Dr Russel Winder

41 Buckmaster Road
London SW11 1EN
UK

Tel.: +44 20 7585 2200
Mobile: +44 7770 465 077
Email: russel.winder@concertant.com
URL: http://www.concertant.com/
Email: russel@itzinteractive.com
URL: http://www.itzinteractive.com/
Email: russel@russel.org.uk
URL: http://www.russel.org.uk/

Professional Objectives

To publish more good and useful textbooks on programming, operating systems, systems software and programming and embedded systems programming.

To undertake high quality consultancy work, contract teaching and training, and contract programming in Java, Groovy, Ruby, Python, C++ and C.

Employment History

Partner
Concertant LLP
April 2007-Present

Founder partner of this new consultancy specializing is all aspects of parallelism and the effect on the world of computing of mult-core processors.

Consultant

Nov 2004-Present

Self-employed consultant, analyst, trainer and author.

Chief Technology Officer
OneEighty Software Ltd
November 1999-October 2004

Director responsible for bringing the ORIGIN technology and the ORIGIN-J product to market. Responsible for a team of 10 developers and jointly responsible for the company.

Director
It'z Interactive Ltd
May 1999-Present

Founder director of the company which specializes in Linux-based systems and software and Web-based systems for small businesses.

Professor of Computing Science
Department of Computer Science, King's College London
January 1997-May 2001

Responsible for revolutionizing the teaching programme which had become out-of-date; in particular brought Java in as the primary teaching language. Started a research program in Medical Informatics in association with Department of Psychiatry and the Maudsley Hospital. Continued research into parallel C++. For the period April 1998 onwards I was Head of Department.

Reader in Software Engineering
Department of Computer Science, University College London
September 1983-December 1996

I joined as a Lecturer in September 1983 and was promoted to Senior Lecturer then Reader in Software Engineering. I taught programming (C++ and Java) and Software Engineering. I managed the PhD programme for many years. My research focussed on programming, and parallel object-oriented programming in particular. Human issues were of particular interest. I applied for an obtained a number of funded research projects with both SRC (now EPSRC) and ESPRIT (now Framework Programme).

Systems Programmer
Department of Computer Studies, Loughborough University of Technology
September 1980-August 1983

I was responsible, jointly with the Systems Manager, for the provision of computing services for the department and for programming support to the staff and final year students. Supporting the staff turned into effectively being a research assistant on two research projects.

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