Careers 2010
From Requirements Engineering Specialist Group
Careers in RE
Date
2pm, 17 November 2010
Venue
Large Lecture Theatre, University of Westminster, 115 New Cavendish Street, London W1W 6UW
Nearest tube stations are Oxford Circus (Central, Bakerloo, Victoria), Warren St (Victoria, Northern), Great Portland St (Circle, Hammersmith & City, Metropolitan).
Details
This event is for computer science students who want to know more about the professional life of requirements engineers.
The event will take the form of a panel. Invited panelists are: Jamil Ahmed (Pre-Sales Engineer with Informatica Messaging), Marko Dukic (co-founder of YourNextPresent.com), Ian Gallagher (Senior Consultant with Altran Praxis Ltd), Mary Seddon (Business Analyst for Taylor & Francis Group), Rune Stamselberg (Independent Consultant). They will talk about their experience and respond to questions from the audience.
Attendance is free and open to all. To register contact Ljerka Beus-Dukic.
Speakers' Bios
Jamil Ahmed graduated from the University of Westminster in BSc Computing and is a specialist in message-oriented middleware. His career started with the Middleware Engineering team at Lehman Brothers. This team was responsible for working with key development teams across all bank divisions to architect and deploy middleware solutions specific to their requirements. These were typically globally distributed deployments supporting business critical applications, with very demanding needs. Jamil’s career in middleware continued with a move to Nomura International and then joining 29West, a market leading provider of high performance middleware, as a Pre-Sales Engineer. This gives him an opportunity to work with similar development teams for their middleware needs, but now across numerous banks within the industry.
Marko Dukic graduated from Imperial College London in Information Systems Engineering. He has worked as a management consultant advising clients on projects including process improvement, procurement and bespoke development. Marko has worked through conception to deployment for both large and small software solutions. He is currently the co-founder of several recommendation websites: YourNextPresent.com, YourNextRead.com, YourNextFilm.com and YourNextGame.com. Each website uses crowd sourced recommendations to allow people to find new similar books, films, games and presents. Marko works on all aspects within the website from development to marketing to financial planning.
Ian Gallagher is a Senior Consultant with Altran Praxis Ltd. He has over 15 years experience of the research, specification, design, development, integration and acceptance of complex systems, technologies and engineering management processes. Ian has developed system requirements and architectures on software intensive defence equipment programmes within both industry supplier and Ministry of Defence client teams. These projects have included Airborne Surveillance, Army Command, Control & Communications, Armoured Vehicle Information Systems and Naval Platforms. The requirements activities on all of these projects have been influenced by a range of brownfield factors such as existing system implementation, intellectual property considerations, infrastructure limitations and interfacing system constraints.
Mary Seddon is a Business Analyst for Taylor & Francis Group, a leading academic publisher. A graduate of the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1984 Mary joined Addison-Wesley, textbook publisher, in 1985 in Marketing Services. From 1988-1994 she worked with Collier Macmillan (to become Maxwell Macmillan International during this period) as a Sales Representative, Sales Manager and then General Marketing Manager for the company text and trade lists. From 1994-1998 Mary was College Sales and Marketing Manager at John Wiley & Sons. After a short break for her family, she joined Taylor & Francis (T&F) as Marketing Information Systems Manager in 2004. In subsequent roles at T&F she has brought her wide experience of international publishing system requirements to bear in the design, implementation and integration of bespoke and licensed software for book and journal sales, marketing, production and editorial. Currently, Mary is a Business Analyst in the T&F Technology Change & Transformation Team, translating business needs to IT purpose with specialisms in, opportunity analysis, requirements analysis, business process analysis, data analysis, project management and consultancy, solution definition, process & system testing. She is a member of the BCS.
Rune Stamselberg holds a BScEE from the Engineering College of Aarhus, Denmark in 2000. He has been a software engineer in several European countries in areas such as medical instrumentation, telecommunications, automotive and digital TV industry. Rune has been involved in many parts of the software cycle, from developing small prototype devices and applications to designing, implementing and supporting large systems with worldwide user base. He now works as a consultant for a small London-based company specialising in cost-of-living analysis and its data representation.