(Doors open at 5:30 for registration, meeting starts at 6:00PM)
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Scott Koehler and Max Tyler Koehler Consulting $5.00 Admission Open to the Public Free admission to employees of The Hartford and fulltime students with college ID |
Based on their presentation at "Integrate 2003 - Boston" |
Scott Koehler and Max Tyler have served as Enterprise
Architects on many large Enterprise Application Integration projects in the
financial services / insurance industry. Often many of the basic principles
of Enterprise Architecture get lost in the throes of real projects staffed
by real people. At this presentation they will discuss the essential
principles of Enterprise Architecture that have served them well in
real-world applications. Come hear some of their experiences from the front lines and
recommendations for achieving success in complex, disparate systems
environments.
This will be Scott Koehler's third appearance at COOUG. He spoke here
November 1997
and January 1994. Max Tyler participated in COOUG's Information
Exchange expert panel on Object Technology back in January 1995.
Scott
Koehler has over twenty years of information systems experience. Mr. Koehler
provides enterprise application architecture, object oriented analysis &
design, and implementation consulting along with project management
assistance. He specializes in thin client architectures and enterprise
application integration projects that utilize business engine software
components. Mr. Koehler has extensive subject matter expertise in the
insurance and financial services industry. He has designed several industry
specific object oriented frameworks and holds a patent for the KCI Tax
Server design. Prior to founding KCI in 1990, Mr. Koehler was Director of
Application Development for Applied Expert Systems (APEX) in Cambridge, MA,
a developer of object-oriented, personal financial planning software for the
financial services / insurance industry. Earlier, Mr. Koehler was a
consultant with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) in Boston. Mr. Koehler
holds a B.S. degree in Industrial Engineering from Cornell University and an
MBA from Boston University. He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences
such as Object World and Object Expo, and has authored articles on the use
of object technology in business applications appearing in publications such
as Computerworld, Object Magazine, and the Object Management Group's First
Class and Object Insider. Additionally, Mr. Koehler served on the Program
Committee of Object World from 1993 - 1997.
Max Tyler is a Principal at Koehler Consulting, Inc. He has over twenty
years information technology experience. Mr. Tyler's experience includes
systems architecture, software design, and development, with a
specialization in Microsoft technologies (e.g. .NET, COM, MTS, C++/C#).
Previously, Mr. Tyler was Vice President, Mutual Funds Technology Department
for State Street Boston Corporation, Quincy, MA and 2nd Vice President -
Sales and Marketing Systems for The New England (Boston, MA), where he was
with the company for eighteen years. Mr. Tyler holds Bachelor of Science and
a Bachelor of Arts degree from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State
University, Blacksburg, VA. Mr. Tyler has spoken at various object
technology conferences, including Object World and Object Expo.
We'll have five book door prizes courtesy Addison Wesley.
