Mandy Chessell
Amanda (Mandy) Chessell | |
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Born | |
Nationality | English |
Citizenship | British |
Known for | software inventions, innovation, model-driven software development tools |
Awards | Silver Medal Royal Academy of Engineering, BCS Karen Burt Prize, FREng, Female Inventor, Best Woman in Corporate Sector (2006 Blackberry Women and Technology Awards), Innovator of the Year (2012 Cisco Everywoman in Technology) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Computer Science, Software Engineering |
Institutions | IBM |
Notes | |
BSc, MSc, FREng, CEng, FBCS, HonFIED, Distinguished Engineer, Master Inventor, Member of the IBM Academy of Technology |
Amanda (Mandy) Chessell is a computer scientist and a Distinguished Engineer at IBM.[1] She 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]
Career at IBM
Mandy Chessell joined IBM in 1987.[3] She is based at IBM's Hursley laboratory [4] 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.[5]
In 2002, she was elected a Fellow of The Royal Academy of Engineering.[6]
In 2004, Chessell won the British Computer Society nomination for the Women's Engineering Society "Karen Burt" award.[7]
In 2006, Chessell won a Female Inventor of the Year Award for building capacity for innovation.[8]
Also in 2006, Chessell was awarded a prize for the Best Woman in the Corporate Sector at the Blackberry Women in Technology awards.[9]
In 2011, Chessell was made an honorary fellow of the Institution of Engineering Designers (IED).[10]
In 2012, Chessell received Innovator of the Year at the Cisco everywoman in Technology Awards.[11]
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.[12]
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[13] and obtained a Bachelors Honours Degree in Computing with Informatics.[14]
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.[14]
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
- Smarter Analytics: Driving Customer Interactions with the IBM Next Best Action Solution by Mandy Chessell and David Pugh
- Patterns of Information Management by Mandy Chessell and Harald C Smith
Lectures
- A history of Computing through IBM's eyes by Mandy Chessell, November 2011
- Information for a smarter city by Mandy Chessell, May 2011
- Innovative Organizations by Mandy Chessell, February 2010
- Model driven development: a WES Lecture by Mandy Chessell, June 2008
- Innovation Ecosystems: An IBM Academy of Technology study by Mandy Chessell, May 2008
- 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
- ^ Ingenia Articles
- ^ University of Sheffield
- ^ Prolific Inventor: Professor Mandy Chessell FREng, Ingenia, Sep 2009
- ^ BBC News - Women and tech: Why don't girls want to be geeks?
- ^ Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal
- ^ The Fellowship - List of Fellows
- ^ 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
- ^ http://www.ied.org.uk "IED"
- ^ http://www.everywoman.com/techawards/finalists "Everywoman in Technology Award"
- ^ 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