Biography

I worked from 1985 to 1994 for Marconi Research Ltd. investigating computational mechanisms for Knowledge Representation and Artificial Intelligence including engines for interpreting visual cues from surveillance cameras at airports and recognizing families of underwater vehicles by fusing sonar data. At Marconi I was involved in developing a commercial UK AI toolkit called KERIS. From 1994 to 2004 I was a lecturer in Software Engineering at the University of Bradford and then King's College London. During this time I contributed to the OMG standards body on modelling technologies including UML, MOF, OCL, MDA and QVT. This work produced a number of results including a proposal for UML 2.0, the MML language, and a programming language system which eventually became XMF and XMF-Mosaic. In 2004 I co-founded a start-up called Xactium in order to commercially develop the XMF-based technologies and served as Technical Director. From 2004 to 2007, Xactium  developed a number of techniques for model- and language-driven development and I led consultancy projects for a range of clients including: BAES; BT; BSkyB; CitiGroup; Artisan Software; Lockheed-Martin. Xactium decided to make XMF open-source in 2007. In 2008 I moved to Thames Valley University as a Professor in Computing and Head of the Model Driven Software Engineering Research Group. A more complete CV is available on request.