Workshop Commitee
Anders Aas Bjerkestrand
Anders Aas Bjerkestrand is a Senior Consultant and head of System Integration in Norwegian based BEKK Consulting. Anders has broad expertise in web services, SOA’s and other system integration techniques and principles. This knowledge and expertise is gained from work as a consultant with clients from various industries. His role on customer projects varies from architect, technical project leader and developer. Anders also shares his knowledge and thoughts about SOA and web service by speaking on seminar and conferences. Lars Arne and Anders organized this workshop at OOPSLA05.
Lars Arne Skaar
Lars Arne Skaar recently joined TietoEnator Banking Solutions, a provider of banking software and related services, as Chief Technology Officer. Before that, he spent 16 years in consulting on different system integration engagements. His focus areas have been effective architectures and development approaches, in particular concerning integration. Thus, he started early in adapting SOA as a framework in his practice. In particular the focus on loose coupling and the increased focus on semantic interoperability have proven important to address when the demand for integration increases. Thus, Lars was early in communicating and defending these concepts on seminars, conferences and papers in the local computer press. Lars Arne and Anders organized this workshop at OOPSLA05.
Dr. Ali Arsanjani
Dr. Ali Arsanjani is a Senior Technical Staff Member and Executive I/T Architect with 21 years of experience in software consulting, development and architecture. He is Chief Architect of the SOA and Web Services Center of Excellence in IBM Global Services, USA. His areas of expertise include service-oriented and component-based software architecture, patterns and methods. He has written extensively on patterns, service-oriented architecture, component-based development and integration, business rules and dynamically re-configurable software architecture. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor of Computer Science at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, IA.
Dr. Amir Zeid
Amir Zeid is an assistant professor of Computer Science at the British University in Cairo. His research interest include object-oriented methodologies, agent and component based software engineering and design patterns. Dr. Zeid has numerous publications in the field of Software Engineering. He is a member of the program committee of many international conferences.
Olaf Zimmermann
Olaf Zimmermann is an Open Group and IBM certified Executive IT Architect, who has been working in the IT industry since 1989. At present, he holds a Visiting Scientist position in the IBM Zurich Research Lab, where he focuses on meet-in-the-middle process and service modeling techniques, as well as the role architectural decisions and model transformations play during SOA construction. In his previous services life, Olaf helped numerous clients designing SOA/Web services solutions and educated practitioners around the world on these and other emerging technologies. Olaf is an author of the text book "Perspectives on Web Services" and contributed to several IBM Redbooks such as "Web Services Wizardry with WebSphere Studio Application Developer". He holds an honours degree in Computer Science from the Technical University in Braunschweig, Germany. More information on Olaf's work is available at http://www.zurich.ibm.com/csc/bit/bpia.html and http://www.perspectivesonwebservices.de
Kerrie Holley
Kerrie Holley received a bachelor of arts degree in mathematics and a Juris Doctorate in law degree from DePaul University. He is member of IBM’s Academy of Technology and an IBM Distinguished Engineer. He is a Chief Architect in Business Consulting Services (BCS), Application innovation Services (AIS) group and he is the CTO for IBM’s Center of Excellence for Web Services and SOA. His area of expertise is in software engineering, end-to-end advanced Web development, adaptive enterprise architecture, conducting architecture reviews, Web services, and service-oriented architecture.
