Gerhard Bayer Senior Consultant

Gerhard Bayer has more than 25 years of industry experience, working for software vendors in a number of different positions as well as for consulting firms. He is currently focusing on large-scale application development and integration projects as Enterprise Architect, Mentor and Teacher of IT seminars, Planning Consultant and Program Manager. His major goals in these roles are to facilitate IT strategy planning to balance software asset reuse and new technology investment; customize project methodologies for enterprise level projects; design software architectures to ensure consistency, reuse, extensibility, and vendor independence; and leverage staff by providing mentoring and leverage the organization by establishing competence centers. To achieve these goals he relies on his ability to bridge the gap between technology and the business, which is based on his educational background and professional experience; his excellent interpersonal communication skills and proven track record delivering presentations to clients as well as to the public; his understanding of all major middleware, EAI, and Web technologies (e.g. Application Servers, Message Oriented Middleware, Enterprise Service Bus, SOA, EDA, XML, XML Schema, WSDL, BPEL, REST, Complex Event Processing CEP).

Mr. Bayer's industry experience includes Fortune 500 companies in finance, insurance, government, and other industry segments. Since 1998 Mr. Bayer has been with International Systems Group (ISG), where he performs a dual role as a Senior Consultant directly involved in client projects and as a Managing Partner responsible for managing every aspect of a project-based IT consulting company. He has assisted the asset management department of a client with the definition and implementation of a layered services model that followed best practices for a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). The goal of the architecture was to provide a consistent technical framework, which was combined with a consistent process for software development and integration, in order to achieve a reduction in application portfolio complexity, higher degree of reuse of enterprise services, separation of business process management from traditional programming, and increased agility to support new business relationships. Gerhard Bayer can be reached at consulting@cutter.com.