| Dr. Alan W.
Brown IBM Distinguished Engineer
Rational
Tool Strategy
Adjunct Professor
NC State University
 |
Alan W. Brown is an IBM
Distinguished Engineer at IBM Rational software, and an Adjunct Professor at
NC State University. Alan is
responsible for product strategy for IBM Rational's design and
construction tools. Alan's specific focus is Model Driven
Development (MDD) products. In this capacity he defines strategy and
consults on release of
products aimed at improving software development efficiency through visual
modeling, generating code from abstract models, and systematic reuse.
This involves working with engineering teams on product architecture,
product management groups on creating release plans, and marketing and field teams
on positioning IBM Rational's products and services. Since
the acquisition of Rational in February 2003, Alan has broadened his
influence by taking a leadership role in defining a common architecture and
strategic direction for the Rational Desktop tools, WebSphere Studio, and
WebSphere Business Integration tools. Additionally, Alan plays a number of
important roles in the broader IBM community most notably as an active
member of the IBM Software Group Architectural Board, a key contributor and
representative on the IBM Academic Initiative, and Rational's representative
editor for the IBM Press.
In April 2006 Alan was also appointed as Adjunct Professor at
NC State University. In this role Alan is acting as advisor to computer
science faculty and students on software engineering topics, is a
co-founder of NC State's Center for Open Software Engineering (COSE), and
is assisting in the revision of software engineering curricula.
Alan came to
Rational in February 2001 through Rational's purchase of Catapulse Inc., a Silicon Valley start up
funded by Rational Corp. and Benchmark Capital. Previously Alan was VP of
R&D for Computer Associate's Application Development products where he
was responsible for advanced technology activities across the group. He
advised on
specifications for new software products and the future direction of enterprise
application and component-based software development products across the
company.
Working within the application development industry for over 15
years, Alan was previously with Sterling Software, and Texas Instruments
Software where he was director of software research investigating advanced
research and development products.
Alan also spent spent five years at the Software
Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
There he led the CASE environments project advising on a variety of U.S. government
agencies and contractors on the application and integration of CASE technologies.
Alan attained the highest technical ranking at the SEI, Rank A, based on technical standing, international reputation
and influence in the community.
Alan's primary interests are in component-based development,
software engineering environments, and enterprise application development
tools. He has published over 50 papers, edited three books and is the author
of four books, including "Object-Oriented Databases: Applications in
Software Engineering" and "Database Support for Software Engineering." His
most recent book, "Large-scale Component-Based Development" was published by
Prentice-Hall.
Alan holds a doctorate degree in computing science from the
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK and a bachelor’s degree in
computational science from the University of Hull, UK. |
