Profile
Publish Date
04 March 2008
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(based on 2 reviews)
Author(s)
- Brian Nolan
- Barclay Brown
- Dr. Laurent Balmelli
- Tim Bohn
- Ueli Wahli
Brian Nolan is a course developer for IBM Software Group, Rational Learning Solutions and Services, specializing in model-driven development. Prior to his current position, he was the regional practice lead for the Rational Unified Process for Systems Engineering. Dr. Nolan holds a Ph.D. degree in the classics from Ohio State University.
Barclay Brown is an executive consultant in the system engineering practice in IBM Global Business Services. Prior to this, he was the Worldwide Community of Practice leader for Rational Solution Architecture. He leads client engagements in aerospace and defense, system development, and IT enterprise architecture, helping clients transform their engineering organizations using IBM technologies, methods, and tools. Barclay has been a practitioner, consultant, and speaker on system engineering methods for over 8 years. His experience spans some 24 years in project management, system engineering, architectural modeling, and requirements analysis. His current specialization includes model-driven system development, enterprise architecture, estimation methods, and solution architecture. He is the designer of the model-driven system development course, offered by IBM. Barclay holds degrees in electrical engineering, psychology, and business.
Dr. Laurent Balmelli is a manager at IBM in charge of architecting the new generation of offerings and tools for systems engineering and product development. He has been a research staff member at T.J. Watson Research Center and IBM Tokyo Research Labs, and a member of several leadership councils in IBM since 2000. Since 2003, Dr. Balmelli has represented IBM within the SysML standard team and is one of the lead authors of the SysML language specification. He was recently awarded the position of invited professor at Keio University in Tokyo, Japan, where he currently resides.
Tim Bohn is currently the Worldwide Community of Practice Leader for Solution Architecture. Tim has been active in the Systems community for many years, helping customers adopt MDSD in their practice. Tim has been with IBM Rational Software for 12 years, in both technical and management roles. Prior to joining Rational, Tim worked as a software engineer and systems engineer for 16 years. Tim holds a BS and MS degree from the University of Southern California, where he also guest lectures.
Ueli Wahli is a Consultant IT Specialist at the IBM International Technical Support Organization in San Jose, California. Before joining the ITSO over 20 years ago, Ueli worked in technical support at IBM Switzerland. He writes extensively and teaches IBM classes worldwide about WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere and Rational application development products. In his ITSO career, Ueli has produced more than 40 IBM Redbooks. Ueli holds a degree in Mathematics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.
ISBN
0738485683
IBM Form Number
SG24-7368-00