Track: SOA
Tuesday, July 20, 2010 — 2.00 - 5.30

2.00 - 2.45 Tutorial: Developing an SOA with TOGAF™ Dave Hornford, Integritas Dave Hornford has eighteen years continuous experience in information technology. His focus is aligning information technology strategy and architecture with business goals. Dave started a strategy & architecture consultancy in 2003, adopting TOGAF™ in 2004. Previously Dave worked as a Principal Consultant & Solution Architect for Digital, Compaq & Hewlett Packard, grew a boutique development shop & solution integrator He started aligning technology with business value working with Apple.

2.45 - 3.30 Tutorial: Implementing SOA Heather Kreger, Lead Architect for SOA Standards, IBM Heather Kreger is IBM’s lead architect for SOA Standards in the IBM Software Group, with 15 years of standards experience. She has led the development of standards for Web services, Management and Java in numerous standards organizations, including W3C, OASIS, DMTF, and The Open Group.Heather is currently co-chair for The Open Group’s SOA Work Group and liaison for The Open Group to ISO/IEC JTC1 SC7 SOA SG and INCITS DAPS38 (US TAG to ISO/IEC JTC 1 SC38).   Heather is also the author of numerous articles and specifications, as well as the book “Java and JMX, Building Manageable Systems,” and most recently was co-editor of “Navigating the SOA Open Standards Landscape Around Architecture.”

3.30-4.00 Break

4.00 - 4.40 6+1 Secrets of Successful SOA A well-implemented Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) leads to streamlined technology portfolios, improved resource sharing, better-defined business capabilities, and ease of capability introduction or change. But, how does an organization get from pursuing a SOA strategy to this nirvana of resource efficiency and change-friendly business capability delivery? In this session, Brenda Michelson will share 6+1 secrets of standing up a successful, sustainable, business-focused SOA program. These secrets are not academic, ethereal research, but gathered from 5 years of interaction with real-world practitioners, in the field, and in community forums. As for the +1, here's a hint: it's not technology. Brenda Michelson, Business Technology Advisor, Elemental Links Brenda M. Michelson is the principal of Elemental Links, an advisory & consulting practice. Brenda spent 19 years in corporate IT, most recently as Chief Enterprise Architect for L.L. Bean. Brenda publishes her insights on technology strategies, architectural approaches and business relevance at Business-Driven Architect and the elemental links blog.

4.40 - 5.30 Panel: Real World Experience with SOA - Benefits Gained, Lessons Learned This panel consists of companies and organizations that have deployed SOA. They will discuss how SOA has actually worked out in practice, and what value it has delivered. You will hear about the problems encountered and how they were solved (or not), as well as the success stories. Moderator: Brenda Michelson, Businerss Technology Advisor, Elemental Links (see above) Panelists include: Awel Dico, Enterprise Architect, Bank of Montreal, Canada Dr. Awel Dico is an Enterprise Architect responsible for the creation of the strategic enterprise technology architecture and technology governance activities for the organization. He led the development of technology principles, standards and guidelines for proper use and deployment of technology within the organization. By working with multiple domain architects across the organization, he resolves architectural issues and provides technology directions when competing architectural options exist (through assessment of available options based on industry best practice research and proof of concept). In the past he was a lead architect for multi-million dollar project for integrating retail banking channel applications with the legacy product systems and third-party packaged applications based on SOA style and web services technology. He is currently focusing on enterprise wide SOA implementation, Enterprise Integration architecture including cloud services, and enterprise shared services. Dr. Dico is an active contributor to the Open Group's SOA Working group. He currently serves as a co-chair of SOA Working Group. He also co-chairs the SOA-TOGAF Practical Guide project. He is visiting lecturer at the Universities and he is currently supervising two PhD candidates in their software engineering and architecture related research work. Prior to this Dr. Awel Dico worked in research and development area in telecom sector. Mark Sternberger, Integrated Defense Systems enterprise (IDS), Innovation, Strategy, and Architecture function (ISA), Raytheon PROFILE Mr. Sternberger provides more than 25 years of enterprise systems modeling, development, BPM, and professional e-architecture competency leadership. As founder, he grew MarkITS into premier enterprise architecture advisory to address the Business-Technology Convergence imperative necessary for ethical organizations to survive in the 21st century globalized economy impacted by trade policies. As the enterprise architect leading SOA strategies for the Raytheon Corporation Cross-Business Mission Center, he aligns tactical execution with strategic roadmaps across multiple lines of business and technology functions. A certified Global Enterprise Architect (GEAO) and Association of Open Group Enterprise Architects (AOGEA) Fellow, he is frequently published and sought out as a trusted advisor for executive leadership and Boards to drive the enterprise value chain. Prior to Raytheon, acting in Director and CTO roles, he provided “Board room” to “clean room” product development and solutions delivery strategies for the Global 500 in the e-commerce, financial services, and high tech. commercial markets. For the United States DoD, he has directed programs in the C4I, Avionics, Undersea Warfare, Homeland Security, and Underwater Acoustics / Sonar arenas. Mr. Sternberger serves on the Executive Board of Directors for several organizations directing grant research, legal affairs, 501(c) ventures, and professionalization of the enterprise architecture industry. TECHNICAL Mr. Sternberger is an industry knowledge leader in the design and application of service oriented e-architecture patterns co-aligned with agile processes that deliver business and technology solutions with improved PARTS (Performance, Availability, Adaptability, Reuse, Reliability, Testability, Traceability, Scalability, and Sustainability). Advisories provided generally center around a theme helping organizations achieve value realization via enterprise and business architecture alignment, operational improvement, innovation, and strategy, in conjunction with service reuse enabled by model driven approaches and evolutionary process improvement. EDUCATION Undergraduate in EE and Computer Science from Florida International University, in addition to Oceanographic Engineering from Florida Tech. Masters Certification from George Washington University Fellows Program in Program Management. Additionally, he is a certified Program Management Professional by the Project Management Institute and a licensed Zapthink Enterprise Architect. Chris McCarthy, Senior Vice President and Lead Architect for Investor Services, State Street Corp Chris McCarthy is a Senior Vice President at State Street Corporation. He has twenty-five years of partnering with internal customers to provide technology solutions that deliver value to external customers in timely, cost effective ways, consistent with the company’s mission and values. Chris has been an early adopter of the SOA model for his development efforts and is the lead architect on State Street’s new Fund Accounting platform. - Member of State Street’s Office of Architecture managing the corporations Web Services and Cloud programs. - Responsible for over 100+ employees plus on-shore and off-shore staff augmentation. Geographically distributed teams comprised of relationship managers, project managers, business analysts, architects and developers. - Ten years of senior management experience, working with business executives to translate their business strategy into technology roadmaps, leading large teams through all aspects of the software development lifecycle, from conception to delivery and maintenance

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