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 14+ 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.

Presentation
Enterprise Architecture at Sun Microsystems

A look at Sun Microsystems work in the EA field - both internally in managing our own IT / IS estate, utilising EA derived from DODAF, and externally with customers and partners, using a variety of EA Frameworks.

Wayne will be discussing the use of EA internally at Sun to help drive down cost & complexity, the work that Sun's Consultancy team has down externally with major customers, including successes, best practises & lessons learnt, and the resulting innovative use of lightweight EA techniques in the pre-sales process to map customer estates, which developed from the experience gathered in those engagements.

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