SIS Seminars

Architectural Experiences from the Field

Speaker:

Dr. Frank NG
Senior Consulting IT Architect
IBM Business Consulting Services
Australia

Date:

04 November 2005 (Friday)

Time:

11:30 am to 1:30 pm

Venue:

Meeting Room 4.4, Level 4
School of Information Systems

Packet lunch will be provided.
Please RSVP by 31 October 2005

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Abstract

The talk will discuss the speaker's experience performing and teaching IT architecture in industry. It will be presented in three sections:

The first section discusses a recent experience with transitioning a large organisation to a "Service Oriented Architecture".
The second section presents two examples of architectural reviews performed by the speaker: the different types of issues faced, the additional subject matter expertise required, the solutions recommended, and the results.
The final section discusses the speaker's experience with teaching IT architecture courses to practitioners: firstly what are the essential concepts that student must "get"; and secondly how workshops/tutorials should be structured and presented so as to maximise the chances that objectives are achieved for the participants.

About the Speaker

Frank Ng is a Senior Consulting IT Architect in the Architecture and Technology Practice within IBM's Business Consulting Services Division. In this role, he takes the technical lead in systems-integration/application-development projects, SI/AD consulting engagements, and proposal development. His principle areas of expertise are service/component oriented systems and development methodologies.

In addition to client-facing roles, he is also an author and reviewer of IBM's global GSMethod training curriculum, an instructor for IBM GSMethod workshops, an IBM GSMethod method exponent, an instructor for IBM Architectural Thinking workshops, and a member of the A/NZ IT Architect Certification Review Board. In 2005 he authored and delivers IBM internal education on Service Oriented Architecture and Web Services.

He has over 15 years of experience working with clients at various levels, from developers, to users, to executives, in multiple industries.

Frank obtained his Ph.D from the University of Sydney in 1992 for work in the fields of symbolic algebra, automatic theorem proving, program verification, intelligent tutoring systems, programming language semantics.

We look forward to welcome you at this Research Talk.