Dr. Richard Mark Soley is the chair

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 and CEO

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 of Object Management Group, Inc. (OMG); as such, the vision and direction of the consortium are his responsibility. Soley joined OMG as Technical Director in 1989, leading the development of OMG's world-leading standardization process and the original CORBA

Çorba

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 specification.

In 1996, he led the effort to move into vertical market standards (starting with healthcare, finance, telecommunications and manufacturing) and modeling. Those efforts made OMG a pioneer in the Unified Modeling Language

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 (UML) and model-driven architecture

Model-driven architecture

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 (MDA) realms.

Soley was co-founder and former Chairman/CEO of A. I. Architects, Inc., a firm which manufactured hardware and software for personal computer

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s and workstation

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s. He has also served as a consultant on matters relating to software investment opportunities for several corporations including IBM

IBM

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, Motorola

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, and Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments

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.

Soley studied Computer Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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, where he obtained bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees. He began his professional life at Honeywell Computer Systems, working on the Multics operating system.

External links

• Richard Mark Soley personal website