Architect’s Toolkit -- Ask the Experts
Channel: The Open Group
Date: 2022-01-27

What’s in an Enterprise Architect’s Toolkit? Ask the Experts about the tools they use to architect an enterprise. Learn about all the various standards & frameworks, reference architectures, models, guides, bodies of knowledge, and tools, available as resource. 

Website: https://www.opengroup.org/

Panel of five industry experts moderated by Steve Nunn, President & CEO, The Open Group

- Terry Blevins is owner and operator of Enterprise Wise LLC where he provides strategic enterprise architecture services. He has had worked in the computing industry for over 40 years and is currently a Director on The Open Group Governing Board and a Fellow of The Open Group. 

- Chris Frost is Principal Enterprise Architect, Global Delivery Unit, Fujitsu.  Chris has worked for Fujitsu since 2005, in variety of technical leadership roles. At present he is a Principal Enterprise Architect within the Global Delivery Unit, which provides standard services, technical guidelines, and support for the global Fujitsu Group. In The Open Group, he led the TOGAF® Agile Working Group during 2020, and is contributing to number of current Architecture Forum activities. Before Fujitsu, Chris worked for EDS (now part of DXC) on several large contracts for the Ministry of Defense, and in earlier years he worked for Ford, Shell, and a small startup software house called Shamrock Marketing.

- Paul Homan is CTO for Industrial Sector, IBM Services UK & Ireland. Paul is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and Chief Technology Officer for Industrial sector clients in IBM Global Services, responsible for Technology Strategy & Industry Architectures for Automotive, Aerospace & Defense, Oil & Gas, Electronics, Industrial Products and Construction industries

- Chris Forde is CEO of the global Association of Enterprise Architects. Based in Shanghai China, Chris is General Manager Asia Pacific for The Open Group. Chris is responsible for business functions in the region. Also, as Vice President Enterprise Architecture Chris has global responsibility for the Enterprise Architecture activities at The Open Group including The TOGAF® Standards and The ArchiMate® Standards.  Chris has deep expertise in Enterprise Architecture and, as member representative and former Chair of the Architecture Forum, he was instrumental in driving the successful development and launch of TOGAF® 9 from 2007-2009

- Andrew Josey is VP Standards and Certification oversees all certification and testing programs of The Open Group, and manages the standards process. Since joining the company in 1996, Andrew has been closely involved with the standards development, certification and testing activities of The Open Group. He has led many standards development projects including specification and certification development for the ArchiMate®, TOGAF®, POSIX® and UNIX® programs. He is a member of the IEEE, USENIX, FLOSSUK, and the Association of Enterprise Architects (AEA).