Long Overdue Update

Fast Forward about a year....

Hello, world... again.

A lot has happened in the past few months in the Enterprise Architecture domain at Saint Louis University. Since I last posted snippets and notes from the Bredemeyer conference last year, we've come a long way.

Most significant is the addition of another Enterprise Architect to our team. John Ashby comes with a wealth of experience (17+ years) from the "academic side" of the house. His keen sense of strategy and business mind has created a wonderful context in which we have continued to build EA @ SLU. John will be attending the Bredemeyer EA workshop in late spring. So, our team now consists of Kevin Ballard (the Chief Architect) and the two EA's (John and Me).

I don't believe I mentioned Kevin Ballard in earlier postings, although he was my boss at the time of the earlier Bredemeyer workshop. Kevin heads our EA unit but is also the head of the BI and DBA (Oracle) team here at SLU. He has a wonderful business perspective and is very respected in the organization. His corporate background has added to the dynamic context I mentioned earlier. (Enough pandering to the boss!)

John, Kevin and I recently presented our "journey" so far of creating an EA program at SLU at the Educause Midwest conference in Chicago. The presentation was well received. The presentation and related links can be found here.

At the conference we ran in to Jim Phelps, Senior Architect at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. He got us involved in ITANA, an Internet2 group focused on IT Architecture in Academia. Please check it out here.