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| Chairman - David Harrison Send Email |
| David Harrison has worked in the IT industry for over 30 years.
During 22 years with IBM as a programmer, systems analyst and database administrator on a variety of development projects, and latterly in a consultancy role with the IBM sales force, he gained considerable experience in all aspects of the systems development life-cycle.
There followed 8 years with the UK's Ordnance Survey (OS) where, as a Senior Systems Development Consultant he established the Design Authority and Enterprise Architecture Teams and was responsible for promoting and advising on good design practice throughout OS.
From 2001 to 2004, David was the Senior Enterprise Architecture Consultant with Telelogic Software (now Telelogic), providing support to client organisations in architecture planning, development and implementation, and has continued this work as an independent consultant since the beginning of 2005.
Since 2002, David has been heavily involved with the development and promotion and of TOGAF. He is a work-stream leader in the TOGAF 9 development programme, and is a Certified TOGAF Practitioner. |
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| Admin Office - Julie Clift-Thompson Send Email |
| Julie works in the Admin Office looking after Members' records, the accounts and updating the website. |
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| Events Coordinator - Andrea Weber Marin Send Email |
| Lecturer in Production Automation and process analysis at Federal Institute of Technology Zurich.
Published a book of Graphical Methods for Process Analysis (in German).
Projekt manager of new study course at design school in Lucerne "Digital Design and Management" |
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| Newsletter Editor - Dave Longley Send Email |
| Dave is a Technical Consultant and has been involved with System Architect since early 2001, working on projects in both Public and Commercial sectors.
Dave has helped to accumulate pledges worth over 500,000 (answering a phone, at a call centre in support of Red Nose Day and Sport Relief), taken part in running events for the charity Mind, and recently had a ride in a Lancaster bomber. He is looking forward to his flight in a Spitfire (a prize in the Blenheim Society Grand Draw) and understands that it will be in a two-seat machine, not a single-seater.
He is a member of Croydon Communicators, a club affiliated to Toastmasters International, and is working for his Competent Communicator and Competent Leader awards. He has been appointed to the Committee, with the role of Vice President, Education.
Dave has gained his Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management
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| Webmaster - Simon Duxbury Send Email |
| Simon Duxbury is a member of the Information Management team within Nationwide's IT Enterprise Architecture department.
He has been a happy user of System Architect since 2003.
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| Telelogic Representative - Ms Kara Staegemann Send Email |
| Kara is a Field Marketing Specialist and is responsible for all marketing activities for the System Architect User Group and Telelogic's annual User Group Conference.
Kara has worked for Telelogic for 3 years and prior to this role studied at Oxford Brookes University.
Kara's two main passions outside of work are house renovations and keeping fit. |
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| Secretary and Treasurer - Arif Hussain Send Email |
| Arif is an independent Technical Consultant who has worked in IT for over 20 years. In his 7 years at DHL, he was responsible for the introduction and administration of System Architect. He customized it to store processes, procedures, business rules and the entire DHL GIS process. Wrote extensive VBA reports to generate quality documentation out of System Architect as well as generating web sites using Information Web Publisher.
After DHL, he went on to project manage the EA tool evaluation project for Shell and again recommended a certain tool! He lives in Southall, near Heathrow.
Prior to that he spent 7 years at MSP a mainframe Data Dictionary/Repository vendor and has been with the User Group since 2002.
He was also the SAUG Webmaster for 2 years. |
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