Thomas J. Mowbray, Ph.D.
Tom Mowbray, Ph.D. is a retired IT professional who enjoys bicycling, jamming music, citizen journalism, making art, and cooking, having recently returned from Naples, Italy, where he trained as a Pizzaiolo.
Dr. Mowbray retired as a Security Architect from Nationwide.com, and taught cybersecurity at Columbus State Community College. Just prior, he was Chief Enterprise Architect of The Ohio State University. While in the DC area, Tom served as the Chief Enterprise Architect of Washington DC Government — a successful experience which resulted in the National Award for EA Excellence in State and Local Government.
Dr. Mowbray solo-authored the Wiley book, Cybersecurity: Managing Systems, Conducting Testing, and Investigating Intrusions (2014). Chapter 3 is Dr. Mowbray's introduction to cybersecurity from an IT architecture perspective.
Tom is an Honorary Fellow of the Object Management Group (OMG). He co-authored three books on distributed IT architectures: The Essential CORBA, CORBA Design Patterns, and Inside CORBA. In the book AntiPatterns, he wrote Chapter 6, on IT Architecture AntiPatterns.
Previous professional activities included: Book Series Editor of the Prentice Hall Software Architecture Series, and Co-Founder of the Internet Component Management Group (iCMG). Dr. Mowbray was also the Software Architecture columnist for OBJECT Magazine.
Dr. Mowbray holds the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, the M.S. degree in Computer Engineering from Stanford University, and the Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California. He is also TOGAF Certified and a Certified Enterprise Architect (CEA) from the FEAC Institute (now the Zachman Institute).
