About the instructor Mike Rosen

Mike Rosen is Director of Enterprise Architecture for the Cutter Consortium where he provides expert consulting in Business Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, and Service-Oriented Architecture. He is also Chief Scientist at Wilton Consulting Group, Editorial Director for SOA Institute, and a founding member of the Business Architecture Guild. His current emphasis is on the implementation of Enterprise and Business Architecture and programs. He has years of experience in the architecture and design of applications for global corporations and 20+ years of product development experience for distributed technologies including DCE, CORBA, DCOM, J2EE, Web Services, Transaction Processing, and Messaging. Mr. Rosen is an internationally recognized speaker and author of several books including Applied SOA: Architecture and Design Strategies.

Mr. Rosen specializes in architecture and IT strategy for Global 1000 clients in finance, insurance, government, and telecommunications. Throughout his career, he has been a frequent technical trainer, speaker, and writer on such topics as EA, application integration with SOA, Model Driven Architecture (MDA), and Enterprise 2.0 and collaboration architecture. In addition to his position as Cutter's EA Practice Director, Mr. Rosen is Chief Scientist with Wilton Consulting Group. He previously served as CTO of Azora Technologies, a startup focused on SOA analysis, design tools, and reference architecture; CTO of M2VP, Inc., a consultancy for IT architecture, where he developed the company's practice area using MDA; Chief Enterprise Architect at IONA Technologies, PLC, where he engaged in the development of the overall product architecture for its next-generation Web services platform and in the creation of the reference architecture for building applications on that platform. Prior to IONA, Mr. Rosen was Chief Enterprise Architect at Genesis Development, where he provided architecture consulting on large-scale applications and infrastructure. Before joining Genesis, he was a product architect, technical leader, and developer for numerous Web services, Java, CORBA, COM, messaging, transaction processing, DCE, networking, and operating system products for several vendors, including BEA and Digital.

Mr. Rosen has authored dozens of articles and reports and is coauthor of Applied SOA: Service-Oriented Architecture and Design Strategies; Developing E-Business Systems and Architectures: A Manager's Guide; and Integrating CORBA and COM Applications. He is a founding member of the Business Architect's Guild and is active in industry standards with the OMG.

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Case Study with Mike Rosen

Industry: Mortgage Client Profile: National loan servicing agency Project Focus: Architecture Review and Recommendation.

 

At a major mortgage provider, Cutter evaluated the existing environment, which was based on a highly customized and modified 25-year old application, combined with a new, but unpopular, workflow-based application. Cutter provided recommendations for immediate improvements to the workflow application and task definitions, an architecture for consolidating and rationalizing the extensions to the application for the mid-term, and an architecture and transition strategy for a target SOA architecture over 3 years. Cutter worked with the IT management to begin the transition to SOA. more case studies...