Laurie E. is a Enterprise Architect at Fire and Emergency NZ. Colleagues describe her as "Laurie is one of the best Architects that I have had the immense pleasure, working with. Although I have had a relatively short working relationship with him, I have always felt his knowledge on systems architecture is quite profound. He is able to assess a given problem situation by analyzing the Pain Points and bottlenecks pretty quickly and is able to design a robust solution which will potentially take those into account and eradicate them. He is able to analyze a given Problem space from all possible angles with customer focus as his utmost priority. Greefhorst and Proper define Solution Architecture as 'An architecture of a solution, where a solution is a system that offers a coherent set of functionalities to its environment. As such, it concerns those properties of a solution that are necessary and sufficient to meet its essential requirements'. The above definition will aptly apply to Laurie's Solution Design approach with additional emphasis on the long term benefit to the end user consuming the Solution, which makes it an Icing on the Cake for a Business embarking on a major technological revamp or enhancing existing Solutions. I would recommend Laurie any day and would be glad to work with him in the future." and "Laurie is one of the best Enterprise/Technical Architects I have had the pleasure to work with over the years. He is always open mined and happy to rethink a solution if it would improve the security in the solution or neighbouring areas. Martin Forest Security Manager/Architect"