Committee
David Jamison
Patrick O'Beirne (admin 2007)
Fran O'Hara, Insight
Derry O'Riordan, SQS Ireland
Stephen Sloan, Momentum NI
Ruth Walmsley, Momentum NI
Stephen Sloan
Momentum NIDavid Jamison
Derry O'Riordan
SQSRuth Walmsley
Momentum NIPatrick O'Beirne
B.Sc. (NUI) MA (Lancs) FICS
Managing Director of Systems Modelling Limited since 1981, Patrick currently provides spreadsheet systems modelling and auditing services. He is an Expert Advisor to the European Commission, current chair of the European Spreadsheet Risks Interest Group (EuSpRIG) and of SoftTest Ireland, and a Fellow of the Irish Computer Society. He is a frequent speaker at international conferences on practical I.T. solutions. His latest book is "Spreadsheet Check and Control" (Systems Publishing, 2005, ISBN 190540400X)
From 1999 to 2002 he provided services in consulting and auditing I.T. projects for information system conversion to the euro. He is an approved software tester to the BASDA standard for EMU compliance, and contributed to the national Euro Business Awareness Campaign of Ireland. His book "Managing the Euro in Information Systems; Strategies for Successful Changeover" was published by Addison Wesley in August 1999, ISBN 0-201-60482-5.
From 1997 to 1999 his focus was writing articles, speaking internationally, consulting, and auditing Year 2000(Y2K) projects. A certified TickIT ISO9000 auditor, he promotes software development process improvement using the Personal Software Process. He contributed to I.T. training courses in the Irish Management Institute, lectured in computer applications at the Management Science School of the Department of Statistics in Trinity College Dublin, and is involved in the TRINET project to provide remote regions with access to the world-wide Internet via low-earth-orbiting satellites. His background is in industrial quality control and operations research applications.
Fran O'Hara
| Fran O'Hara is a co-founder and Practice Director of Insight Test Services (www.insight-test.com) providing quality, test and validation services. He is also European director of RPI Alliance, Ltd, (www.rpialliance.com) an alliance of consulting companies collaborating to deliver advanced process improvement technologies. In 1996, he formed Insight Consulting (www.insight.ie) providing Process Improvement services. He is a co-founder and ex-chairman of the Irish Software Testing SIG, SoftTest Ireland (www.softtest.ie), a fellow of the Irish Computer Society and a regular presenter at international conferences and seminars. |
Simon Pizzoli
Simon Pizzoli is a Technical Project Manager at IBM's Dublin Software Lab.
Simon has over 20 years software engineering experience of which 15 years at Lotus/IBM. Simon has worked on a variety of areas and projects such as:
software globalisation and localisation, software tools, middleware software for machine translation & collaborative applications, API testing, test automation, collaborative enterprise applications. enterprise application server installation and administration. Simon has also been responsible for functional verification testing, test planning, and process improvement. Simon has recently joined the IBM "Performance Test and Analysis" division where he is currently concentrating on performance measurements and methodologies, performance tuning, code profiling and capacity planning.