Gary R. Bliss

Gary R. Bliss is currently the Deputy Director, Enterprise Information and OSD Studies in the office of the Undersecretary, Acquisition, Technology and Logistics (USD(AT&L)). His responsibilities include oversight of the five OSD-funded Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs), OSD’s 13 university research labs, as well as review and development of innovations to overhaul the AT&L enterprise management systems.

He is perhaps best known for his recent position as the longstanding Director of OD(PAE) Weapon System Cost Analysis Division (WSCAD). WSCAD’s ten staff members constitute one of the two offices dedicated to OSD Cost Analysis Improvement Group (CAIG) functions, and responsible for the preparation of independent development and procurement cost estimates for major systems that range from munitions (e.g., tactical missiles) through platforms (e.g., helicopters, submarines, fighter aircraft, tanks, etc.). As such, Mr. Bliss has been a key player for more than fourteen years in DoD’s most important system decisions by the Services, OSD, and the Congress.

Session Title: "DoD Acquisition Visibility (AV) SOA Policies, Governance and Implementation"

Paul C. Brown

Dr. Paul C. Brown is a software and systems architect with a deep background in the design of distributed information systems. His early work focused on fault-tolerant real-time monitoring and safety systems. Subsequent work on distributed decision support systems evolved into a more general interest in the design of event-driven distributed systems using model-based design methodologies. His model-based tool architectures are the foundation of a diverse family of applications that design distributed control systems, process control interfaces, internal combustion engines, and NASA satellite missions. Extensive design work on enterprise-scale information systems led Dr. Brown to recognize that service-oriented architectures inherently structure both business processes and information systems. This led to the concept of Total Architecture: that business processes and information systems must be architected together. The Total Architecture approach has proved itself building numerous information systems for global enterprises and the Fortune-500.

Dr. Brown has authored a pair of books on Total Architecture from Addison Wesley: 'Succeeding with SOA: Realizing Business Value through Total Architecture'; and 'Implementing SOA: Total Architecture in Practice'. Dr. Brown received his BS in Electrical Engineering from Union College, and his MS and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is presently a Principal Software Architect at TIBCO Software Inc.

Session Title: "Organizational and Management Issues Vital to SOA and BPM Success"

Paul Butterworth

As AmberPoint’s Chief Technology Officer, Paul is responsible for setting the technical strategy for the company’s industry-leading SOA runtime governance software. Paul’s vision and leadership at AmberPoint were recognized with the InfoWorld CTO 25 award in 2007. Prior to founding AmberPoint, Paul was a Distinguished Engineer and the Chief Technology Officer for Forte Tools at Sun. As a founder of Forte Software, Paul was the Chief Architect and Senior Vice President of Engineering and Customer Services. Before founding Forte, Paul served as Chief Architect and Director of Product Engineering at Ingres Corporation. He holds a B.S. and M.S. in Information and Computer Science from University of California at Irvine.

Session Title: "Mission Thread Management across Federated SOA Systems"

Sandy Carter

Sandy Carter is Vice President, SOA & WebSphere Marketing, Strategy and Channels for IBM Corporation, leader of a global marketing organization with over 14 industry marketing awards in 2007, and author of the SOA technology book called, 'The New Language of Business: SOA & Web 2.0'.

Sandy is responsible for IBM's cross-company, worldwide SOA marketing initiatives and is in charge of one of IBM's premiere brands - IBM WebSphere. Under her leadership, IBM WebSphere has realized 15 consecutive quarters of growth at constant currency. Sandy runs IBM's marketing board for SOA which encompasses all software, services and product units as well as supporting units of finance, support and enablement. She also works closely with acquired organizations to ensure their successful integration into the IBM SOA portfolio. In addition, she directs SOA messaging and content, leading a global team in driving customer demand for IBM and IBM Business Partner SOA solutions. As the worldwide leader for Channels, Sandy has grown the SOA Business Partner ecosystem to over 5,000 companies.

Sandy is a frequent speaker at industry events sponsored by InfoWorld magazine, Forrester, Gartner Group, IDC, and Women in Technology (WITI). She is an active member of WITI and a member of the WITI Executive Advisory Council, the Marketing Focus Advisory Council (where she was named winner of the Best Speaker Award); the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Inner Circle, and the American Management Association (AMA). She also serves as a Board Member of the Grace Hopper Industry Advisory Committee and is the Co-Lead IBM Partnership Executive at Duke University. Sandy is listed in Madison's Who Who, and is a founding member of the Women in Technology Global Executive Network (GEN) program for senior executive women. Sandy has twice won the AIT Global most valuable member of the year award for the United Nations ICT for Sustainable Development.

Based on extensive experience working alongside customers, partner and peers from around the globe, Sandy parlayed her business and technology prowess to author the successful SOA business book, 'The New Language of Business: SOA & Web 2.0'. Sandy has also published more than 32 industry perspectives and bylines focused on SOA in news media outlets such as ZDNet, CIO, SearchSOA, DM Review, SOA World, developer.com, Enterprise Systems, and the news report of the Technology Council of Southern California.

Sandy holds a Bachelor of Science degree in math and computer science from Duke University and an MBA from Harvard, and is fluent in eight programming languages. For more information, visit Sandy's blog.

Session Title: "SOA Imperatives of Today and a Vision for the Future"

Robert Cloutier

Robert Cloutier is an Associate Professor in the School of Systems and Enterprises at Stevens Institute of Technology. He has over 20 years experience in systems engineering & architecting, software engineering, and project management in both commercial and defense industries. His interests include systems engineering patterns, systems architecting, MBSE, SysML, and architecture management. Rob belongs to the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE), IEEE and ACM. He received his Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology, an M.B.A. from Eastern University, and a B.S. from the United States Naval Academy.

Session Title: "A Systems Engineer’s View of SOA"

Howard Cohen

Howard S Cohen, is an Associate in Booz Allen Hamilton with over 10 years of experience in Consulting, Systems Integration and Technical Leadership. He currently supports US Joint Forces Command J89 Directorate Joint Command & Control (JC2) Architecture and Capability Assessment Enterprise (JACAE) as the System Integrator. His experience includes: Enterprise Services, Virtual infrastructure, Software Configuration, Team Management, Project Management, Training and Infrastructure Support.

Howard has worked extensively in government and industry with companies such as Lockheed Martin, Exis Net, Cox Communications, York County School Division, Gateway, and US Joint Forces Command. He has taught courses on Management of Information Systems, Information Technology Security, and E-Commerce. Howard has written numerous papers including a recent article in SOA Magazine.

Howard holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Saint Leo University, Saint Leo, Florida along with various industry recognized certifications. Howard is a member of AFCEA, currently sits on the Technical Review Committee for the Chief Information Office of US Joint Forces Command and the SOA Educational Committee for the SOA Certified Professional Program.

Session Title: "Case Study: A DoD SOA Pilot"

Stephen M. R. Covey

Stephen M. R. Covey is co-founder and CEO of CoveyLink Worldwide. A sought-after and compelling keynote speaker and advisor on trust, leadership, ethics, and high performance, he speaks to audiences around the world. He is the author of The Speed of Trust, a groundbreaking and paradigm-shifting book that challenges our age-old assumption that trust is merely a soft, social virtue and instead demonstrates that trust is a hardedged, economic driver—a learnable and measurable skill that makes organizations more profitable, people more promotable, and relationships more energizing. He advocates that nothing is as fast as the speed of trust and that the ability to establish, grow, extend, and restore trust with all stakeholders is the critical leadership competency of the new global economy. Covey passionately delivers that message and is dedicated to enabling individuals and organizations to reap the dividends of high trust. Audiences and organizations alike resonate with his informed, practical approach to real-time issues that affect their immediate and long-term performance.

He is the former CEO of Covey Leadership Center, which, under his stewardship, became the largest leadership development company in the world. Covey personally led the strategy that propelled his father’s book, Dr. Stephen R. Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, to one of the two most influential business books of the 20th Century, according to CEO Magazine. A Harvard MBA, he joined Covey Leadership Center as a Client Developer and later became National Sales Manager and then President & CEO. Under Covey’s direction, the company grew rapidly and profitably, achieving Inc. 500 status. As President & CEO, he nearly doubled revenues to over $110 million while increasing profits by 12 times. During that period, both customer and employee trust reached new highs and the company expanded throughout the world into over 40 countries. This greatly increased the value of the brand and company. The company was valued at only $2.4 million when Covey was named CEO, and, within three years, he grew shareholder value to $160 million in a merger he orchestrated with then Franklin Quest to form FranklinCovey.

Over the years, Covey has gained considerable respect and influence with executives and leaders of Fortune 500 companies as well as with mid- and small-sized private sector and public sector organizations he's consulted. Clients recognize his unique perspective on real-world organizational issues based on his practical experience as a former CEO.

Covey currently serves on the board/advisory board of several entities, including the Human Performance Institute—the leader in energy management technology—where he serves as Advisory Board Chairman.

Covey resides with his wife and children in the shadows of the Rocky Mountains.

Session Title: "Speed of Trust Seminar"

Aaron Drew

Dr. Aaron J. Drew is a Systems Engineer for the Department of Defense Business Transformation Agency (BTA). Within the BTA, Dr. Drew directly supports the Defense Business System Acquistion Executive (DBSAE) component. Dr. Drew is currently drafting a SOA Implementation Strategy, on behalf of the DBSAE, to be applied against the business systems that reside in the DBSAE Business System Portfolio.

Dr. Drew also provides system engineering support for the Chief Technology Officer and Chief Architect of the Business Mission Area in the Office of the Deputy Chief Management Officer, U.S. Department of Defense.

In addition to his duties supporting the BTA/DBSAE, Dr. Drew is also the Chair of the Defense Knowledge Online (DKO) Re-Architecture Working Group. Prior to working for the BTA, Dr. Drew spent 10 years with the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) as a Cold Fusion Software Engineer. Dr. Drew is the co-creator of the Manpower, Personnel, & Security- Corporate Management Information System (MPS-CMIS), which is a web based End to End HRM Information System.

Dr. Drew is currently serving as an Adjunct Assistant Professor with the University of Maryland University College in their Graduate School of Management & Technology. Dr. Drew previously served as an Adjunct Professor with Marymount University in their Graduate School of Business. Dr. Drew's scholastic background includes Applied Social Psychology, Human Resources Management, and Information Technology.

Session Title: "Organizational Challenges for SOA Adoption - It’s all about the People"

Raj Duvuru

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Session Title: "Enterprise Resource Planning in SOA-based IT Landscapes"

Thomas Erl

Thomas Erl is the world's top-selling SOA author, Series Editor of the Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl (www.soabooks.com), and editor of the SOA Magazine (www.soamag.com). With over 120,000 copies in print world-wide, his books have become international bestsellers and have been formally endorsed by senior members of major software organizations, such as IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, BEA, Sun, Intel, SAP, CISCO, and HP.

His most recent titles - SOA Design Patterns and Web Service Contract Design and Versioning for SOA - were co-authored with a series of industry experts and follow his first three books Service-Oriented Architecture: A Field Guide to Integrating XML and Web Services, Service-Oriented Architecture: Concepts, Technology, and Design, and SOA Principles of Service Design.

Thomas is currently working with over 20 authors on a number of upcoming titles, including SOA Governance, SOA with .NET, SOA with Java, ESB Architecture for SOA, and SOA with REST. He is also overseeing the SOAPatterns.org initiative, a community site dedicated to the on-going development of SOA patterns.

Thomas is the founder of SOA Systems Inc. (www.soasystems.com), a company specializing in vendor-neutral SOA consulting and training services. Thomas is also the founder of the internationally recognized SOA Certified Professional program (www.soacp.com and www.soaschool.com). Thomas is a speaker and instructor for private and public events and is regularly invited to Gartner summits. Articles and interviews by Thomas have been published in numerous publications, including the Wall Street Journal and CIO Magazine. For more information, visit: www.thomaserl.com.

Session Title: "Service-Orientation and Next Generation SOA"

Paul Giangarra

Paul Giangarra is a Distinguished Engineer and e-Government Solutions Architect in IBM Federal's Office of the CTO. In this role, Paul works with nearly all branches of Federal government including the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, Intelligence Agencies, and Civilian Agencies helping them understand, identify, and solve critical and complex IT problems. He also works closely with FFRDCs like MITRE. Internally at IBM Paul works across IBM with Research, Development, Hardware, Services, and Corporate CIO teams on a variety of projects. He is an expert on topics such as SOA, Cloud Computing, Information Management, Governance, Complex System Integration, Java for the Enterprise, Real-Time, Event Driven Architecture and Enterprise Architecture. Paul is a member of the IBM Software Group Architecture Board Steering Committee. Paul is a member of the IBM Academy of Technolgoy. Paul is constantly in demand by organizations such as AFCEA, NDIA, as well as government and government integrators for panels and as a speaker.

Session Title: "Real World Experiences in Implementing SOA"

Marc Gille

Marc Gille is Senior Vice President Product Management of Infinity, the BPM, SOA and SaaS Platform of SunGard Data Systems, one of the largest Software Vendors worldwide. Prior to joining SunGard Dr. Gille has founded CARNOT, one of the Gartner-ranked leading BPM platforms which became part of Infinity via acquisition by SunGard. Marc Gille brings 20 years of experience in software architecture, is a renowned member of the European software community and has contributed to conferences, magazines and industry standards.

Session Title: "Software as a Service (SaaS) and SOA"

Lamont Harrington

Lamont Harrington is a Principal Architect with the US Public Sector Developer & Platform Evangelism Team at Microsoft Corporation focused on the US Federal Civilian customer base. His responsibilities include engaging architects, technical decision makers, and influential developers with the goal of incorporating emerging Microsoft technologies into mission critical applications and highly trafficked, public facing web sites and services. He delivers Architectural Design Sessions and Strategic Briefings as well as drives excitement around Microsoft’s platform through participation in industry events to articulate Microsoft’s strategic vision and help customers navigate Microsoft’s platform offerings to identify best in breed solutions.

Lamont’s experience includes over 12 years of designing and developing enterprise-scale client-server and intranet/internet based applications for small and large scale projects for many Fortune 500, Fortune 100, and Fortune 50 companies as well as a variety of government agencies and DoD entities, including all branches of the US Military, DISA, and Joint Commands. He’s been actively involved in introducing new solution architectures on top of Microsoft’s Collaboration and Application platforms, leveraging the power and capabilities of the .NET framework coupled with industry adopted design patterns in designing and developing connected applications and services. Prior to his role on his current team, Lamont worked as a Technology Architect with the Reston, VA Microsoft Technology Center. He maintains a blog at http://www.lamontharringtonsblog.com. His team’s blog can be found at http://blogs.msdn.com/publicsector.

Session Title: "Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Cloud Computing Concepts"

Kerrie Holley

Mr. Kerrie Holley is one of 67 IBM Fellows, IBM's highest technical honor. Fellows are selected for sustained and distinguished technical achievements in engineering, programming and technology. Since the program began in 1963, only 194 people have been designated IBM Fellows. Kerrie is the CTO of IBM’s SOA Center of Excellence and a member of IBM's Academy of Technology. As an IBM Fellow he helps define IBM’s strategy and direction in various technical areas. His responsibilities include technical leadership for services oriented architecture projects, architecture and design, technical oversight for complex projects, enterprise architecture design, and IT strategy. As CTO, Mr. Holley is responsible for IBM SOA delivery methods and related tools and he focuses on helping customers realize sustained benefits of applying SOA. He is an author and holds multiple patents. Mr. Holley has a BA in mathematics from DePaul University and a Juris Doctorate.

Session Title: "Real World Experiences in Implementing SOA"

Mark Little

Mark Little was Chief Architect, Transactions for Arjuna Technologies Ltd, a UK-based company specialising in the development of reliable middleware that was recently acquired by JBoss, Inc. Before Arjuna, Mark was a Distinguished Engineer/Architect within HP Arjuna Labs in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, where he led the HP-TS and HP-WST teams, developing J2EE and Web services transactions products respectively.

Mark is one of the primary authors of the upcoming book "ESB Architecture for SOA" and the OMG Activity Service specification and is also on the expert group for the same work in J2EE (JSR 95). He is also the specification lead for JSR 156: Java API for XML Transactions. He's on the OTS Revision Task Force and the OASIS Business Transactions Protocol specification. Before joining HP he was for over 10 years a member of the Arjuna team within the University of Newcas tle upon Tyne (where he continues to have a Visiting Fellowship). His research within the Arjuna team included replication and transactions support, which include the construction of an OTS/JTS compliant transaction processing system.

Mark has published extensively in the Web Services Journal, Java Developer's Journal and other journals and magazines. He is also the co-author of several books including 'Java and Transactions for Systems Professionals' and 'The J2EE 1.4 Bible'.

Session Title: "Open Source SOA"

Wil Mancuso

Mr. Mancuso is the President of Information Management Solutions Consultants Inc (IMSC). He is an internationally recognized expert in the field of Enterprise Architecture, Data Strategy, SOA and Enterprise Integration Management (EIM). He spent 20 years plus in industry with a focus using technology in integrating business capabilities and Information to transform the way business processes are implemented and executed. Mr. Mancuso brings a strong commercial perspective to the Federal government in Enterprise Systems deployment. Mr. Mancuso was one of the early developers of EAI technology in the early nineties and continues to lead in the deployment of Enterprise SOA. He is currently one of the Lead SOA architects for the BTA and DCMO within in DoD. He spent five years as the Chief Enterprise Architect for the Office of Deputy under Secretary of Defense. One of his key focuses is on the use of ontology and canonical models within an Enterprise SOA.

Mr. Mancuso is the recipient of many awards including Business Intelligence, Data Management and Best Industry Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) 2007.

Session Title: "Common Vocabulary Implementation for SOA"

David Mihelcic

David M. Mihelcic is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). As CTO, he serves as the Agency's senior authority on scientific, technical and engineering matters. Mr. Mihelcic is responsible for defining DISA's overarching technical strategy for synchronizing Agency's programs and services with the Department of Defense's net-centric transformation.

Prior to his appointment as CTO, Mr. Mihelcic served as the Deputy Program Director and Chief Executive Engineer for the Global Information Grid Bandwidth Expansion (GIG-BE) Program. Mr. Mihelcic was the ultimate technical authority for this critical, $877 million expansion of DoD terrestrial communications and was responsible for defining the GIG-BE architecture and leading all technical aspects of the Program.

Previously, Mr. Mihelcic served as the Chief Executive Engineer for the Defense Information System Network (DISN), Commander of the Center for Horizontal Integration, and Deputy Chief Executive Engineer for Information Processing at DISA. Prior to his appointment to the Senior Executive Service at DISA in 1999, Mr. Mihelcic headed the Network Security Section of the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) and has also worked in private industry as a Senior Consultant with SRI Consulting.

Mr. Mihelcic is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering. (Current as of January 2006)

Session Title: Surviving the Trough of Disillusionmen

Kevin Moore

Kevin D. Moore, Sr. is the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the United States Military Entrance Processing Command (USMEPCOM) at North Chicago, IL. He has over 26 years of leadership experience and has held several senior level positions in the US Department of Defense (DoD). Mr. Moore is a published author, public speaker, and has been interviewed for the successful transformation that is occurring in USMEPCOM. In addition, he is an Officer in the U.S. Army Reserve, and a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, NY.

Session Title: "SOA: A True Transformational Story"

JP Morgenthal

JP Morgenthal is a leading independent IT architecture consultant in the Washington, DC region who focuses on enterprise architecture, SOA, BPM and cloud computing. He is an authority on XML, Java, SOA, EAI and EII. He has written three books on integration, the most recent "Enterprise Information Integration: A Pragmatic Approach."

His work in the field of XML, Java, EAI and SOA is the foundation upon which many of the modern Web concepts are now built. As Principal Analyst for NC Focus, JP delivered the earliest guidance on the use of XML for building machine-to-machine communication. As CTO of XMLSolutions, he was responsible for ground-breaking technology for integrating the supply-chain through XML, and at Ikimbo, he broke ground on the use of secure instant-messaging to drive real-time collaboration around the supply-chain. As Chief Architect for Software AG, JP provided key thought leadership in the industry for using XML for SOA, Web Services and B2B communications.

Session Title: "Determining SOA Success"

Michael zur Muehlen

Michael zur Muehlen is Assistant Professor of Information Systems at the Howe School of Technology Management, Stevens Institute of Technology, in Hoboken, NJ. He directs Stevens’ BPM research center (Center of Excellence in Business Process Innovation) and is responsible for the Howe School’s graduate program in Business Process Management and Service Innovation. Prior to his appointment at Stevens, Michael was a senior lecturer at the Department of Information Systems, University of Muenster, Germany, and a visiting lecturer at the University of Tartu, Estonia. He has over 15 years of experience in the field of process automation and workflow management, and has led numerous process improvement and design projects in the utility, financial services, industrial, and telecommunications sector both in Germany and the US.

An active contributor to standards in the BPM area, Michael is a fellow of the Workflow Management Coalition and chairs the WfMC working group “Management and Audit”. His research has been funded by SAP Research, the US Army, the Australian Research Council, and private sponsors. Michael has presented his research in 20 countries. He is the author of a book on workflow-based process controlling, numerous journal articles, conference papers and book chapters and working papers on workflow and process management.

Session Title: "Primitives and Design Patterns for Top-Down SOA Implementations"

Derik Pack

Derik Pack is a Computer Engineer at SPAWAR Systems Center Atlantic. He is the project manager and research lead for the SOA University Initiative at SPAWAR Atlantic and supports PMW-160 as part of its systems management team. His research interests include information sharing, dissemination systems and enterprise service management. He holds a MSECE from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a B.S. from the University of South Carolina.

Session Title: "SOAU: A Case Study in Workforce SOA Education"

Nathaniel Palmer

Nathaniel Palmer is the Chief BPM Strategist of SRA International, as well as Executive Director of the Workflow Management Coalition. Previously he was Director, Business Consulting for Perot Systems Corp, where he worked under Jim Champy as a corporate-wide subject matter expert and primary ombudsman on Business Process Management. Prior to joining Perot Systems, Nathaniel spent over a decade with Delphi Group as Vice President and Chief Analyst. The author of over several dozen research studies as well as co-author of "The X-Economy" (Texere, 2001) as well as frequent contributor to the annual "BPM and Workflow Handbook" series. Frequently sought for his views on BPM and workflow, Nathaniel has been featured in media ranging from Fortune to The New York Times, as well as authored over 100 by-lined articles in IT publications such as CIO and InformationWeek. He has also been featured as a guest expert on National Public Radio and World Business Review. He was the first recipient of the Laureate in Workflow as well as AIIM's Master of Information Technology.

Session Title: "Model Preserving Strategy for BPM & SOA"

Kshemendra Paul

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Session Title: "Recovery.gov Architecture"

Chris Raney

Mr. Christopher Raney is a native of San Diego, California and is Computer Scientist at Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific (SSC-P) since 2004. Before being employed at SPAWAR, Mr. Raney earned a Masters of Science in Computer Science and a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science from San Diego State University.

Mr. Raney is the Navy co-Lead for the Maritime Domain Awareness Data Sharing Community of Interest (MDA DS COI) pilot technical working group. Mr. Raney has shaped the MDA DS COI to be considered an exemplar for net-centric information by the Department of Defense Chief Information Officer’s office. The MDA DS COI has heavily leveraged DISA’s Net-Centric Enterprise Services (NCES) and is the primary user of the NCES Messaging Service.

Mr. Raney is also the lead for the PEO-C4I PMW-120 Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) tiger team which intends to leverage the experience, processes, and lessons learned from the MDA DS COI to help the range of PMW-120 programs including DCGS-N to transition to a services oriented architecture.

In addition to working on Service Oriented Architectures, Mr. Raney also serves as the New Professionals Steering Committee Chairperson to help ease the transition for recent science and engineering graduates that are beginning careers with the Navy.

Session Title: "Maritime Domain Awareness Data Sharing Community of Interest (MDA DS COI)"

Trey Rhiddlehoover

Mr. Trey Rhiddlehoover is the Director of GIG Solutions at Solers, Inc. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1989 with a B.S. in Engineering. After serving various shipboard positions on the USS Reeves (CG-24) in Yokosuka Japan and Pearl Harbor Hawaii, he was assigned to the Naval Computer and Telecommunications Command and then the Space & Naval Warfare Systems Command in Washington DC. During this time, he earned his M.A. in National Security Studies from Georgetown University and completed the Naval War College seminar program. Mr. Rhiddlehoover was assigned as Plans Department Head to the Naval Computer & Telecommunications Master Station (NCTAMS) Europe-Central (EURCENT) in Naples Italy responsible for the planning and installation of all C4I systems at Navy communication stations and detachments from London to Bahrain. He was then assigned to the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) as lead systems engineer for the Information Dissemination Management (IDM) program.

For the past eight years at Solers, Mr. Rhiddlehoover has supported a number of DoD organizations to include DISA, the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), U.S. Strategic Command, Office of Naval Research, SPAWAR Systems Center San Diego, and Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks, Information, and Integration (OSD/NII)/Department of Defense Chief Information Office (DOD CIO).

Session Title: "Case Study: Maritime Domain Awareness Data Sharing Community of Interest (MDA DS COI)"

Chris Riley

Chris Riley is an author and senior consultant with SOA Systems Inc. (www.soasystems.com). He has contributed to the SOA Design Patterns book from the Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series and the SOA Magazine.

In his capacity as a consultant, Chris is working with Fortune 500 organizations in Financial Services, Consumer Products, Education and Government agencies. His expertise focuses on helping organizations move from traditional distributed computing processes to a service-oriented architecture using open standards and modern methodologies. His past projects have included Pearson, Kodak, SAIC and the State of Indiana.

Prior to working with SOA Systems, Chris ran the Professional Services division for Cape Clear Software as Director of Architecture helping North American customers implement Enterprise Service Bus platforms. In this role, Chris also coordinated and supported webinars and speaking engagements promoting ESB and SOA with Gartner and Forrester as well as public forums such as the Integration Consortium, Toronto Java User Group and the SOA Seminar Series. Previous to Cape Clear, Chris worked at Extricity, Inc. as a Senior Solution Consultant and PTC as a Manager of Technical Services.

Chris will be taking part in the book signing ceremony on April 2, 2009.

Satadru Roy

Satadru is a Senior SOA Architect with Sun Microsystems, Canada where he consults with clients to provide architecture and design guidance for their SOA initiatives. In the past, Satadru worked as a consultant and product engineer at well-known Java software vendors such as BEA Systems, Inc. He has extensive experience in middleware, application integration and BPM and is a strong proponent of open source based integration technologies. Satadru is currently working with a number of authors from IBM and Oracle on a book dedicated to building SOA with Java.

Session Title: "SOA in Legacy Modernization"

Paul Strassman

Mr. Strassmann is president of The Information Economics Press (www.infoeconomics.com) and is Senior Advisor to the Science Applications International Corporation. He serves on the Board of Editors of the Information Economics Journal, on the Board of Visitors, School of Information Studies at Syracuse University, and holds the position of Distinguished Professor of Information Sciences at the School of Information Technology and Engineering at George Mason University.

His globally syndicated monthly commentaries about I.T. investments have appeared in Computerworld magazine since 1994, and Baseline magazine since 2004. Strassmann holds registered U.S. trademarks for Return-on-ManagementR, R-O-MR, Information ProductivityR and Knowledge CapitalR.

After serving as an advisor to the Deputy Secretary of Defense since 1990 he was appointed in 1991 to a newly created position of Director of Defense Information. He was responsible for organizing and managing the corporate information management (CIM) program across the Department of Defense which included a $35 billion cost reduction and business reengineering program of the defense information infrastructure. He is a 1993 recipient of the Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service - the Defense Department's highest civilian recognition.

In 2002 he was recalled to government service as the acting Chief Information Officer of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, with direct responsibility and accountability for the NASA computing and telecommunication information infrastructure. After completing his assignments in 2003 he retired from government service after receiving the NASA Exceptional Service Medal for improving the I.T. architecture, security, and services.

Session Title: TBA

Keith Swenson

Keith Swenson is Vice President of Research and Development at Fujitsu Computer Systems Corporation for the Interstage family of products. He is known for having been a pioneer in web services, and has helped the development of standards such as WfMC Interface 2, OMG Workflow Interface, SWAP, Wf-XML, AWSP, WSCI, and is currently working on standards such as XPDL and ASAP. He has led efforts to develop software products to support work teams at MS2, Netscape, and Ashton Tate. He is currently the Chairman of the Technical Committee of the Workflow Management Coalition. In 2004 he was awarded the Marvin L. Manheim Award for outstanding contributions in the field of workflow.

Mr. Swenson began his tenure at Fujitsu in 1991 where he developed TeamWARE Flow. He returned to Fujitsu Software Corporation in 2002 to direct the development of the Interstage family of products.

A pioneer in web services, Mr. Swenson has helped the development of standards such as WfMC Interface 2, OMG Workflow Interface, SWAP, Wf-XML, AWSP and WSCI. He is currently working on standards such as WS-CAF and ASAP.

MS2: Prior to returning to Fujitsu Software Corporation, Mr. Swenson was Director of Engineering at MS2, Inc., where he was responsible for developing Accelerate, a distributed enterprise scaled system.

Netscape: Mr. Swenson was Software Architect at Netscape for the internet workflow product “Process Manager” and the developer tool “Visual JavaScript” which helped developers create live JavaScript applications using a technique known today as “AJAX”. Fujitsu (first time): he started the Regatta Project, which produced the software products “TeamWARE Flow” and “iFlow”.

Ashton Tate: he managed the development of Framework IV, an integrated business productivity product, and before that he was in various software development leader positions at an early PC startup called “Software Products International” based in San Diego which produced the product Open Access.

Mr. Swenson holds both a Master’s degree in Computer Science and a Bachelor’s degree in Physics from the University of California, San Diego.

From 1995 to 1997 he served as Vice Chairman of the ACM Special Interest Group for Group Support Systems (SigGROUP). In 1996, he was elected a Fellow of the Workflow Management Coalition. In 2004 he was awarded the Marvin L. Manheim Award for outstanding contributions in the field of workflow.

Session Title: "The Convergence of BPM and SOA"

Sanjiva Weerawarana

Sanjiva Weerawarana received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Purdue University in 1994. After 3 years at Purdue as visiting faculty, he joined IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center, NY, USA in 1997 where he was until April of 2005 (working the last 4 years remotely from Sri Lanka). Sanjiva was elected to the IBM Academy of Technology in 2003. He is currently Chairman & CEO of WSO2, the open source SOA company he founded in 2005. Sanjiva is a founder of the Web services platform and has authored many key specifications including WSDL, BPEL4WS, WS-Addressing, and WS-Eventing. He has contributed to implementations of many of these, including Apache SOAP, Apache Axis, Apache WSIF, the IBM Web Services Gateway and IBM BPWS4J. In March 2004, he and several other of IBM's Web services leaders jointly published a book on the overall architecture of the Web services platform. Sanjiva has published more than 50 refereed articles.

Sanjiva is very active in the open source world where he is a Member of the Apache Software Foundation and an Emeritus Board Member of the Open Source Initiative. He is also the Founder & Director of the Lanka Software Foundation, a non-profit foundation formed in Sri Lanka to promote open source participation from Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka is now leading contributor to open source in Asia. In his free time he also teaches in the Computer Science and Engineering at University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka and guides student R&D projects in distributed systems, programming languages and Web services.

Session Title: "Scalable SOA in your Own Open Source Cloud"

David Wennergren

Mr. David M. Wennergren serves as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Information Management, Integration and Technology / Deputy Chief Information Officer, providing top-level advocacy in creating a unified information management and technology vision for the Department and ensuring the delivery of the capabilities required to achieve the Department’s transformation to net centric operations. In addition to his duties as Deputy CIO, Mr. Wennergren is the Vice Chair of the U.S. Government’s Federal CIO Council. He also serves as the Chair of the Department of Defense Identity Protection and Management Senior Coordinating Group.

Prior to his current assignment, Mr. Wennergren served for four years as the Department of the Navy Chief Information Officer (DON CIO), during which time he also served as the Department of the Navy’s Critical Infrastructure Assurance Officer. Prior to becoming the DON CIO, he served for four years as the DON Deputy CIO for Enterprise Integration and Security. Past assignments also included, the Head, Plans and Policy Branch within the Shore Installation Management Division, Office of the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Logistics), the Economic Support Team Leader on the Department of the Navy's Base Structure Analysis Team (BSAT) during the Navy's Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) process for BRAC-93 and BRAC-95, Commercial Activities Program planning and review in the Office of the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Logistics), participating in the Navy’s BRAC-91 process, and working as a management analyst at both the Naval Industrial Resources Support Activity and the Naval Air Technical Services Facility.

Mr. Wennergren received his B.A. in Communications/Public Relations from Mansfield State University. He was a recipient of a Secretary of the Navy Civilian Fellowship in Financial Management, culminating in a Master of Public Policy (MPP) in Public Sector Financial Management from the University of Maryland's School of Public Affairs. He has received the Department of the Navy Distinguished, Superior and Meritorious Civilian Service Awards, the Secretary of Defense Meritorious Civilian Service Award, and the Office of the Secretary of Defense Exceptional Civilian Service Award. Other honors include being selected as the Federal CIO Council 2008 Azimuth Award winner, the Government Computer News 2005 Defense Executive of the Year, the 2006 John J. Franke Jr. Award from the American Council for Technology, the Federal Computer Week 2006 Eagle Award, three Federal Computer Week Fed 100 Awards, the Computerworld Premiere 100 Award, and the 2008 General James M. Rockwell AFCEAN of the Year. He is also honored to have worked in two organizations that were awarded the Department of the Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation.

Session Title: Transforming Our National Defense Team

Clemens Utschig-Utschig

Clemens works for the SOA Product Management team at Oracle Headquarters, CA. As a native Austrian, he started his career years Oracle/Austria consulting branch, helping customers designing their next generation J2EE and SOA architectures as well as doing crisis management for projects abroad. Since his transfer almost 3 years ago into the Product Management group, Clemens is responsible for cross product integration - and these days the advisor for SOA to Oracle Fusion Applications development as well as an advisory member of the Applications Architecture Board.

He is a frequent speaker at worldwide conferences (Oracle Open World, JAX, OOP, ODTUG) and published many articles in known industry journals on SOA and related challenges.

Session Title: "SOA and Event-Driven Architecture"

Dennis Wisnosky

Dennis Wisnosky is the Chief Technology Officer and Chief Architect of the Business Mission Area in the Office of the Deputy Chief Management Officer, U.S. Department of Defense. He is recognized as a creator of the Integrated Definition language, the standard for modeling and analysis in management and business improvement efforts. Wisnosky holds a bachelor's degree in physics and mathematics from California University of Pennsylvania, a master's in management science from the University of Dayton, and a master's in electrical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh. Dennis most recently contributed content to the book SOA Design Patterns.

Session Title: TBA

Jessica Zucal

Jessica Zucal is an OD (organizational development) practitioner with Vector Research Center for Enterprise Performance. She currently provides support to the Chief Technology Officer and Chief Architect of the Business Mission Area in the Office of the DCMO, U.S. DoD, in the area of change management – enabling and facilitating the Department’s business transformation objectives. She is responsible for leading and executing the Socialization and Education Outreach effort as described in the BMA Architecture Federation Strategy and Roadmap version 2.4a released on 29 January 2008.

Ms. Zucal has 9 years experience in various industries, private and public, successfully working with all levels of organization in the area of change management, including stakeholder outreach, education, and relationship development. She is skilled in the areas of facilitation, conflict analysis and resolution/transformation, team development, and leadership development. Ms. Zucal will receive her M.S. in Organizational Development and Knowledge Management from George Mason University in May 2009. She also holds a Bachelors Degree in Business Conflict Analysis and Transformation, and a Certificate in Leadership Studies from George Mason University.

Session Title: "Organizational Challenges for SOA Adoption - It’s all about the People"