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About
Enterprise architecture is about making better decisions.
I'm Chris Coyle, an Enterprise Architect with more than thirty years of experience helping organizations connect business strategy, information, integration, and technology.
My career has included leadership and technical roles with Salesforce, Dell Technologies, webMethods, Boomi, and higher education institutions. Across every engagement, my objective has remained the same: simplify complexity and help leaders make confident technology decisions.
Today I build technology-neutral frameworks, reference architectures, and AI-enabled knowledge models that demonstrate how modern architecture becomes a strategic asset—not just a collection of diagrams.
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“Start small. Think big. Move fast.”
Amazon Innovation Principle
“You can't change what you can't measure.”
Peter Drucker