Alex Schoijett is the VP and Chief Information Architect of Rogers Communications Inc.

He moved to Canada from Argentina in 1990 bringing with him ten years of full time experience in different areas of IT. In Argentina he obtained his Engineering degree in Telecommunications, worked for companies like NCR and Microstar, and run his own consulting and software development business.

Once in Canada, Alex joined Royal Bank of Canada, and later moved to RBC Dominion Securities. He obtained his Masters degree in Business Administration as a part time student in York University's Schulich School of Business. He was responsible for the 7x24 Operations of the Bank's trading floors and back offices. In RBCDS, he run the Y2K program and IT Architecture.

When the Province of Ontario wanted to open it electricity market, Alex moved to Ontario Power Generation, the 5th largest utility in the world, to run its IT program. For three years, his teams worked on the design, implementation, and commissioning of new processes, data flows, and all the applications and technologies that were required for the successful market opening that took place in May 2002. After that, Alex moved to manage OPG's Architecture and its IT Infrastructure through one of the largest outsourcing deals in the world.

In 2005, he joined Rogers, a Canadian Wireless, Cable, and Media giant. As Chief Architect, his approach favours upfront and hands on architectural support to initiatives over "after the fact" policing, a model that has paid off in many occasions.

Alex's organization is built around the fundamental tenets of Enterprise, Solutions, Data and Integration Architecture.

Presentation

EA in the Context of a Large Business Transformation Initiative

Large business transformation programs.  We all heard about them but few actually go through one.  These are the experiences of the Architecture organization of a large North American Communications Services Provider going through a sweeping change in the way it does business. The presentation will cover, from a rather practical perspective, how Architecture adds value, what are the activities that need to be executed early and what are the artifacts that need to be produced, all from the point of view of the group that is usually the smallest team in IT. 

Audience:-
Senior leaders in IT organizations, Enterprise Architects, business leaders

Key takeaways:-
1. The many roles that Architecture plays in Business Transformations
2. How Architecture adds early value to a transformation initiative

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