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IT
Architect Profession Executive, IBM
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  Biography
 Michael Sylvia is IBM’s IT Architect Profession
Executive. As such, he’s responsible for the
development, growth, and vitality of the IT Architect
profession in IBM and for the professional development,
collaboration, and qualification of the professionals
who practice as IT Architects across all IBM business
units worldwide.
Michael has broad and versatile skills and experience
in the design, delivery, and support of complex solutions
integrating many technology and process elements, and
in technical community leadership. An IBM Certified
IT Architect, Michael has focused on architectural
frameworks and infrastructure, with a particular emphasis
on their application with Public and Communications
Sector clients.
With IBM since 1983, Michael was named him an IBM
Distinguished Engineer by the IBM Corporate Technology
council in April 2000 and elected to the IBM Academy
of Technology in that same year.
Michael resides in Sacramento, California, where he
enjoys his daughter, sports, travel, and the sunshine.
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Presentation
IBM's IT Architecture Profession
These are exciting times to be an IT Architect. The practice
of IT architecture is evolving to use an explosion of new
tools, technologies, and techniques unlike at any time before.
Services Oriented Architectures, On Demand and the increasing
adoption of Enterprise Architectures are but a few examples
where the challenge and influence of architecture is expanding
... and with it, the importance of the IT Architect.
The IBM IT Architect Profession programs exist to foster
a technically vital IT Architect workforce in IBM and to
equip it to meet the architectural needs of our clients
through activities that build capability and consistency,
perform quality assurance through certifications, promote
excellence and effectiveness in the practice of architecture,
and build, support and leverage the power of the community.
This session will review the IBM IT Architect community and
how IBM supports it.
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