I am a professional in Information Systems with more than twenty years experience. At present working as independent consultant for different clients in the areas of Enterprise Architecture, and Project Management. I conduct workshops in Enterprise Architecture, specifically TOGAF. Trained more than 400 professionals leading to TOGAF9 certification at certified level in India, Malaysia, Philippines and Singapore. I am an empanelled TOGAF trainer with Brain4ce Education Solutions Pvt. Ltd. My average rating among the participants of TOGAF workshop is consistently 4.5 out of 5. A partial list of organisations where the participants work is as follows. Microsoft, IBM, HP, Indra (Philippines), Intel Microelectronics (Malaysia), Vodafone (Singapore), Cisco, HSBC, Citibank, TCS, Maybank (Malaysia), PWC, Accenture.
Madhu Dharmarajan is an Enterprise Architect at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, The foundation of his experience is Enterprise Architecture in Banking and Financial Services, Public Services, Telecommunications, Professional Services and Corporate Functions. He has over 20 years of IT experience in various roles in the UK, Japan, India, and Singapore. He has been a TOGAF® certified Enterprise Architecture Practitioner for over 13 years.
He enables enterprises to transform to adopt emerging business models through technology transformation; resulting in sustainable business performance and improved business efficiency. Currently, he is helping customers in Financial Services and Insurance (FSI) and Communications, Media and Entertainment (CME) to Digitally Transform.
Suresh has around 28+ years of experience in IT and Engineering. Suresh has helped many companies to transform and rejuvenate their business and technology. He has provided Consulting services to major companies in Government, Banking, Telecom, Automotive, Health and Retail Industries. Suresh developed a methodology called E2EAM (End to End Agile Methodology) that helps the organization to be agile from end to end, from planning to implementation to operations. Using this methodology, many companies were able to reduce IT cost by more than 40%.
Suresh Done is the Founder of AEA (Association of Enterprise Architects) Michigan Chapter and Chairman since its inception. He led the chapter to a great success with his vision and leadership skills. AEA Michigan chapter very soon became the largest chapter of all the AEA chapters.
Under Suresh’s leadership, SNA Technologies achieved “Company of the month” in the CIOReview magazine for the July 2015 EA special edition and also in the Top 20 promising companies in Enterprise Architecture.
David thrives on his role as an IT Management advisor. As a founder of two leading IT management consulting businesses, David has enjoyed breaking new ground in how IT can best serve the business.
As an advisor, David has worked with many of Australia’s Tier 1 companies and Government agencies. In recent times he has been working on IT Operating Model Design, Service Management Office and SIAM. Most recently IT4IT and DevOps have become his focus as a drivers of Digital value for the Enterprise.
As the founder of ValueFlow, Dave is heavily engaged with clients in determine future state Operating Models and the transformation approaches to get there. This includes the architecture and roadmap for ServiceNow solutions.
Kary Främling is a Professor in Computer Science at Aalto University in Finland, as well as Professor in Data Science at Umeå University in Sweden. He is also a Founder and CEO of the company ControlThings that develops commercial Internet of Things (IoT) solutions. Kary is the current Chair of the IoT Work Group of The Open Group, as well as the main contributor to the IoT standards Open Messaging Interface (O-MI) and Open Data Format (O-DF), published by The Open Group in October 2014.
Kary is an author of over 100 articles published in scientific journals and conferences, including the (presumably) first article that mentions the IoT in 2002. That article presented a middleware implementation that fulfilled most requirements for IoT architectures and was used in several industrial systems. Since then, Kary has been the main architect of IoT systems in various domains, such as buildings, HVAC equipment, vehicles, supply chain management etc.
Rolf Knoll currently works as a Senior Managing Consultant and Head of Competence Area EAM at NovaTec Consulting GmbH.
He started to study architecture and city planning in the 1980s and finished his studies with computer science focusing on object oriented technology and software architecture.
From 1993 to 2000 he developed frameworks for large banking systems. From 2000 to 2006 he was a consultant for frameworks for high performant distributed and data-intense IT systems. Since more than 10 years he focuses as a consultant on the establishment and optimization of the EA capability at different customers across the industries.
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He is trainer for TOGAF, ArchiMate and EA (more than 250 training days in the last 6 years)
In several Working Groups of the Open Group he focuses on Improving TOGAF and Harmonizing TOGAF and ArchiMate.
Jitendra Maan, a versatile IT professional with 20+ years of experience spanning across various industry domains, is currently heading the Cognitive Computing and Mobility practice in HiTech Digital Enterprise & Business Transformation Unit in TCS. He is instrumental in driving Artificial Intelligence Cognitive Computing, machine learning and Mobile enablement initiatives and large digital transformation opportunities.
Jitendra is a thought leader, an enterprise architect, a technology consultant and a member of various professional bodies - IEEE, PMA, CSI, Open Group AEA, Open Group SOA Workgroup, Society of Digital Information and Wireless Communications, Academy of Science and Engineering. Jitendra is also certified in Project Management (CIPM) by PMA, India.
Robert A. Martin, Senior Secure Software and Technology Principal Engineer of the MITRE Corporation’s Trust and Assurance Cyber Technologies Department and member of the Industrial Internet Consortium Steering Committee has dedicated his career to solving the world’s most difficult problems in systems and software engineering – including security of connected software-enabled technology, Y2K, application security, and assurance. Focusing on the interplay of risk management, cybersecurity, and assurance for the past 20 years, Robert has applied his expertise to international cybersecurity initiatives such as CVE, CWE, and assurance cases. Robert frequently makes presentations on IIoT, software security, assurance and related topics.
Florian Mayer works as a project manager for BMW mobility technologies. He is representing BMW in the consortium of bIoTope - a project funded by the European Union as part of the initiative Horizon 2020. Furthermore he is assigned to projects concerning on-demand mobility.
Being a software developer by training, he worked as a technical consultant and software architect in process and IT consulting for several years. After joining BMW he was part of the company’s IT department, working in national and international projects in the area of finance and sales.
Paul is a TOGAF Certified Enterprise Architect that has a wealth of experience working across the organisational value stream to deliver tangible business outcomes. He has over 25 years experience in domains such as energy, manufacturing and government across the Philippines, Japan, Singaporeand Australia.
Paul works closely with senior stakeholders to establish strategic roadmaps for achieving the corporate strategy and also implements EA programs within organisations to build core Architecture capability. He is a subject matter expert in the fields of identity management, enterprise mobility and RFID.
Paul also delivers training to a wide variety of audiences across a number of Architecture disciplines including Business Architecture, Solution Design, ArchiMate and TOGAF certification.
Mr. Radhakrishnan is Consulting Partner (Cloud and Infrastructure Services) at Wipro.
Prior to joining Wipro, Mr. Radhakrishnan was the Founder and Principal Consultant at Zygous LLC. The consulting company has three practice areas: 1) a digital business and IT strategy, architecture (different disciplines of architecture), innovation and governance (SAIG) consulting practice, 2) an IT strategy, architecture, innovation and governance custom training practice; and 3) IP development and management services, including invention development service (IDS), and an invention and innovation process design and management service, among others. Zygous clients include Fortune 500 companies such as Freddie Mac and EY (Ernst & Young) from the financial services industry, Shire Pharmaceuticals and CareFirst BC & BS in the health care and life sciences industry, and Cisco and others from the technology industry.
Mr. Radhakrishnan was previously a Senior Managing Consultant and Senior IT Architect for IBM Global Technology Services (GTS), an independent IT architect at Zygous LLC, a senior technical consultant at Sun Microsystems, and a senior technical staff member at Metamor Worldwide. He specializes in enterprise architecture and service management consulting, business continuance, high-availability, high-end systems, storage technologies, and technical project management.
Mr. Radhakrishnan earned an MBA from Old Dominion University's Strome College of Business, an MS from the University of Virginia's McIntire School of Commerce, and a bachelor’s degree in Economics (First Class) from Loyola College (University of Madras, India). He is certified as a TOGAF® practitioner, ITIL-ITSM (v3) consultant (Expert Level), Six Sigma Black Belt, IBM Senior IT Architect, Open Group Master Architect, and as a Solaris Systems Administrator and Storage Architect. He has received multiple academic and industry awards.
You can find further details at https://www.commerce.virginia.edu/alumni/msmit-board/radhakrishnan.
Mayank is an experienced consultant in technology strategy, architecture and innovation. He brings with him experience performing different roles (architect, product owner, program, project and change manager) in different industry verticals (Banking, Retail, Manufacturing, Telecommunications, Technology, Defence & Aerospace, Oil Gas & Energy, Health Care, FMCG, and Financial Services/Payments) under various ownership structures (Public, Private, Family-owned and Start-up) in multiple geographies.
Alumni of Stanford Graduate School of Business (Executive Education) with a focus on Corporate Innovation, where he received recognition in Design Thinking, Leading Effective Teams, Change Management amongst other cohorts. Apart from that, he brings knowledge of building platform business models for the digital economy from MIT along with professional education in the fields of IoT, data science & machine learning. He holds a Masters and dual Bachelors in Technology.
Aaron Tan Dani has a strong passion in the area of EA related fields. He firmly believes that only with the proper practice of EA that maximum value of IT can be realized by the business. With this keen passion and selfless contribution, he has been actively involved as the Chairman of EA SIG with SCS. Aaron close connection with the industry leaders and government bodies in the respective APAC countries gives him the edge in the latest technology landscape.
Aaron is an Accredited Trainer for TOGAF 9 and ArchiMate 3 and he is also the co-author of 2 popular training courses i.e. 2-Days on Business Requirement Architecture and 3-days on Architecting Software with Object Oriented Analysis and Design. Since December 2009, Aaron has been actively delivering these courses across the globes.
As an industry thought leader in the EA arena, Aaron is a frequent public speaker and he speaks with passion and charisma and has been consistently ranked in the top 10% in speaker ratings in most of the international industry events. He has been public speaking frequently since 2004 across the globes presenting various strategic IT & Business related topics across Asia Pacific region. His charismatic, passionate and entertaining presentation style has been well received. In April 2013, Aaron has been officially appointed as an expert in the Community of Practice Enterprise Architecture (COP EA) for Malaysian public sector by MAMPU (Malaysia Administrative Modernization & Management Planning Unit under Prime Minister Office to assist in the formation of National Enterprise Architecture Frameworks and Practices.
He holds a Master of Technology from the National University of Singapore and a Bachelor of Computer and Mathematical Sciences from the University of Western Australia.
Since 2012, Aaron’s direct consulting engagements involved in Digital EA Implementation for various government agencies and Government Linked Companies (GLC) in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia.
As Vice President, Client Solutions-Xavient Digital, Powered by TELUS International, Ravindran currently leads a terrific team committed to digital transformation of large enterprises.
Ravindran has partnered with illustrious leaders from Ford, Edison, Visa, Walgreens, 3M, eBay, Comcast, Cox, Dish, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, California and Montana State Governments and The World Bank to name a few. He has spent 23+ years handling a variety of IT engagements in Automotive, Banking, Financial Services, Insurance, Satellite, Broad band, Telecom, Healthcare, Utilities, and Retail and provided strategic technology directions. He actively participates in various Enterprise Architecture and Project Management forums, made significant contributions and shared his works in premier industry events worldwide. He has managed complex projects and programs and spearheaded thought leadership within the organizations and in global forums.
Ravindran is a keen long distance runner.
Prafull Verma has a bachelor's degree in electronics and communication engineering and has over thirty years' experience in the area of electronic data processing and information technology. During the past thirty years, he has worked on diversified areas in computer science and information technologies. Some of his key experience areas are the design and implementation of heterogeneous networks, midrange technical support management, end-user service management and design, and the implementation and management of process-driven ITSM systems.
Prafull has acquired a unique blend of expertise in integrated areas of tools, process, governance, operations, and technology. He is the author of seven books in the area of Enterprise IT Service Management. Additionally he has developed several methodologies and frameworks for IT service management that include multivendor ITIL frameworks, ITSM for Cloud computing, and Service Integration. He represents HCL Technology in The Open Group.