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Metamaxim Ltd. specialises in using executable modelling techniques for requirements validation.

Enabling learning, assessment and feedback as a continual conversation, through VLE technology.

Saffron Interactive is one of the leading providers of bespoke e-learning to the corporate sector in the UK. Over the last six years, I have taken the lead in defining and applying the Saffron approach: e-learning that makes eye contact.I have written a wide range of on-line training programmes, including:• Organisational change management• Investment appraisal• Agile software development methods• IP-based networks and telecommunications• Performance management and… Show more Saffron Interactive is one of the leading providers of bespoke e-learning to the corporate sector in the UK. Over the last six years, I have taken the lead in defining and applying the Saffron approach: e-learning that makes eye contact.I have written a wide range of on-line training programmes, including:• Organisational change management• Investment appraisal• Agile software development methods• IP-based networks and telecommunications• Performance management and quality management• Competition law and other areas of legal/regulatory compliance• Inspecting a gas turbine engineAs Chief Technology Officer, I was responsible for defining development practices as well as technical standards. Show less

• Co-founder of Metamaxim Ltd. and developer of ModelScope, the company’s software for model-driven prototyping • Design and presentation of training courses (including C programming, program design, web development and project management) to corporate clients of Stehle Associates• Development of a number of web sites, including Engineering Timelines, http://www.engineering-timelines.com, which I continue to maintain

Learmonth and Burchett Management Systems specialised in methods for software systems analysis and design. The company acquired MJSL, my previous employer, in late 1989.In addition to continuing in my MJSL role, I also worked in the reverse engineering team providing consultancy and custom tools for LBMS clients, particularly those concerned with the potential impact of Y2K.

I led a team of developers at Michael Jackson Systems Ltd, building tools to support Jackson design methods, using both Smalltalk and Pascal.During this period I began to adopt the incremental and evolutionary approaches to software development that are the basis for today’s “agile” practices.

During my time at BT, I progressed from mainframe COBOL programming to providing classroom training in program and database design and in software quality assurance.

Msc, Evolutionary And Adaptive Systems (Easy)

Computer simulation of biological processes, for example the use of genetic algorithms and neural networks in robotics. Embodied.

Msc, Computation (Software Formal Methods)

This course fired my enthusiasm for functional programming and for formal methods for software specification, particularly the Z language.

Ba, Classical Languages And Literature