Olaf Zimmermann

Address: IBM Research GmbH
Zurich Research Laboratory
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Room: C323 Tel.: +41-44-724-8278

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

Dr. Olaf Zimmermann is a senior IT architect with 20 years of IT industry experience. He holds a Research Staff Member position in the IBM Zurich Research Lab. Olaf received his Ph. D. (Dr. rer. nat.) from Stuttgart University, Germany (Prof. Frank Leymann) in 2009. His research interests include reusable architectural decision models and their role in architecture design processes and tools, SOA design, and cloud computing Previously, Olaf was a solution architect, helping IBM clients designing enterprise-scale SOA/Web services and Java Enterprise Edition (JEE) solutions on numerous professional 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 received a graduate "Diplom-Informatiker" degree in Computer Science from the Technical University in Braunschweig, Germany in 1993.

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 and cloud computing
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)

This is Olaf's researcher profile.

Olaf's publications list can be found on his webpage at the Institute for Architecture of Application Systems (IAAS), Stuttgart University. This is his DBLP entry. Additional information and online resources can be found here.

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