Dr. Yan Zhao, Director, Enterprise and Solutions Architecture in CGI Federal. She has broad work experience across academia, corporate research, software industry, and consulting services; had 12 years architectural leadership experience in IT strategic planning, enterprise architecture, software and system architecture, enterprise system modernization, and various technology solutions.

Prior to CGI, she worked for SAIC as a Chief Engineer and Architect, for PwC as a Principal Consultant (Technical Program Director), for Aspect Communications as a corporate Principal Architect, for Informix as the architect for Web and eCommerce Division, and for IBM as an architect, project lead, computer scientist. She is a guest professor for Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, has 5 patents granted, 4 patents pending, and a number of invention disclosures and technical publications. She received a Ph.D in computer science and a master in mathematics from Arizona State University.

Presentation
Service Oriented Infrastructure for Enterprise Architecture
Service Oriented Infrastructure (SOI) can be considered as Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) being applied to IT Infrastructure. The role of IT is changing. It’s not only associated with technologies and operational support as used to be, but also involved more into business decisions. Also, IT infrastructure is not only associated with hardware, software, and network components, it is becoming more integrated into business operation strategies, and being operated as a business as well. The Federal Enterprise Architecture is one response to such changes, and it assists and enhances this trend; while SOA and SOI assist and facilitate the end-to-end practice of EA. This presentation will discuss current trend in SOA and EA with the progress in Federal Enterprise Architecture with IT Infrastructure as a new Line of Business. A SOI framework is proposed that covers the components in business service planning and modeling, service system architecture and implementation, service components and business function management, contractual management, service stakeholder management, etc.

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