Terry Merriman has worked in IT development for 30 years as a developer, designer, development manager, and architect. He has consulted with Fortune 500 companies in the insurance, finance, automobile distribution, and pharmaceutical sectors, leading crucial production projects and setting strategic architectural direction.

Mr. Merriman is President of OAD Consulting, Inc., which, for the last eight years, has concentrated on helping Fortune 500 companies define their approach to enterprise architecture. He has developed frameworks that extend the capabilities of UML modeling tools to provide guidance to design teams, ensure consistency across their models, and make conforming to architectural principles easier than not doing so. He can be reached at experts@cutter.com.