Grady Booch, Rational Software, Chief Scientist

Thursday, February 20th, 2003  8:15am
http://www.rational.com

Speaker Bio: 

Grady Booch is recognized internationally for his innovative work on software architecture, modeling, and software engineering process. His work has improved the effectiveness of software developers worldwide. He has been with Rational Software Corporation as Chief Scientist since its founding in 1980. Grady is one of the original developers of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and was also one of the original developers of several of Rational's products including Rational Rose. Grady has served as architect and architectural mentor for numerous complex software systems around the world.

Grady is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR). He is also an ACM Fellow and a Rational Fellow. Grady received his BS in engineering from the United States Air Force Academy in 1977 and his MSEE from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1979.

Session Overview:

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John Zachman, "Father" of the Zachman Framework for Enterprise

Friday, February 21st, 2003  8:00am
http://www.zifa.com  

Speaker Bio: 

John Zachman is the author of the "Framework for Information Systems Architecture", which has received broad acceptance throughout the world as an integrative framework for managing change in Enterprises and in the systems that support them. He is not only known for this work, but also for his early contributions to Business Systems Planning, IBM's widely used information planning methodology in the 1970s, as well as Intensive Planning, the basis for IBM's executive, team planning techniques.

Mr. Zachman has focused on planning and information strategies, and on architecture, since 1970 and has written many articles on these subjects. He travels nationally and internationally, teaching and consulting, and has facilitated innumerable executive team planning sessions. He is a popular conference speaker known for motivating messages on information issues. He has spoken to thousands of information professionals and business managers on every continent.

John Zachman is a member of the International Advisory Board of the Data Administration Management Association, DAMA International; a member of the International Information Resource Management Advisory Council of Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC; and of the Board of Directors of the Repository/Architecture/Development Users Group.

Session Overview:

The Framework for Enterprise Architecture and Information Systems Architecture was developed by John Zachman from observing how Architecture and Construction industries, and Engineering and Manufacturing industries evolved over hundreds of years to handle the construction of complex products of their respective activity. He applied these concepts to the construction of other complex products: the design and change of enterprises and the computer systems that support them.

Gurpreet S. Pall, Senior Director, Microsoft Systems Architecture (MSA), Microsoft Corporation

Thursday, February 20th, 2003  12:45pm
http://msdn.microsoft.com/architecture/EACtrDatCtr.aspx

Speaker Bio: 

Gurpreet S. Pall is a Senior Director in the Windows Engineering Solution and Services group and is the Solution CEO for the Microsoft Systems Architecture family of infrastructure solutions and program.  Over his 12+ 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.

Session Overview:

This session describes the reasoning behind Microsoft Systems Architecture in terms of the customer problems it addresses, the scope of what it delivers and the value it provides.  We will cover the evolution in approach to providing architectural guidance and discuss the infrastructure scopes that have been identified to address the needs of our enterprise customers.  We will also cover plans and timelines for migration to the Windows.NET server platform and applications based on the .NETt Framework."

John deVadoss, Lead Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation

Adam Denning, Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation

Friday, February 21st, 2003 12:45pm

Speaker Bio: 

John deVadoss is a lead program manager in the .NET Enterprise Architecture Team at Microsoft.  He leads a team of architects that work with enterprise Customers, ISVs and SIs on .NET solutions with some of Microsoft's newer and upcoming technologies and products.   He has an M.S in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and has over 12 years of experience in the software industry, specializing in the financial services vertical.  Prior to joining Microsoft, John worked as a consultant in the financial services space in Silicon Valley.
 

Session Overview:

This session will present a "twelve squares" matrix view of how technology is applied to business challenges. The columns define four perspectives: business, information, application, and technology. The rows define three views for each perspective: conceptual, logical, and physical.  Microsoft will present its roadmap for delivering prescriptive guidance in each of these twelve cells.  This will include the work in the "Patterns and Practices" area.

Andrew Layman, Director of XML and Web Services Standard, Microsoft Corporation

Andrew Layman is director of XML and Web Services standards at Microsoft.  Prior to joining Microsoft in 1992, he was a Vice President of Symantec Corporation and the original author of the Time Line project management program.

Jason Bloomberg, Senior Analyst, Zapthink LLC

Jason Bloomberg is a Senior Analyst at XML and Web Services industry analysis firm Zapthink LLC. Mr. Bloomberg has a diverse background in eBusiness technology management and industry analysis, including serving as a senior analyst in IDC’s eBusiness Advisory group, as well as holding eBusiness management positions at USWeb/CKS (later marchFIRST) and WaveBend Solutions (now Experio Solutions).  His articles have appeared in Electronic Commerce World, Intranet Journal, XML and Web Services Magazine, The Rational Edge, DM Review Interactive, and ZDNet: Developer. He co-authored the book Web Page Scripting Techniques (Hayden Books, 1996), and in association with ZapThink founder Ronald Schmelzer, contributed the chapters on Web Services to XML and Web Services Unleashed (SAMS Publishing, 2002).

Steve Holbrook, Program Director for Emerging e-Business Standards, IBM

Steve Holbrook is IBM's Program Director for emerging e-business standards responsible for IBM’s involvement with the key standards bodies (e.g. W3C, OASIS, etc.) in the Web services movement.  He’s a part of the Emerging Technologies team in IBM’s Software Group—the team that launched, first internally, then industry-wide, such exciting directions as Java, XML, open source, and most recently, Web services.  He joined IBM in September 2000 as the technology evangelist for Web services and traveled around the world speaking about Web services on behalf of IBM.  He began his current work with standards bodies in January 2002.  He was elected to the nine-member Advisory Board for the W3C in July 2002, serving a two-year term.  Prior to joining IBM, Steve worked at Novell for 15 years in various leadership positions dealing with APIs, SDKs and standards, including serving as Novell’s W3C Advisory Committee representative.  Most notably he was Novell's key Java strategist and was an active leader in reshaping the Java Community Process.  He received his education in Computer Science from BYU.  He lives and works in Utah.

Wes Neihardt, Director of Application Development, Countrywide Home Loans

Wes Neithardt, Senior Vice President, oversees Countrywide Global Technology’s Global Servicing System Development, as well as development for Countrywide Web Services – the application development arm of Central IT.   Utilizing rapid development techniques, the team provides tactical and strategic solutions to support business goals and needs, including analysis, structure, design, development, implementation and integration.   Wes has nearly 20 years experience in mortgage banking, finance, and real estate information technology, including 14 years developing software on everything from mainframes to midrange to AS/400's, Unix, and Intel – implementing solutions for mortgage banking and general finance in many different programming languages on many different platforms.

Graham Glass, The Mind Electric, Chairman, Chief Architect and Founder

Graham is the visionary and the driving force behind The Mind Electric's products.  He has extensive experience in the distributed computing space as the architect behind award winning products such as JGL and Voyager at ObjectSpace where he was founder and CTO.  The implementation of Graham's business and technical vision were the key ingredients behind ObjectSpace's ability to grow to a profitable 150+ employee company that raised over $15M in venture capital and grew to $30M in revenues.  Graham is a well-known figure in distributed computing and a distinguished public speaker.  He is the author of Prentice Hall's flagship book on web services "Web Services: Building Blocks for Distributed Systems" which released in November 2001 and distributed with an evaluation copy of GLUE in each book.  Graham earned his BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Southampton and his MS in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Dallas.  In 1980, he was awarded the British Computing Society prize for the top computer science student in the South of England.

Norm Judah, Corporate Vice President, Platforms, Technology & Strategy Group,  Microsoft Corporation

Speaker Bio: 

Norman Judah plays a key role in the newly formed Platforms, Technology and Strategy Group at Microsoft. As vice president of Business Development, Judah is responsible for the incubation, development and delivery of Web services and integration of the .NET platform with providers and consumers of business applications. The latter responsibility requires him to manage relationships with key partners and strategic customer projects.  Judah was instrumental in the establishment of Microsoft’s Business Applications Division and the acquisition of Great Plains Software.

Previously, Judah was director of Enterprise Program Management in the Developer Division and general manager of the Enterprise Connectivity Group, managing several product groups, including the Host Integration and Repository Product units.  Judah also worked closely with information technology departments at Microsoft and with customers.  In a previous position, director of Core Technology for Microsoft’s Information Technology Group, he was responsible for the delivery of Microsoft’s internal IT infrastructure and business applications.  Judah also served as part of the startup team for Microsoft Consulting Services, where he became director of technology. His group was responsible for providing architectural guidance, tools, methodologies, technical training and quality programs worldwide.

Mr. Judah holds a master’s degree in applied science from the University of Toronto and a bachelor of science in engineering from the University of Witwatersrand.

Session Overview:

This session will discuss specific business architectures and there application to various business situations. Many distributed businesses share common technical problems such as consistent process representations across respective departments, geographies and services. This roundtable will explore various collaborative approaches and technological solutions that can deal with distributed business challenges.

Gurpreet S. Pall, Senior Director, Microsoft Systems Architecture (MSA), Microsoft Corporation

Speaker Bio: 

Gurpreet S. Pall is a Senior Director in the Windows Engineering Solution and Services group and is the Solution CEO for the Microsoft Systems Architecture family of infrastructure solutions and program.  Over his 12+ 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.

Session Overview:

In this session, Gurpreet and other members of the MSA team will discuss the reasoning behind Microsoft Systems Architecture in terms of the customer problems it addresses, the scope of what it delivers and the value it provides.  They will cover the evolution in approach to providing architectural guidance and discuss the infrastructure scopes that have been identified to address the needs of our enterprise customers.  They will also cover plans and timelines for migration to the Windows server platform and applications based on the .NET Framework.

John DeVadoss, Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation

Speaker Bio: 

John deVadoss is a lead program manager in the .NET Enterprise Architecture Team at Microsoft.  He leads a team of architects that work with enterprise Customers, ISVs and SIs on .NET solutions with some of Microsoft's newer and upcoming technologies and products.   He has an M.S in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and has over 12 years of experience in the software industry, specializing in the financial services vertical.  Prior to joining Microsoft, John worked as a consultant in the financial services space in Silicon Valley.
 

Session Overview:

This session will present a "twelve squares" matrix view of how technology is applied to business challenges. The columns define four perspectives: business, information, application, and technology. The rows define three views for each perspective: conceptual, logical, and physical.  Microsoft will present its roadmap for delivering prescriptive guidance in each of these twelve cells.  This will include the work in the "Patterns and Practices" area.

Felipe Cabrera, Microsoft Corporation, Architect, XML Web Services

Speaker Bio: 

Mr. Cabrera joined Microsoft in early 1996 as an Architect in the Windows NT group.  His first project was ownership of Storage Management Services for Windows 2000. He then moved to the XML Web Services team where he is currently developing the platform for Web Service applications. Prior to joining Microsoft Mr. Cabrera worked at IBM for 12 years.  He holds a Ph. D. from the University of California at Berkeley, is a Fellow of the IEEE, is the co-author of WS-Coordination and WS-Transaction, and has published more than 50 technical papers and is co-inventor in 14 patents.

Session Overview:

This session will introduce the GXA Architecture for Web Services and talk in particular about four aspects of Web Services: the specifications WS-Coordination and WS-Transaction, the WSDK (Web Services Developer Kit), and the WS-I organization.

Simon Guest, Solutions Architect, Microsoft Corporation

Speaker Bio: 

Simon is a member of the .NET Enterprise Architecture Team at Microsoft, specializing in .NET and J2EE migration and interoperability for both Enterprise Customers and ISVs. Prior to joining Microsoft, Simon worked for an Internet Application Service Provider in California and for a leading System Integrator in London, focusing on financial, telecom and retail verticals.   Having now been in software development for just over 12 years, Simon holds a HNC in Software Engineering and a Masters Degree in IT Security from the University of Westminster in London.
 

Session Overview:

This session will cover options and strategies available Architect and Developers today for creating solutions in .NET that seamlessly interoperate with existing J2EE implementations, applications and services.   We will concentrate on a number of interoperability technologies and products, focusing on how XML Web Services can be used today to bridge the gap and highlighting both advantages and shortfalls of the approach.   In addition, we will be discussing using the latest web services toolkits in order to achieve GXA interoperability.
 

Graham Glass, The Mind Electric, Chairman, Chief Architect and Founder

Speaker Bio: 

Graham is the visionary and the driving force behind The Mind Electric's products.  He has extensive experience in the distributed computing space as the architect behind award winning products such as JGL and Voyager at ObjectSpace where he was founder and CTO.  The implementation of Graham's business and technical vision were the key ingredients behind ObjectSpace's ability to grow to a profitable 150+ employee company that raised over $15M in venture capital and grew to $30M in revenues.  Graham is a well-known figure in distributed computing and a distinguished public speaker.  He is the author of Prentice Hall's flagship book on web services "Web Services: Building Blocks for Distributed Systems" which released in November 2001 and distributed with an evaluation copy of GLUE in each book.  Graham earned his BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Southampton and his MS in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Dallas.  In 1980, he was awarded the British Computing Society prize for the top computer science student in the South of England.

Session Overview:

Graham Glass, the CEO of The Mind Electric, will be talking about their third party web services toolkit solution and achieving a vendor neutral Interop solution between J2EE and .NET.

Brendan Dixon, Architect, Microsoft Corporation

Glenn Pittaway, Lead Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation

Speaker Bio (Brendan Dixon): 

Brendan is an Architect in the Microsoft Windows Security group.  He has been with Microsoft since 1991.  Currently, he is a contributor to Microsoft’s GXA efforts as well as the developing federated security plans.  He has worked on Internet technologies for a many years and is currently working with the emerging web services specifications.

Speaker Bio (Glenn Pittaway):

Glenn Pittaway has worked for Microsoft since 1993, initially as a development consultant in Microsoft Consulting Services in the UK, rising to become Industry Practice Manager for the Public Sector consulting practice. During his time in the public sector he became heavily involved in security. He moved over to Redmond in early 1999 to become a Program Manager in the Windows Security group, working initially on development of the Active Directory Migration Tool until that shipped in March 2000. Since that time Glenn has been responsible for program management for smart cards. He is now a lead Program Manager leading a team of 7 program managers.

Session Overview:

This session provides an opportunity to examine security requirements that are commonly encountered in architecting and designing .NET applications.  We will discuss how applications can take advantage of the new authentication, PKI, trust, code access security and role-based authorization features in .NET server.  In the security roadmap, we will look at how Microsoft is planning to help further enhance application security through products built to the GXA security and federation specifications.

Sandy Khaund, Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation

Speaker Bio: 

Sandy Khaund is a Product Manager in the Microsoft Prescriptive Architecture Group.  He is responsible for defining developer guidance titles for the .NET Platform under the “Patterns & Practices” series.  Sandy has worked to help deliver titles such as the Windows 2000 Security Operations, Exchange 2000 Security Operations, Unix Application Migration, SQL High Availability, and most recently, Building Secure ASP.NET Applications. 

Before joining Microsoft, Sandy spent time as an Integration Engineer for Lockheed Martin, an Applications Engineer for the Intel Developer Relations Group, founder of small software multimedia startup, and a management consultant for the Boston Consulting Group.  Sandy holds a B.S.E.E. and M.Eng. from the Cornell University, a B.A. in Physics from Ithaca College, and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Session Overview:

The Microsoft Prescriptive Architecture Group (PAG) provides customers and the field with technical guidance to design, build, deploy, and operate integrated solutions involving multiple Microsoft products and technologies. Focused on developers and architects, these “Patterns & Practices” are provided in the form of reference architectures, reference building blocks, and operations practices.  They are delivered as documentation and code that are available free-of-charge on MSDN.  PAG is also responsible for creating a library of design patterns that will assist developers and architects to increase the reliability and efficiency of their application development.  This session will describe the PAG business model, describe existing and upcoming Patterns & Practices, and show how you can be a part of defining future Patterns & Practices.

Shantanu Sarkar, Architectural Consultant, Microsoft Corporation

Speaker Bio: 

Shantanu Sarkar is an Application Development Architect in the Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS) division at Microsoft. During the course of the last 11 years at Microsoft, Shantanu has designed and implemented a variety of business automation solutions in the Real Estate, Health Care, Financial Services and Retail industries. He spent two years leading a Microsoft team that worked with Retail Industry companies and software vendors on a common data and process integration architecture.
 

Before joining Microsoft, Shantanu spent two years with an SI (systems integrator) working on health care client-server applications, and eight years with Burroughs/Unisys as a software engineer in mainframe operating systems, high volume transaction processing and PC-Mainframe integration software. He holds an MS in Computer and Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India.

Session Overview:

In his session, Shantanu will be discussing the methodologies used by Microsoft Services when implementing large scale systems.  Such topics and how to migrate to .NET will be discussed.

Session Overview:

Mr. Booch will be available to meet with customers during the 10:15am and 2:30pm breakout periods on Thursday, February 20, 2003.  Space is very limited, please sign up at the registration desk on-site.

Session Overview:

Mr. Zachman will be available to meet with customers during the 10:15am and 2:30pm breakout periods on Friday, February 21, 2003.  Space is very limited, please sign up at the registration desk on-site.

Tim Sinclair, General Manager for Microsoft.com Development and Operations, Microsoft Corporation

Speaker Bio: 

As general manager for Microsoft.com Development and Operations, Tim Sinclair is responsible for the software development, the globalization and the operational infrastructure for all the Web properties of Microsoft.com.  Prior to his current role, Sinclair was Director of Microsoft’s Sales Operations, with responsibility for delivering IT systems that addressed global needs of Microsoft’s Sales process.  Sinclair also spent several years in Microsoft’s Consulting Services organization applying Microsoft’s technology in customer’s environments.  He joined Microsoft in February of 1992.

Before coming to Microsoft, Sinclair was Vice President of Development and Operations for a software product development company.  He also worked at Texas Instruments as a lead engineer on the HARM missile project and at Electrospace Corporation as a lead design engineer on the hardware and software message processing system for the 747 version of Air Force One.

Sinclair holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Texas Tech University as well as a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Colorado.

Session Overview:

In this session, Tim will be talking about the production tools necessary to manage 2 of the top 5 sites on the Internet.  These technology services include .NET web services for the site, the Microsoft.com home page, content, search, distributed downloads, newsgroups and communities.

Susan Nye, Director Worldwide Services Marketing, Microsoft Corporation

Valerie Olague, Director of Enterprise Marketing, Microsoft Corporation

Speaker Bio (Susan Nye): 

Susan Nye joined Microsoft in October 2002 with more than 10 years experience in the IT services industry in marketing, sales and partner management.  As Marketing Director of Microsoft Services, Nye provides leadership to develop and implement industry leading services solutions and marketing programs.

Nye joined Microsoft after a 14-year career at Hewlett-Packard, where her most recent position was Marketing Director for Hewlett-Packard Services’ outsourcing business.  Nye’s career at HP included 6 years as General Manager of Services Sales and Marketing for Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa.  Under her leadership the regional services business grew 7-fold with profit improvements of more than 100%

Nye received a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors from Saint Lawrence University and an MBA with high honors from the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business, Babson College.    In her spare time, she enjoys skiing, gardening and cooking.

Speaker Bio (Valerie Olague): 

As Director of Enterprise Marketing in the Server Platform and Enterprise PMG, Valerie Olague is responsible for developing a consistent, compelling and differentiated Microsoft value proposition for business customers worldwide, and for ensuring that this value proposition is embedded in Microsoft’s product delivery and sales and marketing strategies.  Prior to this position, Valerie was responsible for business definition and product management delivery of customer-focused Microsoft Solution Offerings (MSOs) and core server solutions. 

Valerie joined Microsoft in October 2000 after a 16-year career at IBM, where her most recent position was Director of Product Management for WebSphere.  Valerie’s career at IBM included 10 years as an engineer and development manager in IBM’s Bethesda Programming Laboratory, where she contributed to IBM’s patent portfolio in the area of document management and forms processing and recognition technologies. 

Valerie graduated with honors from the University of Maryland, where she obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics.  In her spare time, she enjoys competitive horseback riding and spending time with her husband and two young children.

Session Overview:

Current economic conditions make outsourcing of core IT functions attractive to many companies.  But cutting costs is only part of the equation.  This discussion will highlight both successful and unsuccessful outsourcing case studies and will invite open discussion on comparing balanced outsourcing strategies within your own IT organizations.