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Richard has been called the ‘Red Adare' of the Project Management world -
the larger-than-life Project Manager they call when they have a major
problem with their projects. His experience ranges from the dizzy heights of
putting a man on the moon as part of the Apollo Programme, to working as
part of the management team that computerised the British Income Tax System,
to leading the delivery of two major systems for the 43 Police Forces in
England and Wales. He has directed major Programmes of work for some of the
largest companies in the world!
Richard is a member of the National Speakers Association in the United
States and a member of the Professional Speakers Association in the United
Kingdom. He is a highly motivated, enthusiastic and energetic individual who
knows how to motivate his people to exhibit the same traits. He is a dynamic
speaker using stories of personal experiences, other people's experiences
and humorous anecdotes to reinforce the message.
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Callum is the Programme Director for one of the largest and most
innovative education programmes for professional development in project
management. With over 400 managers enrolled for the MSc in both Europe and
North America, the programme enlists some of the worlds leading thinkers
from project management, requirements management, systems engineering and
configuration management, to design and deliver the most up to date thinking
and practices in the managing of projects. Callum is recognised as a leader
in the development of Enquiry Based Learning for engineers and technical
process managers, as well as being one of the best known names in the field
of managing configurations through his research and conference
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David has over 14 years experience
as Managing Director in two IT service
companies and has been a National
Outsourcing Association Director for two
years. He is also a regular speaker on best
practice for ITSMF, BCS and IOD. David is
a founding Director of Square Mile Systems
who deliver best practice infrastructure
Management, and Gendata, a software
development house for asset management
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We are delighted to have as our after dinner
speaker on Tuesday night Frances Edmonds,
one of Britain's most entertaining female
speakers.
After graduating with honours in Modern Languages from Cambridge
University, Frances trained as an international conference interpreter at
the European Commission in Brussels. She went on to work for the major
international organisations (EU, UN, OECD, WEU) and for the G7 heads of
state and government at their annual World Economic Summits.
Fifteen years of negotiating at the highest international level taught her
invaluable lessons in the art of cross-cultural communication and consensus
creation. She builds on these insights to deliver powerful messages on the
challenge of leadership and team building in today’s richly diverse and
constantly changing corporations.
A best-selling author and
broadcaster, her non-fiction covers sport,
politics, motivation, self-help and personal
success. Enthusiastic, often controversial and
always thought-provoking, she consistently
receives top ratings for her humorous and
motivational presentations. Frances is a
gifted communicator who uses her extensive
international experience and creative
skills to understand, entertain and inspire
her audience.
Best selling books include: "Another Bloody
Tour", "Cricket XXXX Cricket", "Members Only",
"Samson and Delilah", "Star of Heaven", "Games" and "Winning The Game of Life".
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Keith Allen started in IT in 1976 within an IBM operations environment,
starting within operations, and covering system programming, capacity
planning, Consultancy, Pre-Sales and Sales positions at both a technical and
management level. Keith has extensive experience in the IT environment,
covering the environments of Information, Network & Systems Management, and
particular the areas of Software Change & Configuration Management (CCM).
Keith has presented many papers at leading venues (UKCMG, GUIDE, Xephon,
BCS-CMSG) on subjects covering Change & Configuration Management through to
Systems Management and Security Management areas. Keith has been
instrumental in helping many large to small organisations implement
Management solutions strategies, covering key milestones like Y2K and
compliance issues facing the IT industry (Basel II and SOX).
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Rahul is CTO & Co-Founder of WANdisco. He developed the patent-pending DCone
technology to solve the hard problem of Distributed Coordination in the
presence of failures.
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David is a Senior Manager with Deloitte, based in their Brussels office. He
is a qualified auditor (Certified Public Accountant, USA) and IT auditor
(Certified Information Systems Auditor). He has been working in the area of
software asset management and license management for 8 years. He
project-managed, and also wrote portions of, "The ITIL Guide to Best Practice
for Software Asset Management". He is currently participating in the
development of the draft ISO/IEC 19770 Standard on Software Asset
Management.
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Jim is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Boise
State University (BSU), in Boise, Idaho, USA. His position is partially
funded by Hewlett Packard (HP). Boise is the home of HP's laser-printer
development operations. Jim's interests include software engineering,
software configuration management, programming languages,
programming-language translation, whitewater kayaking, and alpine skiing.
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Paul Dyson was one of agile development’s ‘early adopters’; running the
first eXtreme Programming (XP) project in the UK in 1998. Paul is a frequent
presenter at – and past chair of – both the BCS OOPS (now renamed SPA) OT
conference and the European Patterns Conference. Paul was the technical lead
for the project described in the presentation; leading both the technical
implementation of the system and the definition and evolution of the
development process. Paul is the co-author of “Architecting Enterprise
Solutions: Patterns for High-Capability Internet Systems” published by Wiley
& Sons in 2004.
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Glenn Ellis has specialised in Configuration Management and Systems
Engineering for over 30 years. He is functionally responsible for
Configuration Management within ADI Limited, a company that employs over
2,500 employees and has an annual turnover of AUD $700m. He also holds the
position of Configuration Manager for the Naval Division of ADI-Limited. He
was responsible for designing and implementing the CM system for the highly
successful AUD $1.2 billion Australian RAN Minehunter Coastal program; from
the Tender through Acquisition through to and currently "In Service
Support".
Currently he is also responsible for the Configuration Management of the
Amphibious Landing craft project; having worked on this project also from
its earliest stages. Prior to Glenn joining the Minehunter Coastal Program,
he was the Configuration Manager for a number of large General Engineering,
major Aerospace and Missile projects.
He has over 40 years experience in the support of programs for the three
Australian Defence services, Australian Army, Royal Australian Navy (RAN)
and Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). This experience has demonstrated to
Glenn the criticality of functional relationships to the success of large
defence programs, and in particular the mandatory bond that is required
between Systems Engineering and Configuration Management. You will see from
Glenn's presentation that he firmly believes that through Configuration
Management being the central hub for all project data and records, that the
Configuration Manager is in a unique position to translate the data into
meaningful management information for most aspects of each project, be they
large or small.
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Steve Elmes is a Principal CM Consultant who works for Quintec Associates
Ltd, part of the THALES Services, Engineering & Consultancy group in the UK.
Steve has been the Future Aircraft Carrier (CVF) CM Manager for 3 years.
Overall, Steve has 13 years in Aerospace & Defence CM, working with the
Prime Contractors/Large Systems Integrators for projects such as the Merlin
EH101 Mk1 Helicopter, BOWMAN Digital Communications and Typhoon Fighter
Aircraft. For a number of years during this period, Steve worked for CSC
Computer Sciences.
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Phil spent 14 years working for BACS in a variety of roles that included the
development of sophisticated infrastructure tools for automated operations
and configuration management. He left BACS as Technical Support
Manager and have been with Wall Street Systems as their Software Manager for
four and a half years. The main purpose of the role was to help them manage
their whole development lifecycle, which was in disarray. The business
practices, complexity of the application and general resistance to change
made this quite a challenge, but there is now universal acceptance of the
new development and release practices that have been put in place.
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Phil is now the Managing Director of Electus Recruitment Solutions, an
Aerospace and Defence Recruitment Company. He has over 35 years experience
in Aerospace and Defence specialising in the area of aerospace design,
systems engineering and new business development. He has worked in the field
of Configuration Management for over 10 years and is on the committee of the
BCS CMSG.
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Michael is Treasurer of the BCS CMSG. He is also an officer (Treasurer)
of the System Dynamics Society's UK Chapter and a Fellow of the Chartered
Association of Certified Accountants.
Michael is a Principal Lecturer at South Bank University in the School of
Computing and Mathematics [SCISM], where he lectures and researches
strategic management and investment appraisal of Information Systems and
related modelling financial, management and planning topics and is also the
Director of Resources & Head of Business Development. He specialises in
the application of simulation Modelling (System Dynamics).
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Shirley has extensive configuration management experience across the life
cycle. She was the author of the OGC ITIL Service Support chapter on
Configuration Management and is a member of the British Standards committee
for developing the BS 15000 IT Service Management standard.
She is a director of ConnectSphere, a consultancy and education company
that specialises in service management and configuration management
solutions. Shirley has extensive experience in service and process
improvement across a range of industries and has managed many change,
configuration and release management implementations.
Shirley is the Chair of the BCS CMSG.
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Kevin
has been working in the Rational Field as a Technical Consultant for 4
years. Previously, he worked in the finance and telecomms industries as a
developer, tester and SCM Manager for over 8 years.
He is currently writing a book on automating Software Build and Release
Management for Addison Wesley - "Clearcase, Ant, and Cruisecontrol: The Java
Developer's Guide to Accelerating and Automating the Build Process"
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Ian has worked with EDMS, PDM, PLM, MRP, ERP systems for 20 years in various
technical and Project Management roles, managing large scale solutions
covering up to 6 sites and 1300 users. He would like to share with you some
of the lessons he has learned throughout his early career in Design
Engineering and Configuration Management combined with ‘through-life’
involvement in several major PLM initiatives.
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John
Metcalfe has over 25 years experience of working in a variety of systems
environment. From his first day as a developer programmer to his current
role as an independent Process Mentor, he has developed processes and
procedures for improving the organisation's approach to delivering reliable
solutions to agreed timescales and budgets.
His experience ranges from real time systems for defence contracts, to
e-business solutions, to small software development contracts for small
businesses and worked with US, French, Polish as well as Polish customers
and subcontractors. His organisational experience ranges from large
multi-sited organisations to owning a small IT consultancy delivering
bespoke systems solutions employing up to 8 staff.
He has delivered training courses on behalf of LearningTree International
for over 6 years, specialising in Software Quality Assurance, Configuration
Management, Risk Management and Lotus Notes Development. John currently
provides a mentoring service to teams and organisations to help them to
evolve smarter and cheaper methods for developing reliable solutions whilst
meeting customer's expectations.
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Regarded as the Godfather of ITIL, Don has over 25 year’s
practical experience in IT Service Management. As Business
Development Director of the Marval Group he has been responsible
for the design & implementation of some of Europe’s largest
award winning IT Service & Support operations, both in Public &
Private sector environments.
His evangelical, straight talking and pragmatic approach has made him a
world-renowned and respected industry figure. Don has been responsible for
co-authoring several major service management publications. His credentials
include:
- Co-author of ITIL Best Practice publications
- Co-author of ISO 20000 (Soon to be the first worldwide standard for
IT Service Management)
- Co-author of the British Standard for IT Service Management (BS
15000)
- British Standards “A Code of Practice for IT Service Management
(DISC PD 0005)”
- Vic-Chair of ITIL development group
- Helpdesk Institute Advisor
- In recognition of his commitment and service to the industry, Don
received the prestigious ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ from the
international IT Service Management Forum (ITSMF).
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Sally has been a configuration management engineer for 15 years. Her
experience is drawn from the simulation industry - manufacturing and
engineering CM - conforming to various standards eg: DOD, MOD, TickIT, BS,
ISO, through to improving the software engineering production process at
Symbian, (CMM, ISO) for the last 5 years.
Her key roles are being responsible for configuration management strategies
and tools that provide CM services within Symbian.
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John Parker is the Technical Director and Head of Successful Solution
Development within Actio Limited. He draws on his extensive practical
experience and innovative use of advanced methods and technologies, to
consistently apply his peerless knowledge to a wide range of client
environments, enabling Actio’s clients to advance their processes and
procedures, and achieve solutions that support their corporate goals.
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Steve
is involved in Pre-sales for all Serena Products. He has been in IT for 24
years, 5 years as an end-user, 9 years as a consultant, and 10 years in a
variety of roles in 3 software companies, Legent, Viasoft, and Serena.
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Frank has over 20 years of experience in the software development industry,
in particular with development of electronic products with real-time,
interactive and embedded software, for consumer or professional markets. The
last 5 years he has worked as software development consultant, specialised
in configuration management. He has guided several implementations of IBM
Rational ClearCase UCM since its market introduction in 2000, in particular
in the area of Eindhoven in the Netherlands.
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René has more than 25 years experience in IT Development. He
has 15 years of experience in the field of Change &
Configuration Management and has implemented CM processes in
large organisations. He was co-founder of a Dutch company
specialising in CM that has been merged with a European oriented
organisation.
Currently, he is a CM consultant in many international organisations. He
also coordinates CM within the SQS Group, is co-chairman of the CM-tracks
during the SQM congresses (www.sqm.de), is chairman of the Benelux Harvest
User Group, and regularly presents his configuration management experience
at conferences.
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James Spalding has over 20 years experience working as a Project manager in
the IT industry, both for small ‘dotcoms’ and large corporations. Over the
last 5 years he has focused on managing internet technology projects using
agile development methodologies. Varying in size from 5 to 50 people, these
projects covered the complete software lifecycle from requirements capture,
through project delivery to support and maintenance. James was the project
manager for the project described in the presentation.
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Stephen is an independent software development and configuration
management consultant based in Michigan, USA. He has been involved in
software development activities ranging from 3D simulation and virtual
reality to Internet infrastructure to J2EE applications and architecture for
over 15 years. He has practiced in configuration management almost as long
and has been consulting in the field for eight years.
Stephen's consulting practice includes enterprise change management
assessment, Agile software development mentoring, software development
practice improvement, J2EE architecture, and software configuration
management training and consulting.
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Rajul has been involved with Configuration Management and Release
Engineering for several years in large environments including Commerce One,
Barra, and now Google. The presentation is based on his work at Barra.
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Neil White has been working in systems engineering for more years than he
cares to remember where he has been employed in nearly all phases of the
systems development lifecycle. During this time he has worked on many
initiatives including Air Traffic Control System projects and Business
Process re-engineering. For the last ten years, and latterly for Quintec (Thales)
where he is the Configuration Management Capability Manager, Neil has
concentrated his efforts on understanding and improving the way that
Configuration Management is undertaken in support of Large Scale Systems
Integration Projects.
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Cathy is an accredited ITIL Configuration Management Practitioner and has
been working in the Configuration and Asset Management areas within BT for
several years. She is Chair of UKCMG (the UK Computer Measurement Group).
She regularly presents papers at UK and international conferences. |
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