Dr. Vladimir Bacvanski
Dr. Vladimir Bacvanski has over two decades of experience in consulting, mentoring and training, focusing on architecture and design of mission critical distributed enterprise systems, tools, and model driven development approaches. A common theme in his engagements is architecture and design of high-performance persistence solutions, bringing together DB2 and WebSphere in enterprise Java applications. He is author of numerous courses that involve IBM’s data technologies and products, frequently in concert with WebSphere middleware and Rational tools.
Vladimir has extensive experience in software architecture, modeling, and methodologies, helping companies establish pragmatic solutions for projects and product lines as well as create enterprise standards for architecture, design, and software development lifecycle. His work spans organizations in financial, insurance, and engineering fields. He has helped a number of companies including US Treasury, US Navy, IBM, Dell, Hewlett Packard, JP Morgan Chase, Northwestern Mutual, Nokia, Lucent, Nortel Networks, General Electric, BAE Systems, AMD, and others to select, transition to, and apply best practices leading to successful solutions.
Vladimir received a doctoral degree in Computer Science from Aachen University of Technology in Germany (RWTH Aachen.
Vladimir is published worldwide and is an enthusiastic and frequent conference speaker. He served as a session chair and workshop organizer at many leading industry events. In the past, he was a recipient of a number of academic scholarships and grants. Together with his partners, he cofounded InferData, a premier training and consulting firm that helps clients worldwide productively apply Web 2.0, SOA, Java and other enterprise technologies.
Vladimir is member of IBM’s Customer Advisory Council.
Company
InferData Ltd.
11149 Research Blvd.
Austin, TX 78759
Tel: 512 306 8225
http://www.inferdata.com (link resides outside of ibm.com)
Location
Vladimir lives in Mountain View, California, and works with clients worldwide. Corporate office is located in Austin, Texas.
Expertise
Vladimir is a consultant, mentor and trainer. He enables his clients become self-sufficient in:
- Software architecture
- Model driven software development
- Design and development of enterprise software systems
- Develop full scale enterprise applications utilizing IBM data servers, WebSphere middleware and Rational tools.
Languages
English and German
Interests
Software! Photography, painting, reading, classical music, jazz, and a good espresso. Mountain biking. Building Lego robots with his son Marc.
Recommended links
InferData, the training and consulting firm I cofounded (link resides outside of ibm.com)
Publications
Publications Currently authoring a book on Domain Modeling, together with Richard Mitchell and Petter Graff.
User Groups/Professional Associations
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
IEEE Computer Society
IDUG
Conferences
Vladimir was speaker, session chair and workshop organizer at many conferences:
IBM Information on Demand
IBM Rational Software Development Conference
OOPSLA
ACM/IEEE Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems
EclipseCon
JavaOne
UML and Design World
SD West
OMG Events
COMDEX
Contact Information
vladimir@inferdata.com
Dr. Vladimir Bacvanski
InferData Ltd.
11149 Research Blvd.
Austin, TX 78759
Tel: 512 306 8225