Sunil is Chief Architect & CEO of iCMG. He is an architecture strategist who is influencing enterprise decisions for realizing systems worth $10 mn to $50 mn. As an architecture coach/mentor, have taught enterprise & software architecture classes to over 5,000 professionals (cumulative) throughout Americas to South Asia.
He had chance to interact & work on some real complex IT systems including Air Traffic Control System, Water Leakage Management System (City/country), Shipping & Surveillance systems etc. He is instrumental in adoption of Component Architecture, Assembly and Reuse among Fortune 500 companies based on enterprise frameworks (such as Zachman etc.) and OMG standards such as UML 2.0, CCM & MDA. His system design skills include understanding of RM-ODP for distributed, multi-language based component systems. He is expert in Integrated Product Development (IPD) process based on SEI-CMM practices.
Sunil is an accomplished leader who is working with IT Directors & Decision Makers to define the architecture driven roadmap for IT investments, maintenance & realizations to "drive" the business above its competition. In this capacity, Sunil frequently designs and facilitates team meetings and workshops to help them structure and communicate complicated concepts succinctly
John is an experienced Enterprise Architect with extensive background in business, solution and technical architectures. John’s architectural style is dynamic and continually evolving: he has hands on experience with various Architectural styles, development of frameworks and Reference Architectures, SDLC methodologies and Solution Architecture processes based on SOA principles, SOA Reference Architectures, industry standards & best practices as new/emerging Architectural techniques. John has also strong experiences in Business Architecture modelling and Business Processes identification. John has been the owner of Enterprise Strategy, Policy and Standards portfolios in various large organisations and has been responsible for production/authorship of various keynote documents. John has worked for a number of organisations where he has established Architectural disciplines and practices as well as providing intellectual leadership consultation and mentoring.
With more than 30 years of experiences in information technology, covering all phases of the application life cycle from Business Strategy & Planning, Business Architecture through to implementation, John has the ability to grasp the “Big Picture” and express in a form that is suitable for technical and business audiences.
Pasi has been working with Compuware since 1997 in key technical positions. He has extensive knowledge of the J2EE technology and best practices for application development with J2EE. At Compuware, Pasi works closely with customers in the Asia Pacific region to help them optimize their investments on enterprise J2EE applications through adoption of Model Driven Development approaches with Optimal J, Compuware's advanced J2EE development environment. Pasi has previously performed key technology & product development positions at Compuware's Development & Integration Lab in the Netherlands and earlier in Compuware's offices in Finland. He has held positions with large financial services and consulting companies in Scandinavia. In all, Pasi has almost 20 years experience in the IT industry. He holds a degree in Computer Science.
Twenty five years in the industry, 15 years as a developer and designer, 10 years as a solutions, information, and enterprise architect.
I started Trac-Car in 2005 in Europe, providing monitoring from real-time GPS vehicle metrics. Road pricing has proved very slow to get
going, so Trac-Car has moved in the direction of real-time telemetry integration.
In 2010, Trac-Car intends to deliver carbon emissions statistics from real-time resource utilisation information, from power
consumption and transport.
Trac-Car is a technology services integrator and enabler, with a number of collaborative technology partners.
Steve Towers is the founder of the Business Process Group (www.bpgroup.org) a globalbusiness club (originally formed 1992) exchanging ideas and best practice in Business Performance Management, Transformation and Process Improvement.
He leads from the front and works with many of the leading fortune 500 companies as a mentor, coach and sometimes consultant specializing in the implementation of performance improvement, process change and transformation.
An inspirational speaker and author of several books including “A Senior Executives guide to BPR”, “In Search of BPM Excellence”, “Thrive! How to Succeed in the Age of the Customer” and recently “Customer Expectation Management – Success without Exception” he is noted for his direct and pragmatic approach. Steve previously worked for Citibank where he led restructuring and business process transformation programs both in the US and Europe.
Steve advises many boards and sits on the steering panel of the influential California based BPM Forum, a group of distinguished C-Level executives heading up Global 500 companies.
As a coach and mentor he works first hand with organizations in the private and public sectors helping them successfully transform their businesses. In 2006 he received the “Lifetime Achievement Award for contribution to Business” in San Diego. Steve lives with his family in England and Texas.
Chief Architect at Aus Govt. Dept. of Human Services
Marie Johnson is responsible in leading the development of the architecture and technology business cases, and coordinating Information
and Communication Technology procurement to underpin the Australian Government’s reform agenda in the delivery of human services. Marie
led the business case development and the Basics Card acquisition, which is a point-of-sale payment capability for the delivery of
quarantined benefits.
Prior to this, Marie was the Chief Technology Architect for the Health and Human Services Access Card program, responsible for the
end-to-end technology and architectural design of the Access Card system.
Marie has private sector experience where she was the World Wide Executive Director for Public Services and eGovernment with Microsoft
Corporation based in Redmond, WA, USA. Marie was responsible for defining Microsoft’s global strategy for public services and
eGovernment which was launched by Bill Gates at the Government Leaders Forum in Lisbon in January 2006.
Dr Frederic Lafon has an established background in mathematics which later saw him pursue a career in spectrum monitoring and
radio-cellular networks before developing a passion for Defence C4ISTAR architectures. He has made significant contributions within
Thales in establishing a strong systems architecting culture, promoting a greater understanding of System of Systems (SoS) integration
projects, and developing specific SoS architectures for network enabled capability proposals.
Charles is Business Architecture practice lead with CSC Australia. He is recognized across CSC as having expertise in CSC's systems
development methodology Catalyst. He was chief architect on the team that successfully integrated the Rational Unified Process into
Catalyst to produce the C-RUP method.
Charles has over 27 years experience in the information technology industry. His career started in programming and systems analysis and
has since included roles in project management, quality management, business process analysis and software metrics. He retains a strong
interest in software engineering disciplines, particularly the use of metrics and other formal techniques. Charles holds a BSc in Pure
Mathematics and MAppSc in Information Sciences. He is a member of the IEEE Computer Society.
Kim worked in a wide range of private industry areas, from wholesale sales, through retail management, administration and financial
management before starting in the IT industry in 1988. In 1994 Kim moved to the Department of Defence as IT Manager for the Capital Equipment Program Division. Over the following 4 years
she managed the implementation of wide area connectivity within Defence across the ACT and co-ordinated IT activity for the Acquisition
and Logistics Program (comprised of 7 Divisions), as well as Project Managing a number of major upgrade activities. After roles at ACTEW Corporation (ACT Electricity and Water) and the ATO she returned to Defence in 2001 and carried out various
contract roles over the next 5 years managing IT Infrastructure development activities for the DSN. In January 2006 Kim returned to the permanent Public service in Defence to the role of Director, Architecture Support in the
Information and Architecture Management Branch of the Chief Information Officer Group. Her broad based IT industry skills and
knowledge were well suited to this role, which managed a wide range of activities covering the development and management of the
Defence Architecture Framework, the Defence Standards Management System, the policy and procedures to support the use of the
Architecture Framework, and the Training development and delivery in support of EA in Defence, as well as the Defence sponsored EA
tertiary courses offered through the Australian Defence Force Academy. She was instrumental in introducing the process which ensures
that all changes to the Defence information Environment (DIE) are architecturally assessed to assure the integrity of the DIE. She has been involved in a range of Whole-of-Government Interoperability Working Groups and is a past Chair of the International
Defence Enterprise Architecture Specification (IDEAS) Working Group which is developing data models, architecture models and
methodologies for interoperability of Allied Nations Business and ICT Architectures. She was also a founding co-Chair of the
Australian Defence Architecture Practices and Training Industry Forum (ADAPTIF) (which is currently inactive). She has been active in
the Australian Government oriented Enterprise Architecture community and has presented on Defence architectures in 2006 and 2007 at the
Telelogic sponsored ‘Innovate’ conference. In March 2008 Kim chose to leave the public service to take new challenges in her current role as Technical Services Group Manager
for the Defence Regional ICT outsourcing contract, at Unisys. In this role she has established a new group with architecture,
technical support and governance responsibilities, providing high level; technical resources in support of over 300 field staff around
the nation. During the 18 month transition from Defence to Unisys operation of the Defence regional ICT infrastructure, Kim also assembled and
managed a team of 12 staff who were technical change agents, travelling to all regions to support other staff in transitioning and to
ensure that service delivery to the clients was not impacted as responsibilities and roles changed. The transition has been described
by Defence management as the smoothest large transition that they have ever been involved in.
Emily Richmond-Jones has worked in Information & Technology roles for over 20 years and has significant experience
in strategic planning and technology services.
Emily began her career working for a global investment bank on Wall Street, NY, spent 10 years with the global
technology giant CSC and is currently CIO at Sydney Opera House. People leadership and developing ideas into action
are Emily’s strengths.
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