Introducing: Steve Capell

Nationality: Australian

Date of Birth: 5^th May 1957

Residence: Sydney, Australia

Languages spoken: English

Steve Capell has extensive experience in e-business architecture and strategy. Seasoned by the successes and failures of the business-to-business integration industry over the last 10 years, Steve understands both the technical and business drivers behind successful e-business projects. Steve has very deep skills in enterprise process and information modelling and analysis and is well recognised and respected in both the national and international community. Steve is chair of the UN/CEFACT e-Business Architecture working group and is an active contributor to other CEFACT, OASIS and W3C standards. Steve is frequently invited to present at national and international e-Business conferences.

Having taken leading roles in several OASIS Technical Committees, Stephen is now an internationally recognized XML standards architect.

He classifies himself as an enthusiast, pioneer and evangelist of open standards for electronic business particularly in UK public sector.

Career History:

2002 to Present	Director and co-founder Product Architecture Strategic Consulting Standards development	Red Wahoo Pty Ltd Consulting clients include: Federal Government (AGIMO, DCITA, Customs, CentreLink) VIC & NSW State Governments Steel Industry Majors Product Development includes: Complete responsibility for architecture, design, and development management of J2EE web service platform and registry service Standards Development includes: Australian National Government Interoperability Framework. CEFACT & OASIS technical committees. W3C and WS-I based national standards.
1999 to 2002	Regional Manager, Professional Services	Commerce One – B2B marketplace operations B2B Marketplace portal implementation for major telecos in Australia and Singapore. E-Procurement solution implementations throughout Australia.
1987 to 1999	Operations management	Schlumberger – international oilfield operations 10 years of field and management oilfield operations in 8 countries. 3 years of enterprise systems (SAP, e-procurement) implementation across geographic and functional boundaries.

Recent Professional Experience:

2002 to Present (Red Wahoo) - Consulting Engagements: Steve is a founding director, and the Technical Director of Red Wahoo Pty. Ltd. In that position, he has completed the following engagements.

• BlueScope Steel: Development of an enterprise data model for BlueScope Steel including architectural framework, governance, data models for flat steel product, HR, and finance domains.
• Federal Government, Treasury: Solution architect for the "Standard Business Reporting" (SBR) project. SBR is a whole of government initiative designed to reduce the burden of regulatory reporting on Australian business.
• Federal Government, AGIMO: Developed the national Name & Address XML schema based on AS4590 content and UN/CEFACT methodologies.
• Federal Government, AGIMO: Was the architect responsible for the implementation of the GovDex service - a set of tools, methods, and re-usable content that supports government (G2G) interoperability at a whole of government, cross-jurisdictional level. GovDex is growing rapidly with new project coming on board on a weekly basis. See www.govdex.gov.au
• Other Australian Government: Consulting architect for Attorney General "Auscheck" project (border security), Victorian Government "EasyBiz" project (online forms), and National electronic Development Application projects (building & planning automation). All these projects are large scale business to government integration projects.
• Australian Steel Industry: Has led engagements with two of the largest steel manufacturers in Australia to deploy B2B integrations in accordance with international Steel industry standards. The customer is now performing thousands of transactions per week more reliably and cost effectively than ever before.
• Federal Government, Human services: Was the architect and project manager behind a deployment of a scalable e-business prototype for the automated reporting of payroll information from Australian businesses to Government. Rollout is pending legislative changes but, when complete, would provide significant business benefit to both government and constituents.
• Standards Australia & Federal Government (DCITA): Was the architect responsible for the development of the BizDex framework - a set of services to support B2B interoperability in Australia. See www.bixdex.com.au
• Australian Grain Industry: Led the deployment of a standards based grain logistics B2B scenario for bulk grain movement logistics.

2002 to Present (Red Wahoo) - Product Architecture: As Technical Director of Red Wahoo Pty. Ltd, Steve also led a development team that created a B2B interoperability solution (“Monteverdi”) based on J2EE and Web Services / XML standards.

• Monteverdi Composer: Is a development tool for the creation of B2B business process & information models plus XML schema. The tool implements MDA (Model Driven Architecture) best practices.
• Monteverdi Conductor: is a registry service that lies at the heart of a massively scalable peer-to-peer interoperability solution based on SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) best practices.
• Monteverdi Player: is a runtime middleware solution that includes reliable and secure internet messaging, workflow services, routing and transformation services, and application integration. The solution is fully compliant with open web service standards and B2B protocols.

1999 to 2002 (Commerce One): Australian e-Marketplace. As regional professional services manager, led several project teams including one responsible for the deployment of an e-marketplace service for a major Australian telecommunications provider. Also led the implementation of an e-procurement solution for the same organisation.

1987 to 1999 (Schlumberger): Global Oil and Gas Service Company - In 8 different international assignments over 13 years with Schlumberger, Steve held various field operations and management positions. In his last position he transferred from field operations to IT management and led the deployment and testing of a global e-Procurement application to over 3500 users in 70 countries.

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