George S. Paras
Vice President, Enterprise Planning and Architecture Strategies
META Group, Inc.

Mr. Paras has more than 24 years of information technology industry experience and is a widely recognized expert on enterprise architecture (EA) and IT strategy and planning. With a focus on EA process, organizational effectiveness, governance, and communications strategies, he has mentored hundreds of private- and public-sector IT leaders through the launch and iterative refinement of EA programs, and helped shape current thought on EA discipline through his research and analysis of industry directions and as a speaker at industry events.

Before joining META Group in 1998, he was senior architect at United Airlines and held various positions at IBM and with Unix hardware and software vendors. Mr. Paras's experience includes systems design for transactional, data warehouse, and engineering systems; software development; business and product planning; and technology/market analysis in distributed computing.

He earned BS degrees in Mathematics and Physics from Elmhurst College.

Areas of Coverage include:

• Enterprise Architecture
• Enterprise Architecture Governance
• Enterprise Architecture Organization
• Enterprise Architecture Planning and Process
• IT Portfolio Management
• IT Strategy
• Enterprise Business, Information, Technology, and Solution Architectures
• Enterprise Program Management

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