Speaker Biographies
John A. Zachman
John Zachman is the originator of the "Framework for Enterprise
Architecture" which has received broad acceptance around
the world as an integrative framework, or "periodic table"
of descriptive representations for enterprises. This framework
has been adopted by the United States Federal Chief Information
Officers Council as a part of the Federal Enterprise Architecture
Framework Standard. Mr. Zachman is not only known for this work
in Enterprise Architecture but is also known for his early contributions
to IBM's Information Strategy methodology (Business Systems
Planning) as well as to their Executive team planning techniques
(executive planning). Mr. Zachman has been focusing on information
strategy and architecture since 1970 and has written extensively
on these subjects. He has facilitated innumerable executive
team planning sessions. He travels within the U.S. and internationally,
teaching and consulting, and is known for his motivating messages
on information issues. He currently writes in the Data-To-Knowledge
Newsletter, formerly known as the Database Newsletter.
After 26 years with IBM, Mr. Zachman became chief executive
officer of the Zachman Institute for Framework Advancement (ZIFA).
He serves on the advisory board of Boston University's Institute
for Leading in a Dynamic Economy (BUILDE), the advisory board
for the Data Resource Management Program at the University of
Washington and the advisory Board of the Data Administration
Management Association (DAMA) International and is a fellow
for the College of Business Administration of the University
of North Texas.
Mr Zachman has chaired a panel on "Planning, Development
and Maintenance Tools and Methods Integration" for the
U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technologies"
and has served as a member of the Information Resource Management
Advisory Council of the Smithsonian Institute.
Stan Locke
Stan Locke provides Enterprise Architecture leadership and
consulting support to large Canadian government organisations
and leading corporations in North America. Stan's Enterprise
Architecture expertise includes the areas of business entity
modelling, business flow and modelling, database management
and repository development. His specialised capability in model
management integration, software engineering and project implementation
have helped numerous large organisations develop unique approaches
to delivering and managing Enterprise Architecture. Stan is
Managing Director of Zachman Framework Associates, a division
of Metadata Systems Software Inc.
As Managing Director of Metadata Systems Software, Stan has
lead MSS to build systems integration software for the IBM compatible
Graphical User Interface [GUI] environment. MSS provides consulting
support to Canada's leading corporations in the areas of business
architectures, database technologies and repository development
on relational platforms.
Since November 2001, Stan has spent most of his time at Metadata
on three specific areas, all related to the implementation of
the Zachman Framework. Firstly, Stan has assisted Canadian federal
government departments in Enterprise Architecture. One of these
was the Federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans where Stan
facilitated the development of a Business Semantic model and
related Function and Event models. In addition, he has acted
as the Zachman compliance Auditor on several other projects,
reviewing and mentoring in the production architecture artifacts.
Secondly, Stan has consulted to large US and Canadian organisations
in the private and not-for-profit sectors. Thirdly, Stan has
given oversight to the development of a Zachman Repository Proof
of Concept as a support mechanism for the storage of components
and the significant set of component relationships. This software
was completed in the northern summer of 2002.
Stan also works closely with John Zachman, the originator of
the Framework for Enterprise Architecture, to present joint
Enterprise Architecture courses throughout North America. The
five day program takes management through the theory and logic
of the framework, under John Zachman's tutoring, with Stan following
with the business decisions of how to implement a business architecture.
Stan has been actively involved in developing and teaching new
and innovative ways of describing the complexity of the framework
and its impact on business strategic planning and knowledge
management. During 2002, the programme was extended to the UK
and to Australia in 2003.
Stan Locke was Professor of Advanced Modelling and DataBase
Design at Ontario's Seneca College on the grounds of York University
in Toronto from 1999 to 2001. Catering specifically to the needs
of the IT community, Seneca Computer Studies courses form an
integrated program with York University. Specifically, Stan
taught senior students in the Database Specialist option on
the use of the models outlined in the Enterprise Architecture
as documented in the Zachman Framework.
Clive Finkelstein
Clive Finkelstein is acknowledged worldwide as the "Father"
of Information Engineering. He is Managing Director of Information
Engineering Services Pty Ltd . He has over 41 years' experience
in the Computer Industry. He has written many books, including
"An Introduction to Information Engineering", Addison-Wesley
(1989), "Information Engineering: Strategic Systems Development",
Addison-Wesley (1992), and "Building Corporate Portals
with XML", co-authored with Peter Aiken, McGraw-Hill (2000).
His latest seminars include later XML, Web Services, Corporate
Portal and e-Business material beyond that published in the
book. This material has been presented throughout USA, Australia,
New Zealand, Southeast Asia, the UK and Europe. Clive Finkelstein
is an internationally renowned consultant and instructor, and
has completed projects for defence, government and commercial
organisations throughout the world and in most industries. The
emphasis of many of these projects has been to bridge from strategic
business plans to information systems, so aligning systems closely
with corporate goals. They have involved Enterprise Architecture,
JAD, RAD, Corporate Portals and Web Services.
Clive's focus helps organisations use Enterprise Architecture
to achieve Enterprise Integration with XML, Web Services and
Corporate Portals (also called Enterprise Portals). These provide
a central gateway to information and knowledge resources of
an enterprise on its corporate Intranet and via the Internet.
They require XML for Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)
and Web Services to achieve B2B eBusiness integration. Enterprise
Architecture, Enterprise Portal, XML, Web Services, EAI and
related technologies and products will rapidly become available
over the next 2 - 5 years. Enterprise Portals are a rapid delivery
vehicle for Enterprise Architecture, and will be a key computing
focus and interface for most enterprises in the 21st Century.
Kathy Long
Kathy Long is a member of the Process Renewal Group. She has
over sixteen years of experience assisting customers with understanding
and improving their business performance through improved processes.
She has assisted clients with process improvement throughout
Europe, the United Kingdom, Scandinavia, Japan, the West Indies,
Barbados, Canada, South America and the United States. These
projects have spanned industries such as leasing, manufacturing,
customer service, telecommunications, banking, petrochemicals,
government and retail. She has extensive experience with process
modelling techniques and the application of automated tools.
She is regarded as realistic practitioner who believes people
are one of the most important critical success factors to any
process improvement solution.
She has spoken at several conferences around the world, including
the National BPR Conference, Business Rules Forum, the European
BPR Conference and the Equipment Leasing Conference. To date
she has conducted over 300 seminars and has presented to over
10,000 professionals. Her seminars have been translated for
audiences around the globe.
Roger T. Burlton
Roger Burlton is the founder of Process Renewal Group and the
author of 'Business Process Management: Profiting from Process'.
He is considered an industry leader in the introduction of innovative
approaches for organisational change. He is recognised internationally
for his contributions in Business Process Management, Stakeholder
Analysis, Strategic Architecture Alignment, Prototyping and
people based Project Management Methodologies. He is regarded
as a realistic practitioner, who delivers pragmatic solutions
for his clients.
An exceptional speaker, Roger has chaired several high profile
conferences on Advanced Business and Information Management
around the world, including the BPMG Tenth Annual Process Management
Conference, Process and Knowledge Management Europe, the National
BPR Conference, DCI's Knowledge Management Conferences, Software
World, and The Executive Summit. To date, he has conducted over
five hundred seminars and has presented to over twenty thousand
professionals. His seminars have been translated for audiences
around the globe.
Mike Ferguson
Mike Ferguson is the owner and European Managing Director of
Intelligent Business Strategies, a leading information technology
consulting company. As an analyst and consultant he specialises
in database systems, CRM, intelligent ebusiness, business intelligence
and analytic applications, web information portals. With over
19 years of IT experience, Mike has consulted for dozens of
companies at board and detailed levels, spoken at events all
over the world, written numerous articles and is currently author
of the "Guru" column in Information Age magazine.
Prior to Intelligent Business Strategies (formerly known as
DataBase Associates International), he spent three years as
a member of NCR's worldwide product strategy and architecture
team as a Chief Architect of Database Technologies, working
on the Teradata DBMS. Mike also worked for four years as a principal
and founder of Codd and Date Europe Limited - the inventors
of the Relational Model - specialising in IBM's DB2 product.
Mike has written many articles in various database journals.
He is Chairman of the Data Warehouse Exchange (formerly the
European Data Warehouse User Group).
Ronald G. Ross
Ronald Ross is Principal of Business Rule Solutions, LLC and
Executive Editor of www.BRCommunity.com, home of the DataToKnowledge
Newsletter. Mr. Ross is the author of a half dozen professional
books, including Business Rule Concepts (1998) and The Business
Rule Book (Second Edition, 1997).Mr. Ross is known as the "Father
of Business Rules". He is co-chair of the Business Rule
Forum Conference.
Gladys S.W. Lam
Gladys Lam is Principal of Business Rule Solutions, LLC and
Publisher of www.BRCommunity.com, home of the DataToKnowledge
Newsletter. Ms. Lam is an experienced and widely acclaimed management
consultant and expert facilitator. Ms. Lam is co-developer with
Mr. Ross of the BRS Business Rule Methodology, BRSolutions,
and various related techniques, including RuleSpeak(TM).
