Anne Thomas Manes

Vice President and Research Director

Emphases: XML, java, SOA, application servers, application security, web services

Anne Thomas Manes is the Vice President and research director for Burton Group’s Application Platform Strategies service. She covers service-oriented architecture (SOA), web services, XML, governance, Java, application servers, superplatforms, and application security. Prior to joining Burton Group, Anne was former chief technology officer at Systinet, a SOA governance vendor (now part of HP) and director of market innovation in Sun Microsystems’s software group. With 28 years of experience, Anne was named one of the 50 most powerful people in networking 2002 by Network World and among the “Power 100 IT Leaders,” by Enterprise Systems Journal. Anne has authored “Web Services: A Manager’s Guide,” published by Addison-Wesley, 2003 and participated in Web services standards development efforts at W3C, OASIS, WS-I, and JCP.

Chris Haddad

Vice President and Service Director

Emphases: XML, J2EE, SOA, web services, open source, model driven development

Chris Haddad is the Vice President and service director for Burton Group’s Application Platform Strategies service. He covers web services , J2EE, service-oriented architecture (SOA), software as a service, open source, integration, XML schema, .NET, WS-*, and model-driven development. Prior to joining Burton Group, Chris lead software teams on architecture, development, and transformation initiatives. His leadership roles span technical, product, and business process strategy including seven years as co-owner of a software company, three year leadership position at venture-backed software as a service company, and consulting director and delivery agent to Global 2000 enterprises and leading software vendors with focus areas of SOA, application architecture, middleware, and product/company strategy. With 17 years of experience, Chris has established software development, product direction, and integration strategy of several successful software companies. He was granted committer status on the Apache Axis project in 2002. He is a conference editorial board member, chair of special interest groups, and frequent speaker at Enterprise Architecture Summit, Interop, SOAWorld, JBossWorld, IASA, and SDWest.

Joe Bugajski

Senior Analyst

Emphases: enterprise architecture, data access strategies, data strategies, application engineering, information integration and quality, technology standards, model driven architecture

Joe Bugajski is a senior analyst for Burton Group’s Application Platform Strategies service. He covers data access strategies, data services, enterprise architecture, application engineering, information integration and quality, model driven architecture, and technology standards. Prior to joining Burton Group, Joe was chief data officer at Visa responsible worldwide for information architecture and quality. He also held position of chief enterprise architect and resident entrepreneur covering strategy, risk systems, and data warehousing at Visa, CEO of business intelligence software provider at Triada, and manager of enterprise information systems and prototype builder with Ford Motor Company. In Joe’s industry experience he is a noted researcher and holder of four patents, twenty-two peer-reviewed publications – won 1st Place Practice Prize, KDD 2007. He is the builder of technology businesses and enterprise architect with significant efficiencies wins born of systems and data integration.

Joe Niski

Senior Analyst

Emphases: java, J2EE, application integration, SDLC, development tools

Joe Niski is a senior analyst for Burton Group’s Application Platform Strategies service. He covers development tools, Java/J2EE, application integration and message-oriented middleware, development methodology, open source software, and application security. Prior to joining Burton Group, Joe was senior J2EE framework architect for U.S. bank, leading efforts to standardize development tools and open-source components, modernize business-critical applications, and implement SOA. With nearly 20 years in IT, Joe’s experience in software development, development management, and consulting earned him the U.S. Bank Distinguished Leadership Award for Intellectual Effectiveness.

Kirk Knoernschild

Analyst

Emphases: languages, platforms, SDLC, frameworks

Kirk Knoernschild is an analyst for Burton Group’s Application Platform Strategies service. He covers development platforms, programming languages and frameworks, and the software development lifecycle (SDLC). Prior to joining Burton Group, Kirk was a software developer who could be found working in the trenches on enterprise software development projects. With over 15 years of software development experience, Kirk has filled most roles on the software development team. In 2002, Kirk wrote the book “Java Design: Objects, UML, and Process”, published by Addison-Wesley. Kirk is an open source contributor, has authored numerous articles, and is a frequent conference speaker. He has trained and mentored thousands of software professionals on topics including Java/J2EE, modeling, software architecture and design, component based development, service oriented architecture, and software process. Kirk is trapped in a software developer’s body, and continues to enjoy hacking in a variety of languages, including Java, .Net, Ruby, and PHP.

Richard Watson

Analyst

Emphases: XML, java, J2EE, SOA, web services

Richard Watson is an analyst for Burton Group’s Application Platform Strategies service. He covers service-oriented architecture (SOA), web services, Java/J2EE, integration, XML and WS-*. Prior to joining Burton Group, Richard was VP of architecture for Credit Suisse, leading efforts to adopt SOA, reference data architecture, and Java architectures. While at Credit Suisse Richard led project design reviews, patterns and practices initiatives and capital expenditure reviews for the CTO architecture group. He was also Principal Engineer and technical lead at both CapeClear and IONA Technologies. With 15 years in IT Richard has proven experience delivering systems in mission-critical environments and leading teams developing quality software. Richard has spoken on SOA and web services at JavaOne and LinuxWorld.

Craig Roth

Vice President and Service Director

Emphases: enterprise portals, collaborative applications, content management, content globalization

Craig Roth is the Vice President and service director for Burton Group’s Collaboration and Content Strategies service. He covers enterprise portals, content globalization, collaborative applications, and attention management. Prior to joining Burton Group, Craig performed duties as an IT analyst advising Global 2000 companies and held coding and management positions for executive information systems, call center systems, and advanced technology projects at a Fortune 500 financial services firm. With 20 years of IT industry experience, Craig’s research agenda focuses on the organizational, financial, and governance issues around knowledge and collaboration infrastructure with a special focus on enterprise portals, content globalization, and information overload. Craig was rated as a top 10 expert in portals and web services by an independent analyst rating firm. Craig is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and blogs at http://knowledgeforward.wordpress.com.

Guy Creese

Vice President Research Director

Emphases: content analytics, enterprise search, records management, information architecture

Guy Creese is the Vice President and research director for Burton Group’s Collaboration and Content Strategies service. He covers content management, content analytics, enterprise search, records management, and information architecture. Prior to joining Burton Group, Guy was an IT industry analyst, support engineer, product manager of operating systems, software developer, and served as Co-chair of the Standards Committee for the Web Analytics Association. With 25 years of experience, Guy was the first industry analyst to cover web analytics and has a long history of analyzing how users create, disseminate, find and evaluate content. Guy blogs at http://creese.typepad.com.

Larry Cannell

Analyst

Emphases: open source, enterprise and desktop search, collaboration and communication

Larry Cannell is an analyst for Burton Group's Collaboration and Content Strategies service. He covers enterprise and desktop search in addition to open source collaboration, communication and content solutions. Prior to joining Burton Group, Larry was the workstream lead for collaboration and business intelligence (BI) research for Ford Motor Company’s advanced IT group. At Ford, Larry was developing an Enterprise 2.0 vision for the company and was previously a program manager of collaborative solutions. With 20 years of industry experience, Larry is an active member of the Enterprise 2.0 Conference Advisory Board. Larry blogs at ccsblog.burtongroup.com, cannell.org/blog, and enterprise2blog.com.

Mike Gotta

Principal Analyst

Emphases: unified communications, collaboration (presence, IM, web conferencing), social software and networking, strategies for collaboration

Mike Gotta is a principal analyst for Burton Group’s Collaboration and Content Strategies service. He covers real-time collaboration (presence, IM, web conferencing), unified communications, social software and networking, and organizational strategies related to improving collaboration. Prior to joining Burton Group, Mike performed duties as an IT analyst advising Global 2000 companies and held positions as application architect, enterprise technology services, emerging technologies, product management, and developer at Aetna. With 25 years of experience in XML syndication, community building, and social networking, Mike is a frequent speaker at industry events and often quoted by media sources covering collaboration, social computing, and knowledge management. Mike blogs at http://mikeg.typepad.com.

Peter O'Kelly

Research Director

Emphases: collaborative applications, XML, social software and networking, strategies for collaboration

Peter O’Kelly is the research director for Burton Group’s Collaboration and Content Strategies service. He covers communication/collaboration workspaces, applications, and tools; XML and document/database management system convergence, and extensive experience with IBM and Microsoft communication/collaboration products. Prior to joining Burton Group, Peter led IBM Lotus Notes product management during the pivotal Notes R4 release, and established product management and competitive strategy for collaborative application pioneer Groove Networks. With 25 years of experience in application architectures, XML and database topics, collaborative applications, enterprise application development, and business development, Peter is frequently quoted and looked to for insight regarding major movements in collaboration and communication fields, and is a frequent speaker at Enterprise 2.0 and IBM Lotusphere. Peter blogs at http://pbokelly.blogspot.com.

Chris Wolf

Senior Analyst

Emphases: server virtualization, data center consolidation, data classification, disaster recovery, business continuity, storage virtualization

Chris Wolf is a senior analyst for Burton Group’s Data Center Strategies service. He covers server virtualization and data center consolidation, data protection, management and classification, disaster recovery, and business continuity. Prior to joining Burton Group, Chris was a nationally recognized independent consultant, the CIS department head at the ECPI College of Technology, and consultant with CommVault Systems. With 14 years of experience in virtualization, data protection and recovery, high availability, and enterprise storage management, Chris is an industry leader in virtualization coverage. Chris also authored Virtualization: From the Desktop to the Enterprise, the first book published on the topic. His virtualization presentations and workshops are consistently amongst the highest rated sessions at conferences in both the US and Europe.

Drue Reeves

Vice President and Research Director

Emphases: server virtualization, storage virtualization, server platforms and blades, data center power and cooling, server operating systems, virtualization, data center systems

Drue Reeves is the Vice President and research director for Burton Group’s Data Center Strategies service. He covers server platforms and blades, storage virtualization, storage platforms and protocols, enterprise and system management, data center power and cooling. Prior to joining Burton Group, Drue was defining strategy for scalable enterprise architecture while part of Dell’s CTO office. With 16 years of experience in hardware and operating systems industry for Compaq/HP and Dell, Drue worked on the first ProLiant and ProSignia servers while a part of Compaq’s Industry Standards Server Group. Drue was the former chair of the Storage Network Industry Association (SNIA) SMI-s working group and has several granted/pending patents in systems management, storage, virtualization, and identity management.

Gene Ruth

Analyst

Emphases: storage virtualization, storage platforms and protocol

Gene Ruth is an analyst for Burton Group’s Data Center Strategies service. He covers storage devices, platforms and protocols, storage virtualization, and storage management. Prior to joining Burton Group, Gene was a development manager and technical lead at IBM, focused on industry leading RAID and backup technologies resulting in the introduction of several leading edge products. Working for Dell in the storage business unit and office of the CTO, provided technical leadership for the introduction of the first Fibre based tape libraries by Dell, storage management applications, diagnostic packages and RAID array products. With 30 years of experience, Gene was involved and actively participating in the development of new storage management standards within the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) and was editor and lead for the CIM Operations Over SCSI specification at SNIA.

Nik Simpson

Analyst

Emphases: data management, data classification, storage virtualization, compute, storage platforms and protocol

Nik Simpson is an analyst for Burton Group’s Data Center Strategies service. He covers storage virtualization, compute, storage platforms and protocol, data protection, management and classification. Prior to joining Burton Group, Nik was co-founder and director of product marketing for Scentric Inc. and product marketing for DataCore Software. With 20 years of experience in storage, enterprise servers and system software, Nik has used his experience to become a highly rated speaker at Storage Networking World (SNW) and other storage industry events. Nik also was the co-chair of SNIA’s Information Lifecycle Management Incentives and co-authored SNIA Technical Tutorial: Storage Virtualization, and Using the World Wide Web.

Richard Jones

Vice President and Service Director

Emphases: server virtualization, data center consolidation, disaster recovery, business continuity, storage virtualization, high availability and clustering

Richard Jones is the Vice President and service director for Burton Group’s Data Center Strategies service. He covers disaster recovery, business continuity, server operating systems, high availability and clustering, high performance computing grids, virtualization, data center systems and device management. Prior to joining Burton Group, Richard was responsible for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, storage, high availability, business continuity, printing, and Microsoft Windows integration technologies at Novell. Richard was also a top-rated speaker at Novell events. Richard brings 23 years of experience in software engineering, engineering management, project management and product management in the power supply and networking software industry. Richard has several patents granted/pending in business continuity, storage, systems, and identity management.

Chris Howard

Vice President and Service Director

Emphases: languages, platforms, enterprise 2.0, modeling, domain-specific languages, business process management, .NET, SOA

Chris Howard is the Vice President and service director for Burton Group’s Executive Advisory Program. He covers languages, platforms, enterprise 2.0, modeling and domain-specific languages, business process management, and .NET. Prior to joining Burton Group, Chris was vice president of information delivery and payment systems at US Bank, with responsibility for .NET strategy and adoption. As a Consultant his projects included developing and implementing the MIDI specification for the Roland Corporation, multimedia production, global project leadership and enterprise application design. With 15 years of experience, Chris is a frequent speaker at IT industry conferences and universities including Cambridge, Harvard and Stanford Universities. He served as an industry advisor to the Microsoft Patterns and Practices community and listed in the Canadian Who’s Who since 1990 for his interdisciplinary achievements.

Jack Santos

Executive Strategist

Emphases: organizational development, leadership and management practices, governance, vendor management, data and applications architecture, systems integration, internet and e-business solutions

Jack Santos is an Executive Strategist for Burton Group’s Executive Advisory Program. He covers organizational development, leadership and management practices, governance, vendor management, data and applications architecture, systems integration, and Internet and e-business solutions. Prior to joining Burton Group, Jack served in leadership roles for Aetna, Kaiser Permanente, Maximus, Liberty Mutual Group, Bowstreet Software, and Catholic Medical Center Hospital. With 28 years of experience in IT and business operations, Jack’s expertise as an agent of change and has helped struggling enterprise IT organizations quickly assess critical issues and develop plans to successfully address those issues.

Ken Anderson

Executive Strategist

Emphases: identity and privacy, security and risk management, fiscal responsibility and budgeting, operational efficiency, operations and governance, organization behavior dynamics, staff development

Ken Anderson is an Executive Strategist for Burton Group’s Executive Advisory Program. He covers Identity and privacy, security and risk management, fiscal responsibility and budgeting, operational efficiency, operations and governance, organization behavior dynamics, and staff development. Prior to joining Burton Group, Ken was the director of global IT for Google, president of NoBounds IT, and president and chief information officer for Novell’s worldwide information systems. With 16 years of experience, Ken managed Google's Corporate Information Technology department during their transition to a public corporation and lead the development and management of Novell's local and wide-area networks, its strategic business information systems, and its Internet/intranet strategies. Ken has a proven track record for building high performance IT teams and running multinational IT organizations.

Mike Rollings

Senior Analyst

Emphases: organizational change, enterprise architecture, strategy, portfolio management, IT governance and collaboration

Mike Rollings is a senior analyst for Burton Group’s Executive Advisory Program. He covers strategic planning, enterprise architecture, IT portfolio management, IT governance and collaboration, and organizational change. Prior to joining Burton Group, Mike was managing principal for Momentum Strategies performing strategic program management, data strategy, model-driven architecture and governance implementation; and acted as vice president and practice lead for META Group’s enterprise architecture consulting practice. With 23 years of experience, Mike is recognized as creator of META Group’s enterprise architecture project delivery methodology and co-created META Group’s value management and portfolio management method - an approach to create, analyze, balance and manage a given IT investment or asset portfolio.

Phil Schacter

Vice President and Principal Analyst

Emphases: web security, enterprise security, network security, identity management, provisioning

Phil Schacter is a Vice President and Principal Analyst for Burton Group’s Executive Advisory Program. He covers identity management, enterprise security, provisioning, network security, and IT reference architectures. Prior to joining Burton Group, Phil has worked in the network technology industry with experience in mainframe network applications, network-delivered services, distributed messaging systems, security policy and architecture, and identity management systems. With 30 years of industry experience, Phil has designed and developed network applications, managed network services, and messaging product lines. He has worked on standards groups and authored reports on IT technologies and architecture, security, and identity management topics.

Bob Blakley