Steve Lockwood

Steve Lockwood is an executive information architect and IBM senior certified IT architect (SCITA) who has been involved in IT for more than 20 years; he has successfully completed roles as an information architect, consultant, application development analyst, and project manager.

After joining IBM in 1997, he worked in Strategic Outsourcing and Global Business Services before coming to rest in SWG Services six years ago.

Working in the IBM Software Group, he acts as the lead information architect for that group in the UK and has been involved in many of the aspects in the development of information-related projects, covering Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence, Information Integration, Master Data solutions, and SAP-based solutions. These have encompassed the entire lifecycle of such projects from business discovery to implementation, support, and maintenance. His core technical skills are in DB technologies, and he has used DB2, Teradata, Sybase, SQL Server, Ingres, Oracle, and BI Tools such as Cognos, Microstrategy, and Business Objects.

Steve has experience working across a broad number of sectors; he has successfully completed projects in retail, insurance, banking, and government, and he now runs a team of architects who drive IBM's Information Agenda message into the marketplace.

Steven holds a degree in Physics and Electronic engineering and an MBA from Loughborough University in the UK.

Oh... and he loves cricket and golf