Chris Cottrell is IT Architect at Cisco Systems, Research Triangle Park, N.C. He is one of three Cisco architects with joint responsibility for IT architecture strategy spanning global IT infrastructure at Cisco Systems.

Chris coordinates architecture solutions across all technology domains and organizations, and leads architecture efforts for major strategic programs.

Since 1986, he has played key delivery roles across technical disciplines in some of the worlds largest and most ambitious enterprise-scale information systems for military, telecom, federal, aerospace, and biotech organizations.

Chris joined Cisco’s Internet Technology Group in 1999 with the task to lead the evolution of Cisco’s Web infrastructure into the next generation of Web application technology. He was chief architect of the transformation of Cisco’s Web infrastructure to J2EE technology and led a number of partnerships with middleware vendors to adopt ground-breaking architecture approaches required to support Cisco’s growth and diversity of systems. Chris today is the senior architect for Cisco’s corporate application infrastructure and supporting systems.

Chris also provides consulting to developer organizations, advisory boards, and customers on topics such as highly scaled architecture, development techniques, and leveraging the network for IT applications.

Presentation
Infrastructure Architecture as an IT Discipline
Coordinating infrastructure architecture strategies across a diverse set of business clients and technical disciplines becomes increasingly challenging when service levels, agility, and productivity are held to increasingly high expectations. Cisco will provide an overview of the processes and methods by which Cisco Systems IT organizes and coordinates architectural skills, resources, technologies, and efforts across focused domains, as well as how solutions navigate the process within a cohesive architecture framework and overall roadmap for service management.

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