Dr. Steve Else is one of the world's foremost innovators, consultants, lecturers, educators, and trainers serving the Enterprise Architecture （EA） industry, he works closely with business and technology leaders in business transformations.

 

Dr. Else has trained and educated over 5000 professionals in EA （TOGAF, ArchiMate, Solution Architectue, IT4IT, etc.） as well as many others in U.S. Federal Enterprise Architecture. He is a regular keynote speaker at Global EA Conferences and Summits and has conducted many EA Executive Workshops for Fortune 50 companies and EA training for many universities worldwide.

 

Having consulted for the United Nations regarding overall EA in the recent past, he has also served as Chief Enterprise Architect for the Department of Health and Human Services （Inspector General）， and was Lead Architect at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation （FDIC）， as well as Lead Transition Architecture for U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

 

 A prolific contributor to the area of EA and Business Transformation, Dr. Else is Associate Editor with the Journal of Enterprise Architecture, founder and chief editor to the Enterprise Architecture Professional Journal （eapj.org）， and author of the book, Organization Theory and Transformation of Large, Complex Organizations. His most recent book is on architecting customer experience.

 

An Adjunct Professor at several universities in US, Steve also teaches Enterprise Architecture, as well as Systems Analysis and Design, at the graduate level. He has also taught Technology Forecasting and Assessments, Knowledge Management, and IT Project and Change Management over the span of 15 years.

 

Dr. Brett Brunk has a 20 year international career in IT spanning US Government, Consulting, Healthcare and Energy industries. In 2005 he held his first architecture position - as Manager of Architecture and Planning for Aeronautical Information at the Federal Aviation Administration. He introduced enterprise architecture concepts as a way to begin modernizing the FAA’s NOTAM （or PIlot alerting system）。 As part of that work he co-authored an international aviation data standard called AIXM （www.aixm.aero）。

 

In 2010 Brett became Chief Enterprise Architect at General Services Administration （GSA） - the US Government agency responsible for real estate and purchasing. At GSA Brett provided architectural oversight of nearly $1B in IT spending annually. He was an early adopter of business capabilities and he led his team to conduct business architect and application rationalization sessions with senior executives. Results of the work supported cost reductions, increase technology reuse and efforts to consolidate IT.

 

Brett left GSA in 2013 and took an international position with Maersk Oil and Gas in Copenhagen Denmark. At Maersk he built an enterprise architecture practice that influenced IT roadmaps and projects on 5 continents. Returning to the United States in 2015 Brett first took a position with Cambia Health Solutions, a health insurance provider, and then with Arizona Public Service, an electric utility. Now as Primary Architect and Chief, he is leading the entire Information Services department. In all his positions Brett brings his enterprise architecture expertise with his creativity and teamwork skills to help organizations get better value out of IT.