Terence Blevins is Branch Chief and Lead Architect, Air Force Operational Support Enterprise Architecture, at Mitre.

He is a MITRE employee supporting the Air Force in the role of Branch Chief and Lead Architect of the Air Force Operational Support Enterprise Architecture.

Mr. Blevins has been involved with the architecture discipline since the 80s when he was at the NCR Corporation as Director of Strategic Architecture. He has been involved with evolving this discipline since 1996 when he first was introduced to The Open Group's Architecture Forum. He was co-chair of the Architecture Forum and frequent contributor of content to TOGAF including the Business Scenario Method.

Mr Blevins was Vice President and CIO of The Open Group where he contributed to The Open Group Vision of Boundaryless Information Flow.

Mr. Blevins holds undergraduate and Masters degrees in Mathematics from Youngstown State University. He is TOGAF 8 certified.

Presentation
Using Enterprise Architecture to Exploit Constraints and Enable Innovation

Enterprise Architecture is an important tool for business innovation, however it achieves this by what appears to be a concept contradictory to innovation - it enables innovation by applying/imposing constraints. This concept applies to any business innovation, including the Enterprise Architecture business and thus a few constraints for the Enterprise Architecture space will be suggested as a practical take away.

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