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Adbul-Rashid
Abdi
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Abdul is a senior Information Systems Strategist in the Home Office’s IT Unit. Previous to his current appointment, Abdul held a variety of IT roles with UK and European IT solution and software vendors. In a career spanning over 10 years, Abdul developed software, lead large IT integration projects and rolled out e-business solutions. Abdul is a specialist in IS strategy development, project and programme management and enterprise architecture service definition/development.
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Mike
Ainger
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Mike’s responsibilities within Geo include: bespoke solution development for Geo’s customers, development of Geo’s reach and customer access capabilities and delivery of Geo’s commitments to its customers.
A chartered engineer and member of The Institution of Electrical Engineers, Mike spent ten years working within the British Rail Telecommunications function, before moving onto Racal Telecom where Mike was General Manager. Mike spent time working as Network Director with Global Crossing UK, both backbone national networks, bespoke networks for major government and commercial customers. He led the design and bid production for a £1bn 10 year government network at Serco before joining Geo in 2004.
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Paul
Allen
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Paul Allen is a Principal Consultant at CA, and is widely recognized for his innovative work in enterprise architecture and business-IT alignment. Paul’s detailed knowledge combines with a uniquely practical understanding of the problems companies face as they apply new technologies in search of business value. Paul is a widely published author and has held the position of editor of Cutter Consortium’s Component Development Strategies. He is also a popular speaker at industry conferences worldwide. His critically acclaimed last book Realizing e-Business with Components was published in October 2000. His latest book, Service Orientation: Winning Strategies and Best Practices, is scheduled for publication in February 2006.
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Ian
Bailey
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Ian Bailey is managing director of Model Futures Ltd. and an associate of Cornwell Management Consultants plc. with specific responsibility for providing technical input to Enterprise Architecture Projects. Ian was a member of the Cornwell/PA team which developed the MOD Architecture Framework (MODAF), and followed this work by developing the MODAF Meta-Model and the meta-model for Revision 3 of the NATO Architecture Framework. In addition to this, Ian is the lead modeller for the IDEAS Group, developing a conceptual model for the AUS-CAN-UK-US military architecture community, and acts as an advisor to the OMG UPDM submission teams. His experience also includes IT standards development, business analysis consultancy, software systems design, and ontology development.
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Frank
Baldinger
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For the last four years Mr. Baldinger has been employed at ING Group Level as Corporate IT staff member (associate) with the main focus on IT-Architecture and Business Alignment on ING Group Level. Mr. Baldinger has been employed as manager in several operating companies of the ING Group in the areas of Electronic Banking, Payment systems on Architecture and System Development tasks since 1988. His main experience was focused on:
- managing a system development group for electronic payments systems,
- an IT-Architecture department for the payments factory of Postbank Netherlands,.
- and program-management of a large organisational Capability Maturity Model upgrade to level 3 (700 system developers).
Mr. Baldinger started in 1973 as an System Integration Engineer for real-time operating systems (EWS) in the telephone branch exchange industry for Siemens AG in Munich. Worked in several areas: design programming, system test, system integration of complex HW/SW real time environments.
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Sally
Bean
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Sally Bean has over 15 years experience in Enterprise Architecture, mostly gained in British Airways. Here she worked on some major architectural projects, including Terminal 5, and helped to champion many successful initiatives to share data and systems more effectively across the organisation. More recently, she has been working as a consultant, helping large organisations in the private and public sector to develop their architecture practice.
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Kuno
Brodersen
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Kuno Brodersen has worked with business modeling for more than 20 years. He is co-founder of QualiWare - a Scandinavian software company. QualiWare provides the market with comprehensive modeling tools and consulting services that focus on enhancing business efficiency, effectiveness, productivity, competitive positioning, and organizational profitability. QualiWare's products and services help the customer succeed with Quality Management, Process Management and Optimization initiatives, Business Excellence programs, Enterprise Architecture initiatives, and/or IT solution development needs.
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Roger
Burlton
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Roger T Burlton is the founder of Process Renewal Group and the author of ‘Business Process Management: Profiting from Process’. He is considered an industry leader in the introduction of innovative approaches for organizational change. He is recognized internationally for his contributions in Business Process Management, Stakeholder Analysis, Strategic Architecture Alignment, Prototyping and people based Project Management Methodologies. He is regarded as a realistic practitioner, who delivers pragmatic solutions for his clients. An exceptional speaker, he has chaired several high profile conferences on Advanced Business and Information Management around the world, including the BPMG Tenth Annual Process Management Conference, Process and Knowledge Management Europe, the National BPR Conference, DCI’s Knowledge Management Conferences, Software World, and The Executive Summit. To date, he has conducted over five hundred seminars and has presented to over twenty thousand professionals. His seminars have been translated for audiences around the globe.
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Ted Carroll is head of Technology Exploitation for Impact Plus, a UK-based management consultancy specialising in public sector and financial services. His career spans working in IT for over 20 years, holding positions with software vendors, systems integrators and consultancies. He has experience of IS Strategy development, business modelling and enterprise architecture development together with detailed understanding of eBusiness, EDRM, search and database technologies.
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Joe
Dall
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Joe Dall is Head of Information Systems and e-Business at NS&I, the UK government’s retail savings organisation. He has been with NS&I for four years and is responsible for bridging the gap between technical and business aspects of the organisation. He is also responsible for driving NS&I’s internet strategy, leading initiatives such as Single Customer View, and assuring that NS&I’s BPO and IT outsourcing partner deliver appropriately.
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Andreas
Dietzsch
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Andreas Dietzsch joined the Swiss insurer Mobiliar 5 years ago. As a member of the core team, he is currently involved in the development of Mobiliar's IT strategy. Furthermore, he is also in charge of the organisation's business engineering methodology and took part in the redesign of Mobiliar's enterprise architecture. In doing so, he gained comprehensive consulting experience in the areas of method engineering, enterprise architecture management and business process engineering, primarily in the financial services domain.
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Douglas
Erickson
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Douglas Erickson is an Enterprise Architect and Senior Information Management Consultant with over thirty-five years of management and practitioner experience in Enterprise Architecture; strategic, tactical, and operational information systems planning; process management, data management, information systems development and Information Services organizational development. Doug has been a leading advocate for formalization of the process for implementing Enterprise Architecture and a supporting information system development process. He co-authored, with Mr. Don Phillips, the Methodology for Enterprise Architecture that is based on 1) the Zachman Framework for Enterprise Architecture, 2) concepts and principles from engineering and manufacturing, and 3) Information Engineering. Doug is the primary inventor of ICES – Integrated Custom Enterprise Systems. ICES provides a very high quality, low cost option to the traditional development (build) or Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (buy) options. ICES dramatically improves the delivery of highly aligned, integrated, flexible and responsive information systems at a fraction of the cost of traditional development or purchased packages. Doug has extensive business and information management experience based on his work with engineering and manufacturing companies, electric utilities, natural gas distribution companies, the U. S. Army, major insurance companies, and state government agencies. Doug has a degree in Business Administration from Black Hills State University, with MBA course work at Arizona State University. His work is the subject of several articles.
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Neil
Fairhead
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Educated at Cambridge and the Manchester Business School, Neil began in IT as a systems engineer in IBM. During the minicomputer era he worked for Digital Equipment Corporation and most recently for Microsoft. He gained customer experience at British Railways where he developed the office systems strategy and then led the program to implement it. In addition he has been Director of Architecture and Consulting in the IT Group of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and, on an outsourced basis, acted as Director of Technology Strategy for Canada Post. Before joining Serco Consulting he has also been a Principal Consultant at James Martin Associates and an associate Director at DMR .
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Jeff
Goins
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Jeff Goins is CEO & President of Adaptive, Inc. Jeff’s career spans over fifteen years in the technology industry, specializing in methods and technologies utilized to capture an organizations most important asset - its knowledge. Jeff has been actively involved in developing and implementing strategic planning and business process improvement initiatives, including large transactional and decision support systems. He works with both commercial corporations and government organizations in developing architectural frameworks to assist with key strategy implementation initiatives.
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John is an enterprise architect with a wide range of experience in technology strategy, architecture, planning, delivery and procurement. He has direct experience of delivery of interoperability, data and information, applications and process architectures; has managed architecture services in outsourced environments; has managed and delivered major technology strategies and has operationally managed information systems in a multinational corporate environment.
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Peter
Haine
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Peter Haine has worked in Systems and Enterprise Architecture as a consultant, and in major corporations, for over 20 years. He has been responsible for project and architecture delivery in public and private sector organisations globally, including GlaxoSmithKline, the MOD, Pilkington Glass, Rolls Royce and Associates, the Post Office, and English Heritage. He also pioneered a Masters programme in Information Systems at Coventry University and has delivered executive and practitioner seminars with James Martin’s organisation and also with Codd and Date and Savant.
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Simon
Jewell
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Simon Jewell is a Director in fast growing Serco Consulting where Enterprise Architecture is a thriving capability. He’s been practising Enterprise Architecture for around fifteen years in sectors from transport to finance. After starting a teaching career he jumped ship to IT and became the Business Area Architect for Scottish Widows. He led the Solution Architecture practice in Cap Gemini’s Technology Consulting Group and then joined French Thornton, now absorbed by Serco. Simon chairs the Central London Branch of the BCS and recommends its programme of events to Londoners.
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Andrew
Johnston
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Initially an engineer and then a developer, since the late 1980s I have focused on developing, specifying and validating the structure for IT solutions. Under a variety of titles I have reconciled solutions with a wide range of constraints, dealing with quality, process and business as well as technical issues. Over 20 years I have built experience of systems ranging from enterprise asset management to field force automation, shipping to retail back-office. More recently I have focused on systems integration, data and knowledge management. As an independent consultant, I have worked on strategic enterprise architecture, as an architecture trouble-shooter, and as the architect of individual solutions using a combination of agile and more formal techniques. I run the AgileArchitect.org website.
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Jon
Keefe
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Jon has been in IT for the MOD for over 30 years covering all aspects of Information Technology. In his current role he is responsible for the development of the MOD Architecture Framework (MODAF) and its implementation; this role also covers the manadation of standards and assurance that programmes follow requisite policy in these areas.
Jon has been working in the Architecture space for the last 9 years and was one of the authors of the UK defence Technical Architecture which formed one of the foundation documents for both the NATO and CCEB equivalents. In his NATO role Jon has been one of the authors of both the NATO Architecture Framework and of the NATO C3Technical Architecture.
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John
Ladley
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John Ladley is an internationally known information management practitioner and a popular speaker on information and knowledge management. John is widely published and has several regular columns. John is a Director with Navigant Consulting. Prior to Navigant’s acquisition, John founded KI Solutions, an information and knowledge management strategy company. John was Senior Program Director of Data Warehouse strategies and a Research Fellow at Meta Group. Mr. Ladley is an authority on information architectures, business performance measurement architectures, knowledge management, collaborative applications, and information resource management.
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Jonas
Lamis
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Jonas Lamis has 12 years of industry experience in enterprise architecture and business transformation software and processes. Currently, he serves as Vice President of EMEA Marketing for Troux. He was an early employee at Troux and has held a variety of positions there over the last 4 years including Business Unit Manager and Vice President of Product Management. As the public voice of Troux, Mr. Lamis is a frequent speaker at industry and analyst events. He is also contributing editor to Architecture and Governance Magazine.
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Daniel
Lange
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Daniel Lange is currently responsible for IT Strategy, IT Innovation and various aspects of Enterprise Architecture Management within the BMW Group. After a career in consulting he has held positions in Engineering, Logistics and IT leading international projects since he joined BMW in 1997. His broad background enables him to give valuable insight into industry best practices from strategic IT methodologies down to technical implementation details. He focused on delivering business value from IT and has sound expertise in a number of 'hard-core' IT infrastructure topics. The last four years Daniel developed methodologies within IT Strategy predicting the future of IT and assessing the business impact of emerging trends within IT infrastructure, communication, business and IT processes and security.
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Gareth Lloyd, is the co-founder and CEO of glue:. Prior to forming glue:, Gareth was the Commercial Director for the UK operation of the Baan Company, where he helped shape their strategy and developed the sales and marketing organisation that took the Baan UK ERP business from $14m revenue in 1996 to $50m in 1998.
Previously, Gareth held a number of sales and operational management positions at major IT organisations, IBM and Dun & Bradstreet Software (formerly MSA) working at CIO/CFO/IT Director level on helping their clients shape their IT strategy and ongoing systems infrastructure investment plans.
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Stan
Locke
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Stan Locke is the Managing Director of Zachman Framework Associates and has provided consulting support to Canada’s leading organisations. He has vast experience in model management integration, software engineering and project implementation.
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Graham Oakes is founder and principal of Graham Oakes Ltd, a consultancy established in 2003 to help organisations use technology to achieve their business goals. Prior to forming Graham Oakes Ltd, Dr Oakes held positions including Director of Technology at business and technology consultancy Sapient Ltd, and Head of Project Management at Sony/Psygnosis.
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Luiz
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Luiz de Oliveira is responsible for the Enterprise Architecture Council within the Forrester Leadership Boards™ in EMEA. He works with Council members to solve their individual business issues around planning, organization and technology decisions and brings together members with similar challenges. Luiz has extensive knowledge in enterprise architecture design, IT Strategy, IT Organization and Governance, and information architecture. Prior to joining Forrester Luiz was a Senior Manager for a Paris based consultancy specializing in helping senior executives to optimize their IT/IS organizations in line with business objectives. He began his career in Europe as VP of Information Systems for GECI International, where he developed a solid understanding of issues and concerns faced by senior IT executives within global enterprises. Luiz also worked for 6 years at Accenture with clients in the US and Latin America and also at Ernst&Young in the US, on different types of projects from IT Strategy definition to the development of Component-Based Architectures.
Luiz holds a Masters degree in Aeronautical Engineering from Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica and a Bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering from Universidade de Sao Paulo in Brazil. He is a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and an active member of ISACA and IEEE.
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Martin
Owen
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With 15 years of experience,
Martin has played a key role in elevating Telelogic (formerly
Popkin) to the leader’s position in the Enterprise Architecture
tools and services market.
Martin has experience of many methodologies and industry standard practices
and has a wide range of programming, development and project management
skills.
Martin was involved in the development of the Business Process Modelling
Notation (BPMN) with the BPMI.org (now part of the OMG) and has developed
frameworks that allow Telelogic’s customers to model, design, and
implement their Enterprise Architecture
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Alex
Peters
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Alex is a Principal in the CIO Group of the Forrester Oval Program™. He works with Program members to understand their key issues and proactively offer valuable, action-oriented advice specific to each member’s needs. Alex focuses on information technology executives’ challenges, such as the development of IT strategies and enterprise architectures, implementation of state-of-the-art governance structures, change and communications strategies, sourcing, and business technology trends and directions. Alex has more than 25 years of experience in the IT industry. Before joining Forrester, he worked as an independent consultant, interim manager, and coach with a large European automotive company, where he substantially contributed to the development and implementation of the IT service management and consolidation programs.
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Jan
Popkin
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Jan Popkin is the Chief Strategist for Telelogic, a leading developer of enterprise architecture, business process and application development products and services. In this role, Popkin serves as the corporate visionary. His role is to assess industry trends, transform them into customer solutions and help drive product and technology initiatives. Popkin speaks worldwide to industry forums and user groups on the subjects of enterprise architecture, business process and application lifecycle development and how they can be applied to improve business process-IT alignment, interoperability and decision support. For the past 25 years, Popkin’s name has been synonymous with enterprise architecture and modeling. Prior to the acquisition of Popkin Software in 2005, Popkin served as CEO and founder of Popkin Software. Under his leadership, the company grew to be the leading enterprise architecture and modeling tool vendor worldwide, according to industry analysts. Today, more than 70,000 users worldwide use the flagship System Architect tool suite. Popkin is on the board of the Object Management Group (OMG), the advisory board of the E-Gov Institute and a board member of the New York Software Industry Association (NYSIA).
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Chris is the leading expert in value-driven IT strategies. With 19 years’ experience in business and IT strategies, Enterprise Architecture and hands-on delivery, he provides practical advice, hands-on support and skills transfer to blue-chip companies in a range of industries around the world.
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Pekka Pulkkinen is a senior architect at Nokia Finland specialising in Enterprise Architecture and IT platforms. He has been with Nokia over 10 years in a number of architecture creation or management roles, most recently he led a creation project of Nokia Enterprise Technical Architecture. He is a member of the architecture management team responsible for the development of IT platforms. Pekka has extensive experience in research, design, development, and he has published articles at industry conferences and papers.
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Don Russell is a Senior Consultant at Adaptive. He has over thirty-two years of experience in the technology industry and has been actively involved in developing and implementing enterprise architectures, OS development, application development, network systems design and data center management. Prior to joining Adaptive, Don was Chief Architect of Enterprise Architecture at the Virginia Housing Development Authority (VHDA), where he was responsible for executing the architectural vision for all IT systems and ensuring that the architecture conformed to enterprise blueprints. He was also responsible for implementing the Adaptive Enterprise Architecture Manager™ (EAM) repository tool into the organization.
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Ms Scott is an innovative, results oriented senior executive with over twenty years of solid management experience. She has extensive expertise in organizing and developing business and technology teams capable of growing and supporting profitable, highly effective business lines. She has been recognized nationally as a resourceful and persuasive leader. During her tenure at First Union and Wachovia, Kellie led both business and technology divisions, developing enterprise wide business and technology strategy. In addition, she managed a venture capital group acquiring companies whose technology was both viable in the marketplace and provided strategic value to the company. She worked with industry partners to create a bill presentment and payment routing company and managed the technology initiatives for the commercial, capital markets and retail technology divisions of the company.
Since leaving Wachovia she launched a risk and technology management company as well as opened what is rapidly becoming the east cost’s most highly regarded art and fine craft gallery: RedSky. She currently consults with Logical Leap on issues related to IT strategy, organization development, and technology governance. She recently worked with the Federal Reserve on enterprise technology governance and effective organizational design.
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Jeff Scott is founder and chief strategist of Logical Leap, Inc. a management consulting practice focused on creating innovative, powerful, and successful IT organizations. Mr. Scott is has over 25 years of broad-based leadership experience in the health care and finance industries in the areas of strategy, architecture, innovation, and leadership development. He has held key leadership roles in every facet of IT management from operations and technical support to enterprise planning and strategy development including 10 years building and managing EA programs. Mr. Scott holds a Master of Arts degree in Psychology from Wake Forest University and is a frequent speaker at technology symposiums, university programs and technology management forums. He is an internationally recognized thought leader in Enterprise Architecture and IT business practices.
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Brought in at Geo’s inception in 2003, Chris led the development of the company’s unique strategy, to use its network assets to provide dedicated fibre and infrastructure services to end-users and other industry players. The strategy combined with steady growth and aggressive cost control has resulted in a cash flow positive business with a number of major new customers acquired and significant opportunities for further growth.
Chris started his career as a lawyer with Linklaters & Paines and moved to COLT Telecom prior to its flotation in 1996 where he went on to hold a number of senior management positions. Latterly, he was Corporate Services Director for COLT’s UK and North European businesses.
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Bjørn-Reidar Solstad has been a principal with Capgemini since 1998. He has more than 25 years experience from national and international IT-related work in both the private and public sector. His speciality area is: Enterprise Architectures, IT-strategic work, increasing IT-effectiveness and efficiency and the transformation of IT-organizations. He has given several papers on these topics both nationally and internationally, as well as written articles.
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Martin is the Chief Technology Officer for EDS on activities for Offender Management with the UK Government and leads a team of Enterprise and System Architects. Prior to this role Martin has been the Consulting Director for a PLM company and Director of Global Applications Architecture for a major pharmaceutical company.
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Rijn
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Rijn van Lynden is managing a proof of concept team for solutions with integration and SOA. He is responsible for development of services, training and methods in this technology area. Besides this he is looking after the Integration Community in EMEA.
Rijn started to work
at Oracle in 1989. Worked for Engineering team of Oracle Europe several
years main focus Database technology
Worked as technology consultant in several technology projects Managing
technology delivery teams for several years in the Dutch Consulting organisation.
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Marlies
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Marlies van Steenbergen has more than 10 years experience as an enterprise architect. She now works for Sogeti as an advisor and coach in the field of enterprise architecture and chairs Sogeti's Architectural Competence Network. She is co-author of the book Dynamic Enterprise Architecture, how to make it work.
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Ceri
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Ceri Williams is an independent consultant with over 23 years in complex systems integration and Enterprise Architecture. Ceri helps large private and public sector clients develop their IS Strategies and Enterprise Architecture, as well as shaping the Enterprise Architecture function to position it as an effective business partner. In a Chief Architect position, Ceri has delivered large-scale Systems Integration programmes, typically involving step change in business processes, information and technology. He frequently works in complex political environments to bring together disparate parts of the business and technical communities to deliver on strategic aspirations.
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Chris started in Enterprise Architecture about 13 years ago, back when it wasn’t called Enterprise Architecture! He has designed architectures, implemented architectures, developed and implemented architectural organisational models, led architectural teams, planned and implemented governance models and produced training models for architects
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David
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Dave Wright joined Westpac in November 2003. Dave is responsible for Architecture across the Corporate Centre business functions of Finance, People & Performance, Group Risk & compliance and Enterprise Information Management. Dave started IT life as a graduate trainee with P&O management services in 1983 and then moved to a Software House specialising in financial accounting systems. He is a qualified accountant and has managed Finance & HR systems implementations for financial institutions such as Bank of England, London Stock Exchange and Banque Paribas. In the Asia Pac region Dave has worked for PriceWaterhouse on engagements for CSFB and Colonial amongst others. Prior to joining Westpac Dave spent three years at the CBA, defining and implementing the architecture for the core Finance & HR systems.
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John
Zachman
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John A. Zachman is the originator of the "Framework for Enterprise Architecture" which has received broad acceptance around the world as an integrative framework, or "periodic table" of descriptive representations for Enterprises. He is not only known for this work on Enterprise Architecture, but is also known for his early contributions to IBM’s Information Strategy methodology as well as to their Executive team planning techniques.
Mr. Zachman retired from IBM in 1990, having served them for 26 years. He is Chief Executive Officer of the Zachman Institute for Framework Advancement (ZIFA), an organization dedicated to advancing the conceptual and implementation states of the art in Enterprise Architecture. He also operates his own education and consulting business, Zachman International.
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