David has more than 20 years of experience driving product strategy and marketing for enterprise software and systems companies such as Spotfire, Portera Systems, Netscape, NeXT Software, Cadre Technologies, and Data General.

His broad range of experience spans the development, introduction, and marketing of products such as business intelligence analytic applications, web-hosted enterprise applications, industry leading web application servers and application development tools, and distributed OLTP systems.

David has a bachelor of science degree in computer science and marketing from Boston College.

Presentation
SOA and the Agile Warfighter: The DoD Net-Centric Enterprise Services (NCES) Program
The Department of Defense (DOD) Net-Centric Enterprise Services (NCES) initiative is probably the largest and most advanced SOA initiative to date. It links combat and other armed services personnel, logistics, business, intelligence and command centers to facilitate information sharing, accelerate decision-making, and improve operations.

The DOD’s service oriented approached is enabling secure, agile, dependable, interoperable data-sharing, where warfighters, business and intelligence users share knowledge on a global network. The infrastructure is comprised of a Service Oriented Architecture Framework (SOAF) and nine core services.

This presentation will review the goals and objective of the NCES program, discuss why a service-oriented approach makes sense, and describe in detail the system architecture and core services. It will provide insights on how this massive-scale SOA deployment is being used, and how issues around SOA governance, effective collaboration and policy management/enforcement are being addressed.

This presentation is designed for both business and IT professionals who have or are considering embarking on a large-scale SOA initiative.

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