Prem is a seasoned IT professional with over 15 years of senior level IT experience which started in the early 90’s in commercial product development and program management. During the Internet Start-Up era, Prem was a lead architect developing one of the first dynamically rendering web engines – “SMART DNA”. Having served as an Enterprise Architect for many years, in recent years, he leverages his wealth of technical experience to provide counsel to “C” and “D”-level management on how to realize their strategic visions leveraging new technologies via creative socio-technical methodologies. These executive-level engagements inherently led him to author the “Laws of Engagement” approach to realigning failing IT projects on a path to success.

Prem has spoken at multiple conferences including: Oracle OpenWorld and BEA World, and he has authored and published four IT books on Oracle and BEA technologies.

Prem holds a Master of Science in Computer Information Systems (Honors) from Boston University with a concentration in Internet Security, in addition to being educated at one of London’s leading technology-focused universities, City of London University. He also maintains professional certifications in the Java, Oracle, Sybase and BEA technologies.

Presentation
The Architectural Rules of Engagement for Service-based Organizations
Organizations that are leveraging SOA techniques for systems development must look beyond just aligning services to business processes for system longevity. Project Management techniques, as well as Values Systems that control and mediate human engagement within a workplace can surprisingly influence successful SOA realization. This presentation provides a methodical approach to addressing why SOA is more than just an alignment of “Services” to Business Processes and how human rules of engagement can be applied to Service-based Architectural designs, not only for organizational alignment, but for sustained maintainability.

return to program