IT Needs SOA Skills Podcast

As companies move to SOA, they quickly discover that this new joint business/IT approach requires new skills. From Zapthink: "One dire prediction for 2007 is that there simply won’t be enough qualified and SOA experienced enterprise architects (EA) around.” This presentation talks about the new skills IT staff will have to develop for companies to be able to fully implement SOA, and some work being done to facilitate acquiring those skills. Sandy talks about how the SOA Consortium can help colleges and companies create the SOA skills needed for the future.

About the Speaker:

Sandy Carter is Vice President, SOA & WebSphere Strategy, Channels and Marketing for IBM Corporation, leader of a marketing organization with over 7 industry marketing awards in 2007, and author of the newest SOA technology book called, “The New Language of Business: SOA & Web 2.0”.

Sandy is responsible for driving IBM’s cross-company, worldwide SOA marketing initiatives, and in this role, helps oversee the company’s SOA marketing strategy across software, services and hardware and sets the company’s SOA marketing direction. In addition, she directs SOA messaging and content, leading a global team in driving customer demand for IBM and IBM Business Partner SOA solutions.

Sandy holds a Bachelor of Science degree in math and computer science from Duke University and an MBA from Harvard, and is fluent in eight programming languages. For more information, visit Sandy’s blog at: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/SOA_Off_the_Record .

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