Mr. Harrington has more than 30 years varied business experience. Currently, he is responsible for all operational aspects of DAT, a focused Enterprise Architecture Consulting and Software Development company. DAT is a strong promoter of OMG's Model Driven Architecture standards.

Prior to joining DAT, Ed was Vice President of Business Development and Strategy for NEXOR, a UK based developer of high tolerance messaging and directory solutions. Prior to that, he served as director, i500 Americas for ICL the then market leader in X.500 directory solutions. Prior to ICL, Ed spent 17 years at General Electric in various marketing and finance management roles.Dataaccess Technologies

Mr. Harrington is currently Chair of the OMG-Open Group-IC Joint TOGAF-MDA Synergy Working Group. He is Vice Chair of the Open Group's Architecture Forum as well as a past Chair of its Directory Interoperability Forum and Mobile Management Forum. Mr. Harrington holds a B.A. in Economics from Holy Cross and is a graduate of the GE Financial Management and Manager Development Programs

Presentations
The State of standards for SOA
An update of the previous APC presentaions. Will include from OMG, OASIS and the Open Group SOA WG.

Audience: SOA Architects

Key takeaways:-

1. Current Standards
2. Standards in Development
3. Open discussion on the possible need for additional standards

Implementing an Open Source SOA based Financial Application in the US Federal Government
Abstract:-
This session describes the implementation of a Fixed Asset Financial Application that updates and replaces a 30 year old mainframe applicatiion. This is complicated by the fact that the application is fed from numerous internal organizations and physical locations and must feed additional systems. The architecture is Model Driven and SOA based and is implemented in Open Source.

Audience:-
Enterprise Architects

Key takeaways:-

1. How a SOA based application can be implemented in an Open Source infrastructure
2. How the US Federal Government is utilizing both SOA and Open Source
3. Lessons learned

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