Enterprise Architecture Open House 2008

In recent years, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Business Process Modeling (BPM) and Web Services (WS) have been extending the reach of enterprise architecture initiatives and have provided the much needed practical vehicle for transforming enterprise level models / vision into traceable, measurable, immediate business benefits. Drawing on real life project experiences, this presentation will outline practices that work, and approaches to avoid. Attendees will come away from this presentation with a better understanding of how to use the power of SOA and BPM to create immediate enterprise business value, minimize risk and, ultimately, how to plan for success.

Assen Jelezarov
Associate Director, Solution Architecture
Fujitsu Consulting

Mr. Assen Jelezarov is currently an Associate Director with the Solution Architecture Group at Fujitsu Consulting. He is a result oriented senior Enterprise Architect with proven record and accomplishments in the architecture and development of large-scale solutions and systems. Mr. Jelezarov has expert level architecture skills with an established track record in building innovative software products and solutions using frameworks, middleware, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and BPM. Mr. Jelezarov has been applying his proficient skills in enterprise and solution architecture, architecture frameworks, processes, standards, and effort / cost estimation methods to deliver superior business value on large initiatives and projects in the public, telecom, and financial industry sectors.

The purpose of this presentation is to help participants determine how they can deliver value and mange risks in their project initiatives by implementing the Government of Ontario IT Standards (GO-ITS 56.1) embedded in their Business Architecture. At the end of this one hour session the participant will be able to:

• Name three Business Architecture components that will deliver value and mitigate risks
• Identify the value of a facilitated service perspective to manage the risk of an IT solution, ensuring impact on the business
• State how their knowledge of the business architecture will help them mitigate the risk of an IT solution from conception to post implementation

This session will be highly interactive, participants will be provided with actual projects/initiatives that they will discuss/work on during.

Luis Moreno
President
Change Architects Incorporated

Mr. Moreno focuses on enabling and aligning customers to attain their business objectives. Through the identification of required performance goals and facilitation of the planning necessary to meet those goals, Mr. Moreno supports clients in realizing value throughout their change architecture initiatives. His work in Canada, since the mid 80s, includes high profile projects with senior business and IT management and professionals. He provides facilitation and advisory expertise, as well as change and project management support to organizations such as Imperial Oil, CIBC, Bates Project Management, and PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, and Canada Post Corporation.

Learn how Enterprise Architecture reference models and concept patterns can be used as starting points in developing solution architectures and designs. Reference models and patterns are powerful tools in identifying potential improvements, cost reductions, and collaboration opportunities in projects. The Ontario Government EA practice has developed standard reference models and patterns based on OPS experience and industry best practice used to improve solution quality. This session introduces reference models such as business models, and key application, technology, security, and service management patterns used in the OPS EA practice. Learn how to use these patterns and models and how they can help produce quality systems.

Dean Pigeon
Senior Business Architect
Office of the Corporate Chief Technology Officer
Ministry of Government and Consumer Services

Dean has accumulated a wealth of knowledge over the last 20+ years as an IT professional. He has successfully developed and implemented projects ranging from distributed client server applications to centralized corporate systems. He currently leads and/or guides project teams in the development of business architecture. He has been involved in the development of enterprise architecture methodologies since the OPS Enterprise Architecture program's inception in 1998. He ensures that the creation of contextual and conceptual models comply with the Government of Ontario Enterprise Architecture Process & Methods Handbook.

Joe Fernandes
Enterprise Applications Architect
Office of the Corporate Chief Technology Officer
Ministry of Government and Consumer Services

Joe Fernandes is the Enterprise Application Architect, Corporate Architecture Branch, Office of the Corporate Chief Technology Officer, Ministry of Government and Consumer Services. Joe provides architectural guidance/directions/recommendations for implementing effective enterprise application architectures, and related policies, procedures and technologies for the I&IT environments within the OPS. He has been an IT professional for over 20 years and his work experience covers the full range of IT domains including architecture, application development, network/infrastructure design and project management. For the past few years, Joe is a strong proponent of Enterprise Architecture and has been instrumental in promoting the merit and value of enterprise reusable services/components.

Norm Watt
Lead, Enterprise ITSM Program
Office of the Corporate Chief Technology Officer
Ministry of Government and Consumer Services

Norm is certified at the ITIL Service Management Masters level and has 30+ years of I&IT experience in various positions with Bell Canada, CIBC and for the past 6 years with the Ontario Government. His current role as Lead, Enterprise ITSM Program, reporting to the Office of the Corporate Chief Technology Officer (OCCTO), requires him to set direction and develop standards and policies at the enterprise level for ITSM and to assess and provide guidance to operational groups on adoption and implementation initiatives. His main clients are the 7 I&IT Clusters supporting the program needs of the various (20+) ministries and the Service Delivery organization.

Fundamentally, solving problems and responding to opportunities is not about new technologies, new funding or new techniques: it’s about people. Enterprise Business Architecture does give us a powerful set of tools, techniques, methodologies and vocabulary, but the real opportunity lies in developing the capabilities of our people to use these tools. This presentation will discuss the following topics:

• The people side of the business: The Business Performance Framework
• Deciding what’s really important in your business: The Risk/Capabilities Framework
• Building capacity: Strategic Alternatives
• 'Capabilities' are all about changing behaviour: The KUBA (Know, Understand, Believe, Act) Model of Behaviour Change
• The Challenge: People Maturity within the context of the Transformational Roadmap
• Enterprise Business Architecture career development: competencies and skills

Howard Litman
Program Director, Business Process Improvement
Nexient Learning Inc

Howard Litman is Program Director of the Business Process Improvement lines of business for Nexient Learning. He is responsible for the Business Analysis, Project Management, ITIL, and Enterprise Business Architecture training portfolios. Mr. Litman is a seasoned Information Technology professional with over 20 years of experience in systems development, support and IT management. He has held various staff and management positions with large multi-national companies. Prior to joining Nexient he performed management consulting and business analysis with organizations in the Canada and the USA. Today he works with businesses and governments to help them improve their business by upgrading their employees’ skills.

Information Analysis is a core function within public sector organizations; being used for policy development, improving operations and reviewing the effectiveness of programs developed by the government. Certain functions of information analysis can be applied as general services within the public sector and be delivered more effectively once certain economies of scale met. Services like data quality, predictive modeling and forecasting can be implemented as general services and be delivered with consistency, to support a wide range of Ministries and Agencies, This presentation includes a review of options on how these services can be delivered. Real World Case Studies: The Ohio Department of Natural Resources scored their clients to determine which were more likely to renew fishing licenses or purchase additional outdoor services (camping, hunting, etc.). They increased annual revenue by $500,000. The Australian Taxation Office used SAS to flag suspicious activity within their electronic tax filing services. The Philippine Bureau of Internal Revenue used SAS to perform "no contact audits" on sales tax declarations of large corporate clients. StateFleet fleet management arm of the New South Wales government in Australia, use SAS to predict the resale value of a vehicle at the end of its life, providing reduced fleet costs.

Steve Papagiannis
Manager, Solutions Specialists
SAS

Steve Papagiannis has over 20 years experience in the IT industry; having held a variety of positions in application development, IT management, software sales and consulting. He has consistently looked for ways to apply technology to understand human behavior (with particular interest in healthcare, automotive and retail). Using data warehousing, statistical analysis, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and applying different methods to display and deliver information, he has always found ways to deliver insight and improve decision making.

Allowing the public to fill in census data online creates a major challenge for the designers of the application and hosting solution. The solution was designed and performance tested to sustain an average load of 4,000 application hits per second, (6,000 peak) its security requirements were high (near paranoid), and IBM and the customer's public reputations rested on its availability. Nonfunctional requirements are always an important aspect of architectural solutions, in this Census they were the dominant factor. This session explores the architectural solution including hosting, the highly scalable system structure, and the use of stateless application design and server virtualisation to realise a simple high availability solution. The presentation will highlight valuable insights into how the non-functional requirements influence the architecture of the application and system solutions you design in the future. Objectives:

• Adopt better dimensioning approaches by seeing how these are applied in a high performance solution
• Create better solutions by understanding the profound effect of non-functional requirements in their architectural solutions
• Gain the experience benefits of a highly successful system solution project

Andrew Alberti
Certified IT Architect
IBM

Andrew Alberti has been working in the IT industry for 24 years. He is an IT architect with IBM Global Services, IT Strategy and Architecture practice doing infrastructure assessments and designs. He is a Master Certified IT Architect with The Open Group.

Learn how to get your projects off to a good start by evaluating your privacy risks at the beginning of your project. The Privacy Compliance Tool is designed to help OPS ministries and clusters implementing projects, which may require a Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA). The Privacy Compliance Tool enables you to start your privacy analysis early and build privacy requirements into your project plan, business processes, and design requirements. We'll walk you through the tool, the questions, and results.

Heather Clarke
Manager, Access & Privacy Office
Office of the Corporate Chief Information and Privacy Officer
Ministry of Government and Consumer Services

Heather Clarke has been the Acting Manager of Access and Privacy in the Office of the Chief Information and Privacy Officer (OCIPO), Ministry of Government and Consumer Services (MGCS) since March 2006. Heather currently represents OCIPO on the Corporate Architecture Core Team (ACT). Prior to joining MGCS, Heather worked at the Ministry of Transportation (MTO) in several roles including Project Manager for a number of business transformation initiatives in the Road User Safety Division.

Caroline Crnekovic
Senior Policy Adviser
Office of the Corporate Chief Information and Privacy Officer
Ministry of Government and Consumer Services

Caroline Crnekovic is a Senior Policy Advisor in the Access and Privacy Office, Ministry of Government and Consumer Services. Caroline has worked extensively with projects on developing and reviewing Privacy Impact Assessments. Caroline is a former Chair of the OPS Privacy Working Group and the Information Architecture Domain Working Group. Caroline has held positions human resources, IT procurement, and Treasury Board Office. Caroline holds a Master of Industrial Relations degree from Queen's University.

Enterprise Architecture in the Government of Canada is breaking through on the business side of the house and in ways you will not expect. Come see how the Federal Alignment and Interoperability team are pushing the EA envelope with their application of Business Architecture to support Enterprise Transformation and by developing the 'hidden architects' of the enterprise. Attend to discover how:

• EA becomes real for program/business managers
• How non-traditional processes contribute to EA
• How a simple duck can be a powerful transformation agent

Thomas Kearney
Senior Director, Alignment & Interoperability Division
Treasury Board Secretariat of Canada

Thom Kearney is the current Senior Director of the Alignment & Interoperability Division (AID) within the Chief Information Officer’s Branch (CIOB) of the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat. As Senior Director, Thom is responsible for overseeing numerous projects and initiatives according to the priorities established by the Chief Architect of the Government of Canada. Currently, Thom is leading the development of the Collaborative Library initiative, which aims to build a ‘Wikipedia’ for the public service, beginning with the collection and sharing of Enterprise Architecture artefacts (i.e. the words and pictures that describe the government of Canada). The collaborative library is being established to initially, support CIOB communities while building the foundation for a GC-Wide Collaborative library. This wiki is intended to be a central depository of and conduit to the collective intelligence of the government of Canada.

With his excellent understanding of the current state of service transformation, Thom looks forward to implement the vision for the next generation of Public Service.

This session is for business experts and Business Architecture practitioners. It describes a Business Architecture approach that was proven repeatedly over four separate projects. Our panel of architects and business experts will walk you through the journey. Hear how involved the business experts were in the process and find out what they gained from both the journey and the results. Follow our business architects through the approach and avoid running a workshop that starts with: “Today, we are going to make a list of all the parties in your organization”.

Donna Cramp
Senior Project Manager
Business Solutions Office
Ministry of Transportation

Donna has more than 20 years of experience leading teams through organization transformation and technology integration in the public sector. Specific to this presentation, Donna has been leading business Architecture projects in the OPS since 2001 and has successfully completed several architecture models for various ministries.

Reg Pearson
Director, Dispute Resolutions Services
Ministry of Transportation

Reg Pearson has held the position of Director of Labour Management Services, now known as, Dispute Resolution Services, at the Ontario Ministry of Labour since 1998 and is responsible for Mediation, Arbitration and Collective Bargaining Information Services. After serving as a full-time representative for the United Food and Commercial Workers, Reg joined the Ontario Ministry of Labour in 1987 as a Mediator assisting Management and Labour in resolving problems relating to collective bargaining, grievance settlements and relationship building. He left the Ministry in 1995 to work for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as a Senior Corporate Industrial Relations and Talent Relations Officer responsible for the negotiation and management of the technical and security bargaining units across Canada. As the lead neutral for the Ministry, not only is he directly involved in assisting bargaining parties in reaching settlements in their negotiations, Reg has facilitated a number of joint training and relationship building programs in the public and private sectors. He has also been elected to the Executive Board and served as President of the Association of Labour Relations Agencies (US and Canada) in 2005. He served on the Board of Governors of Loyalist College of Applied Arts and Technology and held the position as Chair in 1988. As a graduate of Ontario Colleges of Applied Technology he has received three nominations for the Premier’s Award for contributions to his community and the province.

Sveta Ikonnikova
Business Architect
Ministry of Transportation

Sveta Ikonnikova has over 15 years of experience in Business Architecture, Business Analysis, and System’s Analysis, Design and Development. Sveta joined Ministry of Transportation Highways and Economics Cluster in 2005. Previously, she worked as a consultant for US government, OPS and variety of private companies. Her biggest strength is results-oriented focus and customer service.

Leah Clarke
Manager Strategic Planning and Transformation
Employment Standards Branch
Ministry of Labour

Leah Clarke accepted the position as Manager, Strategic Planning and Transformation in January of 2008 and is responsible for leading strategic planning and transformation of the Employment Standards program. In particular, Leah is the program lead in the development of the Employment Standards Information System. Leah has been a Provincial Specialist with EPB since 2003 and has extensive experience working with IT professionals in developing on-line application systems and implementing efficiencies. Leah has served as a Senior Policy Advisor for the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, where she provided interpretation, policy advice and recommendations on the development, implementation and maintenance of strategic policy and program initiatives related to regulatory modernization. Leah is also a lawyer, having advocated for management in labour and employment law matters prior to joining the public service.

Tom Michaud
Construction Health and Safety Inspector
Ministry of Labour

Tom has been offering his extensive compliance and enforcement experience as a key subject matter expert in the development of the Ministry of Labour Business Model for the Inspector Notebook application. Tom started with MOL in 2004 as a Construction Health and Safety Inspector. Prior to this Tom worked in the private Sector in Construction Equipment, application for special projects and worked with Rental Companies that serviced the construction sector from homeowner tools, Road Building Equipment, Mining Equipment and Access Equipment and Window cleaning operations.

Recognize, assess, manage, and limit the 10 major risks in technology projects using Enterprise Architecture. Project leaders need to make informed project choices and decisions to manage and mitigate. The Enterprise Architecture process and practice provides proven tools and information to help identify, assess understand, act on, and communicate risk issues

Doug Croker
Manager Application, Technology, and Security Architecture
Office of the Corporate Chief Technology Officer
Ministry of Government and Consumer Services

Doug Croker has over 30 years experience as an information and information technology professional in public and private organizations, including stints in the Ministry of Housing and the Ministry of the Attorney General. In 2000, Doug joined the Corporate Architecture Branch (CAB) as Project Manager of the Standardized Application Environment (SAE) project. Currently, he is a Manager of the Application, Technology, and Security Architecture in CAB, Office of the Corporate Chief Technology Officer (OCCTO).

Are you new to the OPS Enterprise Architecture practice? Are you wondering what the steps are for a project that goes through an architecture review? Do you want to know how to find the necessary templates and guidance materials to complete the Enterprise Architecture checkpoint requirements? Then come and hear about a new online support tool – the Enterprise Architecture Self Service Tool – where we will discuss “Why”, “What” and “How”. This tool provides the enterprise architecture information you need to enable your project’s success through the OPS Enterprise Architecture processes.

In addition to architecture practitioners, this session would be of great interest to project managers and business managers / project sponsors. Learn how to access the relevant information to guide you through the process.

Peter Churchard
Security & Technology Architect
Office of the Corporate Chief Technology Officer
Ministry of Government and Consumer Services

Peter Churchard has 26 years of experience in IT, both in the private and public sectors. He joined the OPS in 1990 and has worked for the Ministry of Environment and for MBS/MGS at OCCSD and, most recently, OCCTO. For the last seven years he has worked in the Corporate Architecture Branch as a Security/Technology Architect. Prior to joining the OPS, he worked in the telecommunications industry for the General Electric Company, Plessey, and Amdahl.

Joan Long
Manager of Architecture Services Unit
Central Agencies I&IT Cluster (CAC)

Joan Long is the Manager of Architecture Services Unit, Strategy & Planning Branch in the Central Agencies I&IT Cluster (CAC). Joan is keen on tools that will better enable the understanding of Enterprise Architecture requirements and processes within the OPS. Joan has over 20 years of IT experience gained in both the public and private sectors, and has seasoned expertise in strategic planning, project management, relationship management, application development and business management. Prior to becoming the Manager in the Architecture Services Unit, Joan was a Senior Project Manager on the Modernizing Ontario’s Systems for Tax Administration (MOST) project for two years.

Using EDS as a case study the presentation will discuss how an Architecture Capability and Profession within a large organization can be accomplished. Many companies are finding it challenging to create an architecture profession, and even more so for large multi-national companies with a global footprint. EDS was able to establish an industry recognized architecture profession by institutionalizing an Architect Job Family, Architect Capability Centres, Architect Training, Architect Mentoring and the IT Architect Certification of The Open Group (www.theopengroup.org). Utilizing the Architecture Capability, EDS has been able to establish an Enterprise Architecture for itself, and to provide the same capability for its clients. Using the experiences at EDS using real world examples, the audience can learn:

• How to make Architecture into a profession, using industry standard and regulated disciplines and certifications through The Open Group, so that Architecture can be a recognized industry skill set.
• How to train, grow, promote and sustain an Architecture Capability within an organization
• What tools and best practices advance the Architecture profession
• How the Architecture discipline, methodology and tools are used to drive Enterprise Architecture

Saverio Rinaldi
Chief Architect, GMAC LLC Account
EDS

Saverio Rinaldi brings 30 years of information technology experience to his role as the Chief Architect of the EDS GMAC LLC Account. Saverio is also an EDS Distinguished SE and a Master IT Architect certified by The Open Group. As the Chief Architect of the EDS GMAC LLC account, Saverio is responsible and accountable for the global technical direction of one of EDS's largest financial services accounts. Saverio leads 12 Senior Architects and 102 Project Technical Leaders and Architects.

Ontario has been the leader in the maturity of Enterprise Architecture, since the first proof of concept project in 1998. Other provinces are benefiting from this work, and there are now examples of reusability, new developments and success stories in other jurisdictions.This is an exciting and pivotal time for the development and direction of Enterprise Architecture, and specifically the evolution of Enterprise Business Architecture. These principles are now gaining awareness and acceptance in the program and lines of business areas in government, at all orders of government. These standards have ‘crossed over’ and the opportunity for business and IT alignment has never been closer at hand. The opportunity for EA is more than the realization of the alignment between business models and systems models. More significant is the design and alignment of service delivery channels and major government transformations. Business architecture, not just for systems sake, but for the sake of governments that are better designed, accountable, integrated and modernized.

Jim Alexander
Vice President, National Public Sector Program
Chartwell Inc.

Jim Alexander is an Executive Consultant and Chartwell’s Vice President, National Public Sector Program. He is leading the evolution and continued development of Chartwell’s capabilities and service offerings in business and service transformation in the public sector context. Jim’s role as the Assistant Deputy Minister, Treasury Board and Deputy Chief Information Officer for the Government of Canada resulted in a visible and well-acknowledged leadership in developing and communicating broad visions and strategies and then moving these forward to effective implementation in transforming major portions of the federal government operations. He has had extensive inter-jurisdictional experience ranging from co-chair of the Public Sector CIO Council in Canada, to leading Canadian delegations at the Assistant Deputy Minister level in representing Canada in meetings and informal relationships among North American partners (USA and Mexico) as well as on the broader international stage. B.Sc. (Honours Physics), University of Victoria 1968 – 1972 M.Sc. (Theoretical Nuclear Physics) University of BC 1973 – 1975 Course work complete for PhD (Theoretical Nuclear Physics), University of BC 1975 – 1976.

The OPS business areas need to be able to balance in-year pressures with mid and long term investment in business solutions to improve their ability to deliver the services required to fulfill their mandate. Architecture provides a tool to improve decision making and portfolio management for the investments being made in relationships, business process, information management and IT. We need to evolve through continuous improvement of the service portfolios and programs for business, information management and IT. We will discuss: "* Architecture’s role and capabilities in understanding Solution Business Value, Application Portfolio Value, Service Management, Accountability, Return on Investment, Project Value and Governance * Making a business case for architecture investments (upfront and ongoing oversight" This session will leverage case studies in the Health, Transportation, Social Services, Telecom and Land sectors

Fred Nagy
President
Solutions in Context Inc.

Fred is President and Founder of Solutions in Context. He has been a Certified Management Consultant (CMC) since 1995. He is very experienced in identifying and articulating end-to-end business requirements and solution architecture through Contextual, Conceptual, Logical and Physical modeling. Began with automating program management and workflow for grants and contribution management and tracking Citizenship Certificate Registration for Secretary of State in the early 80's, and now has over 28 years of managing IT service delivery projects. He specializes in end-to-end management, design, and QA for evolving integrated service delivery solutions.

Knowledge management is a key part of making enterprise architecture successful. The OPS Enterprise Architecture Repository is a tool that enables the central storage of OPS architectural documents and makes them available to project teams, architects, business teams, etc. The Repository stores materials for easy access and searching which enables users to retrieve / analyze / reuse the documents in architecture projects.

This session will be of interest to project managers, business managers, Cluster architects and librarians. See a live demonstration of the OPS Enterprise Architecture Repository and learn how architecture materials are being managed across the OPS. Hear about hands-on experiences and how the Repository has helped a Cluster.

Dale Hunter
Methodology Specialist
Office of the Corporate Chief Technology Officer
Ministry of Government and Consumer Services

Dale Hunter is the Methodology Specialist in Corporate Architecture Branch, Office of the Chief Corporate Technology Officer. Dale is a graduate of McGill University and has been a member of a number of professional associations. Prior to joining MGCS in 2002 he held a variety of business and I&IT positions with the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care and with the Health Services Cluster.

Tom Ellis
Business and Technology Analyst
Land Resources I&IT Cluster
Ministry of Natural Resources

Tom Ellis is a Business/Technology Analyst with the Land Resources I&IT Cluster (LRC). Tom maintains the EA Architecture Repository in his role as Cluster Librarian representing the LRC on the Corporate EAR User Group and supporting LRC Business Solutions Services project teams involved in Enterprise Architecture work. Tom is a Certified Microsoft Professional (CMP); a Certified Novell Administrator (CNA); a A+ Certified Computer Technician; and has certificates in Understanding Enterprise Architecture and Implementation Strategies, Business Architecture, the Knowledge Organization and The Business of Government, and ITIL Foundations Certified. Tom previously worked for the Ministry of Natural Resources as a Land Information Ontario (LIO) System Tester and has worked in the private sector as: an independent contractor, a programmer-analyst with Philips Management Information Systems, and as a COBOL programmer with Dun and Bradstreet.

The role of government architecture has expanded significantly over the past few decades. As technology has exploded across all agencies and levels of government, the risks across the enterprise are as many and real! Embracing technology, a new, younger breed of executives, demand more of their IT management and IT infrastructure. Citizens expect to interact with their government as they do with their bank, airlines and retailers – on line through a variety of interfaces or through a call center - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, often judging the competence of an administration by the level of customer service it provides. This new world presents new challenges.

Piers McMahon
VP & Principal Architect, Enterprise IT Management
CA

Piers McMahon is Vice President and Principal Architect for Enterprise IT Management in Computer Associates Technology Services Division, with responsibilities for defining standardized methodologies for use globally throughout Computer Associates, and helping clients solve IT management challenges in large complex environments. Piers also participates in the technical committee of the IEEE-ISTO Open Security Exchange standards initiative on converging physical and IT security. Piers holds a degree in Computer Engineering from Trinity College Dublin, and originally started work in mid 1988 on commercial security products with UK-based International Computers Limited, including consulting for European Union and the Ministry of Defense projects. In 1997 he moved to Platinum Technology as security strategist, and then joined Computer Associates in mid-1999. Specializing in distributed security architectures, Piers has authored a standards track Internet RFC and is co-author of several US Patents in the field of information security. He chaired the X/Open / Open Group Security WG, and has written a number of published papers and frequently speaks at conferences and educational events on the state of the art in practical security management and architectures.

Today’s environment of high risk to business continuity, diversity of technology, and expensive, diversified skills needed, creates significant challenges for leaders. HP is creating a new benchmark with a strategy to reduce costs while improving service levels through the re-engineering and consolidation of the company’s global data centers. Find out how HP is streamlining processes, automating tools and technologies, standardizing services and transforming IT ecosystems into the six “go-forward” global data centers. HP has taken a methodical approach to realize savings and better performance. Hear real-time examples about the data center site selection process and criteria, modular design and standards, and improved methods for managing power and cooling systems, all of which contribute to the plan to be rapidly scalable and optimally balanced.

David Third
Enterprise Architect/IT Strategist
HP

David Third is an Enterprise Architect in the Enterprise Solutions and Architecture (ES&A) team. David has specialized knowledge in the areas of financial services transaction processing, customer information systems, middleware and data integration solutions. David is currently an ambassador for HP’s IT Transformation & consultant for HP’s Adaptive Infrastructure (AI) and Next Generation Data Centre (NGDC) Architecture. Further consultation is provided for the Nonstop Systems Advanced Architecture and the HP Neoview BI portfolio. David has been with HP for 20+ years, where he has established a reputation for solution design and delivery of complex implementations to support key business requirements for HP Canada’s largest financial customers. David is a regular speaker at several conferences including CTUG and HP sponsored seminars on strategic IT topic areas. David graduated with Honours from Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology. David lives in Kendal, Ontario with his wife and two sons.

The Land and Resources Cluster is undergoing a renewal and restructuring. The Enterprise Architecture Program in the LRC needed to respond to both new Corporate and Cluster drivers. We used enterprise business architecture as the basis for the analysis of options, executive decision-making and development of a strategy to move to the new “target” architecture model.
The approach will be of interest to I&IT and business managers because it demonstrates the value of business architecture in setting strategic direction and how business architecture can be the basis for the use of analytical tools such as RAEW analysis to assess strategies and options.

David Feldbruegge
Senior Business Architecture
Ministry of Natural Resources

David has been with the OPS for 32 years, performing various roles from Land Use Planner with the Ministry of Natural Resources to Economist with the Ministry of Northern Development and Mines. He has been associated with defining the methods, tools and role for business architecture since 1999. David is currently the Senior Business Architect for the Land and Resources Cluster. He is a member of BADWG and the LRC and Corporate Architecture Core Teams.

Les Piotrowski
Manager, LRC Architecture Framework
Ministry of Natural Resources

Les G. Piotrowski is the Manager, Land and Resources Cluster - Architecture Frameworks, based out of Peterborough, Ontario. LRC Enterprise Architecture services provided to LRC Business and I&IT clients include LRC EA Repository access and operations, stewardship of LRC architectures and standards, development and maintenance of EA methods and processes and participation in EA Quality Assurance reviews.

Information is a valuable enterprise resource and a high priority has been placed on information and information management activities by the Corporate Chief Information Officer. Information modeling defines data objects, facts, and rules that help OPS organizations to enable the sharing / use of information and to undertake its business more effectively.

In this session, you will learn more about how information architecture contributes to meeting business needs as well as delivering on a quality IT solution. The session includes a discussion of conceptual, logical and physical data models but more importantly the pitfalls and lessons learned when information architectures are not well articulated.
In addition to information architecture practioners, this session would be of interest to those performing the roles of project managers, business analysts, data stewards and data custodians.

Thomas Chen
Information Architect
Office of the Corporate Chief Technology Officer
Ministry of Government and Consumer Services

Thomas Chen is currently an Information Architect in the Corporate Architecture Branch of the Office of the Corporate Chief Technology Officer. Thomas has accumulated a wealth of knowledge in his 20+ years as an IT professional covering system analysis and design, system development and implementation, database design and development, XML schema design and development, data and information modeling. Thomas successfully led the development of XML Common Data Elements Schemas and the revision of several corporate information architecture reference models. He is a member of the OPS Information Architect Domain Working Group, and successfully led the group in obtaining IT Standards Council approval for the OPS Information Modeling Standards (now referred to as GO-ITS 56.0).

Joanne Venema
Information Architect
Health Services Cluster

Joanne Venema is an Information Architect with the Health Services I&IT Cluster (HSC). Joanne has been with the OPS for 20+ years working with the Ministries of Transportation, Environment, Health and Health Promotion in various capacities in the information architecture field. Her current priorities focus on the implementation of information management practices within the HSC and its client Ministries (MOHLTC and MHP).

Frank Cheng
I&IT Architect
Central Agencies Cluster

Frank Cheng has over 28 years experience in delivering I&IT solutions and services. He has worked on all tax taxation systems in the Ministry of Revenue. Frank is currently working in the Central Agency Cluster (CAC) stationed in the Oshawa Campus. His role is an information architect serving CAC's clients. His responsibilities include: establishing information modeling standards, establishing information practice, educating clients on information modeling, managing artifacts, ensure compliance to Ontario Public Service (OPS) and CAC standards, contributing to OPS information modeling practice. Frank is an active member of OPS Information Architecture Domain Working Group.

Quality is a key expectation when designing an IT solution. Enterprise Architecture approaches the activity of ensuring quality through the EA governance process and in the EA practice. The presentation keys on the use of Quality Level Metrics (QLMs) as a well established instrument in architecting and designing quality into systems. You will learn how to approach QLMs and how to document QLMs as part of your architectural quality process.

Peter Churchard
Security & Technology Architect
Office of the Corporate Chief Technology Officer
Ministry of Government and Consumer Services

Peter Churchard has 26 years of experience in IT, both in the private and public sectors. He joined the OPS in 1990 and has worked for the Ministry of Environment and for MBS/MGS at OCCSD and, most recently, OCCTO. For the last seven years he has worked in the Corporate Architecture Branch as a Security/Technology Architect. Prior to joining the OPS, he worked in the telecommunications industry for the General Electric Company, Plessey, and Amdahl.

Colin Easton
Security & Technology Architect
Office of the Corporate Chief Technology Officer
Ministry of Government and Consumer Services

Colin analyses, defines, develops, recommends, implements effective I&IT security architecture, and related policies, procedures and technologies for computing environments within the provincial government. He ensures the provision of timely and authoritative advice and support to cluster architects and OPS client ministries in the identification, assessment and resolution of architecture issues. Colin has over 15 years experience working with IT and has served in the OPS for the past five years with the Corporate Architecture Branch of OCCTO within MGCS and has held the chair of the government Security Architecture Domain Working Group under ACT. He’s certified as an Information Technology Security Auditor.

Participate in this 3 hour interactive workshop and discover the meaning of the phrase “business drives IT.” Business areas underestimate their role in what they perceive as an IT process or more importantly realize the impact their business decisions have on IT. Business architecture can be used as a tool that benefits business in making decisions about IT solutions. This session will highlight the value of business architecture as a means to an end.

Participants will take away a hands-on experience in creating / analyzing a business architecture document, better understand the critical linkages between business architecture and a quality IT business solution and most importantly the value add of undertaking business architecture.

This session is geared towards the business, in particular business managers, business and policy analysts, project managers, business architects and information architects.

In this 3 hour interactive workshop, participants will work through the various stages of an architecture project. Through a series of scenarios, you will learn tips and tools related to the enterprise architecture planning process and the benefit of the process to the development of a quality IT solution. A critical look at the pitfalls, challenges but also the benefits of architecture will be demonstrated through a series of scenario exercises. This session is intended to illustrate the linkages and integration value of enterprise architecture by taking the participants through the process.

Participants will take away a hands-on experience in moving through the enterprise architecture processes, learn some tips to better plan and meet the expectations of all involved in developing a high quality architected solution.

This session is geared towards the program and project managers, business managers / sponsors, and domain architects.