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I am a Senior I.T. Architect for the Division of Information Technology at UW-Madison in Madison, WI. I work with campus to: bring various Information Technology projects into alignment with each other and the campus-wide strategic directions; to facilitate discussions and to capture requirements, use cases and issues; to create standard documents (like UML models) for the project and to develop road-maps for Information Technology.
I am also Chair of ITANA.org, a peer group for I.T. Architects (Enterprise Architects) in Academia.
I also work with vendors and other groups on issues that surround Information Technology in academic environments including Identity and Access Management issues, integration technologies and the unique requirements of academic institutions.
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I was chatting with a colleague about the new EDUCAUSE slogan, “Uncommon Thinking for the Common Good” when I realized that the saying encapsulates one way to think of my work as an I.T. Architect. “Uncommon Thinking for the Common Good” is what I try to foster in the teams that I work with. [...]
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I’ve been pondering, wondering and worrying about how to bring value out of ITANA.org to the world at large. I struck upon a metaphor over dinner with a friend at EDUCAUSE recently that brought my vision and the issues I’m pondering into sharp light for me at least.
I watched Captains Courageous, a wonderful 1937 [...]
Brick diagrams are a strategic planning tool that I mentioned in passing in my ITANA talk at EDUCAUSE. Since then, I’ve had several people ask for more information. So here it is… more information.
Brick Diagrams are used by NIH in their Enterprise Architecture planning process. You can see the NIH brick diagrams and their taxonomy [...]
Digital neighborhoods seem like a powerful tool for discussing technology and its impact on users (students, staff, researchers, etc) and the concept adds interesting new requirements to projects. Getting a good understanding of your users’ digital neighborhoods can guide design and deployment of new technologies and help predict impacts on the users themselves. [...]
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Uncommon Thinking…
I was chatting with a colleague about the new EDUCAUSE slogan, “Uncommon Thinking for the Common Good” when I realized that the saying encapsulates one way to think of my work as an I.T. Architect. “Uncommon Thinking for the Common Good” is what I try to foster in the teams that I work with. [...]
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ITANA.org - bringing the catch home
I’ve been pondering, wondering and worrying about how to bring value out of ITANA.org to the world at large. I struck upon a metaphor over dinner with a friend at EDUCAUSE recently that brought my vision and the issues I’m pondering into sharp light for me at least.
I watched Captains Courageous, a wonderful 1937 [...]
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Brick Diagrams and related planning tools
Brick diagrams are a strategic planning tool that I mentioned in passing in my ITANA talk at EDUCAUSE. Since then, I’ve had several people ask for more information. So here it is… more information.
Brick Diagrams are used by NIH in their Enterprise Architecture planning process. You can see the NIH brick diagrams and their taxonomy [...]
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SOA from the Registrar’s PerspectiveJust had a hallway (okay, exhibit floor conversation) with Tom Black of Stanford University. They have ideas on embedded enrollment functions in several places: inside their LMS, available via iPhone applications and elsewhere. They would expose those enrollment functions as services then write to those services. Interesting. We also talked about orchestrating a flow, click [...]
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CG Leaders Meeting @ EDUCAUSE 2008Introductions of people. A lot of interesting constituent groups that I didn’t realize existed: I.T. Metrics, Learning Space Design. http://www.educause.edu/groups
Cynthia Golden - VP for EDUCAUSE is doing the EDUCAUSE update.
There was a new President last year. They have been doing a lot of change management over the past year. There is a [...]
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