6 articles and 6 roles.
The talk I prepared for The Enterprise Architecture Conference 2005 in Sydney, on where SOA sits inside an enterprise architecture — the March SOA talk grown into a case study of how MLC sold, governed and proof-of-concept-tested its way towards one.
The Microsoft Architect Council cut of my March 2005 SOA talk - the same deck reopened for twenty-eight seconds that June, the event line changed and the religion slide deleted, and delivered in Sydney on 3 August 2005.
The background presentation Kate Behan gave to open an ACS branch forum on SOA in June 2005, before a panel session I sat on — reproduced from her deck, which drew on my earlier SOA talk and closed by handing the room to the panellists.
A talk I gave at an SOA conference in Sydney in March 2005, arguing that SOA was in danger of being received as one more silver bullet, and that the way to avoid that was to treat it as a religion and go looking for converts.
The case-study talk I gave in July 2004 as Head of Architecture at MLC, on the journey from hard-to-justify EAI business cases to web services and the architecture that became our SOA — given at a conference the deck does not name.
The talk I gave twice in 2003 — Sydney in July, Wellington in November — at BTELL's Enterprise Architecture Conference, on five years of implementing and embedding the architecture team at National Wealth Management, reproduced from the deck the conference CDs distributed.
2025 — Present
Enterprise Architect (Consulting)
Enterprise architecture within Technology and Data Solutions: an architecture service model, EA metrics and LeanIX executive reporting, an AI reference architecture, and federated repository-centric governance.
2025 — Present
2016 — Present
Principal Consultant and Junior Janitor
Boutique strategy consultancy, publishing AI-dō, a book on working with AI in practice, and two native Apple applications released as free software.
2016 — Present
2011 — 2016
Strategy Consultant / Executive Manager (Consulting)
IT strategy, interim architecture leadership, a data analytics capability, and APQC’s process framework.
2011 — 2016
2008
Head of Strategy and Architecture
Established the IT Strategy and Architecture function of around twenty people, its governance and roadmaps.
2008
2005 — 2007
Head of Architecture / Strategy Consultant
Head of Architecture for Distribution, then for Retail Banking, then Strategy Consultant for the Australian region.
2005 — 2007
1998 — 2004
Head of Strategy and Architecture
Established the architecture function and its governance over a fully outsourced IT operation.
1998 — 2004
