With over thirty-five years’ experience in most areas of IT, Oliver Sims has worked in primarily in the Enterprise Architecture field. Currently semi-retired, Oliver has held leading positions in both enterprise middleware and EA consulting companies since the mid-1990s. Previously, he held a senior technical position in IBM, working with IBM’s largest UK customers, and with IBM’s International Technical Support Centre in Austin, Texas. Oliver was one of the first to prove the synergy between component-based software, XML-like interfaces, and distributed objects.