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  Hong Zhan — General Motors    

Hong Zhang serves as General Motors’ Director & Chief Architect in the Emerging Technology group, reporting to the Chief Systems and Technology Officer.

In this role, Hong is responsible for the GM’s global common reference architectures (a basis for global architecture standardization). He is also responsible for the evaluation of emerging software technologies and the insertion of those technologies into the mainstream of GM’s systems and infrastructure.

Hong joined GM in March 2000 as Director of Architecture in e-GM, the e-business unit of GM. He was appointed Director, Enterprise Architecture in the Global Technology Management organization in June 2001.

Before joining General Motors, Hong held a variety of positions in the Information Technology department and the New Venture department during his 12 years with Ameritech/SBC, and was one of the team leaders who initiated Ameritech’s e-business.

Hong holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science and a Master’s degree in Statistics from Wayne State University, and a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from the East China Normal University.

 

   
 

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Driving Global Common Architecture with Reference Architectures

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