- Amanda Chessell
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Amanda (Mandy) Chessell Born 
Bath, EnglandResidence United Kingdom Citizenship British Nationality English Fields Computer Science, Software Engineering Institutions IBM Known for software inventions, innovation, model-driven software development tools Notable awards Silver Medal Royal Academy of Engineering, BCS Karen Burt Prize, FREng, Female Inventor, Best Woman in Corporate Sector (Blackberry Women and Technology Awards) Notes
BSc, MSc, FREng, CEng, FBCS, Distinguished Engineer, Master Inventor, Member of the IBM Academy of TechnologyAmanda (Mandy) Chessell is a computer scientist and a Distinguished Engineer at IBM.[1] She has a record of prolific middleware inventiveness and has been awarded the title of IBM Master Inventor. She is also a Member of the IBM Academy of Technology.
Outside IBM, Chessell is the first woman to be awarded the Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal and has subsequently been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy, a very high honour in engineering.
Chessell is a visiting professor at the University of Sheffield.[2]
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Career at IBM
Mandy Chessell joined IBM in 1987.[3] She is based at IBM's Hursley Park location near Winchester in Hampshire, UK.
Her early work focused on distributed transaction processing, adding features to products such as CICS, Encina, Component Broker and WebSphere Application Server. She has also work on event management, business process modelling and outside-in design (OID).
Today, Chessell's work is focused on developing model-driven tools to simplify the analysis and design of large systems and then to automate their development. This work covers the development of user interfaces, services, information integration technology in the field of Data Governance and Master Data Management.
Achievements
In 2000, she was among the first group of MIT Technology Review magazine's TR100.
In 2001, she won the Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal for the invention and engineering of Reusable Software Component Architecture.[4]
In 2002, she was elected a Fellow of The Royal Academy of Engineering.[5]
In 2004, Chessell won the British Computer Society nomination for the Women's Engineering Society "Karen Burt" award.[6]
In 2006, Chessell won a Female Inventor of the Year Award for building capacity for innovation.[7]
Also in 2006, Chessell was awarded a prize for the Best Woman in the Corporate Sector at the Blackberry Women in Technology awards.[8]
Chessell frequently lectures on topics related to Computer Science and, in particular, innovation. Such lectures take place at universities such as Queen Mary University of London.[9]
Education
Chessell studied Computer Science from an early age and has both an O-Level and an A-Level in the subject. She studied at Plymouth Polytechnic up to 1987[10] and obtained a Bachelors Honours Degree in Computing with Informatics.[11]
Subsequently, Chessell joined IBM in 1987 at Hursley Park, Winchester where she studied for a Masters degree in software engineering at the University of Brighton (completed in 1997). Her studies at Brighton were sponsored by IBM.[11]
Publications
- Transactional Business Process Servers: Definition and Requirements by Thomas Mikalsen, Isabelle Rouvellou, Stanley Sutton Jr., and Stefan Tai, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center and Mandy Chessell, Catherine Griffin, and David Vines, IBM United Kingdom Laboratories
- SOA User Roles by Mandy Chessell and Birgit Schmidt-Wesche
- Patterns: Model-Driven Development Using IBM Rational Software Architect by Peter Swithinbank, Mandy Chessell, Tracy Gardner, Catherine Griffin, Jessica Man, Helen Wylie and Larry Yusuf
- Implement model-driven development to increase the business value of your IT system by Mandy Chessell, Larry Yusuf and Tracy Gardner
- Modeling Demystified: Part 1, "Creating a system specification from the user's point of view" by Mandy Chessell and Larry Yusuf
- Modeling Demystified: Part 2, "Building a user model" by Mandy Chessell and Larry Yusuf
- Modeling Demystified: Part 3, "Extend UML for user models" by Mandy Chessell and Larry Yusuf
Lectures
- Model driven development: a WES Lecture by Mandy Chessell, June 2008
- Innovation Ecosystems: An IBM Academy of Technology study by Mandy Chessell
- Engineering IT systems for the people who use them by Mandy Chessell, November 2006
- Company Case study 2 - Product Innovation by Mandy Chessell, October 2004
References
- ^ http://www.ingenia.org.uk/ingenia/articles.aspx?Index=559
- ^ University of Sheffield
- ^ Prolific Inventor: Professor Mandy Chessell FREng, Ingenia, Sep 2009
- ^ Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal
- ^ http://www.raeng.org.uk/about/fellowship/fellowslist.htm
- ^ BCS Karen Burt Award
- ^ http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.3474 Bcs.org
- ^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6111090.stm News.bbc.co.uk
- ^ Queen Mary University of London
- ^ Profile from University of Plymouth Alumni site
- ^ a b http://archive.bcs.org/BCS/Products/publishing/itnow/OnlineArchive/jan02/interview.htm Archive.bcs.org
Categories:- Living people
- British computer scientists
- Fellows of the British Computer Society
- Alumni of the University of Brighton
- Alumni of the University of Plymouth
- TR35 winners
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