Session Speakers

Larry Alston ,Vice President and General Manager of FUSE, Progress Software
Tony Bishop, Principal, Adaptivity
Bill Chapman, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Avnet
Chris Clark, Senior Security Consultant, iSEC Partners
George Glass, Chief Architect, BT Global Services
Galen Gruman, Executive Editor, InfoWorld
Chris Harding, Forum Director for SOA and Semantic Interoperability, The Open Group
Judith Hurwitz, President, Hurwitz Associates
Eric Knorr, Editor in Chief, InfoWorld
David Linthicum, Real-World SOA Blogger, InfoWorld
Joe McCartin, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, National City Corporation
Ashish Mohindroo, Senior Director, World Wide Marketing, Oracle
Joseph Natoli, Platform Architect, Intel Corporation
Michael Rollings, Senior Analyst, Executive Advisory Group (EAP), Burton Group
Randie Schlamowitz, Senior Director, Merck
Jignesh Shah, Vice President of SOA Product Management & Marketing, Software AG
Mike Stamback, Director, Product Marketing, Oracle
Alex Stamos, Vice President of Professional Services, iSEC Partners
Maja Tibbling, Lead Enterprise Architec, Con-Way, Inc.
John Tripier ,Director of Business Development, Denodo
Hub Vandervoort, Chief Technology Officer, Progress Software
Ed Vazquez, Vice President of Transformation Services, MomentumSI
Timothy Vibbert, Systems Engineer Stf. / SOA Architect, Lockheed Martin
Brandt Welker, Chief Information Officer, Veterans Administration

Biographies

Larry Alston
Vice President and General Manager of FUSE, Progress Software

Mr. Alston was appointed Vice President and General Manager Open Source in
2007 and was responsible for the integration of LogicBlaze, a leading provider of open source solutions for service-oriented architecture (SOA), acquired by IONA in April 2007. Under Mr. Alston's leadership, IONA successfully built on the LogicBlaze brand and technology to establish the FUSE™ family of open source products. Mr. Alston is responsible for leading the strategic direction and operations of IONA's open source business.

Prior to his appointment as Vice President and General Manager Open Source, Mr. Alston held a number of senior level roles at IONA including Vice President Corporate Strategy and Product Management and Worldwide Marketing. He brings twenty-plus years of product marketing, product management, marketing, and engineering experience to IONA having held leadership positions with companies including Bachman Information Systems, C-bridge Internet Solutions, eXcelon Corporation (acquired by Progress
Software) and most recently Pantero Corporation.

Mr. Alston holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Massachusetts, and an MBA from Northeastern University.



Tony Bishop
Principal, Adaptivity

Tony is the Founder and CEO of Adaptivity. As Chairman and CEO, Tony leads the team and provides hands-on coaching, thought leadership and executive strategy support for our key clients and partners. He is an innovative IT executive, with an excellent track record in strategy, design, and the implementation of business-aligned enterprise technology platforms across large organizations. He most recently served as SVP and Chief Architect of Wachovia’s Corporate Investment Banking Technology Group, where his team designed, built, and implemented a leading-edge service-oriented architecture and utility computing infrastructure.

Tony and our team have been recognized by the industry with awards from InfoWorld, ComputerWorld, NetworkWorld, Waters, and Wall Street & Technology, among others, for their efforts in building world-class technology to differentiate their business. He has 20 years working as a user and as a supplier in various design, strategy, and architecture roles across multiple industries.

Tony is the recipient of 40 under 40 Most Innovative IT Leaders, Premier 100 IT Leaders as selected by ComputerWorld in 2007, and a member of Wall Street Gold Book 2007.

Bill Chapman
Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Avnet

Bill Chapman is Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Avnet, Inc.  He is responsible for directing strategic IT initiatives across Avnet’s operations worldwide.

Mr. Chapman joined the company in November 1999 as Vice President of Information Technology, became Senior Vice President in August 2001 and was named Group Information Officer in March 2002. Mr. Chapman led the successful deployment of advanced system architectures, which enabled the rapid and effective assimilation of acquisitions critical to the company’s growth strategy.

Prior to joining Avnet, Mr. Chapman worked for Motorola for over 20 years.  Mr. Chapman had responsibility for 800 plus IT professionals supporting computer integrated manufacturing, supply-chain and demand-chain systems, as well as SAP and architecture. Prior to this position, Mr. Chapman was the Senior Director of Motorola’s Computer Engineering Development Group where he was awarded 8 international patents.  Mr. Chapman began his career with Motorola in the Semiconductor Research Lab in charge of CAD/CAM systems.  He also has experience in the oil exploration industry where he had responsibility for all IT, finance, purchasing and warehouse operations.

Mr. Chapman received his Bachelor’s of Science degree in Management Science/Operations Research from Colorado State University.  He earned his Master’s of Business Administration from the University of Phoenix with the distinction of being named class valedictorian.

Chris Clark
Senior Security Consultant, iSEC Partners

Chris Clark possesses six years of experience in secure application design, penetration testing, and security process management. Before iSEC, Chris worked at Microsoft performing security analysis and verification on enterprise management software and was responsible for the security of a Web Service payment platform processing over 20 million credit card transactions per day.  Chris has extensive experience in developing and delivering security trainings for large organizations, software engineering utilizing Win32 and the .Net Framework, and analyzing threats to large scale distributed systems.  At Microsoft, Chris was responsible for the coordination of multiple product groups following the Microsoft Secure Development Lifecycle.

George Glass
Chief Architect, BT Global Services

George Glass is Vice President and Chief Architect for BT Global Services. As such, he runs a team of architects and designers who maintain and evolve the core technical architecture for BT Global Services; he is responsible for both the vision and roadmap of the overall architecture itself.

He has over 20 years’ experience within BT and its associated global ventures, resulting in a comprehensive knowledge of the company’s systems estate. This, combined with a deep understanding of BT’s business aims, means he has been able to define an outstanding, and achievable, systems strategy to support its ambitious transformation from a telco to a networked IT services company.  

George is BT’s key technical evangelist for the companies SOA activities, which is being used to transform BT from a traditional telephone company to a world leader in the provision of networked IT services.

George joined BT directly from Queen’s University, Belfast in 1987 and has worked in all areas of software engineering projects, before moving on to work on enterprise architecture and business transformation.

From 1998 to 2001, he worked for BT’s global joint venture business, Concert, helping launch its billing solutions and eventually working as its chief billing systems architect.

In 2001 George returned to BT Retail as head of architecture and design, setting the IT strategy there, defining the division’s systems architectural framework and a set of ‘evolution roadmaps’.

George was appointed Chief Architect for BT’s IT division in November 2004 and is responsible for ensuring that the company’s architecture remains both innovative and world-class.




Galen Gruman
Executive Editor, InfoWorld

Galen Gruman is executive editor at InfoWorld, where he manages the features and news operations for the Web site, which focus on helping technology practitioners stay abreast of the latest issues and get the deep insights on maximizing the results of the technology they use in business. Gruman has covered many SOA-oriented efforts for InfoWorld, and has also contributed on business/IT issues to CIO magazine. A 24-year-veteran of technology and business publications, he has led news and features operations at a variety of publications, including M-Business and Macworld, and also has served as West Coast bureau chief of Computerworld.



Chris Harding
Forum Director for SOA and Semantic Interoperability, The Open Group

Dr. Chris Harding is Forum Director for SOA and Semantic Interoperability at The Open Group. He has been with The Open Group for ten years and is currently responsible for managing and supporting its work on semantic interoperability and SOA.

Before joining The Open Group, he was a consultant, and a designer and development manager of communications software. With a PhD in mathematical logic, he welcomes the current upsurge of interest in semantic technology, and the opportunity to apply logical theory to practical use.

He has presented at Open Group and other conferences on a range of topics, and is a frequent contributor to electronic journals such as eBizQ, CIO Update, DM Review and SOA World. He is a certified TOGAF™ (The Open Group Architecture Framework) practitioner.



Judith Hurwitz
President, Hurwitz Associates

Judith Hurwitz has been a thought leader in technology research and strategy consulting for more than 20 years. In 1992, she founded Hurwitz Group, a software research and consulting organization that quickly became an industry leader with top technology clients. Currently she is the President of Hurwitz & Associates, a research and consulting firm with a pragmatic portfolio of service offerings focused on identifying customer benefit and best practices for buyers and sellers of information technology in the US and Europe. Judith is a co-author of Service Oriented Architecture For Dummies, published by Wiley in 2007.



Eric Knorr
Editor in Chief, InfoWorld

Eric Knorr is editor in chief at InfoWorld. He brings 20 years of technology journalism experience to the planning, development, and execution of feature articles that serve the needs of enterprise IT managers. Eric is the former editor of PC World magazine, the creator of the best-selling The PC Bible, a founding editor of CNET, and a veteran of several dot-com follies. A winner of the Neal and Computer Press Awards for journalistic excellence, he has written hundreds of articles on desktop and enterprise technology. He has a bachelor of arts from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.



David Linthicum
Real-World SOA Blogger, InfoWorld

David S. Linthicum is an internationally known application integration and service-oriented architecture (SOA) expert. In his career Dave has formed many of the ideas behind modern distributed computing including EAI (enterprise application integration), B2B application integration, and SOA approaches and technologies in wide use today.

David Linthicum is an SOA and Web 2.0 expert. You can reach Dave at david@linthicumgroup.com.



Joe McCartin
Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, National City Corporation

Joseph T. McCartin is a senior vice president and Chief Information Officer (CIO) for National City Corporation.  In this role, he is responsible for leading the company’s Information Services organization, establishing IT strategy, and developing new technology-enabled business capabilities for the corporation.

Mr. McCartin joined National City in 2003.  Prior to his career with National City, Mr. McCartin specialized in IT transformation as a member of the Feld Group, a premier technology leadership consulting firm.  His engagements included Home Depot, FedEx, and EDS.

From 1998-2002, Mr. McCartin was the CIO at Fleet Mortgage Group in Columbia, South Carolina, where he also founded and served as president of Celeris Financial Services, an e-commerce division.  Before joining Fleet, Mr. McCartin served as CIO for GE Capital Mortgage Services in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, and from 1993-1997, he was CIO of Banc One Mortgage in Indianapolis. 

Prior to his career in financial services, Mr. McCartin served eight years as an officer in the United States Air Force designing and managing command center technology in both Europe and the U.S. 

Mr. McCartin holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, a master’s degree in systems technology from the Naval Postgraduate School and a master’s in business administration from the University of Notre Dame.  He is currently a board member of the Greater Cleveland YMCA, and a member of Leadership Cleveland’s class of 2008.



Ashish Mohindroo
Senior Director, World Wide Marketing, Oracle

Ashish Mohindroo manages a team that is responsible for product strategy and global marketing for Oracle Fusion Middleware and Service-Oriented Architecture products and solutions. Ashish launched and continues to lead the global Go-To-Market Initiatives for Oracle's Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Complex Event Processing, Business Process Management (BPM), Master Data Management (MDM), and Developer Tools product offerings and is a major driver behind Oracle's recognized leadership in SOA. Under Ashish’s leadership, Oracle’s SOA products are the fastest growing components of Oracle Fusion Middleware.

Ashish has over thirteen years of experience with Middleware and CRM technologies. Prior to joining Oracle, Ashish worked at BEA Systems, where he was responsible for defining the product strategy for BEA WebLogic Portal.

Ashish regularly keynotes industry conferences, is interviewed by publications worldwide, and briefs industry analysts for Oracle. Ashish is an active contributor to leading industry publications that include Business Integration Journal, line56, and eBizQ. Ashish holds a Bachelors degree in Computer Science from The University of Texas at Austin.



Joseph Natoli
Platform Architect, Intel Corporation

Joseph Natoli is a platform architect in the SOA Products Group at Intel. Joe is responsible for the end-to-end strategy and architecture for new service-oriented infrastructure technology as well as leads the pilot/concept engineering efforts ahead of product development. Joe has held various architecture positions across Intel's business including development of Digital Health platform roadmap, e-Business integration infrastructure, supply chain ERP, enterprise data warehousing and business intelligence, as well as portal deployments. He was a founding member and architect of the SOA strategy and planning program for Intel IT, which included development of the overall architecture, best practices, training, POC and production proof points, as well as the financial return models to monitor program success.



Randie Schlamowitz
Senior Director, Merck

Randie is a Sr. Director at Merck & Co. Inc., leading the Integration Shared Services Department where she is responsible for the delivery of Middleware, Integration and Business Process Management capabilities for the enterprise.

Prior to joining Merck in 2006, Randie held various IT positions at AT&T Inc. and AT&T Laboratories. During her tenure with AT&T, Randie led the department responsible for delivering workflow solutions in the ordering and provisioning of network capabilities as well as financial management solutions.

She holds a MS from Stevens Institute of Technology and a BA from SUNY @ StonyBrook.



Michael Rollings
Senior Analyst, Executive Advisory Group (EAP), Burton Group

Mike Rollings is a senior analyst for Burton Group Executive Advisory Program. He covers strategic planning, enterprise architecture, IT portfolio management, IT governance and collaboration, and organizational change. Prior to joining Burton Group, Mike was managing principal for Momentum Strategies performing strategic program management, data strategy, model-driven architecture and governance implementation; and acted as vice president and practice lead for META Group’s enterprise architecture consulting practice. With 23 years of experience, Mike is recognized as creator of META Group’s enterprise architecture project delivery methodology and co-created META Group’s value management and portfolio management method - an approach to create, analyze, balance and manage a given IT investment or asset portfolio.



Jignesh Shah
Vice President of SOA Product Management & Marketing, Software AG

Jignesh Shah is Vice President of SOA Product Management & Marketing at Software AG. He works closely with customers on real-life SOA projects to guide the direction of Software AGs products. Prior to joining Software AG, Jignesh was a founding member of Paradigm’s OpsPlanner business - a SaaS emergency management solution. Prior to Paradigm, Jignesh was a Solutions Architect at BearingPoint. He led the design and implementation of several large IT solutions for Fortune 500 clients in industries like High Tech, Consumer Products, Pharmaceuticals, Health Care, Industrial Manufacturing and Federal Government Services.



Mike Stamback
Director, Product Marketing, Oracle

Michael Stamback is a Director of Product Marketing for Oracle covering SOA Governance. Michael comes to Oracle by way of the BEA acquisition, where he led efforts on SOA and SOA Governance. Prior to his current role, Michael worked in a variety of technical and product marketing roles on several BEA products in the WebLogic and AquaLogic product families. Michael also has several years of experience in the area of governance, application development, and business process optimization from his previous role as a solutions architect in professional services.



Alex Stamos
Vice President of Professional Services, iSEC Partners

Alex Stamos is a co-founder and Partner at iSEC Partners, Inc, a strategic digital security organization. Alex is an experienced security engineer and consultant specializing in application security and securing large infrastructures, and has taught multiple classes in network and application security. He is a leading researcher in the field of web application and web services security and has been a featured speaker at top industry conferences such as Black Hat, CanSecWest, DefCon, SyScan, Microsoft BlueHat and OWASP App Sec. He holds a BSEE from the University of California, Berkeley.



Maja Tibbling
Lead Enterprise Architec, Con-Way, Inc.

Maja Tibbling is a Lead Enterprise Architect at Con-way, Inc. with more than 25 years of IT experience spanning multiple technologies and methodologies. She has had a primary focus on Component-based, Service-Oriented and Event-driven Architectures for the last 13+ years. Maja is part of the team that implemented SOA and EDA at Con-way Freight and continues to evangelize the practice as well as shape the evolution in the enterprise. She has shared Con-way’s SOA success story through trade publications and Gartner, Open Group, OMG’s SOA Consortium, SOA Exec Forum and vendor conferences. In the late 1990s, Maja participated in a vendor-hosted Component-based Development Customer Advisory Board, working with contributors to the UML and J2EE specifications. Many of the participants are now thought leaders in the SOA domain. Con-way IT has received industry recognition for the business value provided by its SOA implementation, through CIO 100 awards for 2002 – 2006, several InfoWorld 100 and InfoWeek 100 awards as well as TIBCO’s Innovator of the Year Award in 2007.



John Tripier
Director of Business Development, Denodo

John Tripier is the Director of Business Development for Denodo responsible for directing strategic alliances and partnerships. John has 15 years experience in the software and high tech industry. Prior to joining Denodo, he worked for ILOG (part of IBM) for 8 years, leading several initiatives for the adoption of business rules in the enterprise architecture stack in conjunction with BPM and SOA initiatives.



Hub Vandervoort
Chief Technology Officer, Progress Software

Hub is Chief Technology Officer of Progress Software. As CTO, Hub is responsible for incorporating market and customer requirements into the industry leading Progress® Sonic™ESB Product Family and evangelizing Progress’ leading-edge developments in the ESB and service-oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure market. Hub previously held the position of vice president of strategic services for the Sonic division. Over the last four years, he has built up a highly successful technical services group to enable Progress customers and partners to achieve rapid results with Progress technology. Hub has over twenty years experience as an entrepreneur, consultant and senior technology executive in the networking, communications software and Internet industries. Prior to joining Progress, Hub co-founded and managed several successful start-up ventures.



Ed Vazquez
Vice President of Transformation Services, MomentumSI

Ed Vazquez leads the Enterprise Transformation Practice. In his more than a decade of Web Application Management (including six years of SOA and Web Service Implementation Management), Ed has led major programs to transform enterprise Business and IT organizations with Sprint, Pfizer, and other companies. Prior to focusing on Enterprise Transformation and Innovation, Ed developed significant subject matter expertise in the SOA Lifecycle, SOA Governance, and Business Driven SOA. Ed graduated with both his Masters Degree and Bachelors Degree from the University of Kansas.



Timothy Vibbert
Systems Engineer Stf. / SOA Architect, Lockheed Martin

Tim Vibbert (aka the SOA Chief) is an internationally recognized as a SOA Thought Leader from the Lockheed Martin Integrated Solution and Global Service (IS&GS).  Tim is currently supporting the IS&GS SOA Initiative (SOA-I) as an SOA Architect for an internal deployment.  In addition to his SOA-I responsibilities, Tim also offers subject matter expert (SME) support to IS&GS companies, lines-of-business, and projects.

 Tim is a member of several Lockheed Martin SOA related forums, 1) the Web Services Technical Advisory Group and 2) SOA Community of Practice where he is a panel member.  Tim is also an active member of OASIS, the SOA Consortium, and the SOA Masters Online.

Tim frequently speaks on SOA issues and concepts.  Over the past several years Tim has published with publications such as InfoWorld, DMReview, and EMA as well as publishes whitepapers and blogs at Thoughts of the SOA Chief: http://soachief.wordpress.com/ .



Brandt Welker
Chief Information Officer, Veterans Administration

Currently serving the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs as the Director of the Solution Analysis and Architecture Division of Software Engineering, Mr. Brandt Welker has been responsible for managing the development of overall applications architecture for the Office of Enterprise Development since November 2007. He is responsible for establishing Service Oriented Architecture across VA and oversees the integrated testing of all nationally-released applications.

Mr. Welker began his career at Sun Microsystems as a software developer in Sun’s science office. He later began working as a diver in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) in 1997, where he trained astronauts to use Extravehicular Activities (EVA) tools and perform space walks. He then went on to aid in establishing the Operation Control Center for the NBL, which automated day-to-day operations and supported incident management. Mr. Welker worked on several flight software projects for the Engineering Directorate at Johnson Space Center before transferring to the Design and Data Management Systems program, where he was responsible for leading a team of software developers.

At NASA’s Langley Research Center, he ran NASA’s Advanced Engineering Environment, which was used to facilitate collaborative and distributed engineering of future launch vehicles replacing the Space Shuttle. Later he became the Chief Architect for the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate (ESMD) at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C., where he designed ESMD’s paperless procurement system, which facilitated $3 billion of procurements during its first year.