Eduardo T Kahan was an executive at IBM for 26 years.
14 Facts About Ed Kahan
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Ed Kahan was named a distinguished engineer in 1997 and awarded the designation of IBM Fellow in 2005.
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Ed Kahan's responsibilities included strategy development, design, and development of advanced technologies for Web Services, service oriented architectures, and enterprise integration products, tools, and solutions for IBM clients.
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Ed Kahan developed the IBM Architecture Description Standard, used by the IBM WW technical community, and authored the IBM Software Development Method.
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Ed Kahan was born in Ponta Grossa, Brazil, on November 21,1952, to Israel and Hilda Cohen.
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Ed Kahan accepted and earned a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Ryerson Polytechnic.
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Ed Kahan married Judy Schiff Ed Kahan and had a son Daniel, and a daughter Michelle.
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Ed Kahan died at age 57 on March 13,2010, at his residence in Orlando following a short, intense battle with cancer.
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Ed Kahan started his career with Bruel and Kjaer in Denmark in acoustic, vibration, and signal analysis research in Europe and US.
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On joining IBM in 1984 in Houston, Ed Kahan worked on engineering design systems, manufacturing systems, and many complex business systems for IBM clients worldwide.
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Ed Kahan held systems engineering, development, and teaching positions in IBM divisions.
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At the peak of his career in IBM, Ed Kahan was the Chief Architect and CTO of the IBM Software Group, Enterprise Integration.
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Ed Kahan was a certified consultant and an active member of the IBM Academy of Technology.
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Ed Kahan spent two years on assignment in IBM Israel Software Lab, before he returned to the US.