 The mandate of the SOA Certified Professional (SOACP) program is to ensure that all course content remains vendor-neutral and in constant alignment with how the SOA industry itself continues to develop, expand, and evolve in both commercial and non-commercial segments of the overall IT community. As part of this commitment, the SOACP program is dedicated to ensuring that the requirements and criteria used to determine certification qualifications are balanced and fair and representative of the current state of the global SOA industry. To support this mandate, the SOA Education Committee was formed. This committee is comprised of members from the academic and commercial communities. Members from the academic community have demonstrated both academic proficiency at a senior level, as well as SOA proficiency related to both course development and delivery. Members from the commercial community each represent a primary organization in the SOA industry. These members have demonstrated practical SOA proficiency, as well as expertise associated with their respective organization’s SOA-related products, technologies, and contributions. The following members currently represent this committee: Thomas Erl, Author and SOACP Founder Mr. Erl is the world's top-selling SOA author, Series Editor of the "Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl", and Editor of The SOA Magazine. With over 100,000 copies in print world-wide, his books have become international bestsellers and have been formally endorsed by senior members of major software organizations, such as IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, BEA, Sun, Intel, SAP, and HP. Mr. Erl is also the founder of SOA Systems Inc. and the SOA Certified Professional program. He has delivered many workshops and keynote speeches at various international events. Papers and articles written by Mr. Erl have been published in numerous industry trade magazines, and he has delivered Webcasts and interviews for a variety of publications, including the Wall Street Journal and CIO.com. Dr. Paul Buhler, Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director, Computer Science Department, College of Charleston Dr. Buhler is a respected researcher, practitioner, and educator of service-oriented computing and SOA. He received his PhD from the University of South Carolina; his dissertation research combined issues of service-orientation, Web services, and agent technologies. He has authored over 15 published papers regarding SOA, agent-based Computing, and Web service composition. Dr. Buhler serves on the program committees of many of the international conferences/workshops relevant to SOC and currently teaches two graduate courses related to SOA and is also developing a Graduate Certificate program in SOC, as well as an undergraduate degree program in service-oriented systems and management. Dr. Peter Chang, Associate Professor, Lawrence Technological University Dr. Chang serves as an Associate Professor at Lawrence Technological University in Southfield, Michigan. He has been teaching graduate courses in the Doctor of Management in Information Technology program and Master of Science in Information Systems program since 2001. Prior to his current position, Dr. Chang acted as adjunct professor and also taught in other universities throughout North America for 8 years. Dr. Chang's on-going research areas include OOAD, Web services, service-orientation, and SOA. For over twenty years Dr. Chang was also involved with IT project work with major companies in the telecommunication, computer manufacturing, and IT consulting areas where he served in senior roles as analyst, developer, architect, and manager. Stephen Bennett, Director, Technology Business Unit, Oracle Corporation (formerly SOA Practice Lead with BEA Systems) Stephen is the Director of the Technology Business Unit at Oracle Corporation and was formerly BEA's Americas SOA Practice Lead. Prior to joining Oracle, Stephen was instrumental in developing BEA's SOA technology management consulting service offerings, especially in the SOA Organization and Governance realm. Stephen brings more than 20 years of technology leadership and IT strategy execution experience and currently is focusing on SOA thought leadership and execution. Before becoming a consultant, Mr Bennett was involved in delivering enterprise-wide mission critical systems within the investment banking industry for over 12 years at companies and has considerable international project experience working in the USA, Europe, Japan and South Korea. Hanu Kommalapati, Senior Architect, Microsoft Mr. Kommalapati is a Senior Architect at Microsoft Gulf Coast District responsible for designing, building, and managing scalable component frameworks based on the .NET Framework for some of Microsoft's largest enterprise clients. Hanu was previously a Principal Architect with Price Waterhouse Cooper and a Software Engineer with CBSI. Hanu is currently co-authoring two books about SOA development and governance. Hanu has a Masters in Aircraft Production Engineering and a Bachelros in Mechanical Engineering. Howard Cohen, Booz Allen Hamilton and System Integrator for US Joint Forces Command J89 Mr. Cohen is a consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton responsible for directing the Joint C2 Architecture and Capabilities Assessment Enterprise (JACAE) system development, production, and integration. He interfaces with Johns Hopkins University to collaboratively develop, stage, and support service-oriented strategies to field services. Mr. Cohen also works with various Service communities on federation concepts and service-oriented strategies to support joint warfighters across the US Department of Defense. Prior to joining Booz Allen Hamilton, Howard worked as the lead system administrator for USJFCOM J89 with Lockheed Martin. He has over 10 years of formal technical experience, including software configuration management, hardware and software field support and technical leadership. Howard holds a BA and MBA from Saint Leo University. Satadru Roy, Senior SOA Architect, Sun Microsystems Satadru is a Senior SOA Architect with Sun Microsystems, Canada where he consults with clients to provide architecture and design guidance for their SOA initiatives. In the past, Satadru worked as a consultant and product engineer at well-known Java software vendors such as BEA Systems, Inc. He has extensive experience in middleware, application integration and BPM and is a strong proponent of open source based integration technologies. Satadru is currently working with a number of authors from IBM and Oracle on a book dedicated to building SOA with Java. Raj Balasubramanian, Enterprise IT Architect, IBM Raj Balasubramanian is an Enterprise IT Architect for IBM Software Group, delivering customer engagements around projects related to SOA, BPM and Web 2.0. Raj is the co-author of the upcoming "SOA with Java" book for which he contributed chapters relating to portal technology and REST service design and development. Raj further has developed a series of REST-inspired design patterns that have been contributed as candidates for the SOA Design Pattern catalog. In addition he speaks at various industry conferences on a regular basis on the topics of SOA, Semantic Web and Web 2.0. He is currently working on completing his Masters in Software Engineering from University of Texas at Austin. Additional committee members will be added throughout 2009.
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