Agenda:
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Attendees:
Chris Eagle
U of Michigan, Enterprise Architect
1.5 years in EA.
In Retail IT management before then
Brenda Reeb -
U of Rochester, Information Architect, reports to the Enterprise Architect
9 months in architecture. Formerly a librarian with the university.
Working on a university data dictionary (to be a ‘shopping list’)
EA has focused on technical standards - storage, network, and cloud.
Bruce Alexander
Michigan State, Dir. of EA
6 months in architecture. Previously Dir of Enterprise Business Applications
EA in place to prevent ‘re-soloing’ of systems
Will be at EDUCAUSE
Caleb Racey
Newcastle (UK)
Comes from technical architecture, and development management before that.
Have a large initiative to combine IT systems
Vinay Varughese
Cornell Medical College
Infrastructure and Operations for 15 years
Starting in technical Arch but planning on all aspects
Wayde Nie (and Laura)
McMaster University
Moving from Technology Arch to Enterprise Arch
Looking to network with other people.
Colleen Nagy
Case Western Reserve
Sr. Director for Strategic Initiatives and Policy, and Portfolio Management
Reorganized to Plan/Build/Run 18 months ago. In her role since then.
Kasia Azzara
Columbia
Enterprise Architect, for 1 year.
Just getting EA underway since IT was busy with a large ERP implementation
Came from outside HE (Pharmaceutical company)
Russell Connacher
Berkeley
in EA for 9 months.
Been in U/C IT for 20 years
Using TOGAF as a method to give structure to EA
Discussion Notes
Major differences between technical and enterprise arch?
Russ: People get technical standards but don’t get business-level planning
Q: how do you get support
R: “hiding” EA within a SOA implementation
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