William M. Ulrich Senior Consultant

William M. Ulrich is a Senior Consultant with Cutter's Business Technology Strategies and Business & Enterprise Architecture practices, a member of Cutter's Government & Public Sector team and President of TSG, Inc. He specializes in business and IT planning and transformation strategies. Mr. Ulrich has more than 30 years' experience in the business-IT management consulting field. He serves as strategic advisor and mentor on business-IT alignment initiatives and continues to work as a workshop leader and author. Mr. Ulrich has the unique ability to cross business and IT boundaries to facilitate and streamline business-IT transformation strategies. His workshops on business-IT architecture alignment have been widely attended by organizations worldwide.

He is the cofounder and VP of the Business Architecture Guild, Cochair of the OMG Business Architecture Special Interest Group, Editorial Director of the Business Architecture Institute, Director-at-Large of the Business Architecture Society, and is a member of the EA Advisory Board for Penn State. Previously, he has held positions at Triaxsys Research, which he cofounded, and has served in a senior management capacity at KPMG, including as KPMG's Director of Reengineering Strategies prior to leaving and forming his own company in 1990.

Mr. Ulrich's work has been the basis for business and IT architecture transformation projects worldwide. Past clients include AFLAC, Allstate, American Express, Assurant Health, Aetna, Cigna, Export Development Canada, FDIC, Federal Government of Canada, General Motors, General Services Administration (GSA), HP, IBM, Mayo Clinic, Merrill Lynch, Nationwide, Oracle, Pacific Bell (SBC), SAIC, Shell, State Farm, Unisys, Wells Fargo, US Patent and Trademark Office, TRW, United Technologies, TELUS Communications, US Internal Revenue Service, as well as other organizations.

As developer of The Systems Redevelopment Methodology (TSRM/USRM), Mr. Ulrich defined many of the standards used in systems modernization within today's IT industry. He has also helped hundreds of organizations capitalize on knowledge built into their existing systems. A forerunner in the industry, Mr. Ulrich was on the 1980 alpha test team for the first commercially available systems redevelopment tool and was instrumental in the development of the application reengineering and reverse engineering papers for IBM's Guide Project.

He has also served on the faculty of Northeastern Illinois University and facilitated numerous workshops, including sessions for SEI. Mr. Ulrich has lectured internationally to thousands of business and IT professionals and has testified as an expert witness on the use of IP within the computer field. He continues to serve as a software forensic and litigation support expert in technology-related cases. In 2005, Mr. Ulrich was awarded the Keeping America Strong Award by Rear Admiral Kevin F. Delaney (Ret.). He has authored hundreds of articles appearing in major publications, including InformationWeek and Computerworld. Mr. Ulrich is coauthor of Business Architecture: The Art and Practice of Business Transformation, Information Systems Transformation: Architecture-Driven Modernization Case Studies, and Legacy Systems: Transformation Strategies. He can be reached at wulrich@cutter.com.