David Besemer

David Besemer, Chief Technical Officer, Composite Software

David brings to Composite Software more than twenty years of software development and management experience, all with leading edge technologies and companies. David joined Composite Software as VP of Engineering in 2002, and became the CTO in 2006. Before joining Composite he was a "freelance CTO", providing software technology intelligence to venture capital firms. Prior to that he was the CTO of eStyle, an e-commerce retailer serving the lifestyle needs of families. Previously, David ran a successful enterprise software consulting practice, headed software product marketing at NeXT Computer, built program trading systems on Wall Street, and researched natural language processing systems at GE's Corporate R&D center.

Grady Booch

Grady Booch is recognized internationally for his innovative work on software architecture, collaborative development environments, and software engineering. A renowned visionary, he has devoted his life's work to improving the art and science of software development. Grady served as Chief Scientist of Rational Software Corporation since its founding in 1981 and through its acquisition by IBM in 2003. He now is part of the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, serving as Chief Scientist for Software Engineering.

There he continues his work on the Handbook of Software Architecture but also mentors and leads various software engineering projects that are beyond the constraints of immediate product horizons. Grady continues to engage with real customers working on very real problems and is working to build deep relationships with academia and other research organizations around the world. Grady is one of the original authors of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and was also one of the original developers of several of Rational's products. Grady has served as architect and architectural mentor for numerous complex software-intensive systems around the world in just about every domain imaginable.

Grady is the author of six best-selling books, including the UML Users Guide and the seminal Object-Oriented Analysis with Applications. He writes a regular column on architecture for IEEE Software. Grady has published several hundred articles on software engineering, including papers published in the early '80s that originated the term and practice of object-oriented design (OOD), plus papers published in the early 2000's that originated the term and practice of collaborative development environments (CDE).

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 an IBM Fellow, an ACM Fellow, a World Technology Network Fellow, a Software Development Forum Visionary, a recipient of Dr. Dobb's Excellence in Programming award as well as three Jolt Awards, and generally just a really nice and gentle fellow.

Grady was a founding board member of the Agile Alliance, the Hillside Group, and the Worldwide Institute of Software Architects, and now also serves on the advisory board of the International Association of Software Architecture. Additionally, Grady serves on the board of Iliff School of Theology. He is also a member of the IEEE Software editorial board. Grady helped establish work at the Computer History Museum for the preservation of classic software and therein has conducted several oral histories for luminaries such as John Backus and Fred Brooks.

Grady received his bachelor of science from the United States Air Force Academy in 1977 and his master of science in electrical engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1979.

Paul Buhler

Dr. Paul Buhler is the Chief Scientist at Modus21, LLC which is focused on enabling enterprise transformation and organizational change primarily through the deployment of BPM, ESB and SOA technologies. With over 20 years of professional experience, Paul is a respected researcher, practitioner, and educator of service-oriented computing, SOA, and service-based technologies. He serves as the Chair of the SOA Education Committee for SOASchool.com and on the program committees of many of the international conferences and workshops relevant to the advancement of service-oriented computing and service engineering. Paul has authored over 20 published papers regarding SOA, agent-based computing, and Web service composition. His expertise has been sought in areas of enterprise architecture, open source middleware, complex event processing, semantic Web technologies and cloud computing.

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.

Linus Chow

Principal Consultant, Oracle Corporation, Chair Public Sector Chapter of the WfMC, AIIM Ambassador

Linus Chow is the Chair of the WfMC Public Sector Chapter and a Principal Consultant for Oracle Corporation. He has over 16 years of leadership and management experience in information technology internationally with over 11 years in workflow, BPM, and SOA. He has played crucial roles in expanding the growth of BPM and SOA adoption first in the US and then internationally from Australia to Switzerland. Currently, Linus leads the adoption of BPM and SOA solutions for Public Sector customers. He has helped organizations win several industry awards for BPM implementations. He is a published author and an active speaker on the Best Practices of BPM and SOA. A decorated former US Army Officer, Linus has an MBA, a MS in Management Information Systems, and BS in Mathematics; and is a Certified BPM Professional.

He has spoken at the National Defense University (NDU), OMG, WfMC, BPMI, IQPC, AIIM, Brainstorm, IEEE, SSTC, JMETC, BPM Focus, ISSSP, BPM Strategies; Transformation and Innovation; Gartner, MITRE, University of Hong Kong, National University of Singapore, Computer Society venues; as well as several Government (US, Australia and ASEAN), events.

He has also been widely published: BPM and Workflow Best Practice Handbook 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008 (6 times); 11 BPM/SOA Awards (2002 x 2, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 x 2, 2008 x 2, 2009, 2010 x 2); 2004 Business Management; Computer World Magazine (Australia); CIO Magazine (Australia); SDA Asia; BPM Strategies 2007 and 2008; Several Oracle publications 2007 and 2008; Systems Software and Technology Conference 2008; IEEE; MITRE Orchestration and Service Bus Study; and numerous other articles.

John Crupi

John Crupi is CTO at JackBe, a provider of enterprise mashup software.

Previously, John spent eight years with Sun Microsystems serving as Distinguished Engineer and CTO for Sun's Enterprise Web Services Practice.

John is co-author of the highly popular book, Core J2EE Patterns, was selected to join the International Advisory board for Ajax Developers Journal, and named to Software Development Magazine's Dream Team.

Jeff Davis

Jeff Davis is the author of Open Source SOA (Manning, 2009), and has over 15 years of experience in enterprise software development. He has practical hands-on experience using SOA, and has developed web service APIs that are in public use at several large companies and organizations. He is an active contributor to several enterprise open source projects, and recently has worked as a Senior Solutions Consultant for Fiorano software.

Mr. Davis is a frequent speaker at industry events such as SOA World covering such topics as service design, SOA governance, and BPM implementations. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from Emory University, and has a Masters degree in Security Policy Studies from George Washington University.

Nada da Veiga

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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.

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, Sun, Intel, SAP, CISCO, and HP.

Two of his five books, SOA Design Patterns and SOA Principles of Service Design, were authored in collaboration with the IT community and have contributed to the definition of the service-oriented architectural model and service orientation as a distinct paradigm. Thomas is currently working with over 20 authors on eight new books dedicated to service-oriented computing and modern service technology platforms, such as cloud computing.

n cooperation with SOASchool.com™, Thomas has helped develop the curriculum for the internationally recognized SOA Certified Professional accreditation program (www.soaschool.com), which has established a series of formal, vendor-neutral SOA certifications. Thomas is also the founder of SOA Systems Inc. (www.soasystems.com), a company specializing in vendor-neutral SOA consulting and training services.

Thomas is the founding member of the SOA Manifesto Working Group (www.soa-manifesto.org), chair of the SOA Education Committee, and oversees the SOAPatterns.org initiative, a community site dedicated to the on-going development of a master pattern catalog for SOA.

Thomas has toured over 20 countries as a speaker and instructor for public and private events, and regularly participates in SOA Symposium (www.soasymposium.com) and Gartner conferences. Over 100 articles and interviews by Thomas have been published in numerous publications, including the Wall Street Journal and CIO Magazine.

David Fisher

Mr. David M. Fisher was announced as the first permanent Director of the Business Transformation Agency in March, 2007. He had served as the interim Director for the Agency since October, 2006.

Mr. Fisher was part of the leadership team at the time of the original stand-up of the BTA in October, 2005, where he held the position of Director, Transformation Planning and Performance. In this role, he oversaw the end-to-end process for development of the DoD Business Enterprise Architecture (BEA) and Enterprise Transition Plan (ETP).

In March, 2006, Mr. Fisher assumed the newly-created role of the Defense Enterprise Integration Executive, where he had the responsibility for oversight of the engagement between the BTA and the DoD Components (military departments and defense agencies) in terms of the implementation of the requirements depicted in the DoD's Business Enterprise Architecture (BEA) in the Components' large-scale business system transformation efforts. This effort had a particular focus on the Components' enterprise resource planning (ERP) system implementations. In July, 2006, he added to this role the responsibilities as the Director, Transformation Priorities and Requirements, where he was responsible for facilitating the relationship between the BTA and the functional leadership in the DoD Business Mission Areas in terms of future requirements that ultimately targeted for including in department-wide business transformation efforts.

Mr. Fisher originally joined the Department of Defense in March, 2005, as the Special Assistant to the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Financial Management). In this capacity, he provided leadership for enterprise-level DoD business transformation, with a particular focus on finance transformation, visibility, and auditability. Prior to joining the Department of Defense, Mr. Fisher served as a Managing Director with the BearingPoint, where he focused on Account Management and Business Process Optimization for clients in the public and private sectors. Mr. Fisher managed a cross-section of BearingPoint's largest multi-functional and multi-site, packaged software implementations (including Oracle Applications, Siebel Systems, and MatrixOne). This included requirements gathering, process design, program communications, system configuration, test case management, and issue management. Mr. Fisher has published books such as, Optimize Now (or else!): How to Leverage Processes and Information to Achieve Enterprise Optimization (and Avoid Enterprise Extinction 2004) providing a unique perspective on challenges and opportunities for organizations in pursuit of enterprise-wide optimization. Mr. Fisher also served as a key speaker on business process optimization at conferences including Oracle AppsWorld and U.S. Process World.

Mr. Fisher graduated with distinction from Stanford University with a Bachelor's degree in Communication. He completed his Master's of Business Administration at Santa Clara University's Leavey School of Business.

Ralph Hodgson

Ralph Hodgson is a co-founder and CTO at TopQuadrant, Inc, a leading provider of Semantic Web software, solution services and training programs. Ralph combines expertise in semantic technologies with over 25 years of experience in business application development and deployment, consulting, enterprise architecture, software development and strategic planning. Prior to co-founding TopQuadrant, Ralph has held executive consulting positions at IBM Global Services and was the founder of Interactive Development Environments in the UK, an international CASE tools vendor. His two most recent books are "Capability Cases: a Solution Envisioning Approach" by Addison-Wesley and "Adaptive Information: Improving Business Through Semantic Interoperability, Grid Computing, and Enterprise Integration" published by John Wiley. Ralph leads the development of oeGov.org, an effort for creating and publishing W3C OWL ontologies for eGovernment.

Paul Keller

Paul Keller is a Senior Engineer at NASA Ames Research Center. In his current role he serves as the Constellation Program Data Architect and Information Architecture Project Chief Architect. Mr. Keller has ten years experience in the design and implementation of enterprise systems, with a focus on science and engineering organizations. He has an additional ten years experience as a mechanical design engineer and architect/developer of engineering software systems. Mr. Keller’s primary focus is on the analysis and infusion of new and evolving technologies to support NASA’s diverse missions. He specializes in developing effective approaches to integrate and advance engineering practices with information technology to support the NASA lifecycle and distributed environment.

Mark Krzysko

Mark Krzysko serves as the Deputy Director, Enterprise Information and Office of the Secretary of Defense Studies. In this senior leadership position, he oversees Federally Funded Research and Development Centers and directs data governance, and technical transformation, and shared services efforts to make timely, authoritative acquisition information available to support oversight of the Department of Defense’s major programs, a portfolio totaling more than $1.6 trillion of investment funds over the lifecycle of the programs.

Christal Lambert

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Dov Levy

Mr. Dov Levy is co-founder of Dovel Technologies.

As Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Levy consistently works at the forefront of technological innovation by leveraging cutting edge technologies in the development of complex business systems for the Federal Government and the private sector. Mr. Levy has more than 25 years of broad-based experience in the development and deployment of large and complex information systems.

Mr. Levy's technical expertise encompasses large system architecture, system development life-cycle processes, mission-critical systems' operations, systems development methodology, software estimation, as well as CMMI and Six Sigma principles. Because of the breadth of Mr. Levy's technical and managerial skills, he is highly sought after to perform due diligence assessments, as well as to act as an expert witness and as a public speaker. Under Mr. Levy's direction and leadership, Dovèl Technologies expanded its practice area into the design and deployment of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), Service Oriented Enterprise (SOE), and Service Oriented Infrastructure (SOI) concepts.

Mr. Levy completed his undergraduate degree in Tel Aviv University, and he has a Master's Degree in Computer Science from George Washington University.

Eric Marks

Eric Marks is President and CEO of AgilePath Corporation, a leading vendor-independent IT services firm focused on Enterprise Governance Solutions, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cloud Computing and Acquisition Innovation. AgilePath is based in Newburyport, MA. (www.agile-path.com) with offices in Herndon, VA. Mr. Marks is a software and technology veteran with 21 years of experience with firms including PricewaterhouseCoopers, Cambridge Technology Partners, Novell, Electronic Data Systems, StreamServe, Ontos, and Square D/Schneider Electric.

Mr. Marks is the author of six business & technology strategy books including "Executive's Guide to Cloud Computing(April 2010), "SOA Governance for the Services-Driven Enterprise" (2008), "Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA): Planning and Implementation Guide for Business and Technology," (2006), "Executive's Guide to Web Services" (2003). Mr. Marks also wrote "Business Darwinism - Evolve or Dissolve," (Wiley, 2002), and he also edited and contributed to "Manufacturing Leadership through the Extended Enterprise" (2000). He also contributed to Coherency Management: Architecting the Enterprise for Alignment, Agility, and Assurance (publication TBD). Mr. Marks is a frequent speaker at industry events based on his thought leadership on emerging technology adoption, and his experience helping large Commercial and Federal enterprises leverage emerging technologies for competitive advantage.

Mr. Marks graduated from Syracuse University in 1983 and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1986, and serves on the Advisory Board for Syracuse University's top-ranked School of Information Studies, as well as being an Adjunct Professor of SOA and Cloud Computing. Mr. Marks also serves on the National Board of Advisors for the Kauffman Campuses Initiative (Enitiative), is on the Advisory Board for Northeastern University's School of Information Services, and is a Visiting Scientist at Carnegie Mellon's Software Engineering Institute (SEI).

Elizabeth McGrath

Ms. Elizabeth (Beth) McGrath is the Department of Defense Assistant Deputy Chief Management Officer and the Department's Performance Improvement Officer. In these roles, Ms. McGrath leads the Department's effort to better synchronize, integrate, and coordinate DoD business operations and serves as the Principal Staff Assistant (PSA) and advisor to the Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Defense for matters relating to management and the improvement of business operations. Ms. McGrath is focused on achieving increased efficiency, greater effectiveness, and improved performance in the Department's enterprise policies, processes, and systems. She is also responsible for the generation of the DoD Strategic Management Plan.

As part of her duties, Ms. McGrath executes the Department's primary governance body for business transformation, the Defense Business Systems Management Committee (DBSMC), serves as the Capability Portfolio Co-Manager for the Corporate Management and Support Portfolio, establishes performance goals and measurements for the Department's business operations, is responsible for implementing DoD's Continuous Process Improvement/Lean Six Sigma efforts, and is co-leading, with the Director of National Intelligence, an initiative to reform the government-wide security clearance process. Additionally, Ms. McGrath was instrumental in the establishment of the Business Transformation Agency (BTA) in 2005. Her responsibilities require integration and coordination with the other PSA organizations as well as other inter-governmental agencies, such as the Office of Management and Budget and the Government Accountability Office. Preceding her current position, Ms. McGrath served as the Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Business Transformation.

Previously, Ms. McGrath served as the Deputy Director for Systems Integration, Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS). At DFAS, she created financial migration strategy that was executed with a collective budget of approximately $1B over the life cycle. She managed the entire financial architecture supporting DOD-wide standard financial systems, integrating it with the DoD's evolving target, enterprise architecture. The project scope included logistics, personnel, medical, acquisition and financial missions including many information technology solutions.

Prior to joining DFAS, Ms. McGrath served in a variety of Program Management roles culminating in Program Executive Office (PEO) level oversight responsibility. She possesses extensive knowledge of acquisition-related statutes, regulations and policies with over 18 years applied acquisition experience with Major Defense Acquisition Programs (MDAP) and Major Automated Information Systems (MAIS). She served as the Business and Acquisition Manager on an international program with the United Kingdom and held numerous other financial, acquisition and program management positions within the US Department of the Navy.

Ms. McGrath holds a bachelor's degree in Economics from George Mason University and is a graduate of the Federal Executive Institute (FEI). She is certified Acquisition Level III in Program Management, Financial Management and Logistics, is a member of the DoD Acquisition Professional Community.

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)

Steve Munson

Steve Munson currently serves as the Chief of the Enterprise Engineering Services and Enterprise Infrastructure Branches at the U. S. Coast Guard’s Operations Systems Center (OSC), Kearneysville, WV. He is the government Project Officer leading the OSC’s Emerging Technology Team for the past 3.5 years as they have worked to define and implement the Coast Guard’s approach to and framework for Service Oriented Architecture.

Mr. Munson served over 22 years on active duty in the U. S. Coast Guard, and has served as a member of the OSC senior staff since his retirement in 2003. He holds a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from the U. S. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA.

John Nallon

John Nallon is the Director of Systems Engineering at Enterprise Strategies Inc. and has over 35 years of product development, systems engineering and consulting experience in Commercial, Aerospace & Defense and government markets. John is currently the Systems Engineering Lead in support of the US Joint Forces Command J89 Directorate; Joint Architecture and Capability Assessment Enterprise (JACAE).

John is a graduate of Old Dominion University, a member of Tau Alpha Pi, AFEI, and the International Council on System Engineering (INCOSE). He has been a member of INCOSE for over 17 years and has held numerous leadership roles in the North Texas Chapter, is currently the Assistant Director of Technology on the Technical Operations Board of INCOSE and is the presiding chairman of the INCOSE Tools Integration and Interoperability Working Group.

Joseph Pantella

Joseph Pantella Director, Enterprise Services Operations, FGM, Inc.

Mr. Pantella has spent the last 7 years supporting projects surrounding the DoD's realization of its Net-Centric strategies through the employment of Service-Oriented Architecture. Focusing primarily on DISA's Net-Centric Enterprise Services (NCES) Program, Mr. Pantella leads the teams that provide Service Discovery, Enterprise Service Management, and Metadata Services for the NCES Program's SOA Foundation product line. Additionally, through his support of DISA's Data Services Office, Mr. Pantella regularly engages communities of interest (COI's) that are working to solve DoD information sharing challenges, assisting them in understanding the SOA capabilities that the NCES Program provides and how they can be applied to those challenges. Mr. Pantella oversees the configuration management of the DoD Discovery Metadata Specification (DDMS) and served as a member of the OASIS SOA Reference Model Technical Committee. He is currently leading an effort to provide a material solution for an Authoritative Data Source Registry for the DoD, which will serve to provide unprecedented visibility into existing data sources and further the DoD's push toward information superiority.

Cesare Pautasso

Cesare Pautasso is assistant professor in the new Faculty of Informatics at the University of Lugano, Switzerland. Previously he was a researcher at the IBM Zurich Research Lab and a senior researcher at ETH Zurich. His research focuses on building experimental systems to explore the intersection of model-driven software composition techniques, business process modeling languages, and autonomic/Grid computing.

Recently he has developed an interest in Web 2.0 Mashups and Architectural Decision Modeling. He is the lead architect of JOpera, a powerful rapid service composition tool for Eclipse. His teaching and training activities both in academia and in industry cover advanced topics related to Web Development, Middleware, Service Oriented Architectures and emerging Web services technologies.

For more information, visit www.pautasso.info.

Kelly Perdew

Kelly Perdew is best known as the winner of the second season of NBC's The Apprentice. The author of "Take Command: 10 Leadership Principles I learned in the Military and Put to Work for Donald Trump" will discuss teamwork and discipline.

Kimberly Pisall

Ms. Kimberly Pisall is the Director of Transformation Priorities and Requirements, Supply Chain Management, at the Business Transformation Agency. In her role, Ms. Pisall identifies enterprise priorities that enable Defense business modernization and defines detailed requirements for the Acquisition Visibility, Common Supplier Engagement, Materiel Visibility and Real Property Accountability business enterprise priorities.

Ms. Pisall spent two years as a consultant for IBM providing the Department of Defense with support on business transformation initiatives including portfolio management, Standard Financial Information Structure and other Acquisition Domain initiatives.

Ms. Pisall worked for the Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) from inception in 1991 through 2004. She was the Agency Program Manager for the Wide Area Workflow system since its beta version in 1999. She also worked on the Electronic Document Access system and other electronic initiatives designed to reduce the cost of operations and provide additional funding to support the warfighter. She was the Acting Chief of Vendor Pay and Travel for the Omaha Operating Location from standup through 1996.

Ms. Pisall was the Deputy Accounting and Finance Officer for Plattsburgh Air Force Base responsible for accounting, civilian and military payroll and commercial services. She started her Defense career with the Defense Contract Audit Agency in 1986 conducting a wide array of contract audit positions.

Tom Plunkett

Tom is a consultant specializing in Cloud Computing and SOA with a focus on projects in both the public sector and private sectors. Earlier this year, he was part of a team that designed an analytical data tools solution for cloud data leveraging Apache Hadoop, Data Mashups, and SOA.

Tom has been involved in all phases of the software development lifecycle, including research and development, and filing patents on software inventions. He has spoken around the world at conferences and workshops on Cloud Computing, Java, and SOA. He has taught academic courses for Virginia Tech's Computer Science Department and professional courses for IBM and other corporations.

Tom has worked extensively with the United States Department of Defense and other government agencies, both as a civilian employee and as a government contractor. Tom has worked for large international corporations such as IBM, co-founded small startup companies, and has practiced patent law for a law firm. Tom has a B.A. and a J.D. from George Mason University, and a M.S. in Computer Science from Virginia Tech. He has over ten certifications on topics such as Cloud Computing, Java, and SOA.

Tom is a member of the author team for the book "SOA and Cloud Computing" which is scheduled for release in 2010 as part of the Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series. He has written and published technical documents on topics such as Cloud Computing, Java, and SOA.

Cal Ripken Jr.

Cal Ripken is baseball's all-time "Iron Man." He retired from baseball in October 2001 after 21 seasons with the Baltimore Orioles. His name appears in the record books repeatedly, most notably as one of only eight players in history to achieve 400 home runs and 3,000 hits. In 1995, Ripken broke Lou Gehrig's record for consecutive games played (2,130), and he voluntarily ended his streak in 1998 after playing 2,632 consecutive games. Although he finished his career at third base, he is still best known for redefining the position of shortstop. In 2007, Ripken was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame with the third highest percentage of votes in history. Ripken's name has become synonymous with strength, character, endurance, integrity and, of course, discipline. Cal will be delivering a very special speech at the 2nd Annual SOA Symposium with an emphasis on achieving and maintaining discipline.

Eric Riutort

Mr. Riutort is a systems engineer and enterprise architect with the Defense Business Transformation Agency’s Defense Business Systems Acquisition Executive Directorate. He works closely with the Deputy Chief Technical Officer (CTO) and Chief Architect (CA) of the Department of Defense (DoD). He is a principal author of the DoD BMA Federation Strategy and Roadmap. He currently is working on the enterprise business intelligence strategy for DoD Business Operations.

Mr. Riutort has nearly two decades of government and industry experience in information technology management and corporate governance. Prior to joining Department in 2010, Mr. Riutort was a management consultant with both Tech Team and BearingPoint, a founding partner of Lexiplan, an estate-planning technology development company, and the Director of Finance and Business Development at JEXP, a financial software development firm. While at Texas Instruments, he led the company’s open business information systems strategy and implementation in China.

Mr. Riutort earned his Master of Business Administration (MBA) and Master of Arts in East Asian Studies (Chinese) degrees at Washington University in St. Louis his visiting scholar graduate certification from Tsinghua University’s School of Economics and Management in Beijing. He also holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Studies (East Asian) from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.

Dustin Sell

Dustin Sell is a Cloud Solutions Architect on the Application Platform Team for Microsoft Federal. Dustin works with various DoD, Federal and Intelligence customers on SOA and Cloud based solutions across the U.S. Federal Government. His background includes service for the United States Navy as well as several years as a UNIX System Engineer for Eastman Kodak. He was the Lead Developer for The Motley Fool's Data and News Team developing, among others, quotes and portfolio applications, email campaign systems all which span both Linux and Windows platforms. Dustin joined Microsoft after several years as the NAS/CAS Team Lead at EMC Corporation covering Federal Intelligence accounts worldwide. In this role he was responsible for the architecture, implementation, and knowledge transfer of mission critical/mission essential network storage systems.

Tony Shan

Tony Shan is a renowned expert and technology visionary working in the computing field for 20+ years with extensive experience and guru-level knowledge on systems designs, architecture engineering, portfolio rationalization, product development, process standardization, and SDLC. Holding three advanced degrees and multiple industry certifications as a chief/enterprise architect, he has directed the lifecycle design and development of large-scale award-winning distributed systems on diverse platforms. He has initiated advanced applied research and prototyping on emerging computing technologies and methodology, and has played a crucial role of a hands-on strategist in leading establishing IT strategies and architecture blueprints, coupled with pragmatic technology roadmaps and enterprise architecture standards/policies, for IT governance and portfolio/asset management in several Fortune 100 international organizations. He serves as a mentor/advisor on leading-edge technologies in various technical committees and advisory boards, and teaches courses as an adjunct professor. In addition to dozens of top-notch refereed technical publications, he has authored over 10 books on next-generation technologies. He is a member of numerous professional associations and honorary society, a frequent keynote speaker and Chair/Panel/Advisor/Organizing Committee in prominent conferences/workshops, an editor/editorial advisory board member of respected IT research journals/books, and a founder of a few user groups and forums.

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.

Lynden Tennison

Lynden Tennison, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Union Pacific Corporation, will describe how his company replaced a 40-year-old main frame with SOA systems. At Union Pacific, management discipline was the key to transformation success.

Doug Tolbert

Dr. Doug Tolbert is a Principal in the Distinguished Engineering Group of CSC's Federal Consulting Practice, architecting large software systems for military and government applications and specializing in data and metadata technologies.

Dr. Tolbert has been active in the computer software business since 1971. He holds a PhD in Genetics from the University of California, Davis, and a BS degree in Plant Science from the University of California, Riverside. Dr. Tolbert's background ranges from large mainframe computer systems to current hardware and software architectures.

Serving as a member of the Object Management Group, Dr. Tolbert is a well-known member of the international metadata community; a principal designer of the Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWM) data warehouse interchange standard; a co-author of two CWM textbooks; a participant in the design of UML 2.0 and MOF 2.0; a chair of several task forces and working groups; Unisys' representative on the OMG Board of Directors; and an elected member of the OMG Architecture Board for CSC. He occasionally serves as an expert witness in software theft and patent litigation matters, and was previously an adjunct professor of computer science at the University of California, Riverside.

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.

Jonathan Underly

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Felix Van de Maele

Felix Van de Maele is co-founder and CEO of Collibra. He holds a master in applied computer science from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, a master of science in software engineering from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Ecole des Mines de Nantes (France) and Universidad Nacional de La Plata (Argentina) and further received a master in general management from the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School.

Felix was part-time researcher at the Semantics Technology and Applications Research Laboratory (STARLab) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel where he focussed on ontology-focused crawlers for the semantic web and semantic data integration.

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.

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.