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xii Model Driven Systems Development with Rational Products
The team that wrote this book
This book was produced by a team of specialists from around the world working
at the International Technical Support Organization, San Jose Center.
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.