Presenter Overview
Tom Burke
President and Executive Director
OPC Foundation
Thomas J. Burke has been an officer for the OPC Foundation since the start of OPC, currently serving his fourth year term as President of the OPC Foundation. Tom was one of the founding members of OPC; he was the architect for the OPC Data Access Custom & Automation Interfaces. He has served as the designer and leader for the OPC Compliance, OPC Interoperability, and all the OPC Data Access specifications. Tom’s vision included the creation of an initiative called OPC Data eXchange that brought together the industrial Ethernet Consortiums to work together to provide the standard for exchanging data between the different industrial Ethernet networks. Tom’s vision is the OPC Unified Architecture, which is a multi-vendor development that addresses the unification of all the OPC Foundation specifications providing a rock solid web service / XML standard for multi vendor secure reliable interoperability integrating the plant floor with the enterprise. Thomas was a senior software architect for Rockwell Automation, and has developed & managed significant software projects for Rockwell /Allen-Bradley & NCR over his 24 year career. Thomas graduated from John Carroll University with a BS in Mathematics, and the University of Dayton with a MS in Computer Engineering.