Russ is a business and technology executive with over 20 years of experience. He is a Practice Manager at Tata Consultancy Services in IT Strategy and Architecture Consulting Services group. His expertise includes defining business solutions, application and infrastructure solutions architecture, and enterprise architecture design. He is customer focused with an innovative drive to define business solutions and deliver complex projects from concept through implementation phase involving legacy and emerging technologies.

Russ has published white papers on topics involving web services and has been speaker at portal and web services conferences.

Presentation
Architecture Assets: Reference Models, Building Blocks, and EA Patterns
This presentation will introduce how to define an architecture model to enable Web services and SOA based enterprise architecture. This will include definition of a reference architecture model with pragmatic approach to help streamline architecture standards based on patterns.

This presentation will provide information on integration and operational criteria in helping organizations to take the next step in moving towards definition of enterprise architecture.

Key Issues:

• Evolving typical n-tier architecture using a Reference Model to enable Web services and SOA
• Understand integration requirements
• Operational issues (i.e. scalability, availability, security)
• Baseline Architecture and Patterns

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