Bryan Wood

Bryan Wood is currently working in a multinational team on the Component-Based Interoperable Enterprise (COMBINE) system development project, a European Commission Fifth Framework project to provide and demonstrate a model-based approach to the development of Interoperable Enterprise component systems.

Bryan has been an active participant in the development of open system standards since 1980 when he became Chairman of the British Standards Institute Technical Committee responsible for OSI, ODP, QoS and other software engineering standards. He is Convenor of ISO/JTC1/SC7/WG19, the group responsible for maintenance of ODP standards and management of Publicly Available Specifications (PAS) submitted by OMG for inclusion in the ODP range of standards.

Bryan spent 25 years with Sema Group plc (formerly CAP Group plc, now part of Schlumberger), prior to joining Open-IT in 1995. At Sema Group, his experience covered language design, compiler design and implementation, operating systems, real-time and communications-based systems, performance analysis and system consultancy. He was chief designer for a number of major projects in the real-time/communications systems area and his consultancy activities included studies of distributed systems and supporting communications facilities for major organisations. From 1990 to 1996 he had a key role in the work of the MoD Methods for C3I Interoperability (MCI) research programme to develop a methodology for the specification of command, control, communications and intelligence (C3I) systems. The approach was subsequently applied in support of the work of the Joint Command Process Study for the MoD and in related work for NATO.

Bryan is an active participant in the OMG. He, with Sandy Tyndale-Biscoe, worked on Open-IT's contribution to the successful submission on a UML Profile for EDOC. He is co-chair of the C4I Domain Task Force developing OMG specifications for systems supporting crisis response operations, and has been involved in revising the OMA Guide and developing the Model Driven Architecture (MDA).