About Us
About Us
Realizing business services architecture's potential as a Business and IT transformation mechanism requires enterprises to address challenges in the areas of organizational alignment, domain engineering, governance, software development life cycle and architecture.
AgileLayer's proven methodologies, tools, adoption models and expertise provide enterprises with a pragmatic, holistic and sustainable approach to improving Business and IT agility.
Specifically, AgileLayer enables enterprises to: accelerate their realization of business services architecture (SOA) and its attendant benefits; effectively mitigate SOA adoption risks; optimize IT investments; ensure a vendor/ technology-neutral approach; and successfully inculcate the service-oriented model across enterprise domains and processes.
Our Team
AgileLayer consultants are senior IT practitioners, with deep experience in Business Services Architecture and related disciplines. AgileLayer experiences include the following:
- Consulted to leading Global 1000 organizations to drive their Business Services Architecture/SOA adoption programs from business and technical perspectives.
- Developed an industry-first SOA Life Cycle and Governance reference model and associated modeling tool.
- Developed an industry-first, automated methodology for service identification, portfolio planning and service definition - incorporating Business Process, Business Capability, Project and Asset-driven approaches.
- Developed an industry-first, automated Business Capabilities Engineering™ approach.
- Developed and implemented commercial SOA security, management and registry software products.
Founders
AgileLayer co-founders are 25-year industry professionals, and have worked in the SOA field for the past 6 years.
Michael Callahan
Senior Partner, Co-founder
Mr. Callahan has substantial experience assisting global 1000 organizations in implementing innovative Business Technology strategies and solutions. He has worked with national and multinational organizations in various markets including healthcare, financial services, manufacturing and retail.
Mr. Callahan has worked in the Business Services Architecture /SOA field since January 2000, assisting early-adopter enterprises in driving strategy, best-practices, and infrastructure-related solutions. As a Vice President at Digital Evolution (aka SOA Software), a pioneer in the Web Services security and management software market, Mr. Callahan worked with global 1000 organizations to deliver SOA infrastructure software and consulting services. Previous to this, as Senior Vice President at Adeptra, Mr. Callahan led the launch of this Web Services-based application service provider as the first-mover in the mobile information alerting market.
Mr. Callahan has a wealth of technical and business management experience including London-based international management assignments with Business Intelligence solution providers Pilot Software and IRI Software, prior to their respective acquisitions by Dunn & Bradstreet and Oracle Corporation.
Mr. Callahan began his career as a Systems Engineer with IBM's Data Processing Division in Chicago, IL and received his B.Sc. in Computer Science, Magna cum laude, from Boston College.
Joseph Neuhaus
Senior Partner, Co-founder
Mr. Neuhaus has substantial industry experience in a range of software/product development, systems analysis, and senior IT management roles. He has worked for large systems integrators, technology start-up firms and also has managed large corporate IT organizations.
Mr. Neuhaus has substantial hands-on experience in .Net, Java, XML/Web services, C++, C, Perl, JavaScript, Pascal and Fortran technologies, as well as with most key OS, RDBMS and application server platforms. Most recently, he was Technical Director at Web Services pioneer Digital Evolution (aka SOA Software), where he participated in the design and development of a Web services security, registry and management product, and also assisted Fortune 500 companies in implementing service-oriented architectures and related technologies and best practices.
Previously, Mr. Neuhaus was Chief Technology Officer at Prime Advantage Corporation, a leading supplier of strategic sourcing services and logistics management to industrial manufacturers. At Prime Advantage he was responsible for building software development and IT infrastructure in all key technology areas, development of a reverse auction and managed RFQ platform, and was chief architect of PrimeNetworx, a B2B e-commerce translation and transaction platform built on an atomic transaction processing model.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Neuhaus worked for thirteen years in the systems integration business - for Northrop Grumman/Logicon and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. While at Northrop, he was Director of Information Technology at the Logicon Advanced Technology division.
Mr. Neuhaus holds a B.A. in Physics from Occidental College and an M.S. in Physics from the University of California at Los Angeles. His various patents and publications include the following:
- G. Wilensky, J. Neuhaus, Scaling of Back-Propagation Training Time To Large Dimensions, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Volume III, 1990, pp. 239-244 (DARPA/ONR/Geocenters GC-1710-89-R-001)
- G. Wilensky, N. Manukian, J. Neuhaus, J. Kirkwood, Detection of Ocean Wakes in Synthetic Aperture Radar Images with Neural Networks, 2nd Government Neural Network Applications Workshop, hosted by U.S. Army, Sept. 1991. (DARPA/ONR N0014-89C-0257)
- N. Manukian, J. Neuhaus, G. Wilensky, Multi-parameter Process Control with Neural Networks, Logicon RDA Technical Report, 1992. (DARPA/ONR N00014-89C-0257)
- Co-patent holder of the Logicon Carries Detection System, an automated dental radiograph analysis system.