Mr. Blevins is a department head at MITRE. He is a Board Member of The Open Group, representing the Customer Council.

He has been involved with the architecture discipline since the 80s, much of which was done while he was Director of Strategic Architecture at NCR Corporation. He has been involved with The Open Group since 1996 when he first was introduced to the Architecture Forum. He was co-chair of the Architecture Forum and frequent contributor of content to TOGAF including the Business Scenario Method.

Mr. Blevins was Vice President and CIO of The Open Group where he contributed to The Open Group Vision of Boundaryless Information Flow™

He holds undergraduate and Masters degrees in Mathematics from Youngstown State University. He is TOGAF 8 certified.

Presentations

Introduction to Customer Requriements

Cloud Computing: Business Scenario Workshop
An area of interest to many organizations is Cloud Computing and, given the variance in Cloud Computing models and approaches, a stable set of industry requirements could prove an enabler to maturing the Cloud Computing technologies. A key part of The Open Group’s mission is to gather and represent customer requirements in order for the supply side to better understand real needs of the customer side. One way to gather requirements is through Business Scenario workshops. In Toronto we will hold a mini-workshop to gather customer views on the motivation for and key requirements of Cloud Computing.  

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