LEONARD FEHSKENS    
Leader Worldwide Architecture Profession Office, HP Services, Hewlett Packard Company

Len Fehskens Biography
HPLen Fehskens leads the worldwide Architecture Profession Office for HP Services. Len majored in Computer Science at MIT, and has almost 40 years of experience in the IT business as both an individual contributor and a manager, within both product engineering and services business units. He has worked for Digital Equipment Corporation, Data General Corporation, Prime Computer, Compaq and Hewlett Packard. He is the lead inventor on 6 software patents on the object oriented management of distributed systems and was recently TOGAF-8 certified.

Presentation
The Architecture of IT Architecture
What is this thing called architecture? The conventional definitions of IT architecture do not clearly differentiate it from design. Does this matter, and if so, why? This session proposes a slightly different definition of IT architecture, one very similar to its earliest use in the domain of IT, and elaborates the implications of this definition for the discipline of IT architecture.

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