Robert Maksimchuk has worked in systems and software development for over 30 years in a wide variety of industries such as finance, telecommunication, aerospace, industrial process control and ISV.  His activities have reached from tactical to strategic, holding a variety of roles ranging from Software and Hardware Engineer, System Integrator, System Architect, Project Manager, Market Manager, and Director of Research among others. The projects he has worked on spanned from batch processing, to distributed data dissemination, to real-time command and control sytems. Robert specializes in systems modeling and object-oriented analysis and design.  Robert is also a Certified ScrumMaster. 

As well as being an active practitioner, Robert is also a published author:

Books:      

• Object-Oriented Analysis and Design, Third Edition; Booch, Maksimchuk, et. al.; ISBN 0-201-89551-X; Addison-Wesley; 2007
• UML for Mere Mortals; Maksimchuk and Naiburg; ISBN 0-321-24624-1, Addison-Wesley; 2004  (Acknowledged as one of the “Best Books of the Year 2004” by the Journal of Object Technology)
• UML for Database Design; Naiburg and Maksimchuk; ISBN 0-201-72163-5; Addison-Wesley; 2001

Articles:

• Entity Relationship Modeling With UML; Maksimchuk and Naiburg; dataWarehouse.com and DMreview.com; Jan. 2003
• You Build Software, Not Houses; The Rational Edge; Dec. 2002
• Tearing Down the Walls; DMreview.com; April 2001                      
• Rose UNIX to the Risk-Cue; Rose Architect; Fall 1999

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