Mr. Harrington has more than 30 years experience in marketing, finance and management.  He currently is responsible for all operational aspects of DAT, a Consulting and Software Development company focused on the OMG’s Model Driven Architecture standards.
 
Prior to joining DAT, he headed his own consulting organization, EPH Associates LLC.  Before that, Ed was Vice President of Business Development and Strategy for NEXOR, a UK based developer of high tolerance messaging and directory solutions. Prior to that, Mr. Harrington served as director, i500 Americas for ICL the then market leader in X.500 directory solutions.  Prior to ICL, Ed spent 17 years at General Electric in various marketing and finance management roles. 
 
Mr. Harrington holds a B.A.  in Economics from Holy Cross and is a graduate of the GE Financial Management and Manager Development Programs.  He is also a past Chair of the Open Group’s Directory Interoperability Forum and its Mobile Management Forum.

Presentation

Model-Driven Identity Management Architecture: a Case Study
The US Federal Government is in the process of revamping its Identity Management requirements from top to bottom.  It has defined various levels and methods for internal authentication needs and is actively examining the needs of its citizens to interact in an appropriately authenticated manner.  Many complexities have arisen out of this effort. Under the guidance of both the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the General Services Administration (GSA), the government is working with industry to resolve these problems.
 
This presentation will examine some of these efforts; focusing on the authentication element of Identity Management.
 
The Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) of the GSA and its Chief Architect are proposing a way, based on Object Management Group’s (OMG) Model Drive Architecture (MDA) to simplify the examination, analysis and solution development process to these problems.  The GSA has partnered with Industry, and especially the Financial Services community, to examine, holistically, these problems.
 
We will review MDA based efforts under way at both the eAuthentication Partnership ( www.eapartnership.org) and the Financial Services Technology Consortium (FSTC) to bring together Government, Industry and Standards that will help simplify the implementation of truly interoperable and federated authentication capabilities, and we will discuss the joint efforts of The Open Group and the OMG to integrate MDA and TOGAF.
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