jaya Medical Centre, Assuntha Hospital, Sunway Hospital, Normah Medical Centre, and St Andrew's Hospital.

CyberMed CRM — Patient Engagement for Hospitals

http://cybermedsolutions.com/products/crm/

Developed, sold, and implemented CyberMed CRM at SJMC, the leading private hospital in Malaysia.

CyberMed CRM is a significantly enhanced fork of open source SuiteCRM.
• Functionality: customer support, marketing, sales, and patient engagement
• Project duration: 14 months
• Project revenue: $200,000+ USD
• Roles: Product manager, developer, DevOps
• Technologies: PHP, SugarCRM, SuiteCRM, Ansible, MariaDB, Linux.

Auroville Institute for Integral Health

https://sante.auroville.org.in/

Co-founded the Auroville Institute for Integral Health for the integration of western medicine with complementary therapies.

• Disciplines include western medicine, Ayurveda, traditional Chinese medicine, homeopathy, bodywork, and more.
• We have a special focus on patient education and empowerment.
• I am also the medical superintendent of the institute.

Consultant+ for Small Hospitals and Clinics

Developed and implemented Consultant+ in India and sold all IP rights to Eutech in 1997.

I developed Consultant+ to fill the gap in a good software for managing clinics and small hospitals in India.
• Project duration: 18 months
• Project revenue: Voluntary basis
• Roles: Product manager, developer, DevOps
• Technologies: MS Access

Arvind Lexicon Online

http://arvindlexicon.com/lexicon/

Developed a platform to publish Arvind Lexicon online with one-click navigation between synonyms, antonyms, and headword.

Arvind Lexicon is the largest bilingual thesaurus in the world with over one million expressions in English and Hindi.
• Project duration: 14 months
• Project revenue: Voluntary basis
• Roles: Product manager, developer, DevOps
• Technologies: ASP.Net, MS SQL Server, Windows Server

Arvind Lexicon Website and Shop

http://arvindlexicon.com

Developed Arvind Lexicon website, blogs, and shop.

• Project duration: eight months
• Project revenue: Voluntary basis
• Roles: Solution architect, product manager, developer, DevOps
• Technologies: PHP, WordPress, WooCommerce, Payment Gateways, Windows Server 2012

Arvind Lexicon Lexicography Software

http://arvindlexicon.com/home/

Developed an end-to-end solution for data entry and print publications for Arvind Lexicon.

• Project duration: 18 months
• Project revenue: Voluntary basis
• Roles: Solution architect, product manager, developer, DevOps
-Technologies: VB.Net, MS SQL Server, MS Word automation, Windows Server 2012

Education

1983 - 1986

Master of Surgery (General Surgery) Degree in Medicine

Seth G.S. Medical College and KEM Hospital - Mumbai, India

1978 - 1983

Bachelor's Degree (MBBS) in Medicine

Seth G.S. Medical College and KEM Hospital - Mumbai, India

Certifications

JANUARY 2024 - PRESENT

AI for Medicine Specialization

DeepLearning.AI via Coursera

JANUARY 2024 - PRESENT

Introduction to Genomic Technologies

Johns Hopkins University via Coursera

JANUARY 2024 - PRESENT

Artificial Intelligence Fundamentals

IBM SkillsBuild

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