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As a joint Professor in Electronic and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University College London (1988-1991) his teaching and research interests covered technical and process aspects of systems and software development and evolution, as well as the concomitant technology transfer. He was Director of a new Centre for Information Technology at UCL, Chairman of UCL's IT Strategy Working Group, a Director of UCL Ventures Ltd (a NatWest Bank and UCL venture capital company), and the organiser of a successful conversion MSc in Information Technology. In addition, he undertook a variety of professional consultancy activities in his own right. As Assistant Technical Director of The General Electric Company plc (1987-88) he provided expert technical and management advice and assistance to GEC Companies on the impact and application of Information Technology and Telecommunications (IT&T), with a particular emphasis on software and systems engineering methods and tools, development environments - especially Integrated Project Support Environments (IPSE), and strategic business aspects of IT&T utilisation. Specific areas of involvement included CASE, formal notations and their application, safety-critical systems, quality systems, IT strategy formulation, management information systems, IT&T standards, and corporate liaison with major computer systems vendors. As Operations Manager of Imperial Software Technology Ltd (1985-87) he was responsible for the management of the development activities and the infrastructure of this newly-founded independent software tools company, which as its primary business goal was completing the initial development of, and starting to actively market, a new second-generation IPSE product (ISTAR). In this role he introduced many new procedures and working practices, all fully integrated within the context of an ISO-9000 series compliant quality system. As founding Manager of the Computer Systems Research Laboratory at GEC Research Ltd (1981-85) he established and managed a wide range of IT&T related R&D activities (computer architecture, distributed systems, networks, VLSI design, robotics, automation, computer vision, avionics, airborne synthetic-aperture radar systems, software development, formal methods, telecommunications etc) aimed at supporting the business activities of GEC companies. In addition, he was intimately involved in defining and establishing the EEC's ESPRIT and the UK's Alvey collaborative research programmes, had a number of IT&T and new business related corporate roles within GEC, and edited/authored a Collins/McGraw-Hill book on the application of emerging VLSI technologies to image processing. Prior to moving to the UK he was Senior Lecturer in Physics at the University of Otago, New Zealand (1965-81). In this role he was involved, over a period of some sixteen years, with teaching and research in electronics, system design, computer architecture, non-linear systems, large-scale computer simulations, solid-state physics, plasma physics, thermodynamics, biophysics, and energy generation. |
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Professor Ray
Offen, BSc PhD FIEE CEng
Professor Offen is Professor of Information Technology and Dean of the Division of Information and Communication Sciences at Macquarie University. From 1991 to 2003 he was Director of the CSIRO-Macquarie University Joint Research Centre for Advanced Systems Engineering (JRCASE) and is an Honorary Chief Research Scientist in the CSIRO Division of Mathematical and Information Sciences (CMIS). His research, teaching and consultancy interests cover many aspects of software and systems engineering, including requirements engineering, development methods and [CASE] tools, software quality, process assessment and improvement, software measurement, empirical studies, technology transfer and socio-technical issues. He has an international reputation as an expert in the software development process and process improvement, was a foundation member of ISERN, the International Software Engineering Research Network, and has served on the programme committees of several major international conferences (ICSE, ISSM, APSEC). His previous positions, in industry and academic life, have provided him with extensive first-hand experience of many different aspects of computing and communications technology and its effective utilisation. Over many years (1965 to present), he has taught a wide variety of university-level undergraduate and postgraduate courses in physics, electronics, management and information and communications technologies (ICT), as well as playing major roles in the development of new degree programs and individual units.