James Cusick is a Software Engineering Manager at CT Corporation (a Wolters Kluwer company), New York.

He manages software development projects for legal filings. Additionally he conducts performance engineering analysis and chairs the division’s application architecture committee.

Previously, James held a variety of roles with Bell Labs and AT&T. He has led a wide variety of projects in banking, telecommunications, and health care.

James is the author more that 30 papers and talks on Software Engineering Technology and was an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University’s Department of Computer Science.

He is a graduate of both the University of California and Columbia University.

Presentation
Creating an Enterprise Architecture on a Shoestring: A Light-weight Approach to Enterprise Architecture
The creation of an Enterprise Architecture requires dedicated resources, or does it? At CT Corporation an Enterprise Architecture was developed using part time resources over a one year period. This architecture fulfilled the goals set out in the team s charter and covered the applications, functionality, and data that were embodied in the systems that run the business. This effort was done on a very limited resource budget using managers and architects across the company to collaborate on the creation of the EA and the analysis and solution of related architecture problems in a part-time committee format. This paper describes the approach taken to develop this architecture, its uses, and the remaining gaps in its development.

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