William A. Brown is a Sr. & Master Certified Executive IT Architect with IBM Global Business Services Enterprise Architecture & Technology Center of Excellence and the World Wide SOA Center of Excellence.

Mr. Brown is the SOA Governance SGMM global lead and is the lead author of IBM’s SOA Governance and Management Method (SGMM), SOA CoE Offering, White Papers, Presentations and Techniques Papers on SOA Governance.

His book, “SOA Governance - Achieving and Sustaining Business and IT Agility” is in bookstores.

Mr. Brown is writing another book on building Centers of Excellences for SOA, EA and Cloud computing models. This new book with be in bookstore 12/09.

He has over 28 years of experience in many areas of information technology, including application development, application design, project management, data warehousing, architecture, and governance. He has been responsible for the architecture, and delivery of solutions on all computing platforms.

Mr. Brown has delivered solutions to a broad spectrum of industries including insurance, finance, government, education, retail, manufacturing and distribution. He has lead development of methodologies, strategies, and engagement model for new business offerings, services, and products. He has a long track record of recovering large, complex, troubled projects or projects that are at risk of failing. He is a quality assurance expert and has led many large QA initiatives.

Mr. Brown has pending, and is co-inventor of 80 + patents involving pervasive computing, grid computing, autonomic computing technologies and SOA Governance.

Mr. Brown continues to write articles, provide education, mentor, teach, present at conferences, develop SOA governance assets and deliver solutions to customers world wide. He specializes in SOA Governance and Enterprise Architecture.