Greetings from South Africa
A little about myself:
I am a third generation SDA.   Some of you may be familiar with some of my
first cousins who have been at Andrews and elsewhere in the USA: Ernest,
Hugh, Mike, Brian, Patrick and Stanley Stevenson, and Peter and Gordon Swanson.
I hold the degrees of Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) in Information Systems
(1991) and Master of Commerce in Information Systems (1996) from South
Africa's premier university: the University of Cape Town.   The subject of
my Masters thesis is "Component Based Enterprise Architecture".
Both these degrees were earned part-time while working full time.
I have 18 years of working experience in Information Systems ranging from
programming through systems analysis and design, project leading,  IS
mangement, business process reengineering, methodology development, and
architecture.
I currently hold the position of Chief Architect at Old Mutual, the largest
life insurance company in Africa (43rd largest in the world).  The IS
development shop of which I am a part consists of 450 people. 
I am a regular guest lecturer (on Enterprise Architecture/Enterprise
Engineering) at the Graduate School of Business (University of Cape Town) in
particular on their Executive Short Course: "Information Technology
Management Programme", an intensive 2 week course for mature students who
are, or are about to become, IS or IT managers.
I am also a regular guest lecturer at the Department of Information Systems
(http://www.dis.uct.ac.za/) in the Commerce Faculty  (University of Cape
Town) on their Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) and Master of Commerce programmes.
Altogether I only give about half a dozen lectures a year at university, as
I am primarily a practitioner rather than an educator.
I also regularly lecture internal staff at Old Mutual on the subject of
Enterprise Architecture.
I am the editor of the Enterprise Architecture page on IS World Net (see URL
below).
My areas of expertise and interest are: enterprise architecture (consisting
of business, data, application and technical architectures), systems
analysis and design, methodology ( in particular the combining of business
process reengineering and object orientation), project management, advanced
interface design, the design of actuarial workbenches.
I am also a director of CAMDEV (the Center for Advanced Management
Development) which is the local extension site for the Herriott-Watt
University (Edinburgh, Scotland), distance learning MBA.  We currently have
approximately 800 students studying for this prestigeous MBA through CAMDEV.
CAMDEV also offers the Advanced Business Management Diploma in conjunction
with the University of Natal.
I am married to Geney Gunston who is a medical doctor and we have two sons
(Giles - 3 weeks old, and Hugh - 3 years old).

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Dennis A Stevenson
Chief Architect - Individual Business
Old Mutual, Box 66, Cape Town, 8000
South Africa
e-mail : dstevens@aztec.co.za
Tel  +27+21 5095448
Fax +27+21 5094444
World Wide Web URL's:
Enterprise Architecture (IS World Net):
http://www.aztec.co.za/users/dstevens/text/entparch.html 
Homepage:
http://www.aztec.co.za/users/dstevens/dashpage.html
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