Don Brancato

With 25 years of experience as an enterprise architect, including domain experience in advanced aerospace and security applications, Mr Brancato is a standards author and insightful consultant. He has demonstrated strong engineering and applied math/physics capabilities in space and aviation modeling/simulation. He has had full-lifecycle software development roles, successfully creating solutions, traceable from business strategy to capability to complex, service-oriented applications. His architecture work is standards based: TOGAF, FAIR, CMMI, ITIL, et al). Today, he is the Chief Enterprise Architect for Vertica, a Big Data platform, supporting enterprise and IIoT data aggregation and analytics. He publishes through the Open Group on topics ranging from IoT to the Open Platform 3.0.

Mr Brancato earned a BS from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and is a former licensed master mariner, having sailed for Crowley Maritime, Exxon, and the US Army globally.