Ryan Schmierer is the Sr. Managing Partner of NovoCircle, a technology advisory practice specializing in Modern Enterprise Architecture and Intelligent Automation. He brings more than 25 years of professional experience, including enterprise architect, ITSM and Outsourcing Management roles at Cisco and Microsoft. While at Microsoft, he represented the company at The Open Group’s IT4IT and Architecture forums from 2014 to 2017 and contributed to the IT4IT Reference Architecture — an industry standard now used by organizations worldwide. He has spent the past decade running an EA tools and consulting practice that has worked with architecture teams ranging from two people to five hundred, across a wide range of industries.

Ryan’s focus has always been business performance, not technology for its own sake. The tools are means. What matters is the work done with them and the impact that work has on how an organization operates and competes. That conviction shapes everything NovoCircle does.