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Michael Rosen
Director and Senior Consultant

Michael Rosen is Director of Cutter Consortium's Enterprise Architecture practice and Senior Consultant with its Business-IT Strategies practice. He has more than 20 years' technical leadership experience architecting, designing, and developing software products and applications.

Mr. Rosen was Chief Enterprise Architect at IONA Technologies, PLC, where he was engaged in the development of the overall product architecture for IONA's next generation Web services platform and in the creation of the reference architecture for building applications on that platform. Prior to joining IONA, Mr. Rosen was Chief Enterprise Architect at Genesis Development Corporation where he provided architecture consulting on large-scale applications and infrastructure for Global 1000 clients in insurance, finance, and telecommunications. While at Genesis, he led the development and formalization of a generic enterprise architecture and software development practices used throughout the company.

Before joining Genesis, Mr. Rosen was a product architect, technical leader, and developer for numerous commercial middleware products for vendors including BEA and Digital. His involvement in product development includes Web services, Java, CORBA, COM, Messaging, Transaction Processing, DCE, networking, and operating systems.

Throughout his career, Mr. Rosen has been a frequent technical speaker and author. He has presented keynotes, tutorials and seminars at conferences in the US, Europe and Asia and has articles in publications including Web Services Journal, EAI Journal, Software Magazine and Enterprise Development. He is coauthor of the book Developing E-Business Systems and Architectures: A Manager's Guide and Integrating CORBA and COM Applications, which grew out of his contributions to the OMG COM/CORBA interworking specification. Mike Rosen can be reached at consulting@cutter.com.


Case Study with Michael Rosen

Industry: Mortgage
Client Profile: National loan servicing agency
Project Focus: Architecture Review and Recommendation.

At a major mortgage provider, Cutter evaluated the existing environment, which was based on a highly customized and modified 25-year old application, combined with a new, but unpopular, workflow-based application. Cutter provided recommendations for immediate improvements to the workflow application and task definitions, an architecture for consolidating and rationalizing the extensions to the application for the mid-term, and an architecture and transition strategy for a target SOA architecture over 3 years. Cutter worked with the IT management to begin the transition to SOA. more...



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