Michael Stevens is an assistant director for The Hartford Financial Service Group.  He specializes in enterprise architectures, service-oriented architectures and software product lines. He received his B.S. degree in Computer Science from Central Connecticut State University and his MS in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.  He has over eighteen years of experience in Information Technology architecting and developing software systems, most recently focusing on J2EE solutions.  He has coauthored two books entitled: Java Web Services Architecture with Morgan-Kaufmann and The Practical Guide to Enterprise Architecture with Prentice-Hall.  He is a columnist for Developer.com and has spoken at industry conferences.  He has reviewed manuscripts for Prentice-Hall and the IEEE Software Magazine.  He founded a software company that developed solutions for the mailing industry.  He is a certified Java programmer, a member of the IEEE Computer Society, the ACM, ACM SigSoft and the World Wide Institute of Software Architects (WWISA).