Jerry is a Chief Architect at NJ's largest utility company, PSEG, where he has worked on a variety of large-scale IT projects as a lead architect. He is currently responsible for the Work Management Domain practice and is the technical lead for the company’s AMI initiative.

Jerry has formulated and implemented strategic Information Technology plans and Enterprise Information Architectures for multi-billion dollar business units and has worked closely with business executives to align business strategies, IT plans and architecture.

He has a B.S in Operations Research.Industrial Engineering from Cornell University and an MBA from Rutgers University. Jerry is a Faculty Advisor at Rutgers University, and a member of NJIT’s College of Computing Science Board of Governors.

Presentation

A Toolkit for Enterprise Architects
Enterprise Architects need a toolkit to turn their EA vision into reality. This session will discuss some of the tools/artifacts that have been used in practice, along with the related area which they address:

• Insure Business/IT alignment
• Business Alignment Model
• Architecture Business Domains classifications
• Architecture Communities
• Guide Investments for critical applications and facilitate investment planning
• Life Cycle Plans
• Define EA
• Target Architecture Model
• Support Governance
• Architecture Fit Assessment
• Architecture Principles
• Scan new technologies and relate to business needs
• Position Papers

Key takeaways:

• Templates to use for creating architecture artifacts
• A process for Application Life Cycle planning

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