Ali Arsanjani
Kerrie Holley has a wealth of experience in application development, software engineering, systems engineering, IT consulting, and enterprise architecture. Mr. Holley has operated as Chief Architect, Strategist, Consultant, and Designer on more than fifty SOA projects. In his current role, he oversees hundreds of SOA projects in their technical direction, strategy, and successful deployment. Mr. Holley’s current focus is on the convergence of business rules, business process management, analytics, and SOA in making businesses more agile. Mr. Holley holds several SOA patents and has a BA in mathematics from DePaul University and a Juris Doctorate degree from DePaul School of Law. Mr. Holley has worked in a senior capacity for several companies, including Bank of America, Tandem Computers, Ernst & Young and is currently an IBM Fellow.
Dr. Arsanjani is a rare mix of industry hands-on consulting and academic research that he leverages in his Chief Technology Officer role as advisor to high-profile companies. Through his experience as strategist, consultant, and architect, he has helped companies achieve business performance through leveraging and changing IT. His current area of focus is to enable companies to achieve higher levels of business performance and enable them to optimize their business through the agility gained in concert with IT and business operations. Ali Arsanjani has chaired standard bodies such as The Open Group and is responsible for co-leading the SOA Reference Architecture, SOA Maturity Model, and Cloud Computing Architecture standards. In his role as Chief Architect, he and his team specialize in harvesting and developing best-practices for the modeling, analysis, design, and implementation of SOA and Web Services on hundreds of projects.
He is a hands-on, sought-after architect around the world on large SOA projects, and he is the principal author of the industry first Service-Oriented Modeling and Architecture (SOMA) method for SOA. His work on variation-oriented analysis allows companies to build less software but achieve higher gains, and his patterns for service- oriented software architecture combine SOA with business process management, business rules, and analytics to achieve higher levels of maturity for organizations.
Kerrie Holley
Pamela K. Isom is a Global Principal Consultant at Dell Inc., where she leads very large cloud strategy and next generation data center engagements. On the customer front, Pamela partners to ensure IT transformation success, working with all stakeholders from the CEO to delivery practitioners where her ultimate strength is driving business value with strategy and technology. Prior to Dell, Pamela was executive architect in IBM® Global Business Services® and a chief architect of Complex Cloud Integration and Enterprise Application Delivery in the Application Innovation Services, Interactive Solutions Practice. While at IBM, Pam was a member of the IBM Academy of Technology where she led smarter cities and cloud computing in highly regulated environment initiatives. She also managed the GBS/AIS patent board having filed and received issuance of several patents with the U. S. Patent Attorney’s office.
Pamela is a graduate of Walden University She is an active alumni and plans to teach other students; she is an active member of IEEE, The Society of Women Engineers (SWE), the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), The American Legion where she and her husband connect with and support the military and their families, and Pamela is a frequent speaker at global, industrywide conferences. Pamela is a two time recipient of the Black Engineer of the Year Award for Modern Day Technology Leaders and a contributor to numerous publications on Intelligent Enterprise Architecture, Smarter Buildings, and Maximizing the Value of Cloud for Small-Medium-Enterprises, an Open Group Guide; and she is a key contributor to three books: The Greening of IT by John Lamb, SOA 100 Questions Asked and Answered by Kerrie Holley and Ali Arsanjani, and Cloud Computing for Business by The Open Group where she also resided on the editorial board.
Kerrie Holley, IBM Fellow, is the global CTO for application innovation services in IBM’s Global Business Services (GBS). His responsibilities include technical leadership, oversight, and strategy development, consulting, and software architecture for a portfolio of projects around the world. He also provides technical leadership for IBM’s SOA’s and Center of Excellence.
IBM’s CEO in 2006 appointed Kerrie to Fellow, IBM’s highest technical leadership position. It is the highest honor a scientist, engineer, or programmer at IBM (and perhaps in the industry) can achieve. Thomas J. Watson, Jr., as a way to promote creativity among the company’s “most exceptional” technical professionals, founded the Fellows program in 1962. Since 1963, 238 IBM Fellows have been appointed; of these, 77 are active employees. The IBM Technical Community numbers more than 200,000 people, including 560 Distinguished Engineers. IBM Fellows have invented some of the industry’s most useful and profitably applied technologies. Few computer users may realize how much of this group’s innovations have created the computer technology we take for granted.
Kerrie’s expertise centers on software engineering, software architecture, application development, business architecture, technical strategy, enterprise architecture, service-oriented architecture, cloud computing, and cutting-edge network-distributed solutions. Kerrie is an IBM master inventor, and holds several patents. He has a BA in mathematics from DePaul University and a Juris Doctorate degree from DePaul School of Law.
