Conference: SOA Track

Jim Green Chairman and CEO Composite Software Jim, a noted enterprise computing technology visionary and roll-up-thesleeves entrepreneur, guides Composite Software strategy and operations. Prior to Composite, Jim served as webMethods? CTO, Executive Vice President of Product Development, and Board of Directors member. Jim was CEO and co-founder of Active Software, where he grew the company from a start-up to an industry leader in Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) software. During his seven year tenure at Sun Microsystems, Jim led the development of the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) specification, the industry standard for distributed objects. In previous companies, he achieved several industry firsts by developing networking and distributed computing products. A career long innovator, Jim has created products that have resulted in over $1B of sales. Jim holds both a MS in Industrial Engineering and a MS in Computer Science.

Stephen J. Mellor is an internationally recognized pioneer in creating effective, engineering approaches to software development. In 1985, he published the widely read Ward-Mellor trilogy Structured Development for Real-Time Systems, and in 1988, the first books defining object-oriented analysis. Stephen also published Executable UML: A Foundation for Model-Driven Architecture in 2002. His latest book MDA Distilled: Principles of Model-Driven Architecture was published in 2004. He is active in the Object Management Group, chairing the consortium that added executable actions to the UML. He is is now working on the executable UML foundation standard at the OMG. Perhaps surprisingly, he is also a signatory to the Agile Manifesto. Stephen acts as Chair of the IEEE Software Advisory Board, and is an adjunct professor at the Australian National University.

Chris Howard is VP and Director for the Executive Advisory Program at Burton Group. As a speaker, Mr. Howard is in demand for his thoughtful discussions of technology and society, and brings interdisciplinary perspectives to his topics. His research focus spans enterprise and application architecture, user experience, organizational dynamics, modelling and process design. Prior to joining Burton Group, Mr. Howard was an enterprise architect at U.S. Bank, and led consolidation efforts for development frameworks and channel renewal. In addition, he has been part of the academic community for the past 20 years as an associate professor and guest lecturer at major schools in North America and Europe. He serves as chairman of the industry advisory board for the College of Applied Science at the University of Cincinnati.