Dr. Ali Arsanjani is CTO of SOA Emerging Technologies within IBM Global Services. He leads a team responsible for developing worldwide competency in SOA and increasing delivery excellence of SOA solutions using IBM and non-IBM tools and SOA offerings, most of which he has co-developed. He is resonsible for IBM vision, strategy and execution of that strategy in the SOA space of emerging technologies and SOA offerings. He is a hands-on, sought-after architect around the world on IBM's largest accounts. To accomplish this Dr. Arsanjani works with IBM Software Group, Research as well as other part sof IBM Global Business Services to delivery SOA SOlutions for clients using IBM tools, technologies and latest SOA offerings.

In his role as Chief Architect for the SOA and Web Services Center of Excellence within IBM Global Services, he and his team specialize in harvesting and developing best-practices for the modeling, analysis, design and implementation of SOA and Web Services. He leads the internal IBM worldwide SOA & Web Services Community of Practice (6000+ members) and is the principal author of the (Service-oriented Modeling and Architecture) SOMA method for SOA as well as other assets, offerings and tools around SOA.

He has been focusing on SOA Tooling with an extension and plug-in to Rational Software Architect called SOMA Modeling environment (SOMA-ME) which provide tooling support for IBM's SOA Methods and assets for SOA Solution development. This has been described in the August 2008 edition of the IBM Systems Journal. Dr. Arsanjani is engaged in developing SOA competency around the world in multiple industries and countries, working not only to develop teams to support the deployment of IBM tools and assets in the SOA space, but also to engage on a day to day basis with IBM's largest clients.

Dr. Arsanjani not only works in executing a global strategy for GBS but also works to assess and develop tools to support IBM's offerings. He represents IBM in standards bodies such as The Open Group and is responsible for co-leading the SOA Reference Architecture and SOA Maturity Model standards within that body.

Inside of IBM he leads research efforts in emerging technologies, tools and consulting offerings that combine services with the software required to successfully deliver those services, effectively, in a scalable and repeatable fashion across the world