Ian Barnes
Ian is an experienced Technical Project Manager and Enterprise Architect. Ian's role is to educate business leaders on the benefits of using technology and architectural approaches. Acting as an advisor, Ian works to define solutions at a board-room level. In addition, Ian evangelises middleware, infrastructure & integration technologies to architects and development engineers.

Prior to ProSolveIT, Ian was Chief Advocate of Technology in EMEA at BEA, responsible for showcasing the value of technology to businesses. As chief advocate, Ian was a key driver of enterprise architecture strategy within BEA, with a particular focus on integration and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).

Richard Noon
Richard Noon is a Senior IT professional with Enterprise Architecture, Project Management and Business Development experience gained during the last 15 years. Skilled at envisioning how IT can help shape and achieve business objectives and then creating and communicating winning IT strategies.

Richard's main strengths are a solid grasp of Business drivers, Application architectures, network fundamentals and their interrelations. Before Joining Atos Origin, Richard was a member of Capgemini’s Enterprise Architecture group.

Richard has experience in delivering TOGAF, Zachman and Capgemini IAF Architecture Artefacts in a number of vertical sectors.  Richard is a certified TOGAF practitioner.

Ian Bailey
Ian Bailey is a specialist in model-driven enterprise architecture – i.e. using meta-models to provide the “glue” between enterprise models. He has worked with architecture frameworks for a number of years, for clients such as the US & UK Governments, NATO and Shell. More recently, he was responsible for developing the meta-model for the UK MOD Architecture Framework (MODAF) and is currently advising the MODAF community on ontology development. His ontology experience stretches back to 1993, having been one of the first people to implement the EPISTLE Core Model. More recently he was part of the ontology development team for the Shell Downstream Model. He is also the modelling lead for the multi-national IDEAS Group, developing ontology to support enterprise architecture sharing and exchange. His company, Model Futures has developed a free tool for working with the W3C Web Ontology Language (OWL).

Daniel Abunu
Daniel is an Enterprise Architecture Practitioner (TOGAF 8 Certified) with over 15 years industry experience; across Broadcast, Telecoms and Media. During this time Daniel has worked in variety of roles spanning Technology Development to Management.

As part of the BBC’s Enterprise Architecture Group, Daniel is responsible for providing Thought Leadership in Interoperability and Integration; in addition to developing Technology Strategy and Architecture. Daniel also has experience of major technology transformation programmes; recently as a Lead Technology Advisor for Siemens Business Services acquisition of BBC Technology.

Daniel is currently managing the delivery the BBC’s Digital Fabric project; a multi million pound pan-BBC Integration managed service, responsible for enabling and supporting the BBC’s SOA aspirations through the next charter period.

Paul Allen
Paul Allen is a principal consultant, author, educator and IT industry analyst with Everware-CBDI International.

Paul is widely recognized for his innovative work in component-based development, business-IT alignment and service-oriented architecture. His detailed knowledge stems from over 30 years experience in the management and development of large-scale business systems, and combines with a uniquely practical understanding of the problems companies face as they apply new technologies in search of business value.

Paul is a widely published author whose current focus of interest in helping organizations transition to service orientation is detailed in his most recent book - Service Orientation: Winning Strategies and Best Practices - published in April 2006.

Ken Russell
Dr. Russell is an accomplished, organizational leader offering more than 17 years of success spanning executive management, business development, technology innovation, and change management.

He is a former CIO and COO, and his experience includes several years as director of IT Strategy & Consulting with Duke Energy, leader of the Enterprise Architecture program at Bank of America, as well as technology and strategy engagements with Fortune 500 organizations, academic institutions, and innovative fast-growth start-up companies. 

He demonstrates finely tuned communication and interpersonal skills and possesses expertise in Organizational Leadership program development, implementation, operations management, policy/procedure development, project management, risk management, IT Governance, P&L, process improvement, forecasting, and strategic planning.

Wayne Horkan
Wayne Horkan is the Chief Technology Officer for Sun Microsystems in the UK & Ireland, taking on the role at the start of 2006. He leads the UK & Ireland technical community - helping to set the technology selling direction. He has supply and demand side responsibilities which ensure that:
   * There is a unified, consistent, and across business unit & industries technology leadership
   * Business units architecture and technology capability are evangelised both internally and externally
   * High level interaction with our customers - ensuring that our solutions are supported and endorsed

In his former role with Sun, Wayne was extremely successful in establishing 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.

Prior to joining Sun, Wayne was Chief Technical Architect for Harrods Online. His background prior to Harrods was within the Systems Integrator community as a Technical Consultant, working across a number of industries, specialising in software development and systems integration.

Dr. Guy Bunker
Dr. Guy Bunker is a Distinguished Engineer at Symantec Corporation. He is responsible for technical strategy for the data management division and runs a number of research projects around intelligent archiving. Guy has worked for Symantec (formerly VERITAS) for nearly a decade in a number of different product divisions and roles.
 
He has been a member of a number of industry bodies driving standards in computer storage and management and is currently a member of the Global Grid Forum and the Grid Market Awareness Council.

Guy is a regular presenter at many conferences, including JavaONE, TivoliWorld, Linux on Wall Street and the VERITAS user conference, VISION. Guy has just had his second book published: Delivering Utility Computing: Business-driven IT Optimization.

John Taylor
John Taylor is Technical Director of the Typex Group plc, a Business Partner of IBM, GXS, AT&T and 3Com. Typex specialises in helping businesses to save money with infrastructure asset management.

John is an author of four IBM Redbooks and of magazine articles on this subject and speaks at customer conferences worldwide.

He is an IT Infrastructure Systems Architect recently certified by The Open Group to TOGAF 8 standards.
He is the architect of IBM's BlueNotes family of software products which integrate Lotus Notes and Domino with IBM servers.

John holds the Diploma in Company Direction from the Institute of Directors.

He is a Chartered Civil Engineer by profession and lives with his wife and daughter in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.

Colin Wheeler
Colin has over 15 years of delivering both Strategy and Architecture work as well as delivery of significant systems and infrastructure within enterprise organisations.  He comes from a pragmatic operations and infrastructure background having worked through manufacturing and IP carrier focused enterprises and has married this to the focus and value added by developing useful IS Strategy and Architecture.

Colin is very focused on the bottom line of how Enterprise Architecture (both business and IS) can contribute immediate and significant benefits to an organisation of any size as well as the long term stability, transparency and efficiency improvements.  He has a wide range of sector experience from Investment Banking to Utilities and is still to this day capable of turning from the more academic pursuits of architecture to hands on technical work in challenging, cutting edge and high pressure environments, taking his architecture experience right up to the coal face where he believes that significant benefit is still to be gained by frameworks and structure.

Colin is a certified TOGAF 8 practitioner and is very interested in the development of TOGAF 9.  He has spoken before at Open Group Conferences and is a member of the Architecture forum and a number of the other forums.

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