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.