Tuesday May 11, 2004 Scott Koehler and Max Tyler       Koehler Consulting Hartford Insurance Company Open to the Public $5.00 Admission Doors open at 5:30PM

Based on their presentation at    "Integrate 2003 - Boston"

Check out their Adobe PDF Slides  if you missed the meeting!

The questions never stopped in this practitioner report of experiences from the front lines and recommendations for achieving success in complex, disparate systems.

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  discussed the essential principles of Enterprise Architecture that have served them well in real-world applications. 

This was 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 gave away these five book door prizes courtesy Addison Wesley plus other
books and gifts from Koehler Consulting.

           

  

 Reported by Terry McAuliffe