Neil Munro
Neil Munro has been a Police Officer for over 20 years. Most of this time was in the Metropolitan Police, having worked ‘at the coal face’ in most parts of South East London, though served a spell protecting the Royal family at Buckingham Palace.

Neil was seconded to PITO 4 years ago to work as a Senior Business Analyst informing and improving the quality of requirements for National IT projects. This role transformed into Business Architecture Analyst to prepare the way and inform the development of the Police Enterprise Architecture.

Neil is currently studying Policing at Christchurch University, Canterbury, and if there is any spare time left, indulges in computer controlled metal machining.

Chris Armstrong
Over the past twenty years, Chris has worked to bring modern software engineering best practices to practical application at many different private companies and government organizations all over the world. He has worked in many different industries including financial services, manufacturing, retail, healthcare, education, publishing, real estate, life sciences, and social services.

In 2005, Chris started Armstrong Process Group, Inc., and continues his focus on organizational development, process improvement training and consulting, and IT professional development and certification.

Neil Fairhead
N eil Fairhead was Educated at Cambridge (chemical engineering) and Manchester Business School.

He trained in IT as a systems engineer at IBM. He has also worked for vendors Digital Equipment Corporation and Microsoft. Line IT manager at British Rail, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (Director of Architecture and Consulting) and Canada Post Corporation (Director Technology Strategy).

He works as a Consultant at James Martin Associates, DMR (now Fujitsu Global
Consulting) and Serco Consulting.

Mike Lambert
Mike was one of the pioneers of TOGAF. As Chief Technical Officer for The Open Group, he was the Technical Editor for the IEEE 1003.0 architecture standard in the late 1980s and responsible for the development of TOGAF with The Open Group until the publication of TOGAF 8.

Mike joined X/Open Company Limited (the predecessor of The Open Group) in 1994 from ICL, where he had a variety of roles leading up to Chief Architect for OMAC 29, ICL's flagship product for the Manufacturing Industry and Design Authority for all ICL's vertical application products.

Since September 2003, Mike has been a part time lecturer at the University of Reading in the UK, lecturing on a number of subjects at Undergraduate and Postgraduate level.

Vivek Gupta
Vivek Gupta is an Enterprise Architect, within TCS Global Consulting Practice. His background, spanning more than 13 years in the IT industry, includes Enterprise Architecture, IT Strategy definition, Technology Evaluation, EAI, Service Oriented Architecture, Business Process Management, Master Data Management, and IT Portfolio Analysis. He has worked across several industries such as Financial Services, Insurance, Utilities and Telecom.

Amitabh Apte
In his current role, Amitabh is responsible for providing Enterprise Architecture services such as, Business Architecture, Technical Architecture and Common Infrastructure Platform to SITA’s global distributed business units. He also chairs the corporate council which provides the overarching Architecture and Technology Governance for SITA Portfolio.
 
Before joining SITA, Amitabh was the Head Architect for Star Alliance, world’s biggest airline alliance where he was responsible for implementing middleware platform and business process management practice.
 
Amitabh holds a MS Computer Science, is TOGAF 8 certified and almost a decade of experience in varying aspects of the Information Technology such as, SDLC for distributed IT system implementations, outsourcing and business process management.

Judy Cerenzia
Ms. Judith L. Cerenzia is a Research Engineer at the Applied Research Laboratory/The Pennsylvania State University  (ARL/PSU).  Ms. Cerenzia obtained a B.S. in Mathematics and an M.S. in Acoustics from The Pennsylvania State University.   She is ARL/PSU’s Program Manager for the Office of Naval Research’s Torpedo Enterprise Advanced Modeling and Simulation  (TEAMS) Initiative.  She and the TEAMS consortium are using the Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) Process as a guideline for developing an architecture framework, interface standards and requirements to enable sharing of model components used by the torpedo modeling community.  She is also the TEAMS case study leader for the The Open Group Architecture Forum’s TOGAF/MDA Synergy Project, an effort to align the artifacts from the TOGAF process with standard specifications developed and adopted by the Object Management Group (OMG).   She has been a member of The Open Group’s Architecture Forum since July 2004.

Dr Richard Whittington
With more than fifteen years of development and consulting experience in industry and defence, Dick’s interests combine method and tool development with programme assignments across a range of corporate clients.  A co-founder of MooD International and Salamander Organization, he has been influential in developing and deploying visual methods and tools for improving the coherence, agility and performance of organisations.
Dick is a frequent contributor to industry events, the author of a number of patents relating to the Company’s technologies, and a contributor to the Company’s recognition through medals and awards, including the Queen’s Award in 2004 and the BCS / Computer Weekly Technology Medal in 2005.
Prior to Salamander, Dick was a lecturer in Computer Science at University of York, publishing a number of research papers and books, including Database Systems Engineering (Oxford University Press, 1987), which became a standard undergraduate text within many universities.

Amit Bhagwat
Amit has worked on Enterprise-wide IT transformation programs through two decades. Through his early career Amit developed keen interest in Analysis and Design techniques advancing into profile as Chief Designer and Methodologist, before taking on responsibilities as Enterprise Architect / Managing Architect.

Amit is among the small number of IBM-Rational accredited instructors – highest qualification of its kind – and has worked extensively as an evangelist for IBM-Rational University and partners, also educating IBM staff consultants.

Amit has written widely on Requirement-Project-Process Management, Analysis, Design, Visual Modelling Concepts and Estimation Techniques, with 16 publications, including an oft-quoted cover feature in The Rational Edge to his credit.

In the last five years Amit has contributed in senior architectural / strategic / mentorial roles for a number of high-profile public sector projects and has researched into common features separating public sector programs from commercial enterprise programs. These days he works as independent strategist-mentor.

Sohel Aziz
Sohel Aziz is a Principal Architect and EMEA Practice Lead Infosys Technologies' Technical Consulting Group. He is based in Paris, France. Sohel has more than 13 years of professional experiences covering Enterprise architecture and IT strategy, architecture definition and implementations, architecture reviews and program management. Sohel has most recently been involved in architecture strategy projects across multiple industries ranging from Financial Services to Manufacturing. Sohel holds a degree from the University of Singapore (Singapore) in Computer Science and an MBA (Technology Strategy & Management) from INSEAD (France).

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