Finance DTF Chair Election

Athens, Greece TC Meeting

Tuesday, 12-April-2005 @ 09:15

Contents

Introduction

The Finance DTF is opening another chair's position to serve the task force with current chairs, Messrs. Bugajski and Harrington. Those interested in candidacy should contact the current Finance Chairs. The responsibilities of a chair and the current candidates are listed below.

The election will be held at the Athens, Greece OMG TC Meeting in the Finance Plenary on Tuesday, 12-April-2005 at 09:15.

Chair Responsibilities

  • Meeting Planning
    • Provide the OMG with meeting room requirements for each meeting.
    • Provide a meeting agenda to the OMG no later than two weeks before the start of a TC Meeting.
  • Facilitate Meetings
    • Lead Task Force meetings, keeping activities to the agenda to the extent possible.
    • Guide and assist members in preparing artifacts of, and participating in, the OMG Process
      • Requests for Information
      • Requests for Proposals
      • Guidance in OMG Policy & Procedure
  • Reporting Meeting Activity
    • Report Task Force activity during the week of an OMG Technical Meeting at the appropriate plenary meeting on Friday.
    • Prepare and Post Minutes of the Task Force meeting.
    • Assist the OMG Staff in keeping the Task Force web site up-to-date.

Current Candidates

Mark Eisner, CTO, FireStar

Mr. Eisner brings over 30 years of software industry technical, management and start-up experience to FireStar Software. Mr. Eisner founded and pioneered software companies that became market leaders in the OLAP (Dynamics Associates, acquired by Chase Manhattan Bank) and Automated Software Test (Softbridge, acquired by Teradyne) markets. He is responsible for defining the technical/commercial strategy of the Company, and promoting that technical vision to the industry. Mr. Eisner has been a consultant to numerous software companies and corporate IT departments, including IBM, Microsoft, New England Financial/Met Life, Platinum Technology, Progress Software and SWIFT, with a particular focus on distributed computing architectures and solutions. Mr. Eisner holds a B.S. in Economics and Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Larry L. Johnson, General Services Administration

Larry Johnson, an Enterprise Systems Architecture Consultant specializing in technical collaboration, has designed and coordinated the integration architecture for the seamless deployment of software products and services in customer environments; facilitated collaborative advanced technology programs; and served as software standards representative for organizations such as the National Centers of Manufacturing Sciences, Texas Instruments and MSC.Software. He is currently under contract to the Barquin International, serving their client, the General Services Administration of the US Federal Government, managing projects in enterprise architecture.

Larry previously served on the Object Management Group’s (OMG) Board of Directors for three years and was co-chair of the OMG Manufacturing Domain Task Force for six. Larry was co-chair/facilitator for two Joint Product Data Management (PDM) Enablers Submission Teams, and also co-chaired two of the PDM Revision Task Forces. At Texas Instruments he was elected Member, Group Technical Staff, where he served as CAD/CAM/CIM Infrastructure Architect for 15 years.