Uche Ogbuji

Current

Partner at Zepheira LLC

Past

Principal at Fourthought, Inc.
Manager of Internet Services at AFFINA

Education

Milwaukee School of Engineering
University of Nigeria

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Uche Ogbuji’s Summary

Enterprise architect and corporate technology strategist. Pioneer in technical architecture and business strategy for advanced Web technologies including XML, Web services and Semantic Web, and of the open source technology.

* Executive experience as CEO of a consulting and software sales organization
* Exceptional problem solving skills in technical and business domains
* Respected industry thought leader, with track record of publication in professional journals contributions to conferences
* Excellent written and verbal communications skills
* Experience managing software applications development, product development and systems integration, and evaluating hardware, software and service providers
* Senior programming, data modeling and architectural experience
* Experience integrating open source software into business systems
* Skilled at functioning in multicultural teams, with facility in languages including French, German and Spanish

Goal is to help forward-thinking organizations to use technology to solve difficult commercial, social and scientific problems, and to contribute towards the maturing of software architecture and software engineering as professional disciples.

Uche Ogbuji’s Specialties:

Enterprise data architecture, XML tech, Web services, SOA, Web 2.0, Semantic Web, Internet protocols, relational DBMS, object DBMS, geospatial & GIS, electronic messaging, UML, design patterns, genetic algorithms, cellular automata, compiler design and parsing, operating systems, Computer architecture

C++, C, Java, Python, XML, XSLT, HTML, AJAX, Javascript/ECMAScript, SQL, assembler etc.
Systems: UNIX (Linux, Solaris), Windows, Mac OS X, DOS

Uche Ogbuji’s Experience

Partner

Zepheira LLC

(Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2007 — Present (2 years 9 months)

Founding partner providing solutions to effectively integrate, navigate and manage information across boundaries of person, group and enterprise. Applying Semantic technology and Web architecture in solutions for clients including US Library of Congress, Sun Microsystems, Inc.,) OCLC, Wilshire, Intuit, Avenue A/RazorFish, Cleveland Clinic Foundation (CCF), Elsevier, ThomsonReuters, Minnesota Historical Society, MIT, Stanford University, Quintiles Transnational, and Health Central Network. Setting the strategic direction for the company, sales and practice management. Product strategy and architecture for Freemix.
Principal

Fourthought, Inc.

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

June 1998 — December 2006 (8 years 7 months)
Manager of Internet Services

AFFINA

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Consumer Services industry)

1997 — 1998 (1 year )

Uche Ogbuji’s Education

Milwaukee School of Engineering

B.S. , Computer Engineering , 1992 — 1994
University of Nigeria

Electronic Engineering 1986 — 1989

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Uche Ogbuji’s Interests:

Soccer (football), snowboarding, new technology, art, history, literature, poetry, language & culture, music, hip-hop, African development.

Uche Ogbuji’s Groups:

The XML Guild, The Python Software Foundation

Milwaukee School of Engineering Alumni
Python Community
The Enterprise Architecture Network
Open Source Universe
UNN - University of Nigeria, Nsukka.
Semantic Web
XML Guild
XML and Related Technologies Network
MSOE Alums, Students, Faculty, and Staff
Balisage: The Markup Conference
Enterprise 2.0 Group
Boulder Denver New Tech Meetup
XML/XSL
Zepheira Group
Semantic Universe
Spring Python
SemTech: The Semantic Technology Conference
Semantic Professional Network (Web 3.0, Semantic Web, Semantic Technologies Professionals)