Tony Shan

Current

Executive Technology Strategist at IBM
Adjunct Professor at University of Phoenix
Professional Trainer at LearnQuest, ProTech, IT Training & Solutions, Learning Tree International

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Past

SOA Strategic Architect at Bank of America
Chief Architect/Strategist at Wachovia Corporation
Senior Architect at Harris Corporation

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Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Tony Shan’s Summary

Tony Shan is a renowned expert working in the computing field for 20+ years with extensive experience and guru-level knowledge on architecture engineering, technology strategies, and system designs in a number of multi-million dollar IT projects in a broad range of industries. He holds three advanced degrees in Engineering and Science majors, and is a Sun Certified Enterprise Architect & Java Programmer, and IBM Certified eBusiness Solution Designer. Having been involved in web technologies since the earliest Html, Java and .Net versions as an enterprise/solutions/chief architect, he has directed the lifecycle design and development of large-scale award-winning distributed systems on diverse platforms using a variety of cutting-edge technologies and unified/agile methodologies. He has initiated advanced research on emerging computing technologies, resulting in an invention patent and several patent-pending initiatives as well as many unified methodologies and platform models for adaptive enterprise system development. He plays a crucial role in leading establishing IT strategies and architecture blueprints, coupled with pragmatic technology roadmaps and enterprise architecture standards/policies, for Fortune 100 organizations. He serves as a mentor/advisor on leading-edge technologies, architecture, and engineering in various technical committees & advisory boards, and teaches a wide variety of courses. In addition to dozens of top-notch technical publications, he has authored multiple books on emerging technologies. He is a member of numerous professional associations and honorary society, a frequent keynote speaker and Chair/Panel/Program Committee in key IEEE/ACM conferences/workshops, an editor/editorial advisory board member of IT research journals & books, as well as a founder of Charlotte Rational User Group and Charlotte Architecture & Technology Symposium.

More info is available at http://tonycshan.spaces.live.com or contact tonycshan@yahoo.com.

Tony Shan’s Specialties:

eCommerce system design/development, enterprise architecture, architecting process, IT certification and governance, strategic planning, service management, architecture solution models, frameworks, patterns, methodologies, enterprise computing blueprint and roadmapping, open source products, tools, portfolio/asset rationalization, professional training/mentoring, IT conference/workshop organization, professional journal/book editing, patent, professional speeches, and IT consulting/advisory

Additional Information

Tony Shan’s Groups:

Professional Activities (Partial listing of recent involvements)
* Chair of IEEE SOA Industry Summit (SOAIS 2006/07/08)
* Chair of Poster and Demo Program of 2007 International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2007)
* Chair of Special Session and Workshop of 2007 Int'l Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST-2007)
* Industry Advisory Board of 19th Int'l Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 2007)
* Organizing/Program Committee member and session/track chair of numerous IEEE/ACM and other IT conferences.
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* Associate Editor of International Journal of Information and Communication Technology (IJICT)
* Associate Editor of International Journal of Software Reuse (IJSR)
* Editorial Advisory Board of about a dozen IT journals and books