Kerrie Holley

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Kerrie Holley, IBM Fellow, is known for his contributions in Services Oriented Architecture. He is a co-inventor of the Service-Oriented Modeling and Architecture, SOMA and the Service Integration Maturity Model (SIMM).

Mr. Holley received his B.A. from DePaul University and his Juris Doctorate from DePaul University College of Law. He joined IBM in 1986 where he currently serves as CTO for IBM’s SOA Center of Excellence.

Mr. Holley was appointed an IBM Distinguished Engineer in 2000 and in that same year elected to IBM’s Academy of Technology. He was appointed an IBM Fellow in 2006 by IBM’s Chairman and CEO, Sam Palmisano.

In 2004 he was named as one of The 50 most important blacks in Research Science