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Enterprise Architecture - 23 March 2005DAMA UK and BCS DMSG jointed forces to bring members of both groups this interesting and informative day. Nearly 50 delegates were in attendance to listen to four top speakers and participate in a discussion panel before the close. DAMA UK wish to thank the speakers for their valuable contribution to the conference and to all of the delegates who attended. DAMA UK would like to thank BCS for hosting the day in their new Southampton Street offices in London and ASG, Trillium and MetaMatrix for sponsoring and finally, UKCeB and IRM UK for their continued and much valued support services. Tony Jenkins, BCS - DMSG Chairman opened the conference and went on to introduce Trevor Lea-Cox of Popkin Software who started the day off with a talk on The Rise and Fall of Enterprise Architecture. Mike Edwards of Poet Pilot followed with a lively presentation entitled Nothing changes like change - EA in an e-merging world. After lunch Lieutenant Colonel Chris Bailey talked about EA in the Army and finally, Paul Johnson from Leading Edge gave a technical presentation on SMP and MPP Enterprise Data Warehouse Architectures. The day drew to a close with a discussion panel session - the panel consisting of all four speakers and chaired by Dave Evans - DAMA UK Chairman.
Tony Jenkins & Dave Evans Trevor Lea-Cox Mike Edwards
Chris Bailey Paul Johnson The Panel
Networking delegates enjoying a refreshment break at the new BCS offices in Southampton Street, London
Trevor Lea-Cox is a well-qualified and experienced Information, Systems and Technology Manager. From 1989 to 1996 he was the Group IS Manager and then Director for a large international Transportation and Travel Group based in South Africa. He was directly responsible for converting the Group’s mainframe-based computer bureau into a large networking company, one of the largest and most successful in Southern Africa at the time. He also introduced Information, Systems and Technology policies, standards and infrastructure that delivered a high level of uniformity and stability into the Group’s 23 operating companies and lowered the cost of IS and IT dramatically. Trevor has subsequently become a very experienced Information, Systems and Technology consultant, particularly in the areas of Planning and Strategy, Intellectual Capital Management and Information Security Management. He has also helped to plan and implement numerous company start-ups, mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures. He is a Senior Consulting Partner with Popkin Software.
Mike Edwards has been an Enterprise Architect consultant since 1990, and has promoted practical EA approaches for Lloyds TSB Bank, The Swinton Group, the DWP, EDS, Inland Revenue and Unilever amongst other organisations. He is now MD for Troux technologies Ltd, implementing Metis visual modelling solutions - a role which brings him face-to-face with the challenges of practical solutions for EA.
Lt Col Bailey RE was educated at
Prior Park College, Bath, and at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst.
He joined the Army on 24 Feb 1976 and he was commissioned into the
Royal Engineers in 1977. Over the
years he has served in the UK and Germany and has deployed on numerous
operational tours to Northern Ireland, the Falklands and Bosnia.
During that period he also gained a Civil Engineering Degree at the
Royal Military College of Science (RMCS), Shrivenham, and attended technical
staff training.
Chris attended No 22 Design of Information Systems (dis)
Masters Degree Course at the RMCS in 1997 and subsequently filled a staff
appointment responsible for the digitisation of the Royal Engineers.
He was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in 2001 and was posted to
Blandford. His current role is to
assist Army organisations to express their requirements for information
systems, which has entailed his group developing skills in process
modelling, and the specification and derivation of user requirements.
Over the last year he has been at the forefront of the Army's
interest in architectural frameworks and has had an active role in
developing Defence thinking in the area.
His team is currently developing the Land Environment Command and
Battlespace Management (LECBM) Architecture which will provide the baseline
and context for projects in the land environment and support better
prioritisation, resourcing and synchronisation of programme activity
Paul
Johnson
graduated from Leeds University with a BSc in 1988 and entered the IT
industry as a graduate trainee. Since 1989 he has focused solely on high-end
data warehousing. With over 15 years real-world data warehousing experience,
using specialist technologies such as Teradata, Ab Initio, Netezza and
QueryObject. Paul is the CTO/Technical Director and co-founder of Leading
Edge Business Solutions Ltd, a Business Intelligence focused system
integrator. His areas of interest are data warehouse architectures, high-end
technologies and de-bunking technology vendors’ claims!
The Rise and Fall of Enterprise Architecture - Trevor Lea-Cox Nothing Changes like Change - EA in an e-merging world - Mike Edwards The use of Enterprise Architecture with the British Army - Chris Bailey Data Warehouse platform architecture - SMP MPP - Paul Johnson
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