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Bhuvan Unhelkar (BE, MDBA, MSc, PhD; FACS) has 23 years of strategic and hands-on professional experience in the field of Information and Communication Technologies, last three of which have been as an academic with the University of Western Sydney. Apart from teaching, authoring and researching, as Founding Principal of MethodScience, Bhuvan brings his experience in delivering small to large client projects with special focus on software modeling, process and quality. His work is crucial in transforming organizations into high quality component-based software environments developing, integrating and implementing projects. Bhuvan exhibits excellent business and technical acumen, and uniquely blends both practical as well as research viewpoints, in conducting his numerous successful industrial assignments. Earlier, Bhuvan played senior consulting as well as operational roles in large organizations in USA and Australia. His experience portfolio includes understanding and implementing all aspects of methodology and process for software implementation including requirements/business analysis, change management, project management and quality assurance. His clients in Australia include organizations like AON, Westpac, Qantas, Boeing, Optus, GIO, Rabobank, ColesMyer, Dunn & Bradstreet, TLRG and Touchcorp. The US clientele include FreddiMac Bank (Washington DC), American Sports Medicine Institute (Birmingham, Alabama), Hewlett-Packard (San Francisco) and Hibernia Bank (New Orleans). He also handled extensive training assignments for Telstra (Melbourne), Medibank Private (Canberra), Justice Department of SA (Adelaide), Computer Society of India (Mumbai, India), ANZ (Bangalore, India) and Unisys, to name but a few, in the areas of business and software processes, project management, modeling (with the Unified Modeling Language), quality assurance and testing, and metrics. Between Oct’92 and Mar’98, Bhuvan was senior Product Development Manager with Dow Jones Markets. During that period Bhuvan was responsible for design and development of multiple financial markets’ products using Object Oriented (OO) techniques. In addition to initiating and implementing a methodological approach to OO development with strong emphasis on quality and reusability, Bhuvan’s responsibilities in management of the group included providing leadership and direction, staffing and budgeting, internal and external training, and so on. Under Bhuvan’s guidance, the TELAN (Telerate Analytics) product won the Computerworld Object Developer’s Awards (CODA’95) for “Best use of an object-oriented approach across the organization”. Recently, Bhuvan has also been playing senior academic role at the University of Western Sydney. His work is crucial in setting up and promoting industry-oriented “Mobile Internet Research and Applications Group” (MIRAG) at the University. Furthermore he also supervises Masters and PhD research, and occasionally lectures in Business Process Reengineering and Advance topics in e-Business. EDUCATIONAL Bhuvan holds a Doctorate from the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS, 1997). His thesis was titled “Effect of Granularity of OO Design in Modelling an Enterprise and its Application to Financial Risk Management”, and was supervised by Professor Brian Henderson-Sellers. His thesis discussion on IT strategic planning, Methodologies and Processes, Enterprise Modelling and Sociological issues – related to change management - in IT project management have also been successfully tried by him in practical industrial work. His PhD research continued in parallel with his senior development role in Dow Jones – enabling action research. The thesis was built on earlier studies of Master of Science at UTS (1992) with focus on object-orientation. Bhuvan also has a Masters Diploma in Business Administration (Pune, India, 3 years Part-time, 1986), and a Bachelor of Engineering (Electronics, MS University, Baroda, 5 years Full-time, 1982). Based on his academic achievements, and in addition to his professional work, Bhuvan has been associated with lecturing and supervision at universities in Australia and China. Since 1996 he has been an Honorary Associate of UTS, wherein he lectures in IT subjects (Global Information Systems, Object-oriented Analysis/Design) to the Masters class (MSc, MBA). He has also taught OO Information Systems at University of New South Wales (UNSW). Currently he is actively supervising 2 PhDs at the University of Western Sydney (UWS), lecturing in Business Process Reengineering, and promoting active research under MIRAG - Mobile Internet Research and Applications Group at UWS. He has also lectured on regular basis in the subjects of OO Analysis and OO Design to the Bachelor of Computing (E-commerce) in Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine (NUCM) in China. He has presented his ideas at numerous national and international conferences, some of which he has chaired. Example events include: Sydney (ObjectWorld’94 & ’95, ACOSM’93,’95 etc.); Melbourne(TOOLS’94 & ’97); Johannesburg, South Africa (Object’95); Goldcoast (OO-ER’95); USA-OOPSLA (’95 Austin; ‘96 San Jose); Auckland, New Zealand and Singapore (IT Project Management’96, ‘97); India (Bangalore, Pune, Mumbai, Vadodara, Ahmedabad; 1998-2001), Nanjing, China (TOOLS, Sep, 1999), Integrated Design Process Technology Conferences (Dallas, 2000; Austin 2003), TOOLS 2000 (Santa Barbara and Sydney), UML2001 (Toronto, Canada), ACOSM (1993, 1997, 2003). OASIS Open Standards (2003), We-B (Perth, 2003) and IRMA (May 2004, New Orleans) Conferences. He is a regular reviewer and committee member for numerous international conferences. AUTHORING Books Authored / Edited: Verification and Validation for Quality of UML Models (John Wiley and Sons Inc., - Wiley Interscience, 2005), Practical Object Oriented Analysis (Thomson Publishing, Melbourne, 2005), Practical Object Oriented Design (Thomson Publishing, Melbourne, 2005), Global Enterprise Transitions (Co-authored, Ideas Group Publishing, Hershey, USA, Feb 2005), Global Integrated Supply Chain Systems (Co-edited, Ideas Group Publishing, Hershey, USA, 2005) Process Quality Assurance for UML-based Projects (Addison-Wesley, Boston, 2003), Global Enterprise Transitions (Co-authored, Ideas Group Publishing, Philadelphia, USA, due 2005), OPEN Modeling with UML, (Addison-Wesley, UK, May 2000, co-authored with Prof. Brian Henderson-Sellers) and After the Y2K Fireworks: Business and Technology Strategies (CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, 1999). His work has also been published in Information Age, Object Magazine, ROAD, Computerworld and CACM journals, and as chapters in books including Developing Business Objects (SIGS Publications, 1997), The OPEN Process Specification (Addison-Wesley, 1997) and The Handbook of Object Technology (CRC Press, 1998). Books in Progress: Handbook of Research on Mobile Business (Editor, Ideas Group Publishing, Philadelphia, USA, due 2006); MEMBERSHIP Bhuvan is a Fellow of Australian Computer Society (www.acs.org.au). He is also Branch Executive Committee member of NSW ACS branch. As Convener of the Object-Oriented Special Interest Group (OOSIG) of the ACS, he has been organizing and chairing OO-related meetings since 2000 (four years). These meetings have been aimed at sharing and distributing object-oriented knowledge and information within the Australian IT community. His membership of Software Quality Association of NSW occasionally enables joint hosting of the OOSIG meetings. Bhuvan has been an active member of the Sydney chapter of The Indus Entrepreneur /The Innovative Ecosystem (www.tie.org). As TiE Sydney’s Mentor Director he was responsible for nurturing mentoring activities for budding entrepreneurs. He is a Rotarian of St.Ives Rotary Club in Sydney, Australia (District 9680). His extra-curricular interests include cricket, drama, music, reading, oratory and bush walking (member of FOCAL at Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park). |
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Bhuvan Unhelkar
PhD, FACS; 
Internationally Acclaimed Consultant & Trainer – Principal of MethodScience.com
