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The Practitioner's Guide to Real-World SOA
(Unisys University, 2006)
A four hour self-paced course with voice over audio recording to base-line the skills of over 650 architects globally. It covers SOA Architecture, Web Services, Standards, ESBs, Patterns and Antipatterns, Legacy Integration, and SOA using J2EE/.NET
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Project-Oriented Proposal Development
(PMI Professional Development Day, Atlanta, August 26, 2006)
Projects are the lifeblood of every project-based organization. This holds especially true in consulting firms since projects form the major, if not only, source of revenue. Yet, before a project can begin it must be won, and before a project can be won, a proposal must be submitted. Project-oriented proposal development is aimed directly at this very crucial step required to win that next project in today’s tight global economy.
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Five(5) Steps for Preparing for Tomorrow's Technology Trends, Today!
(AITP, Atlanta, April 17, 2003)
Discusses 5 no-nonsense things that an IT shop must look at to survive in the current and next wave of technology trends. A few of the topics that the 5 steps include are Offshore Development, Enterprise Architecture, IT PMOs, Application Integration and Web Services.
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Real World EAI: Lessons Learned from GE
(EIPhorum, Atlanta, April 19, 2002)
Discusses lessons learned from deploying EAI (enterprise application integration) at one of the world's largest companies and what the future of EAI brings. Co-presented with Alex White, IT Manager of GE Contractual Services, a division of GE Power Systems.
 
Design Patterns Made Easy
(AJUG, January 2000 meeting)
What is the history behind these "design patterns"? How do they relate to Anti-patterns? This is a presentation that I made at the Atlanta Java Users Group (AJUG) with an objective of answering these questions and to cover some of the patterns that have fascinated me over the years.
 
A Technical Presentation on EJB
(AJUG, December 1999 meeting)
Have you heard a lot of "fluff" about EJB? Do you want something more real? This is a presentation that I made at the Atlanta Java Users Group (AJUG) on EJB from a technical standpoint.
 
A Presentation on the Current State of Information Environement
(Georgia State Univ., November 1999)