EA PRINCIPALS - Key Persons
Aleksander Wyka, a former Chief Technology Officer in a large healthcare company, brings his expansive, cross-industry experience from mission critical projects, enterprise architecture, business process reengineering, and change management initiatives to his role as an...
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- Principal
- Trainer
- Chief of IT Governance and Enterprise Project Management Services With the Department of Water Resources
An experienced enterprise architect in the public and private sectors for over a decade, Angel Romero is currently Chief of IT Governance and Enterprise Project Management Services with the Department of Water Resources. Angel has...
Beryl Bellman, PhD is Emeritus Professor of Communication at California State University Los Angeles and was co-founder and Academic Director of the FEAC™ Institute, which was acquired by Zachman International. He is involved in teaching,...
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- Officer
- Principal
- Trainer
- Director of Project Management for the US Securities
Dr, Douglas Brown has served as director of project management for the US Securities and Exchange Commission and for a Defense agency, instituting enterprise portfolio and program management and IT architecture practices in those agencies. He has over twenty years' experience as a management consultant to commercial and public-sector organizations, with the majority of the past 15 years focusing on IT management.
He is also the author of four books on management practice adoption, including the best-seller "Let It Simmer: Making Program, Portfolio and Project Management Practices Stick in a Skeptical Organization", and provides keynote talks and practical workshops at professional venues. His particular focus is business practice improvement "from the middle" in organizations where managers are just trying to get their work done in a still-maturing environment with limited support.
In addition to being certified in TOGAF (The Open Group Architectural Framework), he has implemented EA using FEAF and DoDAF as well as Cloud Service Architectures from the DoD, IBM and Amazon Web Services. He brings the "enterprise" perspective to enterprise architecture (EA): he is also certified as a Program Management Professional (PgMP) and Project Management Professional (PMP), he has been awarded the Master Black Belt in Lean Six Sigma process analysis through Villanova University, and is a certified Technology Business Management (TBM) Executive.
His clients have included advisory support to CIOs in every Cabinet Department, as well as commercial engagements with companies in financial services, telecommunications, medical devices, and biotechnology, as well as IT service providers. In addition to establishing governance practices and enterprise project management offices for those customers, key engagements have included the initial integration of billing systems in the 17 companies that formed Cingular Wireless (now AT&T), development of a voting machine product, conducting analyses and simulations that led to a complete revision of the EPA approach to toxic waste site remediation, economic analyses of privatization of government activities (including a highly-successful energy deregulation strategy for the US Postal Service), and developing an economic model that was approved by the US GAO and used for 16 years to govern military base closing decisions. In recent work, he implemented the Technology Business Management model in multiple federal agencies and introduced the concept of IT as a Service to the US Marine Corps.
He has also shared his knowledge and experience in teaching and training assignments for many years. A certified instructor for the US Army, he taught for the Command & General Staff College and was part of the initial pilot program to validate on-line training vs. live instruction. He has also taught courses at the graduate level for Florida Institute of Technology, Georgetown and the University of Southern California. He is a frequent guest speaker for professional societies, particularly on process adoption issues, and has conducted webinars in topics ranging from program management to enterprise architecture to cost estimation.
Dr. Brown is a former military officer who twice commanded combat arms units (one being nuclear missiles on hot launch pads) and served in a range of staff positions including responsibility for all vehicle maintenance programs in fie countries across northern Europe. His service included assignments or extended deployments in Panama, Korea, the Philippines, New Zealand and Germany (and Hawaii).
Dr. Brown is married and lives in Williamsburg, Virginia.
Dr. Amjad Umar received an M.S. in Computer and Communication Engineering and a Ph.D. in Information Systems Engineering, both from the University of Michigan. His main areas of expertise include enterprise architectures and integration, SOA, strategic planning of e-government and e-business, ICTD (information and communication technologies in developing countries), e-consulting for international projects, mobile computing and wireless communications, and information security. He has extensive industrial and academic experience in these areas at the national as well as international levels. He has supervised numerous large scale industrial projects with international organizations in more than 25 countries, has led numerous industrial seminars and corporate training sessions, and has taught graduate level university courses at the University of Pennsylvania, University of Michigan, Fordham Graduate School of Business, Rutgers University, and Peking University.
Currently, he is CEO of NGE Solutions, a U.S.-based international corporation (offices in Pakistan, Italy, and Turkey) that concentrates on Next Generation Enterprises (NGEs) and ICT for developing countries (ICT4D). He is a Senior Technical Advisor and Chief Architect of the United Nations eNabler Project that is intended to accelerate the pace of ICT in developing countries. Dr. Umar is also a Fulbright Senior Specialist in ICT and works with academic institutions of developing countries in this capacity. His 20+ years of industrial experience includes Director of Systems Planning and Integration at Bellcore (part of the Bell Lab system, now known as Telcordia Technologies) for over 10 years, and consulting assignments with global telecom organizations, US Department of Navy, US Army Research Labs, Frost and Sullivan (England), Toyota Corp., Society of Manufacturing Engineers, and government/non-government organizations in Macedonia, England, Singapore, China, Italy, New Zealand, South Africa, Argentina, Canada, Bahrain, Nepal, Liberia, and Myanmar. His current academic assignments include an adjunct faculty position at the University of Pennsylvania and a professorship at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology.
He has received numerous awards (Faculty Award from IBM, Fulbright Senior Specialist Award from the US Council of International Exchange of Scholars, Distinguished Faculty Award from the University of Michigan, Best Adjunct Faculty Award from Fordham, and Outstanding Performance Awards from Bellcore). He has also received grants from US DARPA (Defense Advanced Project Agency)
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- CEO, Principal, Trainer, Leader
- Our Founder
As one of the world's foremost innovators, practitioners/consultants, lecturers, educators and trainers serving the Enterprise Architecture (EA) community, Dr. Steve Else has been a sought-after authority within the global business transformation community for nearly two...
Our founder Dr. Steve Else paved the way for our focus on Enterprise Architecture and how it is used as the foundation for true business transformation. Over the years, we have built trusted relationships with our clients to develop services in Enterprise Architecture to address complex strategic planning, project and portfolio management, and service-oriented architectures.
Iver Band has applied TOGAF, ArchiMate and enterprise agile methods to guide design, development, and management of teams, programs and solutions for DocVocate, Cambia Health Solutions, Standard Insurance, and Hewlett-Packard. Currently, he serves as Chief...
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- Trainer
- Software / Systems Engineer
Baker is a Software/Systems Engineer with interest and expertise in enterprise architecture, requirements development, software/system architecture and system design processes and methodologies that support Model-Based Engineering. He has used UML as a leader of...
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- Chief Operating Officer
- Leader
- Principal
- Trainer
- Specialist in Organizational Performance Assessment
Mr. Novak is a specialist in Organizational Performance Assessment and Improvement, particularly within the context of the Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence. His experience with the Baldrige Criteria and methodology began in 1994 as an Examiner with the President's Quality Award. Subsequently, he has served as Examiner, Team leader, Scorebook Editor, Team Mentor, and Judge in numerous Baldrige-based programs, and was a four-time Examiner with the Baldrige National Quality Award Program. He has been an internal and external consultant to organizations implementing the Baldrige method or applying for Baldrige-based awards. Currently, he is Executive Director of the Maryland Performance Excellence Awards program, a state-level Baldrige-based organizational excellence recognition program.
Mr. Novak is a Past President of the Washington, DC, Chapter of the Knowledge Management Professional Society, and Past Co-Chair of the Federal Knowledge Management Working Group. He has also been Co-Chair of the Government Enterprise Integrators Group research team on Enterprise Risk Management and Co-Chair of the Knowledge and Human Capital Retention Special Interest Group. He is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, the University of Maryland, and the U.S. Naval War College. He is a Senior Member of the American Society for Quality, a Certified Manager of Quality and Organizational Excellence, a Certified Quality Engineer, and a Certified Enterprise Architect.
Michael J. Novak is Chief Operating Officer of EA Principals, Inc., a global training and consulting firm. He is a retired U.S. Naval Officer and retired Federal Employee. His military career included service aboard ships of the Pacific Fleet; management of Equal Opportunity and Race Relations programs, intercultural relations/overseas diplomacy programs, shipboard training programs, and defense logistics. His significant duties included three command tours, service as an interpreter (Japanese-English) for the Director of Naval Intelligence, and on the staff of the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations, Logistics, in the Pentagon. His extensive career in government included positions with the Internal Revenue Service Office of Procurement, the IRS Office of Research, Department of the Treasury Office of Strategic Planning and Evaluation, the IRS Office of the National Director of Quality, and the Defense Logistics Agency Executive Directorate of Quality Assurance. His significant duties have included drafting the Treasury Department Strategic Plan; serving on task groups chartered by Vice President Gore's National Partnership for Reinventing Government; and developing and implementing Defense Department procurement policy.
Thomas Sternkopf is a truly convinced Agilist who is initiating, moderating and leading agile change with high levels of empathy and professional competence. He builds on more than 15 years of experience in the IT-...