Tony Shan has been working in the computing field for 20+ years, with extensive experience in various technologies and programming languages, including Java and C/C++/C#, in a number of multi-million dollar IT projects in different industry sectors (finance/banking, telecommunications, mechanical engineering, aerospace, textile engineering, and government). He holds three graduate degrees in Engineering and Science majors, and is a Sun Certified Enterprise Architect & Java Programmer, and IBM Certified eBusiness Solution Designer. Having been involved in web technologies since the earliest Html, Java and .Net versions, he has, as an enterprise/solutions/chief architect, led lifecycle design and development of large-scale award-winning distributed systems on diverse platforms using a variety of cutting-edge technologies and unified/agile methodologies, such as Zachman Framework, TOGAF, RUP/EUP, E2AF, FEA, XP, Agile, MDA, CMMi, UML, SOA, Portal/Portlet, REST, web services, Java EE, .Net, ESB, EII, and Ajax. He has initiated/directed advanced research on emerging computing technologies (grid computing, design patterns, frameworks, semantic web, machine learning, neural network, expert system, generic/immune algorithm, computer modeling/simulation, telephony/voice response, pervasive computing, and software development automation), resulting in an invention patent and several patents pending as well as a few unified methodologies and platform models for adaptive system development. He helped establish IT strategies and architecture blueprints, coupled with pragmatic technology roadmaps and enterprise architecture standards/policies, for Fortune 100 international organizations. He serves as a mentor/advisor on leading-edge technologies and architecture in various technical committees, and teaches a variety of courses as a Sun Certified Faculty Instructor and Adjunct Professor. In addition to dozens of top-notch technical publications, he authored multiple books on asynchronous web services and heterogeneous business integration. He is a member of numerous professional associations and honorary societies, a frequent speaker and Chair/Program Committee member in conferences/workshops, an editor/editorial advisory board member of IT research journals & books, and also a founder of Charlotte Rational User Group and Architecture & Technology Symposium.

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