Speakers

Steve Erlank is Managing Director, co-founder and owner of the Faculty Training Institute, a training company specialising on the training needs of knowledge professionals. He holds a BCom (Hons) degree in Information Systems and a BSc in Statistics, Accounting and Computer Science, and is a professional member of the CSSA, AIS, IEEE and IIBA.

His 30 years of IT experience range across the spectrum of IT jobs, including technical, operations, development, project management, business analysis and management, and eBusiness.

After a 10-year stint as a senior lecturer in Information Systems at UCT, where he was privileged to work with some of the brightest young minds in South Africa he moved full time into managing FTI.

He is busy with his 5th textbook, actively consults and lectures in IT, and is a regular conference presenter. He is currently acting President of the SA chapter of the International institute of Business Analysis. His passion is challenging people to realise their talent and potential.

Yuan joined Compuware in the August 1997 to work on Uniface product line as a solution architect after spending 5 years as a senior lecturer at South Bank University, London.

Dr Yuan Sun has been working on Object-Oriented technology since the early 1990's. Since he joined Compuware in 1997, he has been working in the area of componentised enterprise application development, model driven architecture, application platform suit and service oriented architectures, and of course, requirement management. He has been involved with MDA/OptimalJ as an Evangelist since the beginning of 2000 when he was building the very first applications with customers using the MDA approach. He has been involved in numerous large projects on enterprise application development as an architect.