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Dr Julian Edwards
Manager, and Principal Consultant
Object Oriented Pty Ltd

Julian Edwards is Manager, and Principal Consultant, of the Consulting and Capability Improvement Division of Object Oriented Pty Ltd. He joined Object Oriented Pty Ltd in 1992 and has spent the last five years developing and refining the world-class component-based software development process - Process MeNtOR.

As the company’s senior methodologist, Dr Edwards has consulted on to some of Australia’s largest companies including BHP, MLC and AMP. His specialities include providing assistance to organisations developing component and object oriented methodologies and developing strategies for adopting object technology and undertaking process improvement activities.

Dr Edwards has published numerous research papers in international journals and conferences as well as publishing a number of articles in popular magazines dealing with object technology. He is also co-author with Brian Henderson-Sellers of The Working Object (Prentice Hall,1994).

Dr Edwards is currently a committee member of the Object Oriented Special Interest Group (NSW), a past Program Chairman of Object World Australia 1993 - 1996 and Object World Singapore 1996, and a past committee member of the CODA Awards. He is currently on the board of the CAESAR Center at the University of New South Wales, an Associate Fellow at UTS, and an Honorary Member of COTAR (Center for Object Technology Applications and Research). Dr Edwards has a PhD in Object-Oriented Development Methodologies from the University of New South Wales and an honours degree from Cambridge University.

Contact details

Phone: (02) 9957 1092

Email:  j.edwards@oopl.com.au 

Web:   www.oopl.com.au 

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