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Peter Allsopp

Peter Allsopp is Engineering Capability Director at GE Aviation Systems (formerly Smiths Aerospace) based at Cheltenham.  Peter has lead teams working on a range of global, European and UK Aerospace Research and Development projects.  He is a member of a number of UK & European Aerospace working groups.  Before joining Smths Industries in 1991, Peter worked in the Combat Systems Division of VSEL at Barrow-in-Furness.  He also taught science for three years at a secondary school in Walsall, West Midlands.
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Garry Bleasdale

Garry Bleasdale is a field application engineer for QNX Software Systems, where he helps embedded developers design applications for the networking, military, medical and industrial control industries. Prior to joining QNX, he worked as a project leader at Thales Training & Simulation, specifying, designing, and commissioning major hardware/software subsystems for military flight simulators. His areas of expertise include architecting real- time and embedded systems, aircraft system/avionics simulation and design of GUI-based systems. Mr. Bleasdale holds an Honours Degree in Electrical & Electronic Engineering from Brighton University, UK.
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Glenn Coates

Glenn Coates is a Senior Engineering Consultant at Aonix.
Glenn's software engineering expertise spans mission critical, real-time and embedded systems. This has included work on Java Virtual Machine development, compilers and static analysis algorithm development.

In his role at Aonix, he provides specialist consultancy services to Aonix customers. This includes customisation of the Aonix environments to meet particular customer needs and the assistance of customers in the successfully deployment of mission critical real-time embedded Java systems. These services include support of both soft real-time and hard real-time systems.

Glenn holds a BSc with Honours in Computer Science and an MPhil titled "A Hardware Java Virtual Machine for Hard Real-time Systems" from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology.
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Bob Connor

Bob Connor graduated from Manchester University in 1977 with a degree in Physics and Electronic Engineering. He joined British Aerospace as an analogue design engineer working on closed loop control of a miniature flex gyro. He joined Thorn EMI in 1989 as Engineering Project Manager for a gimballed 94 GHz antenna as part of the Multiple Launch Rocket System. In 1993 he transferred to the IRST/FLIR programme for the Eurofighter, taking up the post of Interface Manager for the UK/Italian/Spanish consortium.
In 1997 he joined DERA (now QinetiQ) as Technical Leader for Vetronics. He has represented the International Vetronics community as the UK member for the NATO Working Group on Vetronics and has been Chairman of the MilCAN Working Group since 2001.
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Dr Nigel Day

Nigel Day studied Mathematics at Cambridge University, and then went on to gain a PhD in Computer Science, again at Cambridge. He joined one of the early CU Computer Lab spin-off companies, where he worked on operating systems, compilers and system utilities before heading up a team that for many years did research into the principles of computer security. In 1991, he was one of the original members of the Polyhedra project team, and was Technical Director for almost 10 years until the company was purchased by Enea. He is now a member of the Enea Product management team, in charge of database products.
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Andrew Foster

Andrew Foster is Product Manager for PrismTech's range of Real-Time and Embedded Middleware technologies. He has an extensive and in depth knowledge of distributed architectures and technologies gained through his fifteen years experience of developing distributed software applications and products. He is a regular presenter at military, real-time and embedded events such as the OMG's Real-Time and Embedded Systems Workshop and Network Centric Warfare conference. Andrew holds a BEng in Digital Electronics and an MSc in Computer Based Plant and Process Control from the University of Sunderland.
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Dale Gillibrand

Dale Gillibrand is a Principal Software Engineer at Thales Aerospace and has worked in defence software industry for 21 years. He is currently the software lead on a multi sensor land based E-LINT/ESM system and associated command and control centre. Dale and his team have been using MKS's line of software configuration management tools for almost 15 years.


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Richard Hawkins

Dr Richard Hawkins is a Software Safety Engineer for BAE Systems, where he is currently working on the Hawk Advanced Jet Trainer programme. He is also a member of the Industrial Avionics Working Group, developing a process for modular and incremental certification of software. Before working for BAE Systems, Richard worked as a Research Associate in the High Integrity Systems Engineering research group at the University of York. He has a PhD in safety critical software development.

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Peter House

I am a chartered engineer who has worked in the UK defence electronics industry for over 25 years. I have been involved with projects ranging from Electronic Countermeasures equipment through to vehicle electronics and power distribution systems by way of helicopter Rotor Track and Balance and data acquisition systems. Actively involved in Ultra Electronics Electrics efforts to develop and deploy HUMS systems on UK land vehicles.
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Gordon Hunt

Gordon Hunt is a Principal Applications Engineer at Real-Time Innovations, Inc.

Gordon's technical expertise spans embedded systems, distributed real-time systems, robotics, and controls. He is recognized as RTI's Navy Open Architecture expert and principal consultant for distributed combat system architectures. He routinely provides advanced designs and training to RTI customers and is an active member in the standards communities. Gordon joined RTI in 1999.

He is a Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Naval Reserves and is a qualified Engineering Duty Officer. His Navy involvement has included working for both NAVSEA and SPAWAR commands in a wide variety of hardware and software integration efforts. Currently, Gordon is leading an effort to provide robotic-system training and maintenance capabilities to the DoD.

Gordon holds an MS from Stanford University and a BS from Purdue University in Aerospace Engineering. He is completing his PhD at Stanford University in the field of control systems and robotics.
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Steve Mallon

Steve Mallon is the Strategic Planning Director for SELEX Sensors and Airborne Systems Ltd, a Finmeccanica company.   Steve is also the Chairman of Intellect’s Aerospace and Land Systems Council, and one of the three UK representatives on the Defence Commission of the ASD.

Steve career in the defence industry began over 20 years ago as a software engineer in the missile business of BAe, before moving into defence electronics at Marconi.   During that time he has held a wide range of research, engineering, functional management, business management, business development and strategy positions.

During the last two years Steve has been a member of the small team within Finmeccanica that has been developing the company’s thinking on and response to the Defence Industrial Strategy, taking a particular interest in systems, land and C4ISTAR aspects, and the role of defence electronics suppliers in the delivery of Through Life Capability Management.
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Luc Marcil

As HMI Product Manager at Presagis, Luc defines and leads company strategy for VAPS (Virtual Applications Prototyping System), VAPS QCG (Qualifiable Code Generator), and VAPS XT.  Luc is a professional engineer specializing in software development and management who has worked as an Avionics Engineer, Senior Programmer, Team Leader, System Architect, and Development Manager.  In addition to his years of industry experience working as a Product Manager, Luc also has extensive subject-matter expertise in the HMI market and more than 5 years of experience as an Avionics Systems Engineer at CAE Electronics.
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Andrew Merrick

Andrew Merrick joined AgustaWestland in 1989 after completing an Electronic Systems Engineering degree at RMCS, Shrivenham, and a post graduate diploma in Electronics and Computer Systems from Dundee University.  He has undertaken a variety of mission equipment and systems engineering roles within the Company before becoming Deputy Chief Designer (Avioncs) for the Apache Helicopter system enhancement programme.  His current role is Chief Tactical Processing Systems Engineer where he has the responsibility for the software engineered products produced by AgustaWestland in the UK.  The main products that the team is developing include a Tactical Processor initially for the UK Army and Royal Navy Future Lynx helicopters and a Touch Screen Unit to enable access to aircraft and tactical functions initially for the UK Royal Navy Merlin Mk 1 capability sustainment programme.
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Colin Newell

As the Scientific Desk Officer in the MoD’s Directorate of Equipment Capability Ground Manoeuvre – DEC (GM) – Colin Newell is responsible for Mounted Close Combat Research. He is the customer for all Armoured Fighting Vehicle (AVF) and Manoeuvre Support research, which includes sponsorship of the QinetiQ-led Vetronics research programme that forms the basis of the MoD’s open architecture policy on Land Platform.
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Cdr R.N. Ramachandran

Paper planned for presentation in MAE-2007 : MDD approach : A bane or boon for Aerospace applications ?

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Dr. Elias Stipidis

Dr. Elias Stipidis is currently a Senior Lecturer in Electronic Engineering at the Vetronics Research Centre, University of Sussex.

A Chartered Engineer, Fellow of the IET, Business Fellow with the London Technology Network and member of IEEE, IEICE and BCS, Elias holds both a 1st class honours degree and DPhil in Electronics.

He has been working in Vetronics since 1995 and has a number of publications to his name, including a VSI publication in the Defence Science Journal in April 2006. In 1999/2000 he began a very fruitful collaboration with DERA and then QinetiQ in more specialised VSI research. He went on to found the Vetronics Research Centre at the University of Sussex, the only Academic Centre of Excellence in this subject area in the UK and wider EU, which is recognised and supported by the UK MoD.

Elias has represented UK MoD VSI activities at both international conferences and exhibitions and was invited, in March 2006, to talk at the IET. He is currently an invited member of the FRES Vetronics Rainbow team, a member of the FRES EA-TDP Vetronics Package led by TADL/QinetiQ, a member of the VTID research team led by QinetiQ, and for the last four years has been Vice-Chairman of the MilCAN Working Group and chief editor of MilCAN Matters.
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Frank van den Berg

Frank van den Berg joined Green Hills Software in 1998 to establish the EMEA technical centre in The Netherlands where he manages all EMEA customer support, field applications and engineering resources. In addition, Mr van den Berg specializes in the avionics, defence and security marketplaces. Mr van den Berg was formerly with Tasking where he worked since 1984 on building embedded development tools and later project managed software development teams.

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Adrian Whitfield

Adrian Whitfield received an honors degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Brunel University in 1990. He spent 5 years working in Systems Engineering at G.E.C Marconi Radar before joining I-Logix, Inc. as a Technical Consultant. During his time as a technical consultant he has delivered consulting, mentoring and training to a number of aerospace/defense companies including long term engagements with Boeing and Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Currently he is the Industry and Product Marketing Manager with Telelogic where he managers both the Telelogic Statemate® and Telelogic Rhapsody® product families and how they can be best used within the Aerospace & Defense industry.
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Alex Wilson

Alex Wilson obtained a BSc(Eng) in Electrical Engineering from Imperial College, London in 1986. Prior to Wind River, Alex worked at British Aerospace on Automated Test Equipment for various Inertial Navigation Systems using VME and RTOS technology. He then worked as a Field Applications Engineer (FAE) for Motorola Computer Group working with 68k and PowerPC VME boards and 3 rd party Real Time Operating Systems. He joined Wind River in the UK as an FAE in 1996 supporting VxWorks and Tornado. In 2002 he became European Business Development Manager for Wind River focusing on the Aerospace and Defence market. As Senior Program Manager for Wind River, he is responsible for A&D programs and Opportunities in the EMEA region (Europe, Middle East and Africa)
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