About the Authors

Phil Beauvoir

Phil Beauvoir has been developing, writing, and speaking about software tools and development for over 30 years. He was Senior Researcher and Developer at Bangor University, and, later, the Institute for Educational Cybernetics at Bolton University, both in the UK. During this time, he co-developed a peer-to-peer learning management and groupware system, a suite of software tools for authoring and delivery of standards-compliant learning objects and metadata, and tooling to create IMS Learning Design-compliant units of learning. In 2010, working with the Institute for Educational Cybernetics, Phil created the open source ArchiMate^® Modeling Tool, Archi^®. Since 2013 he has been curating the development of Archi independently. Phil holds a degree in Medieval English and Anglo-Saxon Literature.

Frans Faase

Frans Faase is a Senior Software Engineer at Bond High Performance 3D Technology. He has an MSc degree in Computer Science from the University of Twente. He was previously at BiZZdesign, where he was involved in designing the repository being used by BiZZdesign Architect, which implements the ArchiMate^® Specification. He designed a locking mechanism that allows smooth cooperation between multiple users on a single model. He also worked on many import functions from other tools requiring reverse engineering, scanning, and parsing of used file formats. Many of these file formats are based on XML.

Andrew Josey

Andrew Josey is VP Standards and Certification overseeing all certification and testing programs of The Open Group. He also manages the standards process for The Open Group. Andrew has been closely involved with the standards development, certification, and testing activities of The Open Group. He has led many standards development projects including specification and certification development for the ArchiMate^®, TOGAF^®, POSIX™, and UNIX^® programs. Most recently, he has led the development of the TOGAF Business Architecture Level 1 certification credential and DPBoK Foundation certification. He has led the automation of The Open Group standards development using a Git-based automated build toolchain. He is a member of the IEEE, USENIX, and the Association of Enterprise Architects (AEA). He holds an MSc in Computer Science from University College London.