About FEAC™ › Who We Are

Felix A. A. Rausch, Co-Founder and Executive Director of the FEAC™ Institute.

Felix started his career in aerospace developing a quantitative aviation safety model for the C-5A at Lockheed. He was a consultant for Booz Allen Applied Research and Westinghouse doing work for the Navy and DOT. In 1972, he joined the FCC and became an expert in managing large projects in software conversion and systems reengineering that included the first ever successful fixed price large application software conversion at the FCC. In 1979, he was responsible for transitioning ten acres of computing infrastructure, software, and people at the Social Security Administration to a new Data Center, the largest logistics and systems engineering project ever undertaken at the SSA. He did this without interruption of service and completed the project under budget.
Back in Washington, Felix became Assistant Commissioner for Systems Integration at INS. He was the CIO at Interpol and became Deputy CIO at the White House (EOP) for four years. In 1990 he began development of the FAA National Aviation Safety Data Analysis Center (NASDAC), the first Data Warehouse in Government, before moving to Systems Engineering and taking over the missionary task of developing a National Airspace Space Information Architecture. When he left Government Felix became Director for Government Services for an EA Modeling company for 2 years. EA became his love and he and Dr Bellman started the FEAC™ Institute to address the issues of training and Certification in this important emerging discipline.
Felix attended Gymnasium in Germany and has an Applied Math degree from the University of Alabama and an MS in Information Science from Georgia Tech and has done MBA work at Loyola in Baltimore.

Beryl Bellman, PhD, Co-Founder and Academic Director of the FEAC™ Institute

Dr. Bellman is co-founder and Academic Director of the FEAC™ Institute and is also a tenured full Professor of Communication Studies at California State University at Los Angeles. He has been involved in teaching, research; publishing, consulting and project management in the fields of Enterprise Architecture, Knowledge Management, Organizational Communications/Behavior and distributed e-Learning for some forty years, and has an excellent reputation in both academe and professional consulting. He held faculty and research positions at the University of California at San Diego, SUNY Stonybrook, CUNY Graduate Center and California Institute of the Arts, and was Research Director of the Western Behavioral Sciences Institute prior to his current university position. In addition to academic positions he has twenty plus years concurrent consulting experience in both government and the private sectors, and has been a Principal Consultant and Project Manager with three major Enterprise Architecture consulting and tool vendor companies. He has consulted in Enterprise Architecture related programs in the public sector for the DoD, Departments of Agriculture, Forest Service, Energy, Justice/INS and the Whitehouse for the Executive Office of the President as well as was a contract consultant for NCR, AT&T, ASK, RAND and Digital Equipment Corporation - working for their internal and external customers. This included doing EA in the aerospace, financial, banking, pharmaceutical, entertainment and manufacturing sectors. He has published several books and over ninety articles. He is a frequent presenter at national and international professional and academic conferences.

Michael Tiemann, MSSM, Program Director and Senior Faculty

Mike Tiemann is an experienced Enterprise Architect having lead EA Programs and Projects in the government and as a supporting consultant. He is currently the Program Director and Senior Faculty at the FEAC™ Institute. He was a Senior Associate with Booz Allen Hamilton and the EA Practice Manager with AT&T Government Solutions. He had over 31 years distinguished service in the U.S. Federal Government at the Department of Energy (DOE) serving as its Chief Enterprise Architect, the Director of Architecture and Standards and as Associate CIO for Architecture, Standards and Planning within the CIO’s Office.  He was on the Federal CIO Council’s Architecture and Infrastructure Committee and was the founding Chair and later Co-chair of the Federal Architecture Working Group.  Mike has written articles and guidance about and lectured on EA and related topics. He received numerous performance awards and citations, including, Federal Computer Week’s Federal 100 Award, the CIO Council’s Citation and Special Act Awards from the Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Energy.  Mike holds a Bachelors degree in Architecture from Texas A&M University and a Masters of Science in Systems Management from University of Southern California.  He is a graduate of the Federal Executive Institute. He is an Associate Editor of the Enterprise Architecture Journal. He has held both Vice Chair and Chair positions on the Industry Advisory Council’s Enterprise Architecture Shared Interest Group.