Biography of Tom Evans

Tom Evans is an architect and design coach with extensive experience in applying formal development processes, object design and architecture methods. Tom holds a Masters of Software Engineering from the University of St. Thomas and founded the Twin Cities Object Technology User Group. Tom has a keen eye for seeing key issues and then bringing clarity to complex needs facing business organizations, their processes, and their tools. Tom can quickly grasp and capture a businesses conceptual intent and, applying best practices such as Responsibility Driven Design and Model Driven Architecture develop a business level model that assures technology solutions reflect well-defined business needs. He specializes in helping organizations articulate an architectural vision for their business and technology needs, and then bring their vision to life by designing flexible software solutions.


Before embarking on his consulting career, Tom spent 11 years building software and development processes for FDA regulated medical devices. He now participates in business-change efforts across a broad spectrum of industries, including financial, telecommunications, and manufacturing. Tom's enterprise integration experience includes work on scaling DSL service to 500,000 customers across a 50,000-person telecommunications carrier. He has also provided business architecture envisioning and modeling for new infrastructures to support a multi-billion dollar financial firm demanding business agility

A key theme present in much of Tom's work is helping teams seeking to architect business agility and product flexibility.