Speaker Biographies
Andrew Johnston
Senior IT Architect
Telus
Andrew Johnston is a Senior IT Architect in the Enterprise Architecture team at TELUS, where he has been focused on identity-related efforts for 3 years. In his 16-year IT career, Andrew has contributed to the roll-out of large-scale identity and access management infrastructure, major portal
initiatives, mobile computing solutions, email management and web application server products. He has consulted on information technology in the financial services, marketing, telecommunications and consumer electronics industries.
Chris Harvison
Enterprise Architect
Scotiabank
After graduation in Physics & Linguistics, Chris Harvison has worked as a developer and architect for solutions running on Mainframe systems, hand held devices and just about everything in-between. He has spent the last 11 years at Scotiabank and currently works in the Architecture Office as an Enterprise Architect. Chris has led several leading-edge initiatives at Scotiabank including the first use of web-services within Scotiabank and the .Net early adopters program. More recently, he led the successful implementation of SAML 2.0 based federation between Scotiabank and its partners as well as several other core initiatives in the Enterprise IAM arena.
Craig McDonald
Senior Product Manager
Sun Microsystems
Craig joined Sun as a Senior Product Manager on Sun Identity Manager in 2007. His background in software and product development is diverse, ranging from video games to online trading software. Prior to Sun, Craig worked in product development and management for Charles Schwab, focusing on Schwab's active trading platforms. Prior to Charles Schwab, he worked for Electronic Arts in all areas of development including support, quality assurance, production, and marketing. Craig holds a Bachelor of Journalism and a Master of Business Administration, both from The University of Texas at Austin.
Enzo Federico
Senior Technical Specialist
Insurance Corporation of British Columbia
Enzo has worked in the IT field since 1978 and with ICBC since 1996. In the early part of his career, he worked as an application developer and database administrator on IBM mainframes. In the middle phase of his career, Enzo specialized in relational database management systems, including DB2, Oracle and SQL Server, working in a consulting capacity and as an instructor.
For the past 6 years, Enzo has been instrumental in leading the team responsible for building the infrastructure components of ICBC's e-Business environment. This includes the implementation of the Sun Java Enterprise System suite and Identity Manager that were acquired by ICBC in 2005.
George Teplitski
Team Lead, Enterprise Application Integration
Workplace Safety & Insurance Board
George Teplitski is a Technical Lead with more than 20 years of progressive career in system integration and middleware development. George's past experience includes working as a system designer, enterprise integrator and software developer in insurance and software industries.
For the last six years at WSIB as a member of Enterprise Integration and MiddleWare Services Team George participated in design, development and production implementation of the first WSIB internet applications using Sun Identity Manager suite of products.
Ian Kilpatrick
Technical Architect
Atlantic Health Sciences Corporation
Ian has over 15 years of experience in the IT field where he has held positions in a variety of areas including programming, database administration & architecture, systems integration, network and technical architecture. He works for AnyWare Group Inc. of Saint John, NB and has been on loan to Atlantic Health Sciences Corp. for almost 2 years as an enterprise technical architect. In conjunction with others, he has worked on a number of key projects including defining the corporate vision and architecture for a new Provincial-level network, 802.11 wireless infrastructure, thin client strategy, and data center architecture. Ian worked closely with local Sun technical resources to implement a Sunray technology proof-of-concept at the Saint Joseph's Hospital Community Health Center which has since become a production deployment. The success of that endeavour has led directly to the subsequent win by Sun/Xwave of the opportunity to deliver additional Sunray thin client infrastructure to meet AHSC's needs over the next 3-6 years.
Jim Weaver
Senior Security Architect
TD Bank Financial Group
Jim is a twenty-six year information technology veteran, currently specializing in information security as the senior security architect for TD Bank Financial Group (TDBFG). Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with 58,000 employees in offices around the world, The Toronto-Dominion Bank and its subsidiaries offer a full range of financial products and services to more than 14 million customers worldwide. Jim has had extensive experience in the development of long term IAM strategies, road maps, and business cases and has recently acted as lead architect on the successful implementation of several IAM components including a new customer directory and federated identity services based on Sun's Directory and Federation Manager products. He is currently the lead architect on an implementation of enterprise access control and provisioning services based on Sun's Access Manager and Identity Manager products. Jim is also a member of an industry working group to establish federated identity standards based on SAML with several other leading Canadian financial institutions.
Jonathan Penn
Vice President, Research Director
Foster City, CA, USA
Jonathan serves Security & Risk professionals. He leads a team that delivers research and consulting to help these professionals structure,
implement, and measure programs that protect their organizations' information assets, secure their technology infrastructure, achieve
and maintain compliance, and manage business risks. Jonathan's own primary areas of research include identity management,
information protection, and strategies to combat online fraud and identity theft.
Jonathan came to Forrester through its acquisition of Giga Information Group, where he was an analyst covering messaging, collaboration,
and directories. Jonathan previously worked as an engineer and product manager for several high-tech companies where he developed
device drivers for the Windows and NetWare platforms and commercial applications, including the first software RAID solution for
Windows 95 and NT.
Jonathan holds an M.S. in computer science from Stanford University and a B.S. in mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania.
Kent Percival, M.Sc. PEng.
Manager, IT Development
Office of the CIO
University of Guelph
Kent Percival has spent years supporting IT for the university community at the University of Guelph and with projects linking Canadian universities. Kent has provided strategic insight for a leading campus network infrastructure, including VOIP telephone service, supporting world-class research and teaching at Guelph. As a member of the EDUCAUSE Campus Cyberinfrastructure Working Group and the Canadian University Council of CIOs, Kent has an understanding of the complex middleware technologies that are needed to support the 21st century globally-connected advanced research and learning enterprise. Kent is a member of a national project team implementing an access trust federation for Canadian higher education.
Kevin LeMay
Senior Technical Product Manager - Identity Management
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Kevin LeMay is a Senior Technical Product Manager at Sun Microsystems for the company's Identity Management products. As an identity solutions expert, Kevin is responsible for bringing real-world architecture and functionality considerations to Sun software development teams and assistance with setting product strategy and vision.
Kevin has been in various roles over the past 8 years with Sun including Product Management, Engineering Management and Professional Services providing architecture and solution design around large scale Identity implementations for Fortune 500 companies. Kevin is originally from Calgary, Alberta Canada where he was a principal in a Calgary-based consultancy firm for 8 years specializing in Internet and Enterprise Networking technologies prior to joining Sun.
Nick Wooler
Senior Product Manager
Access Management & Federation
Sun Microsystems
Nick Wooler is the Product Manager for access management and federation on the Identity Management team at Sun Microsystems, Inc. Previously, Nick played a key role in the initial release of xVM Ops Center and Java ES portfolio model. Prior to joining Sun, Nick served as Senior Product Manager at CTB/McGraw-Hill, developing research-based online assessment software. In his career, he also served as Sr.Program Manager for iXL, UK Ltd., leading development teams which created internet business solutions for Fortune 500 companies, such as British Airways and Xerox. Nick received his MBA from Durham University Business School in England and his BA in Political Science from UCLA.
Pierre Lestage M.Sc
Lead Architect /Bell Canada
Executive Consultant /CGI Inc.
Mr. Lestage has twenty four years of experience in the field of application development and system integration. Since his career with CGI, he has been assigned to several large-scale infrastructure development and implementation projects. As an executive consultant, Mr. Lestage is a subject matter expert in the identity management domain since 2000. As a practice lead, he has participated in multiple directory services implementations, identity related business process architecture and IDM strategies.
As an initiator of the IDM infrastructure initiative for Bell Canada in 1998, Mr. Lestage has actively driven and participated in all aspects of its evolutions and still acts as a lead architect today.
Mr. Lestage's formal education at University of Montreal has been primarily complemented by extensive training programs.
Sherry Gray CISSP, CISA, CISM
Information Security Analyst
Insurance Corporation of British Columbia
Sherry Gray is an Information Security professional with 20 years of experience. Sherry leads the ICBC EIM and SAP Security Teams. Sherry has extensive experience working on corporate projects as an Information Security Analyst, working to ensure secure architecture and design. Sherry has been responsible for the ICBC employee security awareness campaign for several years, and is on the IS Communications Team. Sherry is the past-president of the CIPS Vancouver Security Special Interest Group, and has worked on the Westcoast Security Forum organizing committee for several years.
Abstracts
Large Scale Identity Management Projects at Bell Enterprises
More than 8 years ago, Bell Canada Enterprises, Canada's largest communications company initiated an employee facing Identity Management program. Based on a 3-year ongoing strategy, the IDAM infrastructure was deployed, over the years, as a conjunction of planned initiatives and required by regulation and business transformation.
This presentation will first introduce the context (IDM tools and processes in place at Bell) and highlight the complexity of its environment (100K employees, partners and contractors from 34 companies, 25 HR systems, ... It will then describe its major employee life-cycle management challenges (merger and acquisition, use of external partners, reorganization and employee transfers) along with the rational behind the strategies and solutions. It will examine the identity management solutions that have been deployed over the years to address Bell's multiple business requirements while focusing on leveraging existing identity infrastructure for cost reduction and time savings. Finally, the presentation will share the "Dos and Don'ts": lessons learned and guiding principles with real use cases, where design decisions result in a positive or negative outcome.
Citibank Abstract (Coming Soon)
e-Business Infrastructure (and more) @ ICBC
The Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC) chose the Sun Java™ Enterprise System suite and Sun™ Identity Manager as key components in their e-Business infrastructure. Sun Java System Portal Server, Sun Java System Access manager, and Sun Identity manager are the foundation for ICBC to deliver customer self-service applications. ICBC has also implemented employee password synchronization and self-service. They are currently working on business partner delegated administration, user provisioning and self-service. In this talk, they will discuss: what ICBC is planning to do with Sun products - business challenges; why Sun; some implementation best practices; the outcome; and some lessons learned.
Forrester View Point
In his keynote, Jonathan Penn will provide an overview of market trends, opportunities, as well as a practical view of Sun Identity solutions in a competitive landscape.
Identity Federation Panel Featuring TD Bank Financial Group, Scotiabank, and the University of Guelph
- TD Bank Financial Group: TD is using Identity Federation to reduce cost and eliminate risk, while improving the user experience, productivity, and shortening the time-to-market. Their use cases include employee, customer and service provider based on a loosely coupled gateway style architecture.
- Scotiabank: Scotiabank has successfully implemented Federation with cheque image application, and currently has several additional service provider applications underway. Their use case also highlights the ability to reuse Federation Manager infrastructure.
- University of Guelph: Higher education institutions are diverse communities of researchers and learners who engage in research projects and learning experiences well beyond their institutions. The institutions procure access to local resources and distant resources based on the members' multiple roles within the community. Universities and colleges are implementing their own Electronic Identity (EId) middleware infrastructure for local resources. The real challenge is to use that EId in a trust federation to facilitate access to distant resources, managed by others, while securing private personal information. Based on examples in the US, UK and Australia, the Canadian University Council of CIOs (CUCCIO) has developed the trust federation edupass.ca. This presentation will identify challenges of Identity Management in higher education, discuss access federation "without management" and provide an overview of the status and plans of edupass.ca.
Secure and User-Oriented Intranet & Extranet Access at WSIB with Sun Identity Manager
In 2005, the Workplace Safety & Insurance Board (WSIB) began a series of projects designed to provide employers the capability to conduct business with WSIB electronically through a broad range of online eServices. Designing and implementing secure extranet and intranet access represented a major step towards providing interactive eServices to the customers. This presentation will focus on the first WSIB self-subscription services implemented with Sun Identity Manager. This allowed employers to be registered with the company, calculate their premiums and securely submit payroll information over the Internet.
Security with Mobility in a Healthcare Environment:
Sun Ray™ Thin Client Technology at Atlantic Health Science Corporation
Atlantic Health Sciences Corporation has selected the Sun Ray Thin Client as a significant component of their end-user device strategy for the delivery of the new Clinical Information System. The Sun Ray architecture's unique blend of low TCO, highly secure device characteristics and end-user functionality made it an excellent fit to AHSC's requirements. The Sun Rays are to be used simultaneously in training and clinical environments, both as stationary and mobile devices. This presentation will focus on some of the unique challenges that exist in the healthcare environment and at AHSC specifically, and how Sun Rays help address these issues. It will also examine some of the technical problems that are solved, the financial impacts of client consolidation and some unique productivity enhancements that are already being realized.
A Flexible, Scalable, and Reliable Approach with Enterprise Directory at Telus
With the merger of TELUS Communications, TELUS Quebec and TELUS Mobility, as well as the legacy of earlier mergers, TELUS was faced with difficult, but not unusual, identity management challenges. These were manifesting themselves to the business as protracted on-boarding processes, onerous security management tasks, long call-service times for clients and expensive compliance reporting.
Andrew will discuss a major enterprise user-directory consolidation effort that was undertaken, the challenges it presented and the value it delivers. He will highlight the implications of a consolidated user directory on other aspects of identity and access management services and infrastructure.
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