EventNov2008
From Requirements Engineering Specialist Group
Past Event
Making Your Requirements Knowledge Count: Working in RE
Contact Emmanuel Letier.
Date 2pm, 5 November 2008
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 and others who want to know more about the professional life of requirements engineers.
The event will take the form of a panel. Invited speakers are former students whose current jobs involve significant requirements engineering activities. Alistair Mavin is a control systems engineer at Rolls Royce in Derby. Hang Pang is a project manager within the NHS. Stefanos Zachariadis is a software engineering consultant at Zuehlke Engineering. Kristine Karlsen is a research assistant at City University interested in creativity in software development. They will talk about their experiences and respond to questions from the audience.
Attendance is free and open to all.
Speakers
Alistair Mavin is a control systems engineer at Rolls-Royce in Derby. Alistair graduated from City University with a first class degree in BSc Business Computing Systems in 1999. Prior to joining Rolls-Royce he carried out requirements engineering projects in a range of industries including defence, aerospace, rail and automotive. He has experience in the development and delivery of requirements engineering training and contributed to several research papers and book chapters on the subject. He is a chartered engineer and a committee member of the British Computer Society's Requirements Engineering Specialist Group.
Stefanos Zachariadis graduated with a PhD from the Computer Science department of University College London in April 2005. His research on mobile code and mobile computing led him to a post doc at the same institute where he worked on pervasive system security, and to a part time job with the European Space Agency where he focused on satellite system software. He joined Zuhlke engineering as a consultant in 2006, and has worked as a instructor, software engineer, team leader and software architect, in various companies in the finance sector, aviation and others.
Hang Pang graduated from the City University with a MSc in Business Systems Analysis and Design in 2005. For his thesis, his interest in Requirements Engineering and Human Interface design focused his attention with a study on using the Multi-media to assist the requirements elicitation (working with Professor Neil Maiden) for a project based in a prominent London based hospital. He currently works as a Project Manager still within the NHS and has over 10 years commercial IT experience in the public and private sector. He has delivered numerous ICT projects from implementing clinical systems – Accident and Emergency and the West London Bowel Cancer Screening Programme. He is currently project managing a Laboratory Information Management system for the North London Cancer Network.
Kristine Karlsen is a Research Assistant at City University London. Her interest in Requirements Engineering started while studying for her BSc in Business Computing Systems at City, following a one year placement in industry where she had gained a first hand appreciation of how IT projects fail due insufficient requirements specification. She studied RE as a final year elective and for her UG dissertation she evaluated the impact of creativity on requirements engineering. She joined the Centre for HCI Design at City in 2006 to continue development and research started during her undergraduate dissertation project. She is currently working on an EU funded project which aims to build a service centric system that supports food traceability from farm to fork. Her research interests include requirements engineering and supporting requirements discovery and invention with creativity. She is a member of BCS.