Hermann has been active in the practical development and implementation of architectures for many years. He gained his experience (40 years +) in various fields of computer science, most recently as an enterprise architect at a major Swiss bank, where he worked in the development and implementation of "service-oriented architecture". After his retirement, he founded a consulting firm to pass on his architectural experience. He is  the author of books on service orientation and numerous articles on business technologies, a frequent speaker at national and international conferences on business architectures, and currently chair of the Guild's Metamodel team.

OMG Standards Organization Task Force Chair

Business Architecture Guild Co-founder 

IBM Corp. Distinguished Engineer

Assistant Professor, University of Houston

Adjunct Professor, Santa Clara University

PhD, Computer Science and Linguistics, The University of Texas at Austin

Lloyd  is a long-time Business Architecture Guild Contributing Member, whose primary expertise is in modeling operational business and designed system behaviors within an architectural context, specializing in the use of BPMN (for processes), CMMN (for cases), and DMN (for decisions).  He has co-authored or reviewed Guild whitepapers on the topic of business architecture and business process alignment, and has presented on this topic at Business Architecture Summits conducted by the Guild.  He serves as the primary representative for the Guild on the OMG's Business Model Integration Task Force and BACM Finalization Task Force, and serves on the Guilds Metamodel Collaboration Team