Current Affiliations

Chief Scientist/CSO First Derivatives Plc (2015 - )

Chairman and Co-founder, Bedarra Research Labs (2003 - 2015);

Chairman and Founder, YOW! and Lambda Jam Conferences (2008 -);

Fellow, National ICT Research Center of Excellence, Australia (NICTA) (2013 -​ 2014​)

GOTO Conference Fellow (2012 - )

Adjunct Research Professor, School of Computer Science, Carleton University, Canada (1991- present)

Adjunct Professor of Information Technology & Electrical Engineering, Queensland University of Technology (2009 -​ 2013​)

Chairman and Cofounder, Bedarra Research Labs (2003 -); YOW!Conferences (2008 -); DepthFirst (2012 -);

Fellow, National ICT Research Center of Excellence, Australia (NICTA) (2013 -)

Adjunct Research Professor, School of Computer Science, Carleton University, Canada (1991- present)

Information Technology & Electrical Engineering, Queensland University of Technology (2009 -)

ACM Distinguished Engineer (2007 -)

Fellow GOTO Conferences (2013 -)

Advisor Bad-Elf (2011 -), IndeLabs (2012 -)

CTO Coach (2000 -) and Lead To Win Mentor (2011 -)

Founder and CEO Bedarra Corp (1998 -)

Past Affiliations

Founding Director, Agile Alliance (2001 – 2003)
Managing Director, Object Mentor, US (2004 – 2008)
Chairman Xia Systems (2004 – 2006), Online-Learning (1999 - 2012)
International Adjunct Professor, Queensland University of Technology (2007 – 2013)
International Adjunct Professor, University of Queensland (2001 – 2006a)
Cofounder Open Augment Consortium, (2002 -2004)
Member, IBM Academy (1998 – 2000)
Board Director - Stilo, Bitflash, Amikanow, Robelle, Bluezone, IF Interface Consulting, Ottawa Carleton Research Institute, IBM OTI
Advisory Board- Microsoft Customer Advisory Board, Bluezone, Object Mentor US, Jaczone Sweden, Amikanow, Bitflash, Softv, Synop Australia, DSTC CRC Australia, Kizoom UK, ICHU, Gentleware Germany, Transform Research, Southern Cross Partners Australia, Kx Systems US, Objectime, Knowledge Systems Corporation US, Objective Systems Sweden, Digital Composition Systems, Inc. US
Founder and CEO Object Technology International (1987 – 1997); CEO of IBM OTI (1997 – 1999)
President, AITO, ECOOP Conference (1997 – 2000)
Professor School of Computer Science, Carleton University (1984 – 1990), Director Object-Oriented Research Group (1983 – 1989), Associate Professor Schools of Business (1978 -1982), and Computer Science (1980 – 1984), Cofounder School of Computer Science (1980), Lecturer Business Information Systems  (1974 – 1977)
Managing Systems Research, DY-4 Systems (1978 – 1983)
President, Computer Based Information Systems (1975 – 1986)
Chairman, CP6 Technical Committee, Exchange User Group (1974 – 1977)
Director, Language Support Group, Computing Services Carleton University (1970 – 1978)