Twenty years in IT. Eleven years with CGI (formerly AMS) in a variety of roles encompassing technical and functional architecture, project management, offering development and pre-sales.

I was a founding member of the AMS Technical Architect community and am active in the CGI Technology and Practice Focus Networks.Functionally my expertise is in telecommunications - mostly mobile.

I have workeed on projects for many different European telcos in pretty much all areas of OSS and BSS. Over the last few years I've been very active around SOA within CGI, various clients and in the Open Group.

Before IT, I tried very hard to make a living playing music but never quite made it. I still play in my spare time (CDs available on request). I have a son aged 15 who plays in a metal band.

Presentation

Subject: Identity and the Enterprise
Identity in the world of eGovernment, eCommerce, Web 2.0 and the Extended Enterprise has moved far beyond just being an element of access control. It is a business concern with implications for user enablement, customer retention, reputation, privacy and trust. It can no longer be placed under “non-functional requirements”. For Government this is particularly the case for citizen facing services. This presentation will look at these aspects of identity and show how they can (and must) be included in all phases of enterprise architecture. We’ll take a look at user-centric identity, what it means from a holistic perspective, the technologies and standards that are available and the challenges faced by an enterprise that wants to incorporate or coexist with it. We will provide a realistic evaluation of the short and long term options for implementing it in an (extended) enterprise architecture.

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