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Richard Brooksby is a Senior Software Engineering Manager with experience in general management, software process management, product management and software development. His current position is Vice President of Engineering and Development at Geodesic Systems, where his main role is to raise the level of the software engineering process in order that the company can grow and succeed. He is also a founder and director of Ravenbrook Limited, an independent consultancy company based in the UK. Richard spent six years at Harlequin, where he started and managed the process-oriented Memory Management System. His other experience is in language run-time systems, compiler development, and collaborative research. He studied at the University of Cambridge and now resides in Chicago.
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Susan Dart is President of Dart Technology Strategies, Inc., a three-year-old, independent consulting firm that helps companies attain the best possible configuration management (CM) solution. This is achieved via the proper evaluation and deployment of technology and processes using simple, risk-based techniques. CM is the foundation for any software development and maintenance environment and is assuming a key role in enabling organizations to control their distributed objects, particularly for web content-management and electronic commerce.
Ms. Dart has 23 years of experience in industry and academia, focusing on software tools and software development environments. She has over 60 international publications and seminars to her credit, including co-author of the 1996 Ovum book on Evaluating Configuration Management Tools. Ms. Dart was a member of the United States Federal Aviation Authority committee on developing CM for bomb detection systems.
Before starting her own company, Ms. Dart was vice president of Process Technology at Continuus Software Corporation, a CM vendor, where she implemented deployment services to assist strategic customers in achieving the best possible, enterprise-wide CM solution. Previous to that, she spent seven years at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), creating models for CM and evaluating software development environments. Prior to SEI, Ms. Dart developed compilers at Tartan, Inc. and telecommunications software and international standards for Telstra, Australia. Ms. Dart has a Master's Degree in Software Engineering from CMU and a Bachelor's Degree with Distinction in Computer Science from RMIT.
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Mark Lentczner is Co-founder and President of Glyphic Technology. After graduating from Harvard University, he did the "Valley Tour", working at Apple Computer, Opcode Systems, and the ill-fated GO Corporation, before co-founding Glyphic Technology in 1992. His past engineering work includes implementation of a Smalltalk system, developing application frameworks, design and implementation of a new object-oriented language, creation of Internet protocols and work on cellular phone-based applications. He thinks that software architecture should be pretty to look at and a joy to read. As president of Glyphic, he leads projects in software design and makes sure there is paper in the laser printer.
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Yariv Sheizaf is MIS and Software Infrastructure Department Manager at Cimatron Ltd. In 1987, he graduated from Tel-Aviv University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Mathematics. Previously, he has held positions such as Configuration Manager and System Manager at BVR Technologies and has done programming at Amdocs Ltd. and Ardom.
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Shiv Sikand received his BS and MS degrees in Physics and EE from the University of Manchester, UK. His main interests are in design automation and verification techniques for integrated circuits. Shiv is currently at SGI in Mountain View. He worked on the R10000 and R12000 microprocessors in the MIPS division before joining the Advanced Graphics Division to work on Bali, SGI's next-generation high-end graphics project.
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