Olaf Zimmermann

Address: IBM Research GmbH
Zurich Research Laboratory
CH-8803 Rueschlikon
Saeumerstrasse 4 / Postfach
Switzerland

Room: C323 Tel.: +41-44-724-8278

Tel.: +41-44-724-8953 E-Mail: olz (at) zurich.ibm.com

Olaf Zimmermann is a senior IT architect with 18 years of IT industry experience. At present, he holds a Research Staff Member position in the IBM Zurich Research Lab. His research focuses on meet-in-the-middle service modeling techniques and the role of architectural decisions and model transformations during Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) construction. Previously, Olaf was a solution architect, helping IBM clients designing enterprise-scale SOA/Web services and Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) solutions on numerous services projects. He also educated practitioners around the world on emerging middleware technologies. In the beginning of his career, Olaf worked as a scientific consultant in the IBM European Networking Center (ENC) in Heidelberg, Germany, focusing on industry-specific middleware frameworks for systems and network management. Olaf is a regular conference speaker and an author of the Springer text book Perspectives on Web Services. He contributed to several IBM Redbooks such as „Web Services Wizardry with WebSphere Studio Application Developer“. Olaf holds a "Diplom-Informatiker" degree in Computer Science from the Technical University in Braunschweig, Germany (awarded with honors).

In January 2006, Olaf joined the Computer Science Research Department at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory where he initiated the SOA Decision Modeling (SOAD) project which is part of the Business Integration Technologies research group focusing on business-driven development and service-oriented analysis and design. The website accompanying the Perspectives on Web Services book also has more information about the SOAD project.

Olaf's key skills and areas of expertise are:

SOA design, business process and service modeling
Web services (SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, BPEL) and XML
Model Driven Architecture (MDA)
Web application and Java development
Enterprise application integration and distributed computing
Object orientation and database technology

Memberships in professional organizations and certifications:

Open Group Master Certified IT Architect, Senior Certified IBM Executive IT Architect
Elected member of the IBM Technical Expert Council (TEC) for the Europe/Middle East/Africa (EMEA) Central Region
Founding core team member of the world-wide IBM SOA and Web Services Community of Practice (CoP)
Member of „Gesellschaft für Informatik“ (German chapter of the ACM)

A researcher profile for Olaf is available from the On Demand Innocation Services (ODIS) program.

Olaf's publications list can be found on his external staff page at the Institute for Architecture of Application Systems (IAAS), Stuttgart University. Additional information and online resources can be found here.

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