Tyson T. Brooks

Doctoral Student

Overview

Tyson Brooks is Senior Enterprise Architect with Booz Allen Hamilton in Annapolis Junction, Maryland. Working as a consultant for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), he responsible for developing and managing a comprehensive suite of analytical and technical services designed to enable government and commercial business leaders to achieve improved mission performance through enterprise architecture. He models and documents business/system processes and activities that drive IT transformation and assesses the gaps between strategic processes and system solutions. His functional expertise includes work in the areas of enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, business process modeling, project management, systems analysis and design, systems engineering and requirements analysis.

Tyson is pursuing a Professional Doctorate in Information Management and a CAS in Information Security Management from the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University. Tyson holds a master’s degree in Information and Telecommunications Systems from Johns Hopkins University, a master’s degree in Business Administration from Thomas More College, and a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration/Management from Kentucky State University. Tyson also received a Certification in Enterprise Architecture (CEA) from Carnegie Mellon University’s Institute for Software Research International (ISRI) and a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from the Project Management Institute.

Interests

Research Interests

My current research focus is on:

CyberSecurity
Wireless Grids
Systems Architecture
Design Science for Information Systems

My scholarly publications include:

Brooks, T. (2009). Service-Oriented Enterprise Architecture (SOEA) Conceptual Design Through Data Architecture. Journal of Enterprise Architecture, 5 (4).
Brooks, T. (2009). Enterprise Architecture Governance: A Framework Approach. Architecture & Governance Magazine, Volume 5- Issue 9, http://architectureandgovernance.com/content/ag-magazine-volume-5-issue-9.
Brooks, T. (2009). Principles for Implementing a Service-Oriented Enterprise Architecture. SOA Magazine, Issue XXIX: May/June 2009, http://www.soamag.com/I29/default.asp.
Parker, T. and Brooks, T. (2008). Which Comes First…Strategy or Architecture? Journal of Enterprise Architecture, 4 (4), pgs. 70-80.
Brooks, T. and Wallk, J. (2008). Focusing on Desired Outcomes to Formulate a Customer Valued Enterprise Management Strategy: A Case Study. Journal of Enterprise Architecture, 4 (4), pgs. 47-57.

My forthcoming scholary publications include:

Brooks, T., Caicedo, C. and Park, J. (2012). Security Vulnerability Analysis and Strategies for Trusted Virtualized Computing Environments (forthcoming).

Brooks, T., Robinson, J. and McKnight, L. (2012). The Air Out There: Conceptualizing a Secure Wireless Cloud (forthcoming).

Teaching Interests

My teaching interest include:

Enterprise Architecture
Systems Analysis and Design
Design Science for Information Systems
CyberSecurity

Professional Interests

I am a member of the following professional organizations:

The Association of Information Systems (AIS)
The Project Management Institute (PMI)
The Information Systems Security Association (ISSA)
The Association of Open Group Enterprise Architects (AOGEA)

Personal Interests

Spending quality time with my wife Lisa and children, Tyson Jr. and Taylor, reading, volunteering in church and community activities with the local youth.

Teaching History