Roderick consults on enterprise architecture in the education, government, media, financial services and retail sectors. Roderick initially studied fine art and architecture before entering the information technology (IT) industry. He has a graphic arts background and has researched modern movements in arts and architecture. He has been involved in IT for over 15 years and has specialised in architecture and the development of metadata repositories, CASE tools and metadata-based architectures. He has software architecture and software engineering experience related to visual modeling notations, object-orientated methodologies, client server, web based application development and service orientated architecture.

Roderick is a founding member of the World Wide Institute of Software Architects (WWISA) and is involved with the architecture community. While completing a research thesis entitled "Building Architecture as a Reference for Architecture Intensive Disciplines", he established Knowledge Architected Systems Engineering (KASE) as a research and academic network. Roderick is platform-agnostic and has no preferences in technology. His work exposes him to a number of environments and technologies. He is the acting Enterprise Architect at UWC and is helping to establish both enterprise architecture (EA) and the adoption of free and open source software (FOSS).

Roderick is married with two sons.

Presentation
Enterprise Architecture and an Organizational Model for Governing IT
Typically, the Enterprise Architecture Office is established as part of an Information Technology (IT) Department. Enterprise Architecture (EA) is a discipline that extends beyond IT. It plays an important role in the creation of value by facilitating the alignment of intangible assets (human, organizational and information capital) to the strategic objectives of the enterprise.

This paper positions EA as part of the strategy and architecture portfolio at the executive level and presents an organizational model for governing IT under the Enterprise Architecture Office.

The case studies presented will also discuss some of the challenges encountered in the adoption of this model, including:

• Getting executive and stakeholder buy-in
• Adoption in public enterprises such as education and government
• Establishing a model to support centralized, federated and autonomous governance
• Developing a services portfolio
• The use of free and open source software as part of the enterprise systems
• Capital investment and program management

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