Mike Lambert

Extensive business experience

Mike was one of the pioneers of TOGAF. As Chief Technical Officer for The Open Group, he was the Technical Editor for the IEEE 1003.0 architecture standard in the late 1980s and responsible for the development of TOGAF with The Open Group until the publication of TOGAF 8.

Mike joined X/Open Company Limited (the predecessor of The Open Group) in 1994 from ICL, where he had a variety of roles leading up to Chief Architect for OMAC 29, ICL's flagship product for the Manufacturing Industry and Design Authority for all ICL's vertical application products.

As Chief Technical Officer, Mike was responsible for The Open Group's technical strategy and presided over the standardisation of UNIX.

On his retirement from The Open Group in April 2003, Mike was appointed as the first (and to date only) Fellow of The Open Group, in recognition of his extensive contribution to the development of Open Systems and Architecture.

In addition to his work for Architecting the Enterprise, Mike has two other long term assignments:

Director of The Open Group Messaging Forum

This is a membership consortium with a mission to maintain and enhance the effectiveness of e-mail for inter-personal communication and as a backbone for e-business.

Lecturer at the University of Reading

Since September 2003, Mike has been a part time lecturer at the University of Reading in the UK, lecturing on a number of subjects at Undergraduate and Postgraduate level including

• E-Business
• Enterprise IT Architecture
• Network Security

In 2005, Mike was given an award for Excellence in Teaching by the University of Reading.

One of Mike's courses, developed co-operatively with Architecting the Enterprise, is a certified TOGAF 8 TRAINING course.

Education and diversity

Mike has extensive interests outside of the world of paid employment.

He has a long-standing interest in the world of swimming, devoting a great deal of time to the development of the sport and officiating at events as a top-level swimming referee.

He has also developed software for the management of swimming competitions.

In his spare time he is a keen skier and supports Birmingham City!