Technology Architect at National Research Council
Ottawa, Canada Area
Technology Architect at National Research Council
Ottawa, Canada Area
Enterprise architect with systems and web development background. Stephen has over a decade of experience with IT systems, and with over half that time spent as a practitioner of enterprise architecture (EA) and service-oriented architecture (SOA) at Canada's National Science Library.
Particularly interested in library and government enterprise architecture initiatives.
Enterprise Architecture, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), web development, library technologies, project management, portfolio management, software engineering, web services, digital repositories.
(Government Agency; Research industry)
March 2003 — Present (6 years 10 months)
As a technology architect with NRC-CISTI I am responsible for modeling technology solutions, standards, principles/practices and strategies for technology and process implementation, based on business needs.
In particular, I use EA, Service Oriented Architecture, and governance techniques to transform business desires into rational technology plans and projects, and ensure that these projects adhere to the organizations agreed future direction.
Publications:
Anthony, Stephen K. "Implementing Service Oriented Architecture at the Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information." The Serials Librarian, 55(01-02), pp. 235 - 253
Anthony, Stephen., et al. "Transitioning from print to electronic information delivery - an update from NRC-CISTI." Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery and Electronic Reserve, Vol. 19, #3. (In Press).
(Government Agency; Research industry)
August 2002 — March 2003 (8 months)
Technical lead and architect for the Document Delivery to the Desktop project. Technology Services Coordinator for CISTI's E-Business project.
(Government Agency; Research industry)
May 1998 — July 2002 (4 years 3 months)
Technical lead on many technology projects, including the: NRC Proxy server, LDAP Authentication project, web registration applications, web search engine.
Performed analysis, development, management, planning, implementation of technology infrastructure and information systems.
Performed analysis, improvement and planning of systems and infrastructure based on existing and projected needs.
Requirements analysis, development of functional specifications, design, development and implementation of internet-based software systems.
Introduced, assisted and supported new technology initiatives.
Managed technical staff and contractors/consultants.
Attended conferences, workshops, lectures and kept informed of current technology trends.
Acted as liaison with other technology groups at CISTI and NRC.
(Government Agency; Government Administration industry)
May 1997 — April 1998 (1 year )
Designed and developed mapping software for use during data gathering missions, and for data analysis.
Performed computer assisted analysis on data collected during data gathering missions.
Developed a data retrieval system, based on plain-text data stores, to retrieve and organize relevant scientific data based on given parameters.
B. Sc. , Computer Science, History (Minor) , 1992 — 1997
enterprise architecture, service-oriented architecture (SOA), web application development, web 2.0, library technology development, web development, digital photography.
CISTI Certificate of Excellence: NRC Publications Archive Team Awared, November 2009.
Technology and Research Director's Award - Contributions to CISTI Lab, December 11, 2008.
CISTI Certificate of Excellence: Project IMP Team Award, November 2008.
CISTI Certificate of Excellence: Pay-Per Article Team award, 2007.
CISTI Certificate of Excellence: IMP project Team award, 2007.
CISTI Certificate of Excellence: Positive Attitude, 2006.
Agatha Bystram Award for Leadership in Information Management. Group award for CISTI Secure Dekstop Delivery, 2005.
Information Management Community Recognition Award. Group award for CISTI's Secure Desktop Delivery, 2005.
CISTI Certificate of Excellence: Teamwork/Group Achievements: Load Balancing Deployment Project, 2003.
CISTI Certificate of Excellence: Teamwork/Group Achievements: Document Delivery to the Desktop Project, 2003