Bob is an IT Architect with IBM in the SOA Advanced Technologies group, performing worldwide consulting for IBM customers in the area of SOA Governance and SOA architecting.

Bob has 22 years of experience in the telecom industry at MCI and Verizon Business. He was the MCI chief architect for 3 years, leading the enterprise architecture group and working across the entire order to cash suite of applications. He led the development of the SOA based single stack strategy to simplify the multiple network and applications silos into one. In addition, Bob has led development projects for product development and OSS. He has driven the strategy, planning, and execution of MCI’s product development in the area of contact centers, IP/VPN, VOIP, IMS, and managed services. For OSS, he has led successful implementations to automate network provisioning, network restoration, and network management.

Prior to coming to MCI, Bob worked as a consultant for American Management Systems (AMS) and Ideation, Inc. He has MS and BS degrees in Computer Science from Purdue University and has been granted two patents in the area of telephony. He has spoken at various industry forums, written for The SOA Magazine and been quoted in CIO Insight, Telecommunications, Infoworld and Computerworld.

Presentation
SOA Governance and Enterprise Architecture

There is much interest, as well as confusion about SOA Governance, what it really is, and how it relates to Enterprise Architecture (EA).  The author has been on both sides of this equation, as he has led an Enterprise Architecture group at a large telecommunications firm and is now an SOA Governance specialist at IBM.  His experience is that a well thought out and implemented SOA Governance plan not only is a critical element in a successful SOA program, but is a valuable ally to realization of the Enterprise Architecture vision.   He will discuss the aspects of SOA Governance that relate to EA and how the two functions should work together.

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