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Mentoring
| This year the IASA is pioneering the first ever architect mentoring session. IASA has brought in some of the worlds top architects to provide feedback on your questions; big or small. Are you a junior IT staff member who want to become an architect? Where do you get started? What is the first step? What exactly is architecture? Our professional mentors will work with you to set out a plan for the next step in your career! |
Joseph DeCarlo, Architect, Turner Broadcasting
Joseph DeCarlo is a Solution Architect at Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. His team designs frameworks and products for the many development teams to leverage to achieve consistency and interoperability across them. Joseph has twelve years of IT experience and has worked for many companies including Avanade, Pivotal, and Synovus. Joseph is a Microsoft Certified Architect and serves on the Board of Directors for the program. Joseph also serves on the Board of Directors for IASA, Atlanta chapter. |
Paul Preiss, President and Founder, IASA Paul Preiss is the President and Founder of the International Association of Software Architects (IASA). Prior to IASA, Paul was the Director of Engineering and Chief Architect of a digital asset management company. His global experience stems from the time he spent in Japan as an Applications Manager and Architect. Paul has a bachelors degree in Japanese from the University of Texas at Austin. |
Max Poliashenko, VP, Bank of America
Despite having a Ph.D. in Physics, Max has been in IT for about 15 years. Currently, Max works for Bank of America in Strategic Architecture Management of Consumer and Corporate Staff IT. He also leads enterprise architecture SOA Model workgroup at the bank. Prior to that, he worked at Sage Software as Chief Architect of its Small Business Accounting division. Max is a Microsoft Certified Architect and member of MCA BOD. He also serves in advisory capacity at Microsoft’s Interoperability Executive Council and at IBM’s Industry Modeling Advisory Board, collaborating with IBM on SOA and BPM reference models for financial sector. Max is also the President of IASA Atlanta chapter. Max has written numerous articles on various topics and has given presentations at many conferences, most recently at ITARC 2007. |
Burkhardt Hufnagel Burk Hufnagel has been creating positive User Experiences since 1978 and is a Lead Software Architect at LexisNexis. Burk has spent most of his life designing and crafting software, and has made a habit of developing practical solutions for difficult problems. He is also a bibliophile, a technophile, an intellectual neophile, and tends to appreciate esoteric subjects. Burk's recent achievements include speaking at JavaOne 2008 on building better User Experiences, speaking at the IASA's 2007 IT Architecture Regional Conference on API design, and authoring two of the topics in the soon-to-be-published book "97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know". |
Tony Fields 
Tony is a Senior / Certified IT Architect, The Open Group Master Certified IT Architect and Certified Managing Consultant in IBM Global Business Services (GBS), Application Services (AS), and Enterprise Architecture and Technology (EA&T) practice. He is a lifelong, "legacy", IBMer. He got his start with IBM's Federal System Division (FSD), Clearlake, Texas, 1984. Tony led a technical team for NASA Ground Base Space Systems' Software Checkout (SWCO). Being a member of the SWCO team, he was called upon to investigate the cause of the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger explosion. Tony has over 24 years of diversified experience as an enterprise architect, IT architect, infrastructure architect, IT specialist and managing consultant. Tony has demonstrated his expertise and skills in industries such as Automotive, Banking, Electronics, Aerospace and Defense, Transportation, Healthcare and Retail and has worked in locations such as United States of America, Yasu, Japan, Hanover, Wolfsburg and Stuttgart, Germany and Calgary, Canada. |
Ward McGregor Current Responsibilities: To provide architectural guidance and support for IBM software solutions. This is in support of the Financial Services Sector in the Southeast, which includes clients such as SunTrust Bank, TSYS, Regions Bank and Fidelity. To serve as a Trusted Advisor to clients implementing IBM Software Solutions. Denver Technical Vitality Council Core Council. Background (significant career roles): JEE Architect, Sun Microsystems, 3 years Bioinformatics IT Architect, Genomica Corp., 1 year MDA Architect, Compuware Corp., 3 years Sr. IT Architect, IBM – AIS, Enterprise Architecture and SOA, 4 years |
Juliana Jeun 
Juliana Jeun is an Executive IT Architect with 29 years of technical professional experience. She has extensive expertise in designing and developing complex enterprise architectures and leading brand specialist teams on projects to create cross brand solutions to address customers' business problems. She has been engaged with numerous integrated and aligned accounts throughout her technical sales career in IBM. She is currently engaged with General Business clients. She has been providing innovative thought leadership in growing the SWITA capabilities in the Southeast General Business organization. Besides achieving her Senior ITA Certification IBM, Juliana is also a certified Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Solution Designer and certified IT Architect with the Open Group. She is a member of the IBM Senior IT Architect Certification Board. She has presented at numerous IBM technical conferences. She was a Technology All Star Award winner being recognized at the 2006 National Women of Color Technology Conference. Juliana holds a Master of Business Administration degree from University of Missouri – Columbia. | Rod Riley, Ph.D. Dr. Riley came to IBM with twenty years of experience in a large university setting. That history included ten years in the Office of Institutional Research designing databases, performing data analysis for planning and operations, and implementing systems to support virtually all aspects of the institution. The other half of his tenure was dedicated to work in the computer center. As Associate Director, he led a wide variety of projects ranging from electronic elections to real-time data capture for archaeologists excavating in the field. Rod also taught courses, most notably for the Computer-Based Honors program which was one of only twenty-two nationally recognized honors programs at the time. | Dr. Min Luo 
Dr. Min Luo is an Executive Certified Architect , Strategy & Technology, IBM SWG. He has over 16 years of IT industry experience with more than 8 years of managing large-scale, whole life cycle of software application design and development. He fully understands the impact of various technologies on business, and knows how to effectively and efficiently apply them to solve large scale and complex real world problems. He is an early adopter, advocator and educator of object-oriented analysis and design, component-based, and service-oriented computing and incremental development methodology. He has successfully designed and implemented solutions for transportation, financial, manufacturing industries and large-scale government social services projects. He also has expertise in designing and developing integrated data warehouses with on-line analytical processing and data mining, application of various operations research and management science techniques.r. Riley came to IBM with twenty years of experience in a large university setting. That history included ten years in the Office of Institutional Research designing databases, performing data analysis for planning and operations, and implementing systems to support virtually all aspects of the institution. The other half of his tenure was dedicated to work in the computer center. As Associate Director, he led a wide variety of projects ranging from electronic elections to real-time data capture for archaeologists excavating in the field. Rod also taught courses, most notably for the Computer-Based Honors program which was one of only twenty-two nationally recognized honors programs at the time. |
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