Home
Constitution
EA Professional Oath
EA Professional Doctrine
EA Profession Roadmap
EA Value Maps
Call for Commitment
Logo for E-mail Signature
Compliance
Member Directory
Board of Trustees
Board of Directors
Colleagues
Who We Are
Contact Us
Privacy and Security
Obligatory Terms
FAQ
2009 Summit Brochure
Presentations
Awards and Videos
Board of Directors
 

  

Distinguished Board of Directors

 President and

Co-founder

 

Mark Lane

Mark Lane is the co-founder and president of CAEAP and a leader in the enterprise architecture community with 30 years related Enterprise Architecture leadership experience.  

Mark practices Enteprise Architecture at PNM Resources, a holding company of energy and energy-related businesses based in Albuquerque, NM.

Mark specializes primarily in enterprise architecture program development, risk management, portfolio management, standard and policy compliance and strategy development.

Mark is an author, speaker, and advocate dedicated to moving the enterprise architecture profession in a consistent and coherent direction. He attended Oakland University in Rochester Hills, MI with BA studies in Computer Science; Business and Psychology and has many professional certifications related to arts and sciences.

 

Executive Vice President, 

Co-founder and

Chief Accreditation Officer

 

Mark Goetsch

 

Mark Goetsch, CBA, MS, MSC is an expert in enterprise, business, and social architecture.  In this capacity he has experience working with large fortune 100 companies and small entrepreneurial startups.  Mark has had roles as an executive and as a chief architect. Combining a unique structural perspective Mark combines analytical and architectural concepts to provide designs and measured follow through that finds the hidden opportunity within companies and corporations.

Mark is a board member and former president of the Business Architects Association, board member and vice president of accreditation for the Center for the Advancement of the Enterprise Architecture Profession, member of the Penn State IST Enterprise Architecture Advisory Group, member of the AITP, IASA, and WWISA.  Mark is adjunct faculty in DePaul University’s CDM Graduate School and Professional Program where he teaches courses in E-Commerce and Computational Finance.

Mark is a certified business architect, TOGAF 8 certified, has taken PhD seminars in social network analysis attending conferences at Harvard, ETH in Zurich, and Northwestern University.   He has a  
Masters in Communication Systems and Strategy from Northwestern University and a Masters in Computer Science/Distributed Systems with Distinction from DePaul University.

  Vice President and Chief Community Relations Officer

 

Don Hirst

 

Don Hirst has more than thirty five years experience in architecture, design, implementation and management of systems infrastructure and networks. 

 

For the past 25 years, focused on international and domestic systems infrastructure and networks supporting financial services, through positions at ABN AMRO, Citicorp, and First National Bank of Chicago. 

 

Prior to moving into financial services, held positions at Arthur Young (Management Services consulting), Baxter-Travenol Laboratories (data networks for healthcare manufacturing), McDonnell Douglas Automation Company (data networks for health-care financial service bureau), Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (data center operations), and Brookhaven National Laboratory (computer systems and data networks for high-energy physics).

Education:  MBA (Chicago), MS Physics (Michigan State), BA Physics (Iowa). 

 

Vice President and

 Director of Social Technologies

 

Mike Kavis

Mike Kavis is a CTO for M-Dot and an independent consultant with over 23 years of IT experience including 12 years in leadership positions.

 

Mike’s expertises are Enterprise Architecture, IT Strategy & Planning, Organizational Change Management, Cloud Computing, BPM, SOA, Web 2.0, MDM, and Business Intelligence. 

 

Mike is currently performing the role of a Chief Architect for MDot and is building a solution that is 100% in the cloud.  Mike received his BS in Computer Science from Rochester Institute of Technology and his MBA and MSIT from Colorado Tech.

 

Mike is a free lance technology writer.  He is currently writing quarterly articles for SOAInstitute.org, has contributed many articles for CIO.com's SOA Drilldown blog, and has spoken at many technology conferences.

 

Vice President and Director for Policy & Governance International

 

Kris Seeburn

Kris Seeburn is a Professor in Information Systems Audit and Control, IT & Enterprise Governance, Computer Security, Information warfare and Programme Director of the Master in Computer Security & Forensics at the University of Technology, Mauritius. He is a member of Advisory Board of The New Security Foundation, Member of The American College of Forensic Examiners & Institute of Forensics Science. He is Chair / Founder of the ISACA Mauritius Chapter in Formation, President / Founder of the Information Security Group of Mauritius, Member of the Academic Relations Committee of ISACA & ITGI. A Fellow and past Board Member of the International Professors Project.

 

Kris sits on various National and Regional committees and boards on Governance and Security Management as well as representative expert on security and academia on National Key initiatives hosted by the Government of Mauritius. He is member of "The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University". He is also a Spokesperson for ISACA / ITGI as an expert in the fields of Security / Governance / Audit.

 

His areas of expertise include Governance, IT policies and standards development, risk management, risk assessment and control evaluation, service level management, problem and incident management, disaster recovery planning, business recovery processes, Secure Software, business process management and re-engineering.

 

Vice President Products and Services

 

Jeff Wallk

Jeffrey Wallk is the founder and Managing Partner for The Value Enablement Group, LLC. He is a management consultant and enterprise architect with over 25 years of experience. He is focused on identifying, creating, and sustaining value for organizations using his expertise in innovation, strategic planning, enterprise architecture, and operational excellence.

 

Jeff is active in a number of organizations focused on improving education, healthcare and non-profit (mind, body, and spirit) as well as related organizations that can influence these domains through technology, methodology, and industry standards.

 

Jeff also works with small businesses to improve their structures, knowledge, and integration of resources, functionality, and content to position organizations to improve and sustain the value they deliver. 

 

Vice President Partnerships

 

Colin P. Wheeler

Colin Wheeler is a consultant and enterprise architect with over 15 years of experience.  He is focused on pragmatic management and architecture within enterprises and aims to deliver quantifiable benefits to his clients that result in them being able to gain the maximum traction from their enterprise architectures.

 

Colin is active in framework development and industry standards development, training, consulting and technical work and seeks to evolve the enterprise architecture space and create pragmatic enterprise architecture frameworks and implementations that will move organizations into significantly more efficient environments.

 

Working closely with organizations like CAEAP, The Open Group and others he is committed to the enterprise architecture profession and its goals of providing consistency and transparency and managed evolution to its clients.

 

Through the integration of his strong technical back ground in many different market sectors and successfully proven track record in enterprise architecture, Colin believes strongly in the need to understand business, communicate and negotiate to ensure the best possible outcomes for the organizations that he works with.

 

Vice President Marketing

 

 Deborah Lovell

 

Deborah Lovell is the founder of On Your Market and has over 27 years of experience in business relationship management and marketing for enterprise businesses in the telecom and IT industries.  She consults with business executives on how to strategically plan, brand and deliver their product and/or services to the marketplace.

 

Her clients have included the U.S. Department of Defense (Army), U.S. Navy, State of Texas, State of New Mexico, State of California – Prison Systems, University of Texas at Austin, Stanford University, Federal Express, Kaiser Permanente, Wal*Mart, Verizon, Bank of America, and Perot Systems to name a few. 

 

Deborah has been a keynote speaker for the Women of Visionary Influence (WOVI) presenting “All Superheroes Wear Pantyhose: Communicating with Men in the Business World, and the American Teleservices Association presenting “Sharing the Vision: Communicating Change”.  As a mentor to students majoring in information technology and computer science, she has been a guest speaker at the University of Texas at Arlington, University of Texas at Dallas and ITT at Arlington where she delivers “From Campus to Real World”, a powerful message that encourages graduating students to develop their leadership and business skills.

 

Believing involvement in a professional society is a priority for career advancement, she has been a member of the Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP) since 2001. She served as 2009 national Association President. In 2008 she served as Executive Vice President and in 2007, as Secretary/Treasurer.

 

Deborah joined CAEAP in spring 2009 and serves as Director of Marketing. She is responsible for overseeing the strategic marketing plan and brand identity of CAEAP.

 

 

Vice President Capital Planning and Regulatory

 

Mark Sternberger

Mark Sternberger provides more than 25 years of applied software systems development, M&A, BPM, digital strategy, and e-architecture competency leadership to our clients. In this capacity, he designs and mentors pragmatic business-technology convergence EA roadmaps with KPM’s that lead innovative product development and solutions for demonstrable ROI.

 

Mark is accountable for establishment of enterprise architecture competencies on behalf of and for our key MarkITS accounts. As a fully certified Global Enterprise Architect (GEAO) and an Association of Open Group Enterprise Architects (AOGEA) Fellow, he is frequently published as a visionary Enterprise Architecture leader. Prior to founding MarkITS, he provided “Board room” to “clean room” product development and solutions delivery leadership for glue chip Global 500 and government clients in e-commerce, high technology, financial services, capital markets, education, insurance, C4I, Avionics, Undersea Warfare, Homeland Security, and Underwater Acoustics / Sonar.

 

Mark serves on the CAEAP Board of Directors overseeing grant research and legal affairs at the Center for the Advancement of the Enterprise Architecture Profession; and is Founder and President of the Association of Open Group Enterprise Architects, New England Chapter.

 

Mark holds a B.S. EE with minor in Computer Science from Florida International University, and an A.S. in Oceanographic Engineering from the Florida Institute of Technology. He earned a Masters Certification from the George Washington University Fellows Program in Program Management. Additionally, he is a certified Program Management Professional by the Project Management Institute.

 

Vice President and Director of Communication

 

Marc Paradis

 

Marc Paradis has been designing, deploying, debugging and demystifying enterprise business intelligence/data warehouse (BI/DWH) architectures for 10 years.  In this time he has had vendor, in house IT and various management responsibilities including roles in technical support, education, production consulting, presales consulting, BI/DWH administration and architecture, independent consulting, software development, project management, program management and senior management. 

 

Marc builds on his diverse experience to bridge communication gaps, align strategic vision and unify effort across and between IT, end-user and management constituencies in the establishment of balanced enterprise BI/DWH architectures best fit for each group’s individual purposes as well as for the overall benefit of the organization to which they contribute.  The healthcare and retail industries as well as vendor negotiations are areas of expertise and particular interest.

 

Marc began his career as an academic neuroscientist studying the cellular and molecular mechanisms of Alzheimer’s Disease.  He has a B.A. in Chemistry from Cornell, and an M.S. in Brain & Cognitive Sciences from M.I.T. 

 

Marc is a published author of several peer-reviewed scientific papers as well as the author of a sponsored blog about the role of IT in healthcare.

 

Vice President and Director of EA Apprenticeship Program

 

JP Morgenthal

JP Morgenthal is a Sr. Principal Architect with QinetiQ North America's Mission Systems Group providing enterprise and SOA architecture guidance for Federal civilian agencies. 

 

Prior to joining QinetiQ NA, JP founded Avorcor where he developed a SOA-based SCM PaaS that has been the foundation of three award-winning industry solutions for customers.  He is also frequent blogger and noted analyst on enterprise architecture, SOA and cloud computing topics. 

 

JP is also author of "Enterprise Information Integration: A Pragmatic Approach", which defines a methodology for using SOA and semantics to simplify integration.

Vice President and Director of Compliance

 

Tony Silva 

Tony Silva currently serves on Bank of America’s Storage Governance & Compliance, Funding and Recovery team. He has 25+ years of IT experience including 15+ years in managerial and architecture positions. During his diverse career, Tony has lead engineering, operational and governance teams through complex transition and implementation projects. Tony played a lead role in architecting a Global Storage Solution that helped save significant dollars and improve efficiency and utilization.

 

 Tony attended Schoolcraft College where he received a degree in Business Administration and has obtained several technical certifications. Specialties Include Compliance, Governance, Storage, Risk Management, Program Management. 

 

Tony volunteers for several community organizations and is an active member of the American Diabetes Association.

 

 

Vice President and Director of Relationships, Outreach and Engagement

 

Melissa Dean

Melissa Dean is currently the managing partner of Dean and Edwards, LLC. a Recruiting and Human Resources Consulting company based in Austin, Texas. She has been involved with the evolution of Enterprise Architecture for over 12 years. 

 

Melissa has used her industry specific experience to develop and execute strategic staffing plans, tailor technical career paths and performance management initiatives, training and development programs, leadership development programs, corporate culture and branding campaigns. 

 

Her clients include Booz Allen Hamilton, Dell, PricewaterhouseCoopers, IGT, IAP, MomentumSI, Applied Materials and Vignette.  Melissa received her Undergraduate degree in English from Texas A&M University and her Masters of Human Resource Management from St. Edwards University.  She holds certifications with the Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM) and Advanced Internet Recruitment Strategies (AIRS).

 

 

Vice President and Director  - Financial Affairs

 

Kim Morris

 

 

Kim Morris is Director, Architecture and leads the Enterprise Architecture and Information Security practices at PNM Resources, a holding company of energy and energy-related businesses based in Albuquerque, NM.

Kim has held senior IT management positions in energy, retail, finance and technology.  With more than 17 years experience in Information Technology, she has established information security practices and compliance programs, architected global enterprise technology strategies and solutions, established IT operations for startup organizations and strategically outsourced operational services.

Kim holds a B. A. in Business Information Management from Southeastern Oklahoma State University, is a graduate of the Regional Leadership Forum (RLF) sponsored by the Society for Information Management (SIM) and has pursued graduate studies at Amberton University.  Kim is a member of EEI security committee, ISACA, the SIM Dallas Chapter.

 

 Manager and Executive Administrator

 

Salim Sheikh

Salim Sheikh is an Independent Consultant and Enterprise Architect with 13 years of experience across diverse industries. Presently, he is the Enterprise Architect for Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (London, UK) overseeing a 10 year transformation programme which includes delivering an IT and Digital Media strategy. 

 

Salim provides solutions and advice that relate to technology, strategy and governance to help achieve Business-IT alignment. He is certified in a number of frameworks, including TOGAF, Zachman, COBIT, and ITIL.  He is also a Certified Process Professional and a LEAN/ Six Sigma practitioner.

 

Salim helped to invest in and launch Process Master (now rebranded as BusinessOptix) - a company that provides practical business process and capability modelling tools for organisations who need to discover what assets drive their business. He introduced Process Master to Butler who carried out and published a favourable technology audit.

 

Currently, Salim is writing a series of books on Enterprise Architecture and is also publishing white papers and articles through the Open Group, HP and Microsoft. His most recent article may be found in the Microsft Architecture Journal (Issue 21 - Sep 2009) on the topic of SOA and virtualisation.