Contributors to This Site
This site is a collaboration between a group of academics and industry leaders. If you have interest in joing us, please let us know!
Currently, the work is being led by the following team:
Currently, the work is being led by the following team:
Professor Alan W. Brown, Surrey Business School, University of Surrey, UK.
Alan Brown is Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Surrey Business School (SBS) at the University of Surrey. Alan is also a Distinguished Engineer at IBM Rational software. In this role, Alan engaged in strategic discussions in areas such as enterprise solution delivery, software delivery economics, and distributed software and systems delivery. Alan has worked in many strategic roles in the software industry in Europe and the United States, including Chief Technology officer for IBM Rational in Europe and as a senior technical staff member at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon University. Alan has published more than seventy papers, and authored and edited numerous books.
Dr. Jerry Fishenden, Independent Consultant and Policy Advisor.
Jerry is a technologist with over 25 years’ senior experience in the public and private sectors. He has served as Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Chief Technical Officer (CTO) in a variety of organisations, from the NHS, to the Houses of Parliament, to Microsoft. He has also advised the Scottish and UK governments on identity and privacy issues, and served as specialist advisor to the House of Commons for their recent inquiry into Government IT. Jerry is currently working for a range of clients in interim CIO/CTO roles, while also developing mobile apps and writing a monthly column for CIO magazine.
Dr. Mark Thompson, Cambridge Judge Business School, UK.
Mark has eighteen years of information systems and change management consultancy experience, including four years with Andersen Consulting (Accenture). He is currently Strategy Director at Methods Advisory, specialists in digitally-enabled public services, and recently served as a Main Board Member of Intellect, the UK's leading technology trade association. In 2007-2008 Mark was a senior adviser to the UK Shadow Cabinet under George Osborne, for whom he delivered an influential report proposing widespread adoption of open standards in government IT that has since become policy. Mark was credited by Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude as having laid the foundation for the government's current procurement strategy and has subsequently authored, co-authored, or significantly influenced a series of a series of white papers, policy documents, and a parliamentary committee Expert Report. Mark is a regularly invited industry and government speaker, and is also pioneering these ideas in practice through his London-based consultancy Methods, where he is delivering radical transformational organisational blueprints for over 10 pathfinding government organisations.
Professor John A McDermid OBE FREng, Dept. of Computer Science, University of York, UK.
John McDermid has been Professor of Software Engineering at the University of York since 1987. He runs the High Integrity Systems Engineering (HISE) research group in the Department of Computer Science and was Head of the Department from 2006 to 2012. He has undertaken research and consultancy on large-scale complex IT systems, and is responsible for a major research initiative in this area, including an Engineering Doctorate programme run with industry. He was also Technical Director of the UK MoD-funded Software Systems Engineering Initiative. He is author or editor of six books and has published over 370 papers. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2002, and was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2010 New Year’s Honours list. He has recently become Vice President of Engineering and Science at the British Computer Society.
Professor Ian Sommerville, School of Computer Science, University of St. Andrews, UK.
Ian Sommerville is Professor of Software Engineering at the University of St Andrews in Scotland and is the author of a popular student textbook on software engineering, as well as many other books and papers. He is a prominent researcher in the field of systems engineering, system dependability and social informatics, being an early advocate of an interdisciplinary approach to system dependability. From 1986 to 2006, he was Professor of Software Engineering in the Computing Department at the University of Lancaster, and in April 2006 he joined the School of Computer Science at St Andrews University, where he teaches courses in advanced software engineering and critical systems. He is a principal investigator in the UK Initiative in Large-Scale Complex IT Systems.
Professor Rob Witty, Dept. of Informatics and Systems Engineering, Cranfield University, UK.
Professor Rob Witty is an academic in the Department of Informatics and Systems Engineering at Cranfield University, overseeing all major educational, research and consultancy projects. Previously he lead the UK’s air traffic control engineering through the transition from being a public sector organisation to being a commercial organisation; introduced enterprise architecture and capability improvement; responsible for the corporate £1 billion programme to renew the entire UK ATC system. In an earlier role at Marconi, he lead the capability improvement programme for a global software engineering workforce of ten thousand staff.
Alan Brown is Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Surrey Business School (SBS) at the University of Surrey. Alan is also a Distinguished Engineer at IBM Rational software. In this role, Alan engaged in strategic discussions in areas such as enterprise solution delivery, software delivery economics, and distributed software and systems delivery. Alan has worked in many strategic roles in the software industry in Europe and the United States, including Chief Technology officer for IBM Rational in Europe and as a senior technical staff member at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon University. Alan has published more than seventy papers, and authored and edited numerous books.
Dr. Jerry Fishenden, Independent Consultant and Policy Advisor.
Jerry is a technologist with over 25 years’ senior experience in the public and private sectors. He has served as Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Chief Technical Officer (CTO) in a variety of organisations, from the NHS, to the Houses of Parliament, to Microsoft. He has also advised the Scottish and UK governments on identity and privacy issues, and served as specialist advisor to the House of Commons for their recent inquiry into Government IT. Jerry is currently working for a range of clients in interim CIO/CTO roles, while also developing mobile apps and writing a monthly column for CIO magazine.
Dr. Mark Thompson, Cambridge Judge Business School, UK.
Mark has eighteen years of information systems and change management consultancy experience, including four years with Andersen Consulting (Accenture). He is currently Strategy Director at Methods Advisory, specialists in digitally-enabled public services, and recently served as a Main Board Member of Intellect, the UK's leading technology trade association. In 2007-2008 Mark was a senior adviser to the UK Shadow Cabinet under George Osborne, for whom he delivered an influential report proposing widespread adoption of open standards in government IT that has since become policy. Mark was credited by Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude as having laid the foundation for the government's current procurement strategy and has subsequently authored, co-authored, or significantly influenced a series of a series of white papers, policy documents, and a parliamentary committee Expert Report. Mark is a regularly invited industry and government speaker, and is also pioneering these ideas in practice through his London-based consultancy Methods, where he is delivering radical transformational organisational blueprints for over 10 pathfinding government organisations.
Professor John A McDermid OBE FREng, Dept. of Computer Science, University of York, UK.
John McDermid has been Professor of Software Engineering at the University of York since 1987. He runs the High Integrity Systems Engineering (HISE) research group in the Department of Computer Science and was Head of the Department from 2006 to 2012. He has undertaken research and consultancy on large-scale complex IT systems, and is responsible for a major research initiative in this area, including an Engineering Doctorate programme run with industry. He was also Technical Director of the UK MoD-funded Software Systems Engineering Initiative. He is author or editor of six books and has published over 370 papers. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2002, and was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2010 New Year’s Honours list. He has recently become Vice President of Engineering and Science at the British Computer Society.
Professor Ian Sommerville, School of Computer Science, University of St. Andrews, UK.
Ian Sommerville is Professor of Software Engineering at the University of St Andrews in Scotland and is the author of a popular student textbook on software engineering, as well as many other books and papers. He is a prominent researcher in the field of systems engineering, system dependability and social informatics, being an early advocate of an interdisciplinary approach to system dependability. From 1986 to 2006, he was Professor of Software Engineering in the Computing Department at the University of Lancaster, and in April 2006 he joined the School of Computer Science at St Andrews University, where he teaches courses in advanced software engineering and critical systems. He is a principal investigator in the UK Initiative in Large-Scale Complex IT Systems.
Professor Rob Witty, Dept. of Informatics and Systems Engineering, Cranfield University, UK.
Professor Rob Witty is an academic in the Department of Informatics and Systems Engineering at Cranfield University, overseeing all major educational, research and consultancy projects. Previously he lead the UK’s air traffic control engineering through the transition from being a public sector organisation to being a commercial organisation; introduced enterprise architecture and capability improvement; responsible for the corporate £1 billion programme to renew the entire UK ATC system. In an earlier role at Marconi, he lead the capability improvement programme for a global software engineering workforce of ten thousand staff.