Proceedings

Biography:

Stephen Gantz is an enterprise architect with Blueprint Technologies, a professional services firm specializing in architecture solutions for the federal and commercial markets. Blueprint provides teams of expert enterprise and solution architects who integrate best practices, leading technologies, and disciplined approaches to consistently deliver outstanding, best-value results. Steve has 13 years of experience in technology-related professional services and software development, primarily as an IT architect designing e-commerce, enterprise application integration, customer relationship management, and security systems and infrastructures. He is a Certified Information Security System Professional (CISSP) and is also certified in vulnerability assessment and ethical hacking. Steve’s industry expertise includes federal civilian and state government, defense and intelligence, financial services, insurance, retail, telecommunications, and higher education. His areas of technical expertise include customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications, middleware technologies, security and e-commerce systems architecture, and data transport and exchange using EDI and XML. He is a regular speaker at industry events on enterprise application integration, seurity, and XML. He holds a Masters Degree in technology policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, as well as a Bachelors degree in applied mathematics and statistics from Harvard.