Sam was Research Director at Longhaus between 2007-2011. During that time he led the company's research agenda with a personal focus on enterprise architecture  (including  service-orientation and  information management),  the open  source market, enterprise applications and development, large-scale distributed systems, and ICT procurement within state and federal governments. He  co-author the development of the Longhaus Australian Tech Index^TM and Longhaus Pulse^TM research methods.

Sam was previously a Senior Analyst with Forrester Research’s Asia Pacific  team providing both a global and  local perspective  for Australia and New Zealand within the Enterprise Architecture, Application Development  and Infrastructure and Government  research groups. He has over 14-years experience  in both  the public and  private  sectors and has developed client-server, mainframe-centric, and distributed n-tier applications, both  in  traditional  IDE and model-driven environments.

Sam was  also  a major  thought-leader  behind  an  Information  and Communications  Technology (ICT)  planning method, associated architecture  practices,  and  governance model  for  which  he and his  team subsequently  received an Australia Day award  in 2005. Key elements of  this were adopted  as  best  practice  by  the  Queensland  Government’s  Office  of  Government  ICT  and  are now mandated across Queensland Government to assess existing ICT investments.

Sam holds a bachelor’s degree in business from the Charles Darwin University, where he majored in information systems and minored in marketing. Additionally, his knowledge of service-oriented architecture  is widely  recognized, and he was recently  invited  to be a contributing author on  the Paul Allen book Service-orientation:  Winning Strategies and Best Practices, which was released in April 2006 by Cambridge University Press.