Biography Ms. Whittlesey has more than 20 years experience in various areas of Information Technology including application development, database management systems, internet systems management, and Unix system engineering. She is currently the Director of Enterprise Architecture at Delta Technology, the wholly owned technology subsidiary of Delta Air Lines, based in Atlanta, Georgia. In her role at Delta Technology, she has responsibility for the development of application, infrastructure and information architecture direction and governance, as well as architecture consulting and ensuring alignment with Delta’s strategic business direction.

Presentation
Achieving an Affordable and Effective Technology Architecture
Delta Air Lines is transforming the way it does business at a very rapid pace in order to remain competitive in the world of low cost carriers and increasing customer expectations around air travel. As technology provider to the airline, Delta Technology must also transform itself such that it can build solutions faster, with fewer people, and at a much lower cost in support of evolving business ideas. In this presentation, Ms. Whittlesey discusses the approach to Delta’s technology architecture development that reduces complexity and minimizes the number of tools, languages and engagements needed to deliver complete systems that are aligned with business goals.