Wayne Horkan is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Sun Microsystems in the UK & Ireland, as the Technology Leader for the UK & Ireland he represents the UK & Ireland Technical Community & provides leadership to the customer facing Technology & Business Consultants in Sun's Global Sales & Services Organisation (GSSO).

Wayne has had an extensive career in IT / IS implementations for 15+ years: in former roles with Sun, Wayne successfully established Sun's technical leadership position and relevance in support of significant and strategic Government Programmes, along with substantial work in the finance and utilities markets. This included, and still includes, Enterprise Architecture definition and implementation, which Wayne champions in the EMEA sector.

Prior to joining Sun, Wayne was Chief Technical Architect for Harrods Online, and also spent time as a Technical Consultant at a Systems Integrator (SI), a Senior Software Engineer at an Independent Software Vendor (ISV) & a Computer Programmer before that.

Experience:
1) Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference 2007 (Paris) - "Enterprise Architecture at Sun Microsystems"
2) Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference 2006 (London) - "Enterprise Architecture and Innovation"

Presentation
Case Studies of Enterprise Architecture
Large (and, increasingly, smaller) enterprises have embraced Enterprise Architecture as a key tool to interpret and strategically manage the complexity of their IT estates, and it's not surprising that many of them have assembled large teams and spent many millions of pounds to achieve an 'Enterprise Architecture'.

These case studies explore my experiences with Enterprise Architecture in three major customer engagements, including an Enterprise Architecture team which led its company into a 70+ million pound 'pitfall', the use of Enterprise Architecture to define a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), and an example of how much Enterprise Architecture is about achieving the proper Governance model.

Audience:
Those implementing, or about to implement EA programmes

Key takeaways:
1. Enterprise Architecture best practices drawn from multiple engagements
2. How to use good governance to avoid and limit 'Ivory Tower' syndrome
3. How to combine EA and SOA to deliver sustainable Transformation

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