Speaker: Wayne Horkan FBCS CITP FIoD SMIEEE

Wayne Horkan is the Chief Technology Officer for Sun Microsystems in the UK and Ireland. He represents the UK and Ireland Technical Community, providing leadership to the customer-facing Technology and Business Consultants in Sun's Global Sales and Services Organisation.

Wayne has had an extensive career in IT/IS implementations for over 15 years: in former roles with Sun, Wayne successfully established Sun's technical leadership position and relevance in support of significant and strategic government programmes in the UK, along with substantial work in the finance and utilities markets. This includes, Enterprise Architecture definition and implementation, which he champions in the EMEA sector and across the World.

Prior to joining Sun, Wayne was Chief Technical Architect for Harrods Online, and also spent time as a Technical Consultant at a Systems Integrator, a Senior Software Engineer at an Independent Software Vendor and as a Computer Programmer before that.

Large (and, increasingly, smaller) enterprises have embraced Enterprise Architecture as a key tool to interpret and strategically manage the complexity of their IT estates, and it's not surprising that many of them have assembled large teams and spent many millions of pounds to achieve an 'Enterprise Architecture'.

The case studies presented explore Wayne’s experiences with Enterprise Architecture in three major customer engagements. They include an Enterprise Architecture team which led its company into a £70+ million 'pitfall'; the use of Enterprise Architecture to define a Service Oriented Architecture; and an example of how much Enterprise Architecture is about achieving the proper governance model.

Key takeaways: Enterprise Architecture best practices drawn from multiple engagements.  How to use good governance to avoid and limit the 'Ivory Tower' syndrome.  How to combine Enterprise Architecture and Service Oriented Architecture to deliver sustainable Transformation "