Keynote Presenter (Tuesday am)
Panel Moderator (Tuesday pm)

Sam Ceccola is Federal CTO/Chief Federal Architect at BEA Government Systems.

He is responsible for providing technical and architectural guidance to BEA’s customers, partners and employees. Mr. Ceccola has over 15 years of experience in delivering information technology systems for business and government focused primarily in distributed architectures that include Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA).

Prior to joining BEA in September 2004, Mr. Ceccola was in charge of the High Availability practice for Hewlett-Packard Managed Services. In that role, Mr. Ceccola provided High Availability end-to-end services for HP largest global customers, which included responsibility for Architecture, Implementation and Governance of those customers’ most critical business. Prior to HP, Mr. Ceccola led the J2EE Architects for Bluestone Software.

During the 1990’s, Mr. Ceccola was the Information Technology Manager/Lead Consultant for a mid-size Pennsylvania based Systems Integrator and then was the CEO and founder of a small services company for seven years.

Mr. Ceccola’s experience includes J2EE, C++, Other Object Oriented technologies, Oracle and other database technologies, Microsoft, Networking, Platforms and Storage.

In addition to his professional experience Mr. Ceccola has served as an instructor in the subject of Object Oriented Technologies, J2EE, C++, and other related information technologies at a number of universities including, Penn State, Albright and several private institutions. Mr. Ceccola has the privilege of representing BEA in several industry forums including but not limited to the Open Group and Industry Advisory Council where he chairs a SOA subcommittee.

Organizations

• IAC – Emerging Technology SIG
• IAC – SOA Committee Chairperson
• GEIA – Government Electronics and Information Association
• AEA – Association of Enterprise Engineers

Certifications:

• J2EE (level 3 certified)
• Oracle (oracle certified professional)
• Microsoft (Certified Developer and Trainer)
• FEA Certification

Presentation
SOA to the Edge
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an IT strategy that takes the discrete business functions contained in enterprise applications and organizes them into interoperable, standards-based services. These services can be combined and reused in composite applications and processes to more quickly meet business needs. The emergence of SOA as a strategy with the US Government has accelerated because of the ability to plan strategically but implement tactically.

However, with all the advances on SOA, what are the challenges in pushing SOA further to the edge and what is being done about it. This presentation will discuss the status of SOA today, the gaps at the edge and what we are doing to get there.

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