Requirements Evangelist & Author
Bruce Miner
Business Requirements as a Central Theme of Enterprise Architecture
Bruce Miner has over thirty years of IT experience, specializing in enterprise grade systems architecture, large scale development, database design, database internals, operating systems internals and management consulting.
Bruce’s assignments include a mix of development, strategic planning, business analysis, enterprise architecture, project management and marketing. Industry verticals include an international mix of banking, health care, insurance, telecommunication, Internet, government, education and energy. He has participated in various industry standards based initiatives including the eLearning shareable content object reference model (SCORM), the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) and the Object Management Group (OMG).
In addition to his teaching assignments, Bruce has spoken at numerous industry events including the World Wide Web Symposium in Hong Kong, the Object-Oriented Programming Systems and Languages Association Conference in Austin and the Open Group Architecture Practitioners Conferences in San Diego, Glasgow and Toronto.
Bruce’s volunteer and community activities include Board Positions on the St. Clair West Affordable Housing Group and The Davenport-Perth Neighborhood Centre. He was also a founding member of the Montreal Save the City movement. He is additionally involved in the Wainfleet Water and Sewer Committee. Bruce participates actively on evolving environmental initiatives surrounding carbon-credit exchanges and standardized protocols.
Father of five children (all daughters), Bruce lives in downtown Toronto with his wife, children and cat. He and his family enjoy a century cottage in Wainfleet Ontario on Lake Erie where he has a deep family history. Additionally he is a regular sailor, SCUBA diver and skydiver. Bruce holds an MSc in Mathematics from the University of Toronto and is a Certified Master IT Architect from the Open Group.
