Enterprise Architect Summit 2005

Conference Speakers

	Wayne Ariola, Vice President of Corporate Development and Product Management, Parasoft Wayne Ariola is the Parasoft Vice President of Corporate Development and Product Management. He has 15 years of strategic consulting experience in the high tech and software development industries. Prior to joining Parasoft in 2003, he was Sr. Director of Business Development for Fasturn and a Principle Consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers where he was recognized as leader in the Strategic Change practice. He has a BA from the University of California, Santa Barbara and an MBA from Indiana University.
	Kulvir Singh Bhogal, WebSphere Unit, IBM Software Services Kulvir devises and implements WebSphere-centric solutions at customer sites across the nation. He has more than 70 patents pending in a myriad of technology areas. Kulvir has written for numerous publications including JavaPro Magazine, IBM developerWorks, Java Developer's Journal, DB2 Magazine, DevX, InformIT, and WebSphere Advisor Magazine. Kulvir holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and a Master of Science degree in Computer Information Systems from the University of Phoenix.
	Toufic Boubez, Chief Technology Officer, Layer 7 Technologies Toufic is a well-respected and renowned Web services visionary. Prior to co-founding Layer 7 Technologies, he was the Chief Web Services Architect for IBM's Software Group and drove their early XML and Web services strategies. He worked as IBM's technical representative to the UDDI Web services consortium and participated on several standards bodies including the UN/CEFACT/OASIS ebXML initiative. During this time, Toufic co-authored the original UDDI API specification. Toufic also managed some of IBM Global Services' largest e-business engagements. He is a sought-after presenter and has chaired many XML and Web services conferences. In 2002, InfoWorld named Toufic to its "Ones to Watch" list. An author of many publications, his most recent book is the top-selling Building Web Services with Java: Making Sense of XML, SOAP, WSDL and UDDI. Toufic holds a Master of Electrical Engineering degree from McGill University and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Rutgers University.
	Ben Bratt, Architect, gedas USA (Volkswagen Group) Ben is responsible for the gedas USA ' s HCM support of client's technology implementations and global practice development. Ben holds a BA degree in political science from Calvin College, an MA in p olitical s cience from Tulane University, and an MA in c ounseling from Michigan State University. Ben has 11 years experience in helping organizations realize and integrate systems and process changes in technical and manufacturing environments.
	Brent Carlson, VP of technology and co-founder, LogicLibrary, Inc. Recently named to InfoWorld's list of "CTOs to Watch in 2004," Carlson drives the development and delivery of LogicLibrary's products. He is a 17-year veteran of IBM, where he served as lead architect for the WebSphere Business Components project and held numerous leadership roles on the "IBM SanFrancisco Project." Carlson recently led LogicLibrary's product development team in porting the Logidex solution to the .NET platform. He is the co-author of two books: San Francisco Design Patterns: Blueprints for Business Software (with James Carey and Tim Graser) and Framework Process Patterns: Lessons Learned Developing Application Frameworks (with James Carey). Carlson is also a frequent presenter at industry conferences, including Microsoft PDC 2003, and regional user groups. He is a BEA Regional Director and holds 16 software patents, with eight more currently under evaluation.
	Glen Daniels, Manager of Standards and Consortia, Sonic Software In this position, he coordinates Sonic¹s standards consortia involvement. Daniels co-authored "Building Web Services with Java." He has over 15 years of experience in the software industry, during which distributed computing has been a constant theme. He has been working with ³Web services² technologies since their inception in the late 90¹s, and in addition to developing products and helping to found Apache¹s Axis project, he has been an active participant in standards bodies such as the W3C, and a member of the "SOAP Builders" interoperability group.
	Steven P. Davis, Vice President of IT, Walt Disney Studios As well as being VP of IT, Steven also serves as co-chair of Disney's Architecture Council. Mr. Davis is a systems architect and technology strategist with more than 25 years of experience in both commercial software and in house application development. He is a frequent speaker and thought leader in Enterprise Architecture. In addition to architectural and development responsibilities, Mr. Davis also oversees Disney's domestic film distribution, music, and entertainment business services groups within the Studio's IT organization.
	Ted Farrell, Chief Architect, Application Development Tools Division, Oracle Corporation Ted Farrell is Architect and Director of Strategy for Application Development Tools at Oracle Corporation. Mr. Farrell is responsible for the technical and strategic direction of Oracle's development tools products, including Oracle9i JDeveloper, Oracle's Jave and XML Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for J2EE application and Web services development. Prior to Joining Oracle, Mr. Farrell was Chief Technology Officer at WebGain, an application development tools solutions provider. During his more than 15 years of experience architecting and building software products and companies, Mr. Farrell co-founded several small-business software companies including Night Owl Enterprises, Novasoft Systems Inc. and Tendril Software.
	Dan Foody, CTO, Actional As Chief Technology Officer at Actional, Dan leverages his extensive experience in enterprise systems software toward designing manageable service-oriented architectures. He is an active participant in the Web services standards community, including OASIS, WS-I and OMG, where he contributed significantly to the OMG standard for COM/CORBA interworking. Dan also heads Actional's contributions on the OASIS Web Services Distributed Management Committee (WSDM).
	Greggory R. Garrett, Architect, gedas USA (Volkswagen Group) Greggory is responsible for gedas USA's EA methodology development and enterprise architect - based solution delivery. gedas has applied an EA approach to help shape business & IT strategies at VW group companies.Gregg holds a BS in systems engineering from Oakland University, and an MBA from the Broad School of M ana g e m en t at Michigan State Univ ersity . Greggory is also the founding chairman of the Enterprise Architecture Interest Group (EAIG) , and he has addressed senior executives on EA throughout the United States and as far away as Tokyo, Japan.
	Chris Haddad, Practice Manager, Burton Group Application Chris has over 14 years of experience architecting and managing development initiatives, and advising on product strategy for Web service companies such as Grand Central, Flamenco Networks (Digital Evolution), Computer Associates (formerly Adjoin), Securant, Employease, Jamcracker, and TRX. An expert in the design of service oriented architecture and business class Web service infrastructure, he chaired the IBSi Technology Committee and the Web Services Special Interest Group. He is the current Director of the XML Atlanta Users Group and former technical chair of a business service provider consortium forging standards relating to application integration. He has worked on Web services infrastructure for the Apache Axis and Employease EConnect projects. He was granted committer status on the Apache Axis project in 2002. Chris is an author, speaker, and technical editor of courseware, presentations, and books on XML and Web services.
	Tom Hite, co-founder, Metallect Tom is responsible for Metallect's technology strategy. He brings 17 years of executive experience in both early-stage and publicly traded companies. Prior to co-founding Metallect, Tom was CTO of AMX Corporation (NASDAQ: AMXC), where he led the development of a sophisticated software platform for home and business automation. Previously, Tom was VP of Software Development at AnswerSoft, Inc. prior to its acquisition by Concerto Software (NASDAQ: CRTO). Hite's experience also includes technical management positions at Micrografx, R&TH Inc., and CADSI. Hite holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Iowa.
	Peter Herzum, CTO and Founder, Herzum Software After extensive object-oriented experience, since 1992 Peter has pioneered project, product, and product-lines development using enterprise components. Since 1999 he has worked with Service Oriented Architectures across the Internet and for large enterprises or federations of enterprises. A specialist in advanced enterprise architectures and advanced technologies, and in ROIcentric approaches to software manufacturing, he is helping companies around the world to define IT strategies, launch enterprise architecture efforts, establish agile software factories, and resolve complex development and integration problems. Peter is the main creator of COSMT, the agile component-based approach to large-scale development and integration, and of COSMT Enterprise, the second-generation enterprise architecture approach. He is also the principal author of the best-selling book Business Component Factory . Respected industry analyst, Senior Consultant with the Cutter Consortium, he is also an active member of the OMG, where he is currently the chair of the Web Services SIG. Peter is an internationally recognized authority on large-scale architecture and agile development in the large.
	Ralph Hodgson, CEO and Co-Founder, TopQuadrant, Inc. TopQuadrant is a consulting company specializing in knowledge-based solutions, the semantic WEB, semantic technologies ontology engineering. Ralph is the leader for the Semantic Technologies Pilots in the Emerging Technology sub-committee of the Government's CIO Council's XML Web Services Working Group. Ralph has over 25 years experience, in the United States and internationally in enterprise systems design, consulting, software development and methodology development and deployment. Prior to launching TopQuadrant he was an Executive Consultant at IBM Global Services from 1994 to 2001 where he was a founding member of the Portal and Java and Emerging Technology practices. Prior to IBM, Ralph was European Technology Director, founder and Managing Director of the UK Subsidiary of an international CASE tools vendor. He has held executive positions in a Process Control and Instrumentation group, Eurotherm International and started his career with Hewlett-Packard as an R&D engineer. Ralph is a published author, with some 30 papers and 6 chapters of books and a frequent speaker at international software engineering conferences.
	Kwang Sik Kang, IT architect, WebSphere Unit, IBM Software Services Kwang Kang consults IBM clientele on the architecture and development of critical systems. Kang has been published in industry periodicals and is the founder of the WorldWide WebSphere User Group's Charlotte, NC Chapter. Kang is currently pursing a Master's Degree in Computer Science (CS) & holds a Bachelor's Degree in CS from SUNY Binghamton.
	Gunther Lenz, Program Manager for Software Platform Technologies, Siemens Corporate Research Gunther Lenz is the Program Manager for Software Platform Technologies at Siemens Corporate Research in Princeton, NJ. His current research is focusing on Model Driven Software Development (MDSD) and Software Factories. Before joining Siemens Corporate Research he was working for Siemens Medical Systems as Software Engineer, Team and Project Lead for development and test. In addition to his project work, he was also a core member of the Software Engineering Process Group (SEPG) which defined the software development process to be used in parts of Siemens Medical Solutions and Siemens Corporate Research. He is the author of the Book ".NET-A Complete Development Cycle", invited member of the Microsoft Software Design Review team (for Visual Studio Team System and Indigo) and frequently presents at internal and external conferences on subjects related to Software Engineering. He can be reached at lenz.gunther@siemens.com..
	Paul Lipton, Sr. Architect, Web Services Team and Strategist, Office of the CTO, Computer Associates Paul Lipton is a Senior Architect in the Web Services and Application Management Team at Computer Associates (CA) as well as a Strategist in the Office of the CTO. He has been an architect and developer of enterprise systems for over 20 years, and has worked closely with key CA customers to solve important business challenges through the creation of manageable, mission-critical distributed solutions. He is a highly sought-after author and conference speaker, and has shared his knowledge with appreciative audiences on such diverse topics as service-oriented architecture, Web services, Java/J2EE, .NET, management and security, EAI, On-Demand/Grid computing, XML transformation frameworks, databases, distributed systems, and wireless.
	Frank Martinez, Chairman, CTO and co-founder of Blue Titan Software Frank was recently named one of 25 leading IT innovators by CRN and is a recognized expert in the area of distributed, enterprise application and infrastructure platforms. In his role as CTO, Frank is driving development of scalable service-oriented infrastructure software that integrates business processes and information enterprise-wide so global companies can realize the benefits of shared services and the enterprise nervous system.
	Martin Milani, CTO, Intersperse Martin is an industry expert on distributed computing. Martin's areas of expertise include operating systems, passive parallel systems, distributed operating systems and kernels, enterprise application integration, systems and network management, directory services, asynchronous messaging systems, and communications systems. Martin obtained a BS in computer science with a minor in mathematics from the University of Pittsburgh..
	Andrew Nash, CTO, Reactivity. Andrew was formerly the Director of Technologies at RSA Security in the Office of the CTO and led RSA's efforts within the Liberty Alliance on the Strong Authentication Expert Group creating a model for industry wide open strong authentication systems. He is a known leader in PKI and Web-Services security markets and the co-author of numerous Web Services specifications including Web Services Security, WS-Trust, WS-Federation, WS-SecureConversation and WS-SecurityPolicy. Andrew is an author of an RSA Press book on Public Key Infrastructure, a member of the OASIS Web Services Security TC and was chairman of the PKI Forum Technical Working Group. Andrew has been a key technology leader at both RSA Security and Digital Equipment Corporation. Andrew graduated from the University of Adelaide, Australia and holds a post graduate degree in Software Engineering from the University of Technology, Sydney .
	Gurpreet S. Pall, Senior Director, Architecture Strategy, Microsoft Gurpreet S. Pall is a Senior Director of Architectural Strategy in Microsoft Developer and Partner Evangelism division. Prior to this he was a Product Unit Manager in the Windows Engineering group responsible for incubating Microsoft Systems Architecture (MSA) and related infrastructure solutions & programs. Over his 14+ year career at Microsoft he has played leading roles in development and delivery of several key products and solutions to the Microsoft field, partners and customers. Products such as Microsoft Excel/Office and solutions in the areas sales force empowerment, knowledge management and IT services. He holds a B-Com (Hons.) Degree from St. Xavier's College Calcutta, and a Masters of Management degree from Willamette University, Salem, Oregon.
	Paul Patrick, Chief Security Architect, BEA Paul is responsible for the overall security product strategy at BEA. He plays a key role in driving the design and implementation of security functionality across all of BEA’s products, and is the architect for BEA’s new enterprise security infrastructure product, WebLogic Enterprise Security. Prior to becoming chief security architect, Paul was the lead architect of BEA’s ObjectBroker CORBA ORB and co-architect of WebLogic Enterprise (now Tuxedo). He is also the author of several patent applications as well as industry publications and a book on CORBA.
	Paul Roth, CTO, CommerceQuest Paul joined CommerceQuest in 1994 as the chief technology officer and was responsible for initiating CommerceQuest's message oriented middleware focus. He is a leading advocate within the industry for open standards, UDDI, e-business and business process integration and related business activities. Paul serves as CommerceQuest's technology evangelist, speaking on the technical issues surrounding business integration across and inside enterprises. Prior to CommerceQuest, Paul was employed by IBM for twelve years in a variety of roles, including senior systems analyst for value added networks. While there, he was responsible for marketing strategies and sales initiatives for IBM's New Ventures business unit. Paul holds a B.S. degree in computer information sciences from the University of Florida.
	Michael Sawicki, Software Project Manager, Compuware Mike is the OptimalJ technical manager for Compuware and an expert on model-driven, pattern-based development with more than 25 years of experience in the application development industry, He frequently presents on the subjects of development standards, best practices and the effects of model-driven, pattern-based development on organizational measurements of efficiency. Mr. Sawicki has spoken at many of the industry's leading conferences, including SD West (keynote), JavaOne, Gartner Application Development Summit and ITExpo. Mr. Sawicki's work experience includes business process reengineering, decision support and data warehousing, and application development with a focus on the practical approaches to achieving business objectives and improving customer service through the use of technology.
	Dr. Zvi Schreiber, Founder & CEO, Unicorn Dr. Schreiber has many years of experience as a software innovator and executive in the US, UK and Israel. Most recently he was the Founder and CEO, then CTO of Tradeum Inc., which pioneered the concept of business-to-business exchanges, creating a generic software platform for dynamic trading of direct goods - some months before the term "B2B" was invented. Schreiber founded Tradeum in October 1998, and in March 2000 sold the company to VerticalNet Inc. for $500 million, and renamed it VerticalNet Solutions.
	Roger Sippl Roger Sippl has more than 25 years of senior operations and chief executive experience with technology companies. He was founder of Informix Software, Inc. in 1980. Under his direction, Informix pioneered SQL relational databases, 4GL application development tools, and OLTP database technology and is now a part of IBM. Sippl was co-founder and chairman of The Vantive Corporation, now part of PeopleSoft. In 1993, he founded and was chairman of Visigenic Software, helping pioneer distributed computing and application servers in enterprises. Visigenic was acquired by Borland. Roger is also a founding partner of Sippl Macdonald Ventures and during the nineties, he invested privately in several successful software companies, including Illustra (acquired by Informix), Broadvision, SupportSoft and Red Pepper (acquired by PeopleSoft). In 2002, Sippl founded, and is currently chairman of, Above All Software, creators of software for composite applications that enable service-oriented architecture. He earned a B.S. in computer science from the University of California at Berkeley.
	Charles Stack, Founder and CEO, Flashline Charles founded Flashline in 1998 with a vision of assisting organizations in increasing the value of their software by viewing software as a strategic asset. Stack has been managing software development for over 20 years, with more than a decade of experience managing the development of online systems. He is credited with founding the first Internet retail store, Books.com, and is the inventor of two patented ecommerce applications. He is recognized throughout the industry as a true visionary, having been honored with awards such as InfoWorld's Top 10 Innovators in eBusiness, and the Small Business News Visionary Award. Stack began his professional career after graduating from Case Western Reserve University's School of Law, when he developed and marketed a groundbreaking software package for the legal industry. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and trade shows, lecturing on software development, Asset-based Software Engineering, and strategies for improving the efficiency of software development.
	Ramani Vaidyanathan, Principal Business Consultant, BEA Systems Ramani Vaidyanathan is an EAI subject matter expert with BEA Systems. He is a Principal Business Consultant to BEA clientele on enterprise integration strategies and architecture assessments. Prior to joining BEA systems, he worked in the Integrated Technologies Practice of Electronic Data Systems Consulting line of business. He has extensively involved with integration services and he specializes in management and implementation of systems using technologies such as enterprise application integration, enterprise information portals and wireless application integration. He has published articles with Business Integration Journal and white papers with eds.com