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Worldwise Institute of Software Architects Mission

The Institute of Software Architects, Inc. is a nonprofit corporation founded to accelerate the establishment of the profession of software architecture and to provide information and services to software architects and their clients.


Worldwise Institute of Software Architects Founders

WWISA has convened a group of leaders in the software industry as our founders and advisory board of directors.

Grady Booch

Chief Scientist, Rational Software Corporation

Peter J. Denning, Ph.D.
Chairman of the CS Department and
Director of the Cebrowski Institute for
Information Innovation and Superiority,

Naval Postgraduate School


Donald F. Ferguson, PhD.
IBM Fellow
Chief Architect for the IBM WebSphere Platform

Ian Graham
Principal Consultant, TriReme International Ltd.
Professor of Requirements Engineering,
De Montford University

R. Jordan Kreinder, Ph.D.
Vice President, IBM Consulting Group

L. Thomas Love, Ph.D.

President, Shoulders Corporation

Thomas J. Mowbray, Ph.D.
Chairman, iCMG

Marc T. Sewell
Chief Architect, Simon Labs Software Architects

Terry Winograd, Ph.D.
Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University

Collectively, these Founders have published at least a score of books, many regarded as seminal works of software architecture, design, and construction, as well as close to 400 published articles in both technical and mainstream publications. They have been prime innovators in object technology, computer science education, software architecture, software design, human-computer interaction, modeling, and project management.

WWISA Founders have achieved rare feats from advising a US. President to being named by Forbes magazine as a key executive responsible for the turnaround of the IBM Corporation. The litany continues with some of their positions, past and present, and masterstrokes: President of ACM, Morgan Stanley Managing Director, Department Chair and Professor of Computer Science, co-founder of CSNET, Chief Scientist, Founder of GE’s Advanced Concepts Center, consulting firm CEO, Chief of the Special and Advanced Systems Division at the Pentagon (we can't talk about that), President of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, Founding Director of NASA’s Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science, Vice Provost for Continuing Professional Education, IBM Chief Architect, JOOP columnist on software architectures, and member of Dogbert’s New Ruling Class (!).

These board members have designed and built multitudinous software systems. Even while we sleep at night, their software is working hard - trafficking Puppy Chow, routing spy planes, managing Swiss bank accounts, operating Wall Street trading desks, stopping planes from colliding in mid-air, and even helping nervous husbands chart their wives’ labor contractions.

The roll call of clients proceeds thusly: Action Technologies, Alcatel, American Express, Andersen Consulting, Ascent Logic, AT&T, Baxter, BellSouth, Boeing, Celsius Tech, Chase Manhattan Bank, Chubb…and on it goes through MCI and Microsoft– all the way to the end of the alphabet…

WWISA is privileged, indeed, to have this fine group to serve as our founders and advisory boards of directors.



Worldwise Institute of Software Architects Founding Members

WWISA Founding Members are emerging from locales far and wide. These are members who are dedicated to the establishment of our profession and who desire to contribute their time and skill to establishing our new organization. They will assist WWISA in a variety of ways including starting local chapters, enlisting new members, web site support, and publishing books and articles on software architecture.

Our first Founding Member to volunteer to start a WWISA Chapter is from Mykonos, Greece. Right on his heels was a Founding Member offering to start a Silicon Valley Chapter. One cannot escape the historical cogency of WWISA’s first chapters being embedded in the Cradle of Western Civilization and the Cradle of the Information Age.

WWISA is a fledgling, but far-flung enterprise. A Founding Member will start a Chapter in the Land Down Under, and founding members are on the cusp of starting chapters in Canada, Atlanta and Chicago. These chapters will be instrumental in our success, as will be the Founding Members who are volunteering their skills to support our web site, discussion groups, and our efforts to spread the word of WWISA.








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WWISA Founding Member

Tamer M. Abdelalim, Team Lead, IT Architect, Hewlett Packard

Ethan Allen, IT Consultant, Allen-Conrad LLC

Daniel W. Arnold, Software Architect, Consultant, Technology Partners Inc.

Paris Avgeriou, Technical Consultant, NTUA

Sami Bengrine, Software Architect, Cap Gemini France

John R. Bentley, Software Architect, Sprint

Roland S. Berg, Principal Consultant, ThinkSpark

Patrick M. Berry, Chief Architect, Berry Embedded Software, Inc.

Barry W. Boehm, Ph.D., Diriector, USC Center for Software Enginering, USC

Darko Bohinc, Consultant, Synergy International Limited

Bruno R. Borghi, IT Consultant, Akeirou

Dana Bredemeyer, President, Bredemeyer Consulting

Paul Cameron Brown, Ph.D., Software Architect, TIBCO Software, Inc.

Thomas A. Bullinger, Software Architect, ArchWise, LLC

Ted Carpenter, Student, Harvard University

Christopher P. Caserio, Strategic Architect, Aetna

Siddhartha Chandurkar, Team Leader, Ericsson

Hector J. Correa, Software Architect, Independent

Carlos Enrique Cuesta, Instructor, Universidad de Valladolid

Malcolm T. Dalebo, Software Architect, Core Software Limited

Michael L. Davis, Software Architect, Prometheus Laboratories Inc.

Christopher M. Deger, VP Research & Emerging Technologies, Phoenix International

Richard A. Demers, Software Architect, Independent

David M. Dikel, Enterprise Architect, SRA International

Neal A. Fishman, Architect, Equifax

Joseph R. Foster, Chief Architect, Senior Systems Architect, UUNET Asia pacific

R. Kyle Gabhart, Consultant, Websitearchitect.Net

Francisco E. Garcia, Consultant, CIGA Systems, Inc.

Gordon A. Gasser, Applications Designer, Independent Consultant

Parag Ghosh, IT Architect, E-Investments India.Com Pvt Ltd.

Jim R. Gillespie, Director of Professional Services, Chiara Corporation

Kevin Gillespie, Technical Architect, XP3 Integrated Systems Inc.

Douglyss E. Giuliana, Software Architect, Shelflink

Mark A. Goetsch, Enterprise Software Architect, Wheels, Inc.

Simon M. Guest, Software Architect, Microsoft

Robbie Harris, Software Architect, Well, It Worked Last Time...

Richard Helm, Ph.D., Chief Architect, Platinion - A Company of The Boston Consulting Group

Guy D. Huggins, Chief Architect, Genfiniti eWerX

Ralph G. Hughes, Data Warehouse Architect, Ceregen, Inc

Gordon M. Ice, Chief Architect, Humanbean

Brent C. Jackson, Software Architect, Dell Computer Corp.

Sunil Dutt Jha, Software Architect, iCMG

Fang Jin, Software Architect, Singapore Technologies Electronics

Andrew K. Johnston, Technical Architect, Questa Computing Ltd.

David W. Kane, Software Architect, SRA International

Walter F. Kircher, Director of Technology and Operations, MedAssets.com

Cris Kobryn, Chief Technologist, Telelogic

Bhagvan Kommadi, Software Architect , Virtusa

Daryl W. Kulak, Chief Architect, Independant Consultant

Nickolas Landry, Software Architect, Independent Consultant

Michael J. Larmer, Software Architect, C2E Systems Ltd

Nigel Leeming, Software Architect, PA Consulting

Kenneth E. Leonard, Project Engineer, Qwest Communications

Hong Li, Ph.D., Sr. Manager, Complete Business Solutions, Inc

Benjamin A. Lieberman, Ph.D., Software Architect, Jones Cyber Solutions

Roderick Lim Banda, Software Architect, Kase

Victoria V. Livschitz, Software Architect, Sun Microsystems

Hei Tak Peter Lo, Principal Consultant, Innovative Information Systems Ltd.

Marty Luko, Creative Director, Simon Labs

Richard Lundy, Software Architect, Imaginet

Michael T. Maitland, Chief Architect, Target Systems

Raphael C. Malveaux, Chief Scientist/Architect, Eidea Labs

Nikolai N. Mansourov, Ph.D., Chief Architect, KLOCwork

Steven F. Mark, Chief Solutions Officer, On-The-Mark Systems, Inc.

Howard Matatia, WWISA Account, Barnes & Noble.com

James M. Mazzu, Chief Architect, Aminda

Matthew R. McBride, First Vice President and Chief Architect, Countrywide Financial Corporation

Robert W. McFarland, Technology Architect, Hewlett-Packard Compnay

Scott McGregor, CEO, Prescient Software

James M. McLachlan, Business Architect, ibexONE

Gerard G. Meszaros, Chief Architect, Clearstream Consulting

Steven Miller, Ph.D., Business Architect, IBM Global Services, ASEAN/South Asia

Richard E. Moore, Consultant, Objective Business Solutions, Inc.

David Morlitz, Software I/T Architect, Software Architect, IBM

Francis G. Mosse, President, High-Tech Systems, Inc.

Thomas J. Mowbray, Ph.D., Chairman, iCMG

Richard C. Murphy, Software Architect, Heapware, Inc.

Jitendra Naik, Software Architect, B3Web Solutions Inc

Douglas E. Naufel, Software Architect, Williams Communications

Oghie O. Ojior, Principal Consultant/Technical Architect, PricewaterhouseCoopers

Stephen B. Ornburn, Consultant, Ornburn Consulting

Carol M. O'Rourke, Educator, Forest Hills

David G. O'Toole, Software Architect, Cubic Transportation Systems

Abraham D. Palmer, Application Architect, Starbucks Coffee Company

Giuseppe R. Papavero, Software Architect, Incutronics Corporation

Thomas N. Pardee, Principal Consultant, Paragon Computer Professionals

Ashish Parikh, Software Architect, BEA Systems, Inc.

Paul L. Petralia, Executive Editor, Prentice Hall PTR

James C. Phillips, Chief Architect, VestaCare

Mahendra K. Pingale, Software Architect, Advisory Software Engineer, IBM Corporation

Ben B. Ponne, Systems Architect, EDS (New Zealand) Ltd

Tom Pugh, Software Architect, CBSI

Janis R. Putman, Software Architect, Avaya

Paul Ramsay, Consultant, Equinox Limited

Alexander M. Reyes, IT Consultant, Elite Computer Consultants

Vernon L. Riley, Consultant, Kutchka

Susan M. Rohde, CEO, Chief Architect, TechArch, Inc.

John Roodt, Consultant, Software Futures

Chuck Sailer, Software Architect, Acsis Inc

Bertrand Salle, Architect, Lucent Technologies

Sajid Shaikh, Software Architect, University Hospitals of Cleveland

Mark V. Smith, Software Engineer, DST Innovis

Gordon W. Smith, Software Architect, TechArch Inc.

Sumit Sood, Software Architect, Virtusa

Ravi Srivastava, Technical Architect, Perot Systems

Gregory J. Stone, Software Architect, Hewlett Packard

Roger Tanner, Software Architect, Evolus Software AG

Nicole C. Tedesco, Software Architect, The Reference

Vasu Vallabhaneni, Software Architect, The Reference, Inc.

John Vlissides, Researcher, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Min Wang, Ph.D., R&D Operating Manager, Agilent Technologies

Shahani Weerawarana, Ph.D., Chief Architect, Virtusa (Pvt) Ltd., Sri Lanka ATC.

James R. Wilson, Software Architect, CyberSERV, Inc.

Moxie Zhang, Chief Architect, CGI