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SAN FRANCISCO, April 7, 2009 – The Open Group, a vendor- and technology-neutral consortium focused on open standards and global interoperability within and between enterprises, today announced the appointment of Terence (Terry) Blevins to its Governing Board. Mr. Blevins, department head at MITRE in the Warfighter Analysis and Architecture Department, has been elected to serve as a Customer Council Representative to the Board for a three-year term starting March 1, 2009. Mr. Blevins will join Alan Doniger, CTO, Energistics and Ben Calloni, senior specialist, Lockheed Martin in championing the collective interests of customer members on The Open Group’s Governing Board.
As a Customer Council Representative, Mr. Blevins will be responsible for articulating the needs of The Open Group’s customer members in order to best leverage the guidelines, standards and tools developed by the organization’s various forums and work groups. The Open Group Customer Council designates members who are primary buyers and end-users of information systems to be ‘customers’ and provides them with a platform to represent that customer perspective to the Board, The Open Group as a whole and other customer members.
“Considering Terry’s extensive experience in the enterprise architecture discipline and longstanding contributions to The Open Group, we are very pleased to have him be a Customer Council Representative to the Governing Board,” said Allen Brown, CEO for The Open Group. “Terry has been actively involved with our organization since 1996. He co-chaired the Architecture Forum, contributed content to the development of TOGAF™, and most recently served as chair of the Certification Standing Committee. In this new role, Terry’s experience and opinion will continue to be of great value to The Open Group and our customer organizations.”
The Open Group’s Governing Board is comprised of representatives from Platinum Member organizations, the Customer and Supplier Councils, the president and CEO of The Open Group, and the corporate secretary. All Governing Board members share control and responsibility for The Open Group’s overall strategic direction, governance and leadership. The Customer Council has three seats on the Board of Directors, helping to ensure the customer viewpoint is well represented in The Open Group.
The Open Group is a vendor-neutral and technology-neutral consortium, which drives the creation of Boundaryless Information Flow™ that will enable access to integrated information within and between enterprises based on open standards and global interoperability. The Open Group works with customers, suppliers, consortia and other standard bodies. Its role is to capture, understand and address current and emerging requirements, establish policies and share best practices; to facilitate interoperability, develop consensus, and evolve and integrate specifications and open source technologies; to offer a comprehensive set of services to enhance the operational efficiency of consortia; and to operate the industry’s premier certification service. Further information on The Open Group can be found at http://www.opengroup.org.
TOGAF™ and Boundaryless Information Flow™ are trademarks of The Open Group
The MITRE Corporation (www.mitre.org) is a not-for-profit organization that provides systems engineering, research and development, and information technology support to the government. It operates federally funded research and development centers for the Department of Defense, the Federal Aviation Administration, the Internal Revenue Service and Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Department of Homeland Security, with principal locations in Bedford, Mass., and McLean, Va.
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