Jeff Kenward has been instrumental in several aspects of DTE Energy's smart grid software infrastructure which is now serving the communication needs of over half a million automated meters.  He is responsible for the creation of multiple continuously operating service bus architectures.  Jeff also leads the development of the company’s enterprise semantic model and complex event processing infrastructure.  He’s been a software developer and architect for over 19 years and has been involved in utility industry for over 14.  He’s currently leading DTE Energy’s Enterprise Services Development team and leading the company’s software development mentoring program.