UKSMA Committee Structure

The day to day running of UKSMA is carried out by the management committee and several other sub-committees, each with its own areas of responsibility, the members of which are all volunteers.

Management Committee Member Profiles

Professional Name:	Rosemary Hewitt
Current employment:	Steria
Title:	Software Measurement Consultant APM Service Line
UKSMA Board Responsibility:	Chair
Member's Experience in Metrics Rosemary is a Project Manager, Function Point Counter and Estimator at Steria.

Professional Name:	Mike Eagles
Current employment:	Capgemini UK (Aspire)
Title:	Senior Metrics Analyst
UKSMA Board Responsibility:	Deputy Chair
Member's Experience in Metrics Over 20 years experience in IT industry, both in the Public and Private sector. Previous roles as Requirements Analyst, Developer, Database Design, Live Service Support Team Leader and Project Lead. Currently providing Training and support in MkII FPA on the Aspire account supporting HMRC. Also interested in COSMIC and internal initiatives looking at project estimation.

Professional Name:	Clifford Shelley
Current employment:	Oxford Software Engineering
Title:	Consulting Software Engineer
UKSMA Board Responsibility:	Company secretary; METRONOS project co-ordinator
Member's Experience in Metrics Consulting Software Engineer with OSEL, happy helping investigate and fix problems, and sharing good practice. Currently chair of British Computer Society SPIN SG. And a lapsed Scrum master. Previously a programmer (mathematical modelling, product and tool development) in atomic energy and power industries. Later a software engineer and quality engineer with Hewlett Packard then Racal Electronics. I believe I was the first user of CMM outside US while at Racal in 1989. (Actually it was CMU/SEI-87-TR-23.) Before that a geophysicist with the British Antarctic Survey and high energy astrophysics research. Specialties: Software engineering, Software process engineering, Software measurement and analysis SPI, and trainer and speaker.

Professional Name:	Grant Bayne
Current employment:	Gartner UK
Title:	Associate Director, Benchmark Analytics, Gartner UK
Member's Experience in Metrics Grant Bayne is an Associate Director in Gartner Benchmark Analytics, based in the United Kingdom. Mr. Bayne has more than 25 years of experience in the IT industry, and has been with Gartner since 1995. His primary area of expertise is performance management for applications development and support, and he works within the EMEA Application Development and Support benchmarking service. Grant has worked on more than 100 applications benchmark engagements with companies around the world. In addition, he has taken part in several SEI­CMM/CMMI (the Software Engineering Institute’s Capability Maturity Model/Capability Maturity Model Integration) assessments. He also provides advice and training on performance management, software process improvement, software metrics programmes and software sizing and estimation. Grant earned a bachelor of science degree in actuarial mathematics and statistics from Heriot­Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Professional Name:	Dr. Carol M Buttle
Current employment:	Assurance Matters [BBS IT Associates Ltd.]
Title:	Technical Director

Professional Name:	Peter Fagg
Current employment:	Pentad Limited and Pentad-SE Ltd
Title:	Managing Director
Member's Experience in Metrics Peter founded Pentad Limited in 1994 and initially focused on Project Planning and Estimation. Since then he has extended his interest into other areas of measurement, particularly Functional Size Measurement. He has been a committee member of UKSMA for many years and was part of the team that developed the FPA MkII FPA Measurement Manual and other UKSMA publications. He served on the IFPUG Counting Practices Committee for several years and was involved in the production of Version 4.1 of the IFPUG Counting Practices Manual. More recently he joined COSMIC as a Core Member, is a UK Representative on the COSMIC International Advisory Committee and is a member of the Metrics Practices Committee. He was the Chairman of BSI Committee IST/-15 charged with delivering Standards in the domain of Information Systems and Technology.  He played an active role in the work of ISO/SC7/WG12 leading to the production of International Standards for FPA MkII, COSMIC and IFPUG; currently focussing on Systems and Software Architecture He hold certificate in competency for FPA MkII, COSMIC, and CMMi Team Member. In between Peter has managed to fit in real paid work for many organisations, mainly assignments as CMMi assessment team member, to perform measurements,  or to teach others to do it.

Professional Name:	Kristina Masuwa-Morgan
Current employment:	Canterbury Christ Church University
Title:	Faculty Technology Enhanced Learning/IM Co-ordinator
UKSMA Board Responsibility:	Web Secretary; Membership Secretary
Member's Experience in Metrics Analyst programmer (various organisations and consultancy). Lecturer in Systems, Analysis and Design; Software engineering and Human-Computer Interfaces specialising in accessibility requirements specification and general areas of usability engineering; web development, eBusiness, Direct Marketing and Decision Making. Chartered IT Professional of the British Computer Society (BCS)

Professional Name:

Rob Ratcliff

Member's Experience in Metrics Rob worked as Service Performance Manager at Xchanging in Chatham, Kent. He also managed a Project Support Office at Steria where he also worked as a Project Manager;  Function Point Counter; and as an Estimator. He has also worked for Lloyd’s Of London where he managed a Benchmarking Exercise; Managed a Project Support Office; worked in the roles of Function Point Counter and Development Team Leader.