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3rd INTERNATIONAL SOFTWARE QUALITY WEEK EUROPE (QWE'99) 1-5 November 1999, Brussels, Belgium SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES |
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3rd INTERNATIONAL SOFTWARE QUALITY WEEK EUROPE (QWE'99) 1-5 November 1999, Brussels, Belgium SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES |
Updated 12 October 1999.
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T. Ashok is currently the Section Manager of Worldwide Software Test and Analysis Group (STAG) at VeriFone India Private Ltd, a division of Hewlett-Packard. WW:STAG is a large independent test organization in VeriFone/HP responsible for certifying client-server and electronic commerce software. He has been with VeriFone from 1990 and has worked in areas of software development, software quality and training. Prior to VeriFone he was with HP Division of Blue Star and Sunray Computers.
He has won the Excellence-in-Action award and Quality Crusader awards at VeriFone. He has delivered lectures on testing at SPIN-Bangalore, IIT-Madras, Novell, Phillips, HP-ISO, Mastek and conducts classes on software engineering, software testing, design patterns in VeriFone and other companies. His papers on regression testing of C++ classes, system testing classes, etc., have been presented at Quality Week '96 and '97, QAI's Intl SEPG Conference, IETE National Conference, NCOOT 97.
He holds a Bachelor's degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Anna University, Guindy, Madras and is currently pursuing his Master's degree in Computer Science at Illinois Institute of Technology. His interests are in areas of software patterns, test design, test automation, object technology process engineering and measurement.
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He has won the Excellence-in-Action award and Quality Crusader awards at VeriFone. He has delivered lectures on testing at SPIN-Bangalore, IIT-Madras, Novell, Phillips, HP-ISO, Mastek and conducts classes on software engineering, software testing, design patterns in VeriFone and other companies. His papers on regression testing of C++ classes, system testing classes, etc., have been presented at Quality Week '96 and '97, QAI's Intl SEPG Conference, IETE National Conference, NCOOT 97.
He holds a Bachelor's degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Anna University, Guindy, Madras and is currently pursuing his Master's degree in Computer Science at Illinois Institute of Technology. His interests are in areas of software patterns, test design, test automation, object technology process engineering and measurement. metrics.
She is currently responsible for the Current Product Engineering in VeriFone India Ltd., a division of Hewlett Packard. Current Product Engineering is a group responsible for maintaining the E-Commerce and client server products that have been released by the organization. Prior to VeriFone, she has worked with Siemens Information Systems Divisions and Siemens Ltd. in Germany and India. She has worked in the areas of software development, testing and quality.
She has a Masters in Computer Applications from Delhi University, India. She has done her Bachelors of Science in Mathematics from Delhi University, India. Her interests are in the areas of process improvements, software engineering and project management.
She has a Bachelor's degree in Statistics. Her interests are in the areas of process improvements, software engineering and data analysis.
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After a technical study Rob is working 20 years in the IT-industry, following the path from programmer until consultant. He works in the field of testing since 1986 where he started developing test automation. Later Rob changed to the methodology of testing. He is now part-time working on test subjects in the R&D department of IQUIP, working in the field as an international test consultant (a.o. Y2K) and teaching TMap® in the Netherlands and in Belgium.
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At Speedware Corporation, Mr. Baumann was the primary responsible for the testing of an Object Class Library, a 4GL Web Development tool, as well as several Case Tools for Visual Basic and 4GL. By use of Test automation he created several test suites to cover the above-mentioned products. He recently has been working at iMG in managing and automating the testing process of a complex, multi-faceted IVR Telephony/Client Server project.
Mr. Baumann attended Concordia University's Bachelor of Commerce Program, as well as graduated from John Abbot College's Programmer/Analyst program. He is currently pursuing certification with the Quality Assurance Institute as well as his Masters of Business Administration.
Rex Black has spent sixteen years in the computer industry, with thirteen years in testing and quality assurance. He is the President and Principal Consultant of Rex Black Consulting Services, Inc., an international software and hardware testing and quality assurance consultancy (www.rexblackconsulting.com). His clients include Dell, SunSoft, Hitachi, Motorola, Pacific Bell, IMG, Renaissance Worldwide, DataRace, Omegabyte, Strategic Forecasting, and Clarion. He is currently working on a book for Microsoft Press to be published in June called Managing the Testing Process. Mr. Black holds a BS Degree in Computer Science and Engineering from UCLA, and belongs to the Association for Computer Machinery and the American Society for Quality.
Before entering the software industry, he worked in nuclear power plants automation in Romania (1989-1990) as well as Locomotive drives automation in Holland (Netherlands) (1990-1993). Here he decided to enter the computer industry as Windows System Administrator in the Netherlands from 1991 to 1993. Mr. Teodorescu then consulted as a Database developer from 1993 to 1996 after which he became a Programming Instructor in Montreal. It was at this point that he pursued his career as a Software Test Analyst with Speedware Corporation in Montreal. He is currently working as a consultant with Interactive Media Group with the Test Team.
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Walter Baziuk earned a BASc. degree in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo in 1983 and Professional Engineering certification in 1986. The last 15 years he has worked at Mitel, BNR, Nortel and recently Nortel Networks. During this period, Walter has worked in different positions ranging from design through to project office on five complete end-to-end lifecycles on released products.
This experience has led Walter to his current position where he works in a corporate group that proactively engages and works with all of Nortel's Business Units to enhance their products' reliability and quality, time to market and customers' satisfaction.
Recently, Walter was on the Advisory Board as well as the Technology Track Chair for QW'99 (12th International Software Quality Week) San Jose, USA. Last fall, Walter was an invited dinner speaker and the Tools & Exhibition chair for ISSRE'98 (9th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering) in Paderborn, Germany. Walter was the Program Chair for SRE98 (Software Reliability Engineering), a joint Nortel & AT&T sponsored conference in Ottawa, Canada.
(baziuk@nortelnetworks.com)
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Gualtiero Bazzana is Partner and Managing Director of ONION S.p.A., an Italian SME specialised in the fields of sw communications, technologies, consulting (for more details please refer to the home page, URL: http://net.onion.it/).
He matured and exploited know-how in conducting various medium sized and large projects for several companies in various application domains (telecommunications, data processing, MIS, process control, ecc.), covering topics like: sw development and testing, testing methods and tools, quality planning, test planning, reliability analysis, software product evaluation, process assessment and improvement, definition of quality systems in accordance to ISO 9001 and 9000/3, reviews and inspections, FDA computer system validation and so forth. He has matured significant technical experiences especially in the telecommunications domain (notably: switching systems and GSM mobile radio systems) in CIM and in networking, including Internet/ Intranet/ Extranet services and solutions.
His research activity spanned in various fields of software engineering, ranging from Petri Nets to development methodologies, functional and structural test coverage, metrics and related tools, CAST, reliability evaluation, software development process evaluation and improvement, management by metrics, software product quality evaluation, security, technology transfer and total quality management techniques. He has acted as Project Leader of several European Projects within the ESPRIT initiative.
He is member of the Advisory Committee of the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) and is author of over 50 publications at international conferences/ referred journals.
He can be contacted by e-mail at: gb@onion.it.
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He matured and exploited know-how in conducting various medium sized and large projects for several companies in various application domains (telecommunications, data processing, MIS, process control, ecc.), covering topics like: sw development and testing, testing methods and tools, quality planning, test planning, reliability analysis, software product evaluation, process assessment and improvement, definition of quality systems in accordance to ISO 9001 and 9000/3, reviews and inspections, FDA computer system validation and so forth. He has matured significant technical experiences especially in the telecommunications domain (notably: switching systems and GSM mobile radio systems) in CIM and in networking, including Internet/ Intranet/ Extranet services and solutions.
His research activity spanned in various fields of software engineering, ranging from Petri Nets to development methodologies, functional and structural test coverage, metrics and related tools, CAST, reliability evaluation, software development process evaluation and improvement, management by metrics, software product quality evaluation, security, technology transfer and total quality management techniques. He has acted as Project Leader of several European Projects within the ESPRIT initiative.
He is member of the Advisory Committee of the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) and is author of over 50 publications at international conferences/ referred journals.
He can be contacted by e-mail at: gb@onion.it.
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William G. Bently is a software developer and software testing researcher. As a practitioner, he has most recently worked for companies such as the Bayer Corporation and the Upjohn Company developing high reliability software for biomedical applications. As a researcher, he has written several papers on a novel theoretical approach to software testing: the theory of dynamic information flow testing (Cd testing). He is currently investigating the application of this theory to the testing of Java objects and components (JavaBeans). William has served on the Quality Week Board of Advisors since 1992. He has a B.A. in Mathematics from Oberlin College and an M.S. in Biology from Ball State University.
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Robert V. Binder has over 22 years of software development experience. He is President of RBSC Corporation, providing consulting and training in software engineering and software process improvement since 1984. He is author of "Application Debugging" (Prentice-Hall, 1985). "Testing Object-Oriented Systems" is under contract with Addison-Wesley. He writes a regular column on testing for "Object" magazine. His articles have appeared in American Programmer, Communications of the ACM, Computerworld, CASE Outlook, CASE Trends, Database Programming and Design, IEEE Computer, Journal of Knowledge Engineering, Journal of Software Testing, Verification, and Reliability, and Software Development. He is the Chair of a newly formed study group to develop an IEEE standard for built-in test for object-oriented software. Mr. Binder has an MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and a BA and MBA from the University of Chicago. He is an IEEE Senior Member, a member of the ACM, and holds the CDP and CCP.
(Click here for Bob Binders's Home Page)
(rbinder@rbsc.com)
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Mr. Nick Borelli is currently a Group Test Manager at Microsoft Corporation and is responsible for the World-Wide releases of the award-winning application, Microsoft Word. Nick has over 15 years experience in both Software Testing and Development and has worked in both small start-ups such as Pensoft, Go and EO, as well as working at Triad Systems, Apple and Software Publishing Corporation.
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Bart studied physics in Utrecht in the Netherlands. He started his career in IT at Philips Telecommunications & Data Systems, where he gained experience in programming, testing and quality assurance. Five years later he joined the software company IQUIP Informatica B.V. where he fulfilled assignments ranging from test consultancy to organising and managing large test projects. He aided in developing the structured test approach approach TMap®, a de facto standard in the Benelux, and has implemented this in numerous organisations which have profited from his now more than 13 years testing experience.
At this moment he is a member of the R&D department of IQUIP Software Control Testen where he works closely together with Martin Pol. In this function he keeps track of current developments and trends in the testing world and develops matching test approaches, for instance on test automation and testing in RAD environments.
Bart is frequently giving courses in the Benelux on testing and he is regularly invited to make presentations on national and international seminars, including the last two EuroSTAR conferences, Unicom, FESMA, NOVI, EPIC, etc.
(broekmba@iquip.nl)
Christiaan Hoos works at IQUIP Informatica BV since 1993 where he conducts assignments in many organisations in various aspects of testing, especially in setting up test organisations and improving their test processes. Together with Bart Broekman he developed an approach for the automation of the test process, called TAKT. Currently he is manager in the TMap® Consultancy department and responsible for implementing this approach in many organisations. Christiaan is frequently asked for lecturing on testing and making presentations on international conferences.
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Luigi Buglione is Software Process Engineer at the European Software Institute (ESI) in Bilbao, Spain. His research interests are in software measurement, software quality and process improvement, multidimensional performance models and design of GUIs. He developed and is currently part of ESPRIT and Basque Government projects on metric programs, EFQM models, the Balanced IT Scorecard and QFD for software. He received a Ph.D in Management Information Systems from the University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy and a degree in Economics from the same University. He is also Research Associate at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Canada.
Elixabete Ostolaza is Project Leader at the European Software Institute since March 1998. She is currently leader of two projects related with ISO, SPICE and EFQM models.
Elixabete Ostolaza was previously granted by the Basque Government and the European Social Fund taking part in several ESPRIT projects related with Artificial Intelligence, afterwards she was Project Manager in the Information System for Alliances and Subsidiaries Department of Telefónica, S.A., afterwards she has been Manager of Development and Maintenance of Information Systems in Directorate General XVI of the European Commission.
Elixabete Ostolaza received her BS degree in computer science from the University of the Basque Country and her Master degree in AI from the University of Aberdeen.
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Marcelo Dalceggio is the Chief of the Quality Assurance Department at Banco Rio de la Plata SA in Argentina. He's responsible for the development and implementation of defect prevention, improvement opportunities and quality assurance activities. Previously he was the Chief of the Development Department at DAZ Consulting, responsible for software development. Mr. Dalceggio attended the Universidad Tecnologica Nacional, where he earned a degree in Information Systems Engineer, and the Universidad CAECE, where he earned a postgraduate degree as a Software Engineering Specialist. At Universidad Tecnologica Nacional, he has worked since 1991 as Professor of Industrial Information Technology and Professor of Software Engineering Fundamentals.
Alvaro Ruiz de Mendarozqueta is presently the Software Engineering Manager at Banco Rio de la Plata SA, responsible for Quality Assurance, Standards and Methods, and tools for Software Engineering. Previously he worked as Chief of Methods Department at Sistematica SAA (Banco Quilmes), where he was responsible for Standards and Methods and Tools for Software Engineering, and as Partner and Chief Scientist at task s.r.l Ingenieria de Software, where he was responsible for Software Development. He attended the Universidad Nacional de Rosario where he earned a degree in Mechanical Engineering, Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires, where he earned a postgraduate degree as a Railway Engineering Specialist, and Universidad CAECE, where he earned an MS in Software Engineering.
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Gianni Rumi graduated in Computer Science at the University of Milan in 1990. He is, since May 1995, Partner and responsible for the Consulting/ERP area of ONION S.p.A. ( http://net.onion.it/ for details). His main activities concern consultancy in software engineering, BPR activities, Internet/Intranet services for industrial companies and research in the field of software quality.
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Born on June 06, 1954, at Sagar, Karnataka, Mr. K. Dinesh did his Post Graduation in Mathematics from Bangalore University. From 1976 he worked as Analyst/Programmer for 4 years in MIS department of NGEF Ltd., an electrical equipments manufacturer with collaboration from AEG, West Germany. He worked for 1 1/2 years with Patni Computer Systems Pvt. Ltd. as part of the software group.
In 1981 he co-founded Infosys along with Mr. N R Narayana Murthy and other colleagues. From 1981 to 1988 he was in the USA assisting and managing efforts of Infosys Consultants Pvt. Ltd. in the areas of Software Project Management, primarily in the distribution industry for consumer durables and soft goods. He has architected a large package DMAP (Distribution Management Application Package) which runs on AS/400 platform and has been installed at Reebok France, Reebok UK and Reebok International, UK.
Based in Bangalore since 1991, he was responsible for software development activities for the world-wide operation of Infosys Technologies Limited. He currently looks after Quality, Productivity and IS.
Pankaj Jalote received his B.Tech. from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 1980, his M.S. from Pennsylvania State University, University park in 1982, and Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1985. From 1985 to 1989 he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park. Since 1989 he has been at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, where he is a Professor and Head in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. From 1996 to 1998 he was a Vice President at Infosys Technologies Ltd., Bangalore.
Dr. Jalote's main areas of interest are software engineering, fault tolerant computing and distributed systems. He is the author of the popular software engineering text - "An Integrated Approach to Software Engineering", published by Springer Verlag, and "Fault Tolerance in Distributed Systems", published by Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 1994. Another book by him will soon be published by Addison Wesley, entitled "CMM in Practice: Processes for executing Software Projects at Infosys". He has authored about 50 research articles published in various International journals and conferences. He is a senior member of IEEE.
M.R. Bhashyam is a Senior Manager in Infosys & has been coordinating process improvement initiatives since 1995. Prior to joining Infosys, he was with the defense research development establishment for about seven years where he was responsible for the IV&V and Verification Validation activities for highly sophisticated software intensive systems in a large project. In addition he has extensive experience in hardware quality assurance of sophisticated aeronautical, electronic & electrical systems & components.
Mr. Bhashyam has a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering. He has authored/co-authored several papers published in national journals. His fields of interest include application of SPC to software & software metrics.
S. Raghavan received his B.E. degree in Electrical from Osmania University, Hyderabad in 1983.
He has over 12 years of experience in software quality. He has been in the Quality Department of Infosys Technologies Limited since October 1995 and has been heading the department from April 1999. He is also a member of the Management Council of Infosys.
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Misha Dorman joined IPL in 1991 on graduating with a degree in Mathematics from Manchester University. Since then, he has worked as a designer on a number of projects, being particularly closely involved in the specification, development and support of IPL's software testing products for C, C++ and Ada. He has also assisted customers with defining and implementing testing strategies at all levels, from unit to acceptance testing. Misha has an in depth knowledge of the intricacies of C++ software development, and their effect on testing and testability. Over the past four years, Misha has been actively developing improved techniques for the testing of C++ software, and leading the requirements definition and development of tools to support those techniques.
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Mr. Drake is a software and systems quality specialist and management and information technology consultant for Coastal Research & Technology, Inc. in the United States. He currently leads and manages a U.S. government agency-level Software Engineering Knowledge Based Center's software quality engineering initiative. As part of an industry and government outreach/partnership program, he holds frequent seminars and tutorials covering code analysis, software metrics, OO analysis for C++ and Java, coding practice, testing, best current practices in software development, the business case for software engineering, software quality engineering, project management, organizational dynamics and change management, and the people side of information technology.
Mr. Drake has personally measured and analyzed over 125,000,000 lines of Java, C++, C, Ada, Fortran, Pascal, and Assembler code plus others. He supports the "weak-link" theory of software development and the use of software entropy principles as a risk identifier for generating higher quality software-based information technology systems.
He is the principal author of a chapter on "Metrics Used for Object-Oriented Software Quality" for a CRC Press Object Technology Handbook published in December of 1998. In addition, Mr. Drake is the author of a theme article entitled: "Measuring Software Quality: A Case Study" published in the November 1996 issue of IEEE Computer.
Mr. Drake is listed with the International Who's Who for Information Technology for 1999, is a member of IEEE and an affiliate member of the IEEE Computer Society. He is also a Certified Software Test Engineer (CSTE) from the Quality Assurance Institute (QAI). He considers himself a quality advocate and a software archaeologist.
(tom.drake@coastalresearch.com)
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Prior to McCabe, he spent a number of years in the Air Traffic Control industry, having responsibilities for all aspects of the software development lifecycle.
He graduated from UMIST in 1991 with an MEng in Microelectronic Systems Engineering.
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Martín González R. obtained his degree in Computer Science at the University of Oviedo in 1996. His research interests are in cognitive technology, the hypermedia development metaphor and user interface manager systems. In 1998 he designed a cognitive interface for the hypermedia development process of LEIA, a tool for developing distributed hypermedia components, as part of the ESPRIT JEDI (Java Enabled Database over Internet). Actually, he is working on the design of a separable UIMS for OVIEDO3 project, the development of an object oriented integral system.
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Mats Grindal born in 1966 received his MSC in Computer Software and Engineering in 1992 from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and has since then worked in the testing field. First with formal verification of cache coherence protocols and during the last five years as a test consultant with Enea Data AB. His assignments include testing of telecommunication applications, test configuration management, test method improvements and system test project management with various customers in the Stockholm area. Mats is also teaching a three day course in testing computer software and is frequently used as lecturer in seminars and workshops about testing. During 1997 he was also a board member of SAST Swedish Association of Software Testing. His testing interests include all areas from process improvement and quality issues via project management to specific testing techniques.
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Pedro Gutierrez is project leader at the European Software Institute(ESI) and is actively working in:
Master in Computer Science from Deusto university in Bilbao, is working at ESI since 1996.
- Software process assessment and improvement
- SPI knowledge repositories
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His research interests comprise all major areas of hard real-time systems with special emphasis on safety licensing. He is a founder and European editor-in-chief of Real-Time Systems, member of editorial boards of 4 further journals, co-director of the 1992 NATO Advanced Study Institute on Real-Time Computing, has authored 7 books and 1 CD-ROM, has edited 11 books, has written some 240 refereed book chapters, journal publications and conference contributions, has given some 60 guest lectures, and is active in various professional organisations and technical committees as well as involved in the programme committees of some 100 conferences.
His main research interests are related to embedded real-time control systems, their hardware and system architectures, operating systems, programming languages as well as application design techniques and methodologies for them.
Dr. Colnaric has authored or co-authored some 50 journals and conference papers and book chapters, mostly in the real-time area. He is a member of the IEEE Computer Society and its TCs on Real-Time Systems and Complexity in Computing. He is also a member of IFAC Technical Committee on Real-Time Software Engineering.
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Hans-Ludwig Hausen holds degrees on Electrical Engineering and on Computer Science from the technical University of Berlin and is currently a Senior Researcher at GMD German National Research Center for Information Technology. In the last 20 years he got experience as project manager, consultant and lecturer on CASE, Quality Engineering, Software Process Programming, and on Conformance Testing in national and international projects. Based on that experience he has written more than 60 publications on software engineering environments, software quality and productivity, process engineering and on CSCW for software projects. H. is a member of programme committees of IEEE and ACM special interests groups, a contributor to international standardization bodies, including ISO and IEEE, and an expert advisor to national and European government.
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Michael Jacobsen-Rey is the Managing Director of Reasoning Software GmbH, a fully owned subsidiary of Reasoning, Inc., serving Central Europe with the consultancy services related to Inspector Plus, Y2K IV&V, and Software Transformations.
Before joining Reasoning Software GmbH as MD in October 1997, Mr. Jacobsen-Rey has served amongst other positions as Business Development Manager for TUEV Rheinland in Cologne, VP Corporate Marketing for Germany's Software AG, Manager European Development and Systems QA Manager for Tandem Computers Inc. in Cupertino, Ca.
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Prior to joining Mercury Interactive in January 1999, Elie Kanaan was Business Development Director for Sybase Europe, Middle East and Africa. From '90 to '95 he held senior product marketing and sales positions with Sybase France, having started his career in 1988, in the Advanced Services Group at Oracle Corp., USA. He has a Diplome d'ingenieur de l'Ecole Centrale de Paris and an MS in Computer Science from Stanford University.
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Graduated in 1987 in Informatica at the University of Amsterdam, Tim Koomen is since 1991 a professional tester. He participated in several testing projects for clients of IQUIP Informatica in the Netherlands, a company with over 300 dedicated testers and owner of the structured testing approach TMap®. Tim is a member of the R&D-team, covering issues like Y2K, testfactories, developers' tests and Test Process Improvement (TPI). Currently he is advising organisations how to improve their testing processes. He is the co-author of the TPI-book (Martin Pol is the other co-author), translated in Dutch, English and German, and regularly presents at conferences (Eurostar '97: presentation TPI, Eurostar '98: track presentation TPI) and training sessions throughout Europe.
(koomenti@iquip.nl)
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Rob Kuijt is with IQUIP Informatica in the Netherlands. He is responsible for the Test and Quality Management of the design, development and implementation phase of New Media Projects (Internet, Knowledge Management, etc..). His experience with structured testing and quality control consists of more than 10 years in all of its facets: strategy, co-ordination, preparation, realisation, consultancy and innovation. After years of lecturing and presenting the structured test approach to quality control and test-professionals, the focus has shifted in the last two years to the development process itself in order to improve the quality of the products instead of mainly detecting the problems.
(kuijtrob@iquip.nl)
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(koomenti@iquip.nl)
Since 1989, Ruud Teunissen is employed in the testing world. He has been involved in a large number of ICT projects and has performed several functions within the testing organization: tester, test specialist, test advisor, test manager, etc. Based on his experience, Ruud participated in the development of the structured testing methodology TMap® and is co-author of several books on structured testing. The last years Ruud is involved in implementing structured testing within organizations on the Belgian and Dutch market. At this moment Ruud is working in Belgium for Gitek n.v. as Manager Testen. In Belgium Ruud is frequently speaking on conferences organized by the IIR (Institute for International Research), the SAI (Study Centre for Automated Information processing), etcetera.
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Larry Apfelbaum is the general manager of Teradyne's Software and Systems Test Division. Larry has authored papers for both IEEE and industry publications and conferences on software testing, automated program generation, artificial intelligence and diagnostics. He has been with Teradyne since 1973 and has been involved in the development and support of automatic test systems and automated test generation solutions. Prior to the TestMaster product group, he managed product teams developing a computer aided engineering tool suite focused on hardware design and test. Mr. Apfelbaum holds a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering (1973) and a Master's Degree in Computer Science (1973) from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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Axel Lankenau studied Computer Science at Bremen University (Germany). His M.Sc. thesis is about the design of an autonomous wheelchair as a safe system. As research assistant and PhD student at the Bremen Institute of Safe Systems (BISS), he is currently working in the Priority Program "Spatial Cognition" of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). Primarily, he is interested in the application of formal methods to the design of service robotic systems. Besides, Mr. Lankenau works on local navigation strategies for mobile systems. He is involved in the Bremen Autonomous Wheelchair project which aims at the development of an assisting device for handicapped and elder people.
Oliver Meyer is a research assistant and PhD student at the Bremen University (Germany). His main research interest is the formal specification based test automation for embedded real-time systems. After receiving his M.Sc. degree in computer science in 1997 he joined the Bremen Institute of Safe Systems (BISS). His latest industrial projects include the automated testing of avionics and space systems. In cooperation with the Verified Systems International GmbH he has been involved in the development of the hardware-in-the-loop test tool RT-Tester. Currently he is working on hierarchical decomposition methods for the RT-Tester test specification language with respect to timing and action abstraction.
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Minsheng Liu received the PhD in applied Physics at the University of Frankfurt am Main in 1998. He is working as a software developer at Huengsberg AG. His main interests are: object-oriented programming with JAVA, UML, CASE Tool and the application for software development process.
Arthur Gorges is Chief Operating Officer and Research & Development at Huengsberg AG. Since 1983 he has been working on computer technology and electronic file transfer. His main areas of interest: project management of software development and the application of ISDN, internet technology for electronic file transfer in automative industry.
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Hanna Luden studied computer science at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, and at the University of Amsterdam.
Hanna Luden began her career as a software developer, and manager of software projects. She also worked as a research associate for the research institute of the Dutch Telecommunications company, and as a researcher-lecturer at the Free University of Amsterdam. She was involved in, and often led different research and realisation initiatives in the areas of software engineering, requirements engineering, reliability and metrics, quality-system implementation and software process improvement initiatives in different kinds of (software) development and research organisations. She also carried out audits and assessments, and does consultancy work for both software development organisations and software clients.
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Dr. Benedikt Lutz studied Applied Linguistics in Vienna (special fields of interest: Text accessibility, writing/comprehension of technical documentation, usability engineering, software engineering). He has been working at Siemens AG Austria, Program and Systems Engineering for many years. He organized the revision and putting into the intranet of the PSE-specific Software Engineering Method (SEM). Now he works as a Quality Manager of the Business Unit Banking/Insurance/Retail of PSE.
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Pietro Moro, graduated in Mechanical Engineering at the Politecnico of Milano. He participated in the development of specialised CAD programs for different applications. He has been one of the founders of Optec srl (Rho, Italy), where he is responsible for the software department and for the development of an optical-CAD program. Presently he manages the Quality System in Optec, and the related improvement programs, including the DOCPROVE project. He is a member of AICQ.
Antonio Cicu, master in Electronic Engineering, made the main steps of his career in Software Quality Assurance. He managed the definition process and operational application of organizational, methodological, and quality standards of the Software Engineering Division at the Research & Development Laboratories of Bull Italia, in Pregnana Milanese (Milano, Italy). He has been a reviewer in the ESPRIT projects SCOPE and METKIT, regarding the definition of norms for software products quality evaluation, and the development of education products for teaching software metrics. Member of AICQ, UNINFO, IEEE, and participant to the SPICE project, presently he provides consultancy and education services for software process improvement, as President of MetriQs Srl and Technical Director of the QualityLab Consortium.
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I am currently the project manager of AutoCal for Pi Technology. I have a Bsc (Hons) in Applicable Mathematics and Computing Science and a Msc in Software Engineering. Before working at Pi I held various development, management and sales related jobs in the GIS (Geographical Information Systems) area of the software market. AutoCal is used by Pi's clients to calibrate engine controllers memory, diagnose faults and record engine events. It has been constructed using the latest Microsoft Window based technology namely COM (Component Object Model) and is used in fields as diverse as Formula One through to diesel trucks. The application is highly configurable so quality testing is vital for customer satisfaction. The PIVOT project has been used to understand Pi can improve our testing process. Whilst not battling against Microsoft I am a keen Scuba Diver, Skier and Traveller, though all these are currently on hold due to the recent birth of my son Max.
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The authors work at the Institute of Flight Mechanics at the German Aerospace Research Center. They have several years of theoretical and practical experience with embedded systems. Applications cover real-time aerospace data acquisition, hardware-in-the-loop simulation, machine vision, 3D-visualization, and fault tolerant systems. For all of these systems parallel processor architectures were used. With the help of the Process Improvement Experiment 27751 ICARUS, the authors are currently improving their software development process.
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Jens Pas is in the business of Software Testing as a consultant since 1991. Together with the founder Peter Sterck, he is in charge of the company ps_testware, specialised in providing services and consultancy in Software Testing. Jens Pas has developed the ps_testware testing methodology and a set of unique metrics that allow a complete management of the testing process. He has also development Test Assessment programs and has conducted them at various sites in larger IT environments. He published various articles regarding the methodology of Software Testing and is the author of the textbook that accompanies the course "Introduction to Structured Software Testing". He is a speaker on many Software Engineering and Quality Conferences (Eurostar 98, Quality Week Europe, Fesma, Software Automation, Novi, Technological Institute of the Royal Society of Belgian Civil Engineers). Jens Pas is an engineer and holds an Executive International Master in Business Administration degree.
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Geert Pinxten is the business of Structured Software Testing as a consultant since 1997. As a Development Co-ordinator, he currently is a member of the extended management team of ps_testware, which is specialised in providing services and consultancy in Software Testing. He is the founder of the ps_testware Institute, the knowledge centre of ps_testware. Within this framework, he is the organiser of Testing Hill forum, a discussion forum for experienced testers covering practical issues related to testing. As a Development Co-ordinator he was responsible for the development of a modular training package regarding Structured Software Testing. He is also the author of the textbook accompanying the basic methodology training at ps_testware.
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Martin Pol, with more than 25 years experience in the information business, has worked at IQUIP Informatica since 1991, within the dedicated testing unit TMap® Consultancy with more than 250 specialized testers. Since 1997 Martin Pol's services are also available in Belgium. With exceptional insight and experience in practical testing issues, Martin is a highly regarded presenter at conferences and training sessions throughout Europe and in the USA. He was involved in the development of the structured testing approach, TMap®. Under his management, TMap® became the Dutch testing standard. Now the approach is used in more than 200 companies in the Benelux and other parts of Europe. Martin Pol is the co-author of three (Dutch) books on TMap®. The book "Test Process Improvement, a Way to Stepwise Improvement of Testing" was published in April 1998. (Authors: Martin Pol and Tim Koomen). There are plans (and interested publishers) for an English version.
Martin Pol was Programme Chair of the EuroSTAR conference in 1996 and 1997 and is chairman of the Dutch Special Interest Group in Software Testing, TestNet. Recently he received the "European Testing Excellence Award" for his contribution to the field of testing across Europe.
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David has been public speaking, teaching and lecturing over the last 18 years in various sectors of industry, and for the Manchester Metropolitan University in England and La Salle University in America.
He also teaches monthly practical courses covering test analysis, test project management, and has designed a course to introduce testing to new people in the IT industry. He coaches testers on projects across the UK, helping them to improve the work they produce and project standards. He has a teaching and coaching style which make complex and technical issues easy to understand.
David also does a lot of work advising organisations on the best way for them to approach their testing and resolve issues they have with their current approach or methods. He is an ISO 9000 trained auditor and specialises in auditing test projects.
David has worked in many different industry sectors either employed or voluntary including insurance and financial services, public relations, IT, government and the charitable sector. This gives him a wealth of practical experience from which to draw. He travels extensively across Europe and America
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I started by doing a year of machine health monitoring (vibration analysis) on a Uranium mine in Namibia. Here I made the move into IT where I wrote software for a few years before getting involved in systems analysis and design. Two exciting approaches to IT caught my imagination, Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) and Joint Application Development. I started using data models and data flow models as vehicles to document user requirements in sessions which I facilitated.
Later I moved to Cape Town where I spent time in the Oil Industry doing Data Management, Information Architecture Project Management and finally moved into Quality Management. I also used facilitation as an approach to manage information and people in all these disciplines.
I am currently working as a Software Process Improvement consultant for a large Sanlam Personal Finance, part of Sanlam Financial Services Group. Here I focus on Software Quality and the Organisational Development processes necessary to implement Software Process Improvement.
I live in Somerset West with my wife and three children and spend as much time as possible building rock walls or painting in watercolour.
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Steve Rabin is Chief Technologist at Interworld Corp. a New York firm offering a variety of electronic commerce application technology solutions. He specializes in emerging technologies in the areas of communications, distributed processing, object/component based development and Internet enabled Enterprise architectures.
His prior experience includes being Chief Technologist at Logility, Inc., where he worked on the development of the first production based, web enabled worldwide eCommerce based Supply Chain Planning System. This application won the IEC Gartner Electronic Commerce award. Prior to that he founded Optimized Planning Systems, an application development firm specializing in manufacturing and automation related software operating in a variety of environments. Previously he was also Director, International Systems at Pfizer Inc., a Fortune 500 pharmaceutical firm.
He is a certified CDP and has published articles in Computer Language, Data Based Advisor, Systems Development as well as authoring the "Mission Critical Views" column in Application Development Trends magazine. Recent speaking engagements include Internet Expo, Software Development, Object World, The ERP Summit and eCommerce Expo. He sits on the advisory committee or chairs Object World, Internet Expo and eCommerce Expo.
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Suzanne is co-author of Mastering the Requirements Process (Addison-Wesley 1999), a book that provides guidance on finding requirements and writing them so that they can be understood by all the stakeholders.
Suzanne is a principal of The Atlantic Systems Guild, a systems think tank. She has more than 30 years experience in systems specification and building. Her courses on requirements, systems analysis, design and problem solving are well known for their innovative workshops and business games.
Suzanne has varied experience as a manager, programmer, analyst, and designer. Since 1978, she has consulted, done research and taught in Europe, Australia, the Far East and the United States. She specializes in helping organizations to adapt modern systems development techniques to fit specific projects.
Current work includes research and consulting on patterns and the specification and reuse of requirements and techniques for assessing requirements specifications. The product of this research is Volere, a complete requirements process and template for assessing requirements quality, and for specifying business requirements.
Apart from her books, Suzanne is author of many papers on systems engineering. She is a member of IEEE and the Australian Computer and is Roving Ambassador for the British Computer Society's Reuse Group.
(The Atlantic Systems Guild Website)
(Suzanne_Robertson@compuserve.com)
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Andreas Rudolf is a certified consultant with IBM Application Development Effectiveness Practice. He specializes in test concepts and strategies to improve software quality. Mr. Rudolf has over 10 years experience in workflow application development and testing. He has worked in a variety of industries, including telecommunication, banking, and insurance. Mr. Rudolf has written a concept for testing the whole software portfolio for a large bank, for year 2000 compliance. He built up and lead a team of 20 people dedicated to this project. He currently consults clients about Y2k testing in the financial services and automobile industry across Europe. Mr. Rudolf was co-author of the IBM red book "Cooperative processing in an object oriented environment" and was speaker at various international conferences regarding test and quality assurance. Mr. Rudolf attended the School of Engineering in Moedling, Austria, where he earned a bachelors degree in Telecommunication and Electronics.
Mr. Pirker has 5 years experience in executing, developing and improving tests at IBM, and worked some years for different public institutions and software companies in application development during study. Within IBM, he was tester and system specialist for a workflow product, test leader for a business application and now he is a test consultant, particularly for Y2K and EURO problems. From the middle of 1997, Mr. Pirker has been responsible for the conceptual and practical test process of the Year 2000 test at a large bank, and is leading a test-team of about 20 testers dedicated to this project. Over 140 major applications bundles had been tested by the end of 1998. He is currently acting as test consultant for Y2K testing also for other projects in the insurance and transport industry. Mr. Pirker studied computer science with economics in Vienna, Austria and, during this study, he specialized in software test concepts and performance testing. Prior presented papers, press articles, and interviews given by Rudolf/Pirker can be found at: http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Strasse/7559/.
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Johannes Ryser received his MS in computer science and economics (lic. oec. publ.) from the University of Zurich, Switzerland, in 1996. He is currently a PhD student at the University of Zurich. His research interests include requirements engineering, scenario-based RE, validation and verification and testing of software systems in general.
Martin Glinz received a diploma in mathematics 1977 and a Dr. rer. nat. in computer science 1983, both from Aachen Technical University, Germany. From 1983 to 1993, he was with BBC/ABB in Baden, Switzerland. There, he was active in research, development, training, and consulting in the field of software engineering. His work was focussed especially on methods and tools for specification and design of systems. Additionally, he was a lecturer in computer science at ETH Zurich and at the University of Basel for several years. Since 1993, he is a professor of computer science at the University of Zurich. His research interests are methods and tools for requirements modeling.
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Robert Sabourin has been involved in all aspects of development, testing and management of software engineering projects since graduating from McGill University in 1982. He is the Director of Research and Development at Purkinje Inc, a Montreal based international firm specialized in developing medical software. Robert was the Manager of Software Development at Alis Technologies for over ten years. He has built several successful software development teams and champions the implementation of "light effective process" to achieve excellence in delivering timely commercial quality software solutions.
Robert is a frequent guest lecturer at McGill University where he relates theoretical aspects of Software Engineering to real world examples and demonstrations.
Most recently Robert has completed a short book illustrated by his daughter Catherine. "I Am a Bug" ISBN 0-9685774-0-7 uses the style of a children's book to explain elements of the software development process in a fun easy to read format. Robert has been the author of several papers and presentations relating to software development at a number of international conferences.
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Hanania Salzer earned his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Zoology from the Tel Aviv University in Israel. In 1982 he switched professions and became a programmer. During the past 16 years he has worked for three large organizations. Since 1997 Hanania is the Vice President of QA at RTS Software Ltd., Jerusalem, Israel.
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Harry Sneed graduated from the University of Maryland with a Masters Degree in Public Administration and Information Sciences in 1969. His work has been as a Programmer/Analyst at the U.S. Navy Department, as a Programmer and Instructor at the Volkswagen Foundation, as a Systemsprogrammer and Project Leader at Siemens, as an independent Test Consultant, as a Software Laboratory Leader for the SZAMOK and SZKI Institutes in Hungary, as a Reengineering Project Leader at the Union Bank of Switzerland, as the manager of a German Software House, and as an ESPRIT Research Consultant in Italy and England. Currently, he is working as a tool developer for an Austrian Software House developing OO-Software for banks in Vienna.
Harry Sneed has published more than 100 technical articles both in English and German Computer Science Journals and proceedings, in addition to 11 books in Germany, including two on testing. His latest book on Object- Oriented Testing will appear this year with Addison & Wesley. His last book on Object-Oriented Software Migration appeared last year with the same publishing company. In addition to his publishing work, Sneed has developed more than 50 different Software Engineering Tools for maintenance, project calculation, software measurement, software testing, software reverse & -reengineering, software design and software auditing. He is currently in the program committees of the International Conference on Software Maintenance, the IEEE Workshop on Reverse Engineering, the IEEE Workshop on Program Comprehension, and the European Conference on Maintenance and Reengineering. His main interests are in Software-Metrics, -Maintenance, -Migration and -Test. He is a member of the IEEE Computer Society and the ACM.
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Fawzy has been appointed a consultant to many large corporate organizations. He is credited for many of their successful projects. Some of his main clients include Electric Power Transmission, Thiess Bros, Pacific Power, International Combustion Australia, CSIRO, General Electric Australia, Wormald International, Department of Health, Intergraph Corporation, Siemens, Plessey and 3M Australia and British Aerospace.
Many of Fawzy's former students are now successful Managing Directors, CEO of Hospitals and Consultants. Fawzy is currently supervising a number of Doctorate students in the field of E-Business, Internet, Information Management, Knowledge Management, Manufacturing and Materials Management. Fawzy has published extensively in all these fields and his work has attracted international attention from practitioners from all over the world. Fawzy has developed and implemented many Intelligent Systems both in Australia and Overseas. Fawzy also taught in France, Finland, USA and Belgium.
Fawzy has been a Key Note Speaker in many conferences both in Australia and overseas.
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Niels Bruun Svendsen graduated from the Danish Engineering Academy in 1986 and has taking the main steps of his career in software development. He has been a Senior Software Engineer with B-K Medical for 7 years and has as Software Methods Specialist been responsible for methods, tools and education for software development for the last 3 years. He is currently project manager on a SPI project concerning improved basis for the release decision.
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Mr. Rob van der Pouw Kraan started his career in ICT in 1985 as a programmer. Very soon he was involved in testing. As a test manager he was several times responsible for the QA and QC of very large systems. In 1996 he joined the ICT quality consulting company Qualityhouse, where he started the new business unit Testing. He composed their six weeks training course on testing and became responsible for all the (future) products and services. Since 1998 he is the managing director of Qualityhouse. Mr. Van der Pouw Kraan is still daily involved with the R&D department.
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Ronnie Van Parijs, Senior Technical Consultant in the GTDS division of Computer Associates has more than 10 years experience in Change and Configuration management problem areas.
He assisted in the selection and implementation of many CCM projects for large Belgian IT organizations.
Prior to joining Computer Associates, Ronnie worked as project leader and IT analyst in industrial companies like Hoogovens Aluminium and Ford Tractor Belgium.
He is an Industrial Engineer in Information Technology and holds a post-graduate in Business Management.
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Otto Vinter is managing a software technology and process improvement group at Brüel & Kjaer, responsible for projects to improve the software development process. He has been active in defining software engineering standards, procedures, and methods to be employed at Brül & Kjaer. He has been the driving force in the company's transition from procedural programming to Object-Oriented development.
He has managed software development projects for 30 years; with Brüel & Kjaer from 1986, before that with the Danish branch of Control Data Corporation, and with Regnecentralen.
The author received his Masters Degree in Computer Science from the Danish Technical University in 1968. He is an associate teacher for BSc. level education in Computer Science, is an active participant in Danish software knowledge exchange groups, performs mentoring activities for clients, and is on the programme committee of several international conferences.
(Click Here for Otto Vinter's Home Page)
(ovinter@bk.dk)
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Isabella Wieczorek received the degree Diplom-Informatikerin (M.S.) in Computer Science from the University of Koblenz, Germany, in 1994. In 1995, she worked as a scientist in the Software-Technology-Transfer- Initiative Kaiserslautern (STTI-KL). Since 1996, she is a researcher in the department "Quality and Process Engineering (QPE)" at the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE) in Kaiserslautern, Germany. Currently she is the group leader of the "Cost and Quality Engineering" group. Working in industrial projects, she gained practical experience in the establishment of measurement-based quality improvement programs, software inspections, software project cost estimation, and data analysis methods.
Bernd Freimut received the degree Diplom-Informatiker (M.S.) in Computer Science with a minor in Electrical Engineering from the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany, in 1997. He is currently a researcher in the department of "Quality and Process Engineering (QPE)" at the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE) in Kaiserlautern, Germany. His main research interests concern the measurement, evaluation, and control of inspection and test processes as well as defect modeling. He is a member of the IEEE Computer Society and the German Computer Society.
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Dr. ZIMMERMANN has a Dr.-Ing. from the Technical University , Berlin . He was a Scientific director and member of the leading staff of the special research programme of the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft and the Technical University, Berlin in the field of CAD. Since 1985 he has been involved in the EC, Task Force, ESPRIT CIM and Information Technologies, and he became a co-ordinator of ESSI (European Systems and Software Initiative) programme; Since 1994 Head of Sector for ESSI in the Software Systems and Software Best Practice Unit. In 1995, he is the head of Sector for the IDA (Interchange of Data between Administrations) programme, in III/B5, European telematics networks and Systems head of Unit of DGII B 6, Industry, Unit for European telematics networks and systems -IDA. Since July 1999, he is head of Unit of DG XIII F2, Information Society, Unit for Technologies and engineering for software, systems and services.
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