Scott Afzal is the Program Director for CRISP, the State of Maryland's health information exchange initiative, and is responsible for the successful deployment of an infrastructure for health data sharing between healthcare providers throughout Maryland. Scott is responsible for the operations of the organization and for deploying and operating a statewide health information exchange network funded by approximately $21MM of state and federal funds. Scott also acted as the project manager for the HIE planning activities that have taken place in Maryland over the last three years. Scott has also led the development of networked consumer health applications designed to give consumers access to and control over their own clinical health information. Scott's responsibilities as a Principal at Audacious Inquiry include establishing strategies for the firm's growth in the health information technology industry. Prior to joining Audacious Inquiry, Scott served as a Business and Systems Integration Consultant with Accenture, Inc out of their New York City office. Scott's clients while at Accenture include education and healthcare clients in state and local government. Scott holds a BSBA from Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.

Dr. Ali AlSanousi is a physician informaticist and assistant research scientist at King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He has a unique blend of experience and education in medicine, medical informatics and business administration with more than ten years of work experience in healthcare information technology. After completing his medical degree from King Saud University, he obtained a diploma in International Health from the Royal College of Physicians in Dublin. His interest in informatics, guided him to initially obtain his certificate in medical informatics from Stanford University. Dr. AlSanousi holds a master in medical informatics from Oregon Health & Science University, and a physician executive MBA from the University of Tennessee. He is a member in numerous professional organizations, has presented papers at a variety of professional conferences and consulted for various international companies. His informatics research efforts are focused on healthcare business intelligence.

Joel Amoussou is Founder and CEO at Efasoft Inc, a software consultancy specialized in healthcare IT. Joel has hands-on experience implementing clinical decision support systems, medical terminology services, and data exchange standards such the HITSP C32 for providers, EHR vendors, and health plans. His expertise includes XML-related technologies such as XSLT2 and XQuery, Java EE, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), the Semantic Web, and Cloud Computing. You can read his blog at http://efasoft.blogspot.com. 

Ajay Asthana is a business solution architect in the business performance and service optimization group of IBM's software division. He has over 20 years of experience in architecting cutting-edge technology solutions that address key business objectives. He received the outstanding innovation award for business driven development approach which aligns the line-of-business, software development and operations. His approach of treating software development as a business process management improves productivity, reduces errors, increases competitive advantage and enables services oriented architectures. Prior to joining IBM, Ajay was a Senior Principal and business transformation consultant at Diamond Management and Technology Consultants. Ajay started his career as a chief architect at Accenture where he led engagements for customers in finance, distribution, manufacturing and retail. Ajay has a MS in computer sciences and a PhD in business administration from New York University.

Mahmoud Awad is a PhD student in the Volgenau School of Engineering and a member of the Mason Center for Health Information Technology. He is an independent consultant in the areas of service-oriented architecture, enterprise architectures, and database system.

Thomas Beale (BSc(Comp), BEng) has an academic background in Electrical Engineering (communications) and Computer Science. He worked for six years in software engineering in the SCADA (control system) industry, in an environment based on IEEE standards, strict software configuration management, and disciplined project management. Other work experience includes configuration manager and systems architect at British Telecom (Martlesham, UK, 1992-1993), technical advisor for the Good European Health Record project (1994 - 1995), and consultancy in various financial enterprises in Sydney, Australia (1994 - 1997). In 1997, he led the development of a fully object-oriented mandate compliance system for one of Australia's leading investment houses, a system which is still in use today.

Since 1998, he has worked with the other personnel from Ocean Informatics on building the knowledge-enabled EHR of openEHR, and participating in international standards work (OMG HDTF, HL7, CEN TC 251). During this period, he developed the Archetype Definition Language (ADL), now a CEN standard, and soon an ISO standard.

He is currently chair of the openEHR Architectural Review Board, and continues to be active internationally in health informatics.

Dr. Gokul Bhandari is Assistant Professor at the Odette School of Business. He has published several journal articles and conference papers in healthcare decision support systems.

Vijay Bhatt is the Deputy Chief Technology Officer of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care (HPHC), and possesses an in-depth knowledge of its IT Strategy and enterprise architecture. In this role, Vijay Bhatt is responsible for key aspects of the HPHC's IT Strategy and modernization work including enterprise architecture, SOA services and governance, enrollment, provider, care management, finance, claims subsystems and agile methodology enablement. Before joining HPHC, Vijay Bhatt was Vice President of Architecture at Fidelity Investments where he was involved in filling 6 realtime fraud prevention patterns. Prior to joining Fidelity, Vijay Bhatt was Chief Architect for the NewMMIS application for Mass state where he architected a scalable, secure architecture using open source frameworks. Vijay Bhatt holds a Masters in Computational Geometry from Cranfield University, England.

Colleen Brooks is a professional eHealth and healthcare specialist with more than 25 years experience at the most senior level in major agencies and organisations working both within Australia and internationally.

A qualified pharmacist with a Postgraduate Certificate of Health Economics who has worked in community and hospital pharmacy, Colleen has been involved in a range of projects which have allowed her to develop an in-depth knowledge of the culture within health care systems from a range of perspectives. She has first-hand strategic and operational knowledge gained from roles including health care provider, funder and consumer within the pharmaceutical and, clinical software design industries.

Colleen's is a member of the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation Members Forum, is a not-for-profit association that develops and promotes use of SNOMED CT to support safe and effective health information exchange. Additionally she is the current Chair of HL7 Singapore and Chair ISO TC 215 Singapore Committees.
Colleen has led many high-level projects within both public and private sector, and is currently leading the establishment of a National Healthcare Data Standards Programme for Singapore

Dr. Paul C. Brown is a Principal Software Architect at TIBCO Software Inc., is the author of Succeeding with SOA (Addison-Wesley, 2007) and Implementing SOA (Addison-Wesley, 2008), and is a coauthor of the SOA Manifesto (soa-manifesto.org). Dr. Brown’s extensive design work on enterprise-scale information systems led him to develop the concept of total architecture, which explains how business processes and information systems are so intertwined that they must be architected together.

TIBCO Software Inc. provides infrastructure software for companies to use on-premise or as part of cloud computing environments. More than 4,000 customers worldwide rely on TIBCO to manage information, decisions, processes, and applications in real time.

Daniel Brookshier was one of the first users of MagicDraw® and has since joined No Magic Inc. as Chief Architect. Having over 28 years of experience across all aspects of computer engineering, he has taught numerous training courses worldwide and sets the direction for company product development. Mr. Brookshier is also a prolific writer with dozens of articles/blogs on technology and has written several books including “JXTA: Java P2P Programming”. He is currently working with UML, SysML, UPDM/DoDAF all of which he teaches and mentors with his clients. His education includes a Bachelor of Science, Engineering Technology Electronics, from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, California.

I hold a Ph.D. in computer science in algorithm design and analysis from Indiana University. I taught in the Computer Science Dept. at Northeastern University for many years and have been the Director of the Information Systems Program within the Graduate School of Engineering there also for several years. I am currently responsible for 140 graduate students pursuing their education in Information Systems, with an emphasis on software and applications in clinical research and medical systems. I am engaged in research on innovative ways of building complex software systems for clinical processes as well as for disease-recognition processes in patient-centric systems. I teach graduate courses, in the College of Engineering, that emphasize effective ways of modeling complex medical and clinical systems. My expertise is in engineering complex enterprise software systems. My role is usually that of a senior enterprise architect, mapping business strategies to a company's underlying systems and negotiating the boundaries between business understanding and software design. My comprehension of, and experience with, how people work and get things done across a variety of industries allow me to address any process-related issue, be it technical, operational, or strategic in the medical and clinical areas. I run my own company called Designing Business, Inc., which is doing research on future software products. My current project involves holistic approaches to automating the clinical trials process. This will help companies in pharmaceutical and medical industries answer such questions as how to deliver assurance that their processes and the underlying SOA-based systems are in compliance with standard rules and regulations. I have several publications in major computer science journals such as SIAM on Computing, Acta Informatica, and Information Processing Letters. I will be presenting a paper, "Meaningful Use of SOA: Taking on the Complexity of the Clinical Trials Process," and demonstrating the Clinical Research

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Graduated in Chemical Engineering at UFU-Brazil, MBA in Environmental Engineering at INSA-France and Master In Industrial Process at UFSCar-Brazil has worked in many Brazilian an international enterprises such as Petrobras and Rhodia as as a project manager in Innovations Solutions like Data Reconciliation System, Logistical System, Energetic Industrial Optimization. At the moment, work as a Project Manager in Fleury Company and is a member of Strategic an Innovation Project Group

Mr. Casanave is an accomplished information technology senior executive with more than 20 years' experience at all levels of product and application development and management. He is seasoned in researching and developing solutions, products, standards, and methods with intimate, first-hand knowledge of technology evolution as a chief decision maker. As a key collaborator, Mr. Casanave is adept at communicating at all organizational levels, sharing and collecting insights for maximized, collective understanding of critical objectives and effective execution of plans. He is a visionary leader, adept at developing a compelling vision and sharing insights with key contributors to help organizations achieve their vision. Complementary expertise and track record in project management with hands-on development of cutting-edge products and applications. He is an excellent strategic planner with decisive ability to define processes that affect results positively. Mr. Casanave is a member of the Board of Directors of the OMG.

Jörg Caumanns, PhD; head of department at the Fraunhofer ISST; experiences in eHealth infrastructures and security/privacy related issues; project manager of the "eCR" initiative (electronical Case Record) and the German PHR R&D project. Member of IHE ITI Planning Committee and ITI Technical Committee.

Public Sector Principal BPM Champion, Oracle Corporation, Chair Public Sector Chapter of the WfMC, AIIM Ambassador
Linus Chow is Chair of the WfMC Public Sector Chapter, AIIM Ambassador and Public Sector Principal BPM Champion for Oracle Corporation. He has over 18 years of leadership and management experience in information technology internationally with over 14 years in E2.0, 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. He has helped many organizations win industry awards for BPM/SOA/ECM implementations. A decorated former US Army Officer with an MBA, MS, BS and many certifications; he is a published author and an active speaker.

He has spoken at the DoD Events, 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; and many other events around the world.

He has also been widely published: BPM and Workflow Best Practice Handbook (last 8 years); 11 BPM/SOA Awards (2002 x 2, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 x 2, 2008 x 2, 2009), AIIM Awards 2010 x 2, CIO 100 2010, GCN 2010 x2, AIIM Awards 2011 x2, Excellence.gov x2; 2004 Business Management; Computer World Magazine (Australia); CIO Magazine (Australia); SDA Asia; BPM Strategies 2007 and 2008; Several Oracle publications 2007, 2008, 2009; Systems Software and Technology Conference 2008; IEEE; MITRE papers; and numerous other articles.

Fred A. Cummins is an independent consultant doing business as Agile Enterprise Design. He is a retired HP Fellow. He has been and continues to be co-chair of the Object Management Group (OMG) Business Modeling and Integration task force for 12 years. He is a leader in two OMG specifications currently under development: Case Management Process Modeling and Value Delivery Modeling.

He has presented at SOA in Healthcare the past two years, and at other conferences including Building Business Capabilities 2010 where he organized a panel discussion, COCOA 2010: Workshop on Coordination, Collaboration and Ad-hoc Processes, and the HP Technology Forum in 2009 and 2010.

He has published 3 books and has published a number of papers.

Minh Duc has over 18 years of IT experience across various sectors that include education, banking, manufacturing, telecommunication and currently working for MOHH in the healthcare sector. Through the years, Minh Duc had held positions that extend from system analyst to Chief Enterprise Architect. Some of his recent works include:

• Setting up and operating architecture governance and architecture policies;
• Developing Enterprise Architecture and strategy;
• Providing business consultation and planning Business/IT alignment strategy.
• End-to-end delivery of various enterprise solutions that include B2B integration solutions, Regional CRM solutions, front/back office solutions, enterprise warehouse and customer/business intelligence solutions.
• Enterprise risk architecture framework and implementation of systems/processes in support of regulatory requirements and guidelines.

Since Joining MOHH, Minh Duc has work on CIC (Community and Integrated Care) and PHM (Personal Health Management) enterprise architecture. He has also helped define MOHH' architecture governance & operation framework. Minh Duc is now working on the next phase of NEHR architecture.

Manoj Das is Director of Product Management for Oracle. His focus is on Fusion Middleware. Manoj joined Oracle from the Siebel acquisition where he was responsible for driving the next generation process-centric application platform. He is a prolific author and speaker on BPM and SOA technologies around the world.

John DesJardins is the Chief Architect for the insurance and healthcare industries for Software AG. John brings over 15 years of experience and has spoken at several international events on the topics of SOA and BPM. He has worked with many of Software AG's insurance and healthcare customers, including Liberty Mutual, Wellpoint, The Hartford, Johnson & Johnson, GE, Alere and Preferred Care Partners. His experience spans all aspects of IT leadership, from business strategy to enterprise architecture, and architecting solutions in the areas of business process management, business process measurement and improvement.

John Dodd- CSC has over 40 years experience and is the. Chief Architect for the SOA-based transformation projects for CMS. 

Thomas Erl is a best-selling IT author and founder of SOASchool.com® and CloudSchool.com™. Thomas has been the world's top-selling SOA author for over five years and is the series editor of the Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl (www.soabooks.com), as well as the editor of the Service Technology Magazine (www.servicetechmag.com). With over 140,000 copies in print world-wide, his seven published books have become international bestsellers and have been formally endorsed by senior members of major IT organizations, such as IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Intel, Accenture, IEEE, HL7, MITRE, SAP, CISCO, HP, and others.

Three of his books, SOA Design Patterns, SOA Principles of Service Design, and SOA Governance, 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 several new books dedicated to topic areas such as cloud computing, modern service technologies, and service-orientation.

As CEO of Arcitura Education Inc. and SOA Systems Inc. and in cooperation with SOASchool.com® and CloudSchool.com™, Thomas has led the development of curricula for the internationally recognized SOA Certified Professional (SOACP) and Cloud Certified Professional (CCP) accreditation programs, which have established a series of formal, vendor-neutral industry certifications.

Thomas is the founding member of the SOA Manifesto Working Group and author of the Annotated SOA Manifesto (www.soa-manifesto.com). He is a member of the APQC Service-Orientation Maturity Model (SOMM) Advisory Council, co-chair of the SOA Education Committee, and he further oversees the SOAPatterns.org and CloudPatterns.org initiatives, which are dedicated to the on-going development of master pattern catalogs for service-oriented computing and cloud computing.

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

Tom Fausel is the Chief Architect and Development Team Manager at Post-n-Track. In these roles Tom is responsible for the company's SOA strategy as well as its SaaS platform design and development. He has a BA Degree in Mathematics from CCCU and a MA in Economics and Finance from Trinity College. He started his IT career in 1977 as a programmer for Little Aetna Insurance Company - now part of CIGNA. He has spent the last 33 years actively developing information systems, training others and providing management consulting services. He taught at Central Connecticut State University throughout the 1980s and provided extensive corporate training in the use of Oracle's RDBMS and Tools. He was a founding partner and CEO of a computer consulting firm for 25 years and specialized in Management Consulting and Enterprise Architecture Program Development at major financial institutions.

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Dr. Fridsma is the director of the Office of Standards and Interoperability in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. He is currently on leave from the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Arizona State University and from his clinical practice at Mayo Clinic Scottsdale.
 
Dr. Fridsma completed his medical training at the University of Michigan in 1990, and his PhD in Biomedical Informatics from Stanford University in 2003. His research interests include the development of computational tools to study patient safety, clinical work processes, and methods to improve model-driven standards development processes. He has served on the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) Board of Directors from 2005-2008, and was appointed to the HIT Standards Committee in 2009. He recently resigned from the HIT SC to become the acting director of the Office of Interoperability and Standards at ONC.

Matthew Hause is Atego's Chief Consulting Engineer, the co-chair of the UPDM group and a member of the OMG SysML specification team. He has been developing systems for over 35 years. He started out working in the Power Systems Industry, and has been involved in Military Systems, Rail and Transportation, Process Control, Communications, SCADA, Distributed Control, and many other areas of systems development. His roles have varied from project manager to developer. His role at Artisan includes mentoring, sales presentations, standards development and training courses. He has written a series of white papers on Systems Engineering, Enterprise Architecture Modeling, Project Management, Model-based Engineering, Human Factors, Safety Critical Systems development, Virtual Team Management, and Systems and Software Development with UML, SysML and Architectural Frameworks such as DoDAF. He has been a regular presenter at INCOSE, IEEE, BCS, IET, OMG, the DoD Architecture and many other conferences. Matthew studied Electrical Engineering at the University of New Mexico and Computer Science at the University of Houston. In his spare time he is a church organist, choir director and composer.

Dr. Huff is Professor (Clinical) of Medical Informatics at the University of Utah, and the Chief Medical Informatics Officer at Intermountain Healthcare. Intermountain Healthcare is a charitable not-for-profit health care organization in the intermountain west that includes 24 hospitals, numerous primary care and specialty clinics, and a health plans (health insurance) division. He has worked in the area of medical vocabularies and medical database architecture for the past 20 years. He is currently a co-chair of the Logical Observation Identifier Names and Codes (LOINC) Committee, a member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA), a member of the Board of Directors of HL7, and a member of the HIT Standards Committee. He teaches a course in medical vocabulary and data exchange standards at the University of Utah.

Stephen Hufnagel PhD, Architect and System Engineer is the Military Health System (MHS) representative to the Health and Human Services (HHS) Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP). In that capacity, he is the co-chair of the HITSP Provider Perspective Technical Committee responsible for the development of HITSP Interoperability Specifications.

Dr. Ivar Jacobson is a father of components and component architecture, use cases, the Unified Modeling Language and the Rational Unified Process. He has contributed to modern business modeling and aspect-oriented software development. However, all this is history. Lately he has been working on how to deal with methods and tools in a super-light and agile way. He has developed a practice concept that is now being adopted by both developers and tool vendors. Now he is one of the leaders of a worldwide network Semat, which has agreed to revolutionize software development.

He is also the principal author of six influential and best-selling books.

Ivar Jacobson is the chairman of Ivar Jacobson International which has subsidiaries in the US, UK, The Netherlands, China, Singapore, Sweden and Canada.

As the Chief Executive Officer of HL7, Dr. Jaffe serves as the organization's global ambassador, fostering relationships with key industry stakeholders. A 37-year veteran of the healthcare IT industry, Dr. Jaffe was previously the Senior Global Strategist for the Digital Health Group at Intel Corporation, Vice President of Life Sciences at SAIC, and the Director of Medical Informatics at AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals. He completed his medical training at Johns Hopkins and Duke Universities, and was a post-doctoral fellow at the National Institutes of Health and at Georgetown University. Formerly, he was President of InforMed, an informatics consultancy for research informatics. Over the course of his career, he has been the principal investigator for more than 200 clinical trials, and has served in various leadership roles in the American Medical Informatics Association. He has been a board member on leading organizations for information technology standards, and served as the chair of a national institutional review board. Most recently, he held an appointment in the Department of Engineering at Penn State University. Dr. Jaffe has been the contributing editor for several journals and has published on a range of subjects, including clinical management, informatics deployment, and healthcare policy.

Dr. Kawamoto is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Clinical Informatics in the Department of Community and Family Medicine at Duke University Medical Center. Following undergraduate training in the biochemical sciences at Harvard University, Dr. Kawamoto completed a doctoral training program in medical informatics at Duke University. He will also earn an M.D. from Duke University in 2008. Dr. Kawamoto is an expert on the use of information systems to support clinical decision making. He has designed and/or implemented several operational clinical decison support systems, including a system used to provide point-of-care disease management advice within the Duke University Health System and a population health management system used to manage the health of Medicaid beneficiaries residing in a five-county region in North Carolina. Dr. Kawamoto is also an expert on healthcare information technology standards. He is an active member of the Clinical Decision Support and Services Oriented Architecture committees of the Health Level 7 (HL7) standards development organization, and he is the project lead and editor of the HL7 Decision Support Service project. The HL7 Decision Support Service specification was formally adopted as a draft international standard in September 2006.

Dr. Robert D. Kent is a Professor in the School of Computer Science. His primary research focus is in the design of Intelligent DSS for Healthcare, particularly the area of Injury Prevention. This work incorporates semantics, data warehousing and mining, services, agent based modeling and simulation, network security, distributed authorization and continuous auditing, and other factors. Dr. Kent is actively involved in identifying opportunities for knowledge transfer from laboratory research to healthcare application development through collaborations with stakeholders.

Larry Kerschberg is Co-Director of the Mason Center for Health Information Technology and Professor of Computer Science at The Volgenau School of Engineering at George Mason University.

He received his Ph.D. degree in Systems Engineering from Case Western Reserve University, his MS in Electrical Engineering from University of Wisconsin - Madison, and his BS in Engineering Science from Case Institute of Technology. He was a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Telephone Laboratories, and has had academic positions at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, University of Maryland - College Park, University of South Carolina at Columbia, and for the past 24 years, at George Mason University.

He served as Chairman of the Information and Software Engineering Department at Mason, from 1989-1997. In 1998 Kerschberg was a fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and spent 10 weeks at the Kambayashi Lab at Kyoto University.

Dr. Kerschberg's research areas include intelligent agents, intelligent integration of information, ontology and knowledge management, semantic search, enterprise architecture, e-commerce, and data modeling. He is the co-creator of the Functional Data Model, which advocates a functional approach to organizing data, and this approach matches nicely with the research currently being done on the Semantic Web. He has numerous publications in these areas and had edited books dealing with Expert Database Systems, Semantic Transaction Management, and the Functional Approach to Data Management. Since 1992, he has been a founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, published by Springer.

He served as Program Chair for the Scientific and Statistical Database Conference in 2001. He was Keynote Speaker at the Third Conference on Professional Knowledge Management, April 2005, Kaiserslautern, Germany and the Seventh International Conference on Case Based Reasoning, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 2007. He holds a patent on Semantic Search Techniques, Patent Number: 7, 117,207 B1, issued October 2006.

Kerschberg's research has been funded by DARPA, ARDA, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), NASA, Virginia's Center for Innovative Technology, and Hughes Applied Information Systems. From 1992-1995 he was a Principal Investigator for DARPA's Intelligent Information Integration (I*3) program, which formulated a reference service architecture that include wrappers, mediators, and brokers. He led the Computer and Information Science subgroup of the NASA Independent Architecture Study.

Alean is a founder and President of Software Partners LLC since 1992 ( www.swpartners.com, www.matchmerge.com ).  Alean's company has 11 years experience supporting the San Diego Regional Immunization Registry (SDIR), with software and services, and supports the State of Massachusetts with vaccine forecast web services. With SDIR, Software Partners also supports a San Diego-based Health Information Exchange (HIE), leveraging immunization information system (IIS) resources and experience to jumpstart healthcare interoperability in San Diego. Her work with healthcare interoperability Standards Development Organizations (SDOs), including Health Level Seven (HL7), the Object Management Group (OMG), Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE), Public Health Data Standards Consortium (PHDSC), the American Immunization Registry Association (AIRA), is aimed at leveraging the progress in a particular public health use case, that of immunizations, to further health information exchange generally. Alean's educational background is in computer science. She holds a Master's degree in computer science from the University of California, San Diego.

Affiliations:

Software Partners LLC, President
Co-chair, HL7 Public Health and Emergency Response (PHER) Workgroup
Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) member, profile editor

Most recent speaking engagements:

1. SOA in Healthcare conference in Sydney, Australia January 2011
2. Ambassador presentation on Meaningful Use and Public Health, HL7 Working Group Meeting Cambridge Massachusettes September 2010
3. SOA in Healthcare in Washington DC, July 2010

Dr. Ziad Kobti is an assistant professor in the School of Computer Science at the University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada. He received his Ph.D. from Wayne State University, Michigan (2004), specializing in modeling hierarchical human social networks and cultural evolution. He received his B.Sc. Honors with a double major in Biological and Computer Sciences (1996) and an M.Sc. in Computer Science (1999) from the University of Windsor. He is an active researcher and lecturer at the University of Windsor and a researcher at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at Wayne State University. Industrial work experience includes programmer/analyst positions on large scale corporate software systems and independent IT consultant. Profiled projects include a national award winning critical-time client/server and distributed database software solution for the emergency freight trucking industry, government funded civil and environmental engineering software, technial educator and corporate trainer in community college and industry.

Raik Kuhlisch, MSc, expert in SOA for healthcare and respective standards. Lead of the PHR implementation and testing group.

Puneet Lamba is a Senior Manager at Sapient Corporation, a technology consulting company. Puneet has over 17 years of experience delivering solutions to clients in various industries including health care and financial services. Puneet studied electrical engineering at IIT, Roorkee and computer science at the University of Windsor in Ontario.

Robert Lario is the Founder and Principal for visumpoint, an Atlanta-based enterprise architecture strategy group. With more than 25 years of experience helping Fortune 100 companies position their IT strategy to support their overall business strategy, he has repeatedly demonstrated his ability to plan, develop and deploy cutting edge solutions to address business needs.  He is on the submission team and co-author of the Unified Profile for DoDAF and MODAF (UPDM).
 
Robert serves on the Board of Directors for the Object Management Group (OMG). He has contributed to or supported numerous standards development initiatives including SOA Modeling Language (SoaML), Unified Profile for DoDAF and MODAF (UPDM), Business Process Management (BPM), and Unified Modeling Language (UML). He was a contributing author to the OMG Certified Expert in BPM (OCEB) examination. In addition, he is TOGAF certified and SEI ATAM certified.
Robert has an MBA from The Wharton School of Business, a Masters in Systems Engineering from The University of Pennsylvania, and an undergraduate degree in Computer Science from Old Dominion University.

Steve is a strategic advisor and solution architect with over 20 years experience designing highly modular distributed applications and service-oriented solutions. He was a Senior Principal Consultant with webMethods, Inc. where he assisted companies deploying integration, SOA, and BPM solutions. His background in knowledge representation and ontology engineering gives him a unique perspective on information semantics, translations, and canonical models. He is writing a book to help IT executives better understand how to leverage SOA and Service-Oriented Integration for business agility.
Previous speaking engagements include a presentation at the WebMethods User Conference in 2007, and a keynote address at OSS World (telecom industry) in 2002.

Dr. Lee, as Vice President at Samsung SDS America's Public Sector, leads development, integration, and implementation of the company’s strategy for the public sector market, including marketing, business development, research and development, project management, and mergers and acquisitions. Before joining Samsung SDS, Dr. Lee, as Chief Architect at Lockheed Martin’s the largest environmental program, was responsible for managing the program's technology decisions, architecture, and business development. Dr. Lee worked as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Lockheed Martin Environmental and Technology Services (E&TS) Line of Business (LoB). Lee also worked as senior project manager and software engineer at Northrop Grumman and TRW, where he developed, integrated, and maintained various enterprise systems for the US Department of Defense with SEI-CMMI Maturity Level 5. Lee received Ph.D. in engineering management and systems engineering from George Washington University. He holds a bachelor's degree in business administration (Summa Cum Laude) from the Ohio State University, as well as master's degree in information and telecommunication systems from Johns Hopkins University.

Mr. Lewis has been in the software engineering field for over 25 years, 13 of them in Healthcare. He has been in a Principal position for over 7 years, with both Premier Inc (formerly Carescience) and with GSI Health. He has been responsible for major Enterprise Integration Architecture and SOA architecture projects in this time, constantly leveraging state of the art techniques in Java Enterprise Application development. Carescience/Premier based products have been in production for several years, and work with HL7/2.X, XML and proprietary streaming and batch formats. Current architecture, design and development work for GSI Health are SOA based using SOAP Web Services, ESB layering and leveraging HL7/2.X,HL7/CDA, XACML, IHE, and HITSP standards. This work is currently in production for the State of New York Department of Health and the THINC RHIO. Mr. Lewis has architected and implemented a full suite of IHE based, Connectathon Certified, HIE services. He has also been highly involved with the design and development of Reference Implementation for the NHIN Direct Project, supported by the ONC.

Mr. Lord has founded and led the efforts of three successful software businesses. He conceived and developed the initial product strategy for ObjectSpark ™ when with ONTOS and engineered its acquisition and the creation of FireStar Software, Inc. He has thirty years of software marketing, management, and start-up experience and has been involved in the data integration sector since 1984. Prior to becoming CEO of FireStar, Ken was President and CEO at QuickBuy, an early-stage e-commerce Application Service Provider, and he was one of the three founders of Constellation Software (sold to Ardent Software, and ultimately acquired by IBM). Mr. Lord holds a B.S. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management and a M.S. in Accounting from Bentley College.

Ms. Maloles has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemistry from the University of California, Riverside and a Master of Science Degree in Computer Science from the California State University, Fullerton. She also served as faculty to the California State University, Fullerton, Computer Science Department for several years teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in computer science and engineering.

Recent speaking engagement:

Military Wireless Conference on December 15, 2010 (Building MANET Tactical Applications: Affordable, Interoperable and Secure).

Contact info: mimi.b.maloles@boeing.com 

Eric Marks is President and CEO of AgilePath Corporation, an industry leading vendor-independent Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) management consulting firm based in Newburyport, MA. (www.agile-path.com).  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 three industry-recognized SOA books including, "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 also collaborating on Executives Guide to Cloud Computing, (TBD, Wiley).

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. 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).

Risa Mayan has over ten (10) years IT experience in Healthcare and FDA regulated environments. Her expertise ranges from requirements analysis, business process improvement, application configuration and system implementation. Her previous employers include the American Red Cross where she held several leadership roles in the Biomedical IT division. Ms. Mayan has recently join the MITRE Corporation providing systems engineering advice to federal agencies.

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Dr Melo is a member of MITRE technical staff. He is responsible for providing assistance in the design and development of System Architectures for federal civilian agencies. He is the (co-) author of more than 50 papers published in conferences, journals, and books. He holds a doctor degree in computer science for Grenoble University and a post-doctoral at University of Maryland. His areas of interest are: semantic web, system modeling, and software engineering.

Mr. Walt Okon is Senior Architecture Engineer, Enterprise Architecture & Standards Directorate, Chief Information Officer, Office of Secretary of Defense. Mr. Okon, at the Office of Secretary of Defense in the Enterprise Architecture & Standards Directorate, is a Senior Architecture Engineer who leads the DoD program on Standards and Technical Direction by leading the adoption of enterprise architecture and net-centric services engineering initiatives. In addition, he is the DoD Lead Engineer for DoD Information Sharing. Colonel Okon was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in US Air Force. He has a Bachelor's of Arts Degree in English from La Salle University in Philadelphia and a Master of Science in Telecommunications Management from the University of Southern Mississippi. He completed the Air War College, the National Defense Security Management Seminar, the Air Command and Staff College, and the Squadron Officer's School. Colonel Okon's Air Force career assignments included Tactical Air Command; Division Chief in the Strategic Air Command; AUTOVON Manager for the Defense Communications Agency; IG Team Chief for the Air Force Communications Command; Commander for Communications and Air Traffic Control in Spain. Mr. Okon was selected for civil service at the Defense Information Systems Agency and served as Quality Management Principal; WebMaster; Division Chief for Information Resource Division, Applications, and Chief Engineer of the Electronic Commerce Engineering and Chief of Net-Centric Enterprise Services (NCES) Systems Engineering. He graduated from the Executive Leadership Development Program (ELDP) and the Federal Executive Institute. In June 2006, Mr. Okon was selected to joint the OSD Architecture & Interoperability team by the DoD Chief Architect.

Ms. Nancy Orvis is currently the Director of Business Architecture, National Standards and Interoperability within the DoD Military Health System's (MHS's) Office of Information Management in Falls Church, Virginia. In the past year, Nancy has taken on the new role of managing the MHS Business Architecture and leveraging portfolio investments towards greater interoperability. Her responsibilities include developing the MHS Business Architecture as a framework linking MHS strategic goals to IM/IT portfolio management, and supporting requirements for new initiatives. She is also responsible for overseeing integrated design of process models and data architecture, establishing functional data governance, and the enabling of service aware business solutions. For several years Nancy has co-chaired the DoD/VA Health Architecture and Interagency Group (HAIG) advising the MHS and Veteran's Health Admistration (VHA) CIOs on architecture methods and products for health data sharing. She coordinated the reengineering of a single set of patient administration rules for the MHS Composite Health Care System, and development of the early versions of MHS Enterprise Architecture. She currently serves as the DOD lead on interagency initiatives such as the Federal Health Architecture e-government initiative and the Federal Health Information and Terminology Models.

Nancy has been a DoD member of X12N and HL7 for over 10 years, and was appointed to the HIT Standards Committee in 2009. She is the MHS lead to health Standards Development Organizations (SDOs), HITSP and the new ONC Standards and Interoperability Framework. Nancy's background working in a wide variety of health care practice settings . from medical research, to patient administration in academic medical centers and HMOs, to health information systems management consulting and implementation experience in the federal military health system -- gives her a unique insight and perspective into the nation's, and our patients' need for secure, interoperable EHRs and health information exchange.

Renu Pandit-Pant is a Senior Manager in Deloitte's Technology practice, known for her unique blend of business operations and technology experience. She has over 12 years of experience managing complex technology programs, enterprise architecture initiatives and transformation initiatives. Renu is a subject matter expert in the management of large scale transformation programs, BPM, business activity monitoring (BAM), enterprise service bus (ESB) architecture, SOA and data architecture. She leads the Health Care and Life Sciences segment of Deloitte's Services Thinking initiative and has authored white papers on BPM and SOA adoption. Renu is a TOGAF-certified enterprise architect. She is a past presenter at the OMG's SOA in Healthcare conference.

Over 15 years of experience building solutions that leverage technology in health care space. He has a strong passion for problem solving and found the challenge in health care IT.

He is responsible for emerging technologies, evaluation, evangelizing and building solutions for Fallon community health plan. The company is unique in the sense they are both a health plan and a provider.

His technology focus is SOA, Federated Security, Usability and Health Information Exchange.

Leads the Information technology group and champions the cause of technology in health care by building collaborative win-win solutions. By adopting newer ways of doing things in IT, he is looking to build healthier communities and improved care delivery.

Jean Prater is a Principal Product Manager, Fusion Middleware for Government and Healthcare at Oracle. She has over 20 years in Information Technology and over 7 years in Healthcare both at Oracle and Sun.

Chief Technology Officer, Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare

Olaf Rode, MSc, expert in identity and access management solutions for hospitals and in specification and operation of security related services and infrastructures (e. g. PKI). Technical project manager of the German PHR R&D project.

Ken Rubin is the Chief Healthcare Architect for the [US] Federal Healthcare Portfolio for HP Enterprise Services. Primarily focused on healthcare enterprise architecture, informatics, and electronic health record interoperability, Mr. Rubin co-chairs and founded the HL7 SOA Workgroup, co-chairs the OMG Healthcare Domain Task Force, and established the Healthcare Services Specification Project (HSSP) - a collaboration between standards bodies to produce health industry SOA standards.

Mr. Paul D. Schoen is the Executive Director for the Infrastructure Software Development group which includes the development and deployment of the System of System Common Operating Environment (SOSCOE) as part of the Brigade Combat Team - Modernization (BCT-M) Army program as well as application of SOSCOE to commercial & international programs. Prior to this assignment, Paul was in the Boeing Phantom Works organization responsible for the development of advance Net Centric software applications and the Tactical Domain SOA that was the predecessor of SOSCOE. Paul also served as the Laboratory Strategic Leader for Simulation, system integration and software development laboratories for the Enterprise Labs organization of Phantom Works.

Paul joined Boeing as part of the Boeing Rockwell merger and has 37 consecutive years of service for these companies in the development and deployment of software systems.

Paul began his career with North American Rockwell (later Rockwell) as a simulation software engineer developing real-time man-in-the-loop simulators for the Space Shuttle program and eventually became the senior manager of the group. During his career he was the Project Manager for a number of programs including the A-6E GPS flight units, the B-1B Factory / Flight line test systems, Shuttle Logistics Depot ATE system and assorted other NASA & Military ground test activities. He was the Chief Engineer for the Rockwell defense conversion activity called Strike Force that developed a series of operational products for the USDA Forest Service that allowed the application of Network Centric Operation Principles to the USDA Forest Service Region 5 command centers (as well as California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection).

Mr. Schoen has a Bachelors of Science from UCLA (1974) in Physics and attended graduate school in physics at UCLA until 1976. He completed his Masters Degree in 1980 at California State University, Fullerton, in Electric Engineering (computer design emphasis). He also has a Certificate in Artificial Intelligence (1986) from UCLA Extension.

Previous 3 speaking engagements:

1. November 2010 - Land Warfare Conference (both Conference and Workshop sessions, Brisbane, Australia
2. January 2010 - Net Centric Warfare 2010 Conference, Washington DC, USA
3. October 2009 - Military Alternate Energy Conference 2009, Alexandria, VA

Shahid N. Shah is an internationally recognized and influential healthcare IT thought leader who is known as "The Healthcare IT Guy" across the Internet. He is a consultant to various federal agenices on SOA implementations and winner of Federal Computer Week's coveted "Fed 100" award given to IT experts that have made a big impact in the government. Shahid has architected and built multiple service-oriented clinical solutions over his almost 20 year career. He helped design and deploy the American Red Cross's electronic health record solution across thousands of sites; he's built two web-based EMRs now in use by hundreds of physicians; he's designed large groupware and collaboration sites in use by thousands; and, as an ex-CTO for a billion dollar division of CardinalHealth he helped design advanced clinical interfaces for medical devices and hospitals. Shahid also serves as a senior technology strategy advisor to NIH's SBIR/STTR program helping small businesses commercialize their healthcare applications.

Shahid runs three successful blogs. At http://shahid.shah.org he writes about architecture issues, at http://www.healthcareguy.com he provides valuable insights on how to apply technology in health care, at http://www.federalarchitect.com he advises senior federal technologists, and at http://www.hitsphere.com he gives a glimpse of the health-care IT blogosphere as an aggregator.

Tony Shan is a renowned thought leader and technology visionary with ¼ century of field experience and guru-level expertise on cutting-edge enterprise computing. Specialized in pragmatic solutioning by converging complex technologies and accelerating cross-disciplinary practices as an entrepreneur/intrepreneur, he has a proven track record of repeated success in directing and advising the lifecycle design and delivery of large-scale distributed systems on diverse platforms in Fortune 50 companies and public sector organizations. His innovative work on emerging technologies like Cloud, SOA, and Social has earned multiple awards and honors. He is a regular keynote speaker and organizer in over 100 preeminent conferences, an author of 10+ books, an editor/advisory board of IT journals, and a founder of several user groups and forums.

Dr. Dongwook Shin has 20 years of IT and medical informatics experience. He got BE degree in computer engineering from Seoul National University, Korea and PhD from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. He was a visiting scholar in Lister Hill Center of National Library of Medicine and worked for IT companies many years. He published many papers related to medical informatics field. Currently, he is leading projects on Clinical Decision Support System and PUBMED visualization tool using natural language processing technique and Adobe Flash/Flex in National Library of medicine, NIH.

Areas of Interest
Strategic Partnerships, Health Sector partnerships and innovation, Automotive and health sector research, product development and commercialization

Research Interests
Injury Prevention, health sector leadership and management, automotive sector partnerships for product development, information technologies in health care

Teaching Interests
Business perspectives applied to health care, product development and commercialization, research methods for business applications, health policy

Administrative Experience
Vice President, Womens and Childrens Program, Windsor Regional Hospital, Chief Nursing Officer, Windsor Regional Hospital

Theme A Coordinator: Automotive Health and Safety Research, AUTO21 Network of Centres of Excellence (research administration)

B.Sc.N.: University of Western Ontario
M.Sc.: McGill University
Ph.D.: University of Michigan

Mr. Solbrig has contributed to the field of terminology services through numerous engagements both within and outside of the standards community, including ISO/IEC JTC1 SC32 WG 2, ISO TC 37, ISO TC 215, HL7, and the OMG. He has served as editor and co-author on multiple international standards and is the architect of the LexGrid data model and LexEVS services and is currently working on integrating classifications, data models and ontologies through semi-structured authoring tools and semantic wikis.

Glenn Sperle is the Director of Enterprise Services and Architecture for the Office of Clinical Standards and Quality(OCSQ)

Jean Stanford is a member of MITRE technical staff. She has been working in the field of biomedical informatics for thirty-five years. She has worked with payers, life science companies and health care provider organizations of all sizes. The focus of her work has been on the application of systems to clinical data integration, health care quality improvement and life sciences research.

Tajh Taylor is an expert in enterprise integration with 15 years of experience in service-oriented architecture (SOA), software engineering and information technology consulting. He is SOA solution lead for Washington Consulting, Inc.'s Technology Solutions Group and has a broad range of IT and consulting skills. His industry experience spans commercial and government clients, including cancer research, bioinformatics, maritime, meteorology, aerospace and politics. His technical expertise includes software and system engineering, system integration, enterprise content management and enterprise architecture. He is currently the chief technical advisor for a satellite ground systems program at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Previously, he has been a technical architect at the National Cancer Institute Center for Bioinformatics on the Cancer Bioinformatics Grid (caBIG) program, and a chief software architect for the Enterprise Document Management System for Citizenship and Immigration Services. He holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Cheong Chuan has over 18 years in Healthcare IT experiences including System Design & Delivery, Project and Vendor Management and has Led and managed project team in supporting several mission critical IT systems.

Some of his recent years work include:

• Strategic IT planning
• Development of Enterprise Governance Architecture for the SingHealth Cluster in Singapore
• Development of Enterprise Architecture Methodology for IHiS
• Development of Chronic Disease Management programme Blueprint

Currently, he managed the EA programme within IHiS, analyze and document business processes for the various EA engagements with clusters. He also helps to review, refine and enforce the IHiS EA framework and methodology. Cheong Chuan is intimately involved in the identification of IT-related requirements and solutions for each line of Business for the clusters.

Dr. Tibbits was inducted into Senior Executive Service in February 2004, appointed Deputy Chief Information Officer for Enterprise Development for Department of Veterans Affairs on 7 December 2006 - July 2010. He is currently the Deputy Chief Information Officer for Architecture, Strategy, and Design.

Dr. Tibbits served in DoD as Director of the Business Management and Modernization Program and Transformation Support Office until September 2005, then served as Deputy Director of Military Health System Office of Transformation, representing Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs). While at VA, Dr. Tibbits led the Transformation-21 Work Group to set in place the IT organization, processes, projects, and knowledge management tools necessary to prepare VA to operate in the 21st century.

Dr. Tibbits is an experienced executive in change management, organizational development, global health IT systems, planning, problem-solving, metrics, outsourcing, contracts, finance, employee effectiveness, and customer satisfaction.
Dr. Tibbits served as Program Executive Officer of $400M Defense IT enterprise, with 18 yrs leading change management, process re-engineering, and IT initiatives supporting health care of 8.5M people, 50M visits, 1M admissions annually in Military Health System.

Dr. Tibbits led IT operations for approximately 100 hospitals, 500 clinics, 100 data centers, networks, and 125,000 desktops; and implemented controls to manage total ownership costs.

Sumeet Vij is Chief IT Engineer for a Group at Alion Science, a Domain OMG member. He is responsible for shaping advanced IT solutions in the SOA, Web Services, Business Process Modeling, and Distributed Computing arena.
Sumeet is a highly accomplished technology leader with a of proven track record of successfully providing enterprise-level vision, strategy and execution of complex technology initiatives from concept to production in the DoD & commercial sector. He has been a pioneer in the field of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) starting with the first implementation of XML-RPC (US Patent: 7028312, circa 1999), the precursor to current day SOAP. He has led large development teams creating enterprise software products like the webMethods Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and Business Process Management (BPM) execution engine. He has published and presented in the fields of SOA/BPM/BPMN.

Lowell Vizenor is a highly accomplished semantic technology leader with over 10 years of experience applying semantic solutions to academia, industry and government projects. As Alion's Ontology Semantic Technology Practice Lead, he is responsible for the overall vision of Alion's Ontology and Semantic Technology practice across multiple verticals, including Aerospace, Command and Control, Healthcare, and Modeling and Simulation. Currently he is the Lead Semantic Architect in support of the Joint Planning and Development Office's Net-Centric Operations Division's mission to implement efficient, sustainable, and reusable inter-organizational Information Exchange Services in support of the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen), a Congressionally-mandated initiative to modernize the U.S. Air Transportation System. He worked at several companies prior to coming to Alion, where he primarily developed ontology-driven applications across multiple domains such as Bio-surveillence and Healthcare. From 2002 to 2004, he was a Research Fellow at the Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Sciences (IFOMIS) in Leipzig, Germany (now located in Saarbrucken, Germany). His primary research at IFOMIS applied formal-ontological principles to evaluate health information models such as the Health Level Seven (HL7) Reference Information Model (RIM). In 2005, he received his PhD in Philosophy from the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. After receiving his PhD, he spent a year at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD in the Postdoctoral Research Program at the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications (a research division of the U.S. National Library of Medicine).

Washington Consulting, Inc., a subsidiary company of Alion Science and Technology Corporation, is a technology solutions company delivering technical expertise and operational support to customers within the Department of Defense, civilian government agencies and commercial customers. We provide leading edge engineering, research & development and IT solutions supporting areas of national and global significance. Our Health IT services address a wide array of public sector needs including modernizing and transitioning to improved electronic health systems, establishing standards for interoperability, supporting life sciences and biomedical domains, and IT solution support from strategy and planning through to implementation and deployment.

Mr. Dennis E. Wisnosky is the Chief Architect and Chief Technical Officer (CTO) of the Department of Defense (DoD) Business Mission Area (BMA) within the Office of the Deputy Chief Management Officer (DCMO).
 
As Chief Architect and CTO, Mr. Wisnosky is responsible for providing expert guidance and oversight in the design, development, and modification of the federated architectures supporting the Department's Business Mission Area. This role incorporates oversight of the DoD Business Enterprise Architecture (BEA); the corporate level systems, processes, and data standards that are common across the DOD, in addition to the business architectures of the services and defense agencies.
 
Mr. Wisnosky is leading the transformation of architecture-driven business systems and services development, and deployment. He ensures that Business Process Models are based on a standardized representation, enabling the analysis and comparison of end-to-end business processes leading to the re-use of the most efficient and effective process patterns and elements throughout the DoD Business Mission Area. A key principle in DoD business transformation is its focus on data ontology and semantic web methods. Mr. Wisnosky also serves as an advisor on the development of requirements and extension of DoD net-centric enterprise services in collaboration with the office of the DOD Chief Information Officer (CIO).
 
Mr. Wisnosky has over 25 years of experience in manufacturing, Information Technology (IT), engineering, consulting and training, including extensive experience in business process reengineering and enterprise architecture efforts. His specialty is deriving solutions to effectively move organizations from their "as-is" state of inefficiency to their "to-be" state of achieving strategic and tactical objectives. Mr. Wisnosky is recognized as a creator of the Integrated Definition (IDEFs) language, the standard for modeling and analysis in management and business improvement efforts. In addition, he is the author of several books including DoDAF Wizdom, considered the decisive source within DoD and other government organizations for managing enterprise architecture projects. Mr. Wisnosky holds a bachelor's degree in Physics and Mathematics from California University of Pennsylvania, a master's in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh, and a master's in Management Science from the University of Dayton. Mr. Wisnosky has received numerous awards and honors for his work. In 2007 Mr. Wisnosky was a recipient of Federal Computer Week's, Federal 100 Award.
 
Mr. Wisnosky is a PADI certified Rescue Diver, and an Instrument Rated Private Pilot in Multiengine Aircraft. He and his wife live in Naperville, Illinois; they have three daughters and eight grandchildren.

Atif Zahid is a PhD student in the School of Computer Science. Dr. Anne Snowdon is Professor at the Odette School of Business. Dr. Ziad Kobti is Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science.

Mr. Zhong is Chief Technology Officer (Acting) and Chief SOA Architect at Futrend Technology, Inc (http://www.futrend.com). In this capacity, he provides thought leadership, architecture guidance and hands-on implementation support for Futrend's federal clients in the areas of E-Government and mission critical systems' integration. He has been working in various architect roles for more than a decade and has extensive experience in software architecture, application architecture, enterprise architecture, security architecture, and Service-Oriented Architecture. In the last ten years, he has been providing professional services to clients in the public sector such as National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) of the U.S. Department of Commerce, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) of the U.S. Department of Energy and the General Services Administration (GSA).

He is a Sun Certified Enterprise Architect (SCEA), and is certified in Architect, XML and ITIL from industry leaders such as Sun Microsystems, Oracle and IBM. Zhong earned his Masters of Science degree from University of Maryland College Park. He has had numerous articles published on Java EE, enterprise architecture, enterprise Single Sign-On, and XML related technologies.

Public Speeches

1. NIH Enterprise Architecture Topic Series, February 2011, From abstract SOA design principles to concrete business Results: Four years of practices and five successful SOA integration projects at NIH Business System program
2. Smithsonian Institution CIO Architecture Briefing, May 2008, Introduction to Service Oriented Architecture - How to jump start the very first SOA project
3. Program Support Center of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, October 2009, Use Enterprise Service Bus to integrate loosely coupled information systems

Publications:

1. A Case Study on SOA and Process: Integrating E-Gov Travel Services with Federal Agency Financial Systems (Part II), SOAMAG, Thomas Erl edited, October 2009 http://soamag.com/I33/1009-4.php
2. A Case Study on SOA and Process: Integrating E-Gov Travel Services with Federal Agency Financial Systems (Part I) SOAMAG, Thomas Erl edited, September 2009 http://soamag.com/I32/0909-1.php
3. From Stove-piped Projects to Unified Enterprise Architecture: Strategic considerations for E-Authentication service development; http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-2003/jw-0321-sso.html 

Mr. Zhu is a Senior Principal Software Engineer at Alion and Science and Technologies. In this position, he leads the effort to layout the SOA infrastructure for effective information sharing for US government agencies and private partners involved in modernizing the US national air transportation system. Consistent with the DoD net-centric data strategy, the infrastructure will provided enhanced service discoverability and interoperability by leveraging semantic web service architectures and open standards. Mr. Zhu is also an expert in SOA and web service technologies, with extensive experiences in delivering large scale SOA solutions often involving key infrastructure components such as Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and service registries.