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Patrick R. O'Beirne
Nov 2004 --
Agile Spreadsheet Development
Patrick R. O'Beirne has been principal consultant and managing
director of Systems
Modelling Limited since 1981. His current interests are in
information systems, spreadsheet risk controls, and end user
computing process improvement.
He is a Fellow of the Irish Computer
Society, the current Chair of the
European Spreadsheet Risks
Interest Group, a director of the
Informatics Development Institute, and an Expert Advisor to the
European
Commission. A certified TickIT
ISO9000 auditor, he promotes software development process
improvement using the
Personal Software Process. He is a frequent
speaker at
international conferences and an
author on
practical I.T. approaches.
From 1999 to 2002 his projects were consulting and auditing I.T.
projects for information
system conversion to the euro, the single European currency. He
contributed to the national Forfás Euro Business Awareness Campaign
of Ireland. His book "Managing
the Euro in Information Systems; Strategies for Successful
Changeover" was published by Addison Wesley in August 1999, ISBN
0-201-60482-5.
From 1997 to 1999 his focus was writing articles, speaking
internationally, consulting, and auditing Year 2000(Y2K) projects.
He contributed to I.T. training courses in the
Irish Management Institute,
lectured in computer applications at the Management Science School
of the Department of Statistics in
Trinity College Dublin, and is involved in the
TRINET project to
provide remote regions with access to the world-wide Internet via
low-earth-orbiting satellites. His background is in industrial
quality control and operations research applications.
Patrick R. O'Beirne
Systems Modelling Ltd.,
http://www.sysmod.com
Tara Hill, Gorey, Co. Wexford, Ireland
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