Marco van Meegen

Finishing my master degree in computer science at RWTH Aachen with Excellence, for two years I worked in the R&D department of Siemens on rapid prototyping and automated software development. In 1993 I started my carreer as a professional IT consultant. Including the projects I have done during and after University this sums up to over 20 years of experience in Software Development using Waterfall, RUP and in the last 10 years agile processes.

My special interest is the software development process and how it can be made easier and more reliable.

To avoid the conceptual gap between modelling and implementation, my favorite approach (and from experience the most efficient) is pragmatic and agile; bottom up from the code.

In my work for big companies like Siemens, Datev, BMW, Nokia and many more I have covered all roles needed to develop big software systems like:

• Requirements Engineering
• System Design and Software Architecture
• Implementation
• Test
• Process Management and Optimization
• Project Management
• Build and Configuration Management
• Coaching

Technological Fields of Expertise are

Java Enterprise Edition: especially the most difficult things like BPM, EAI, Messaging and SOA with more than 10 years of architecture and deep technological experience

Eclipse RCP : Building complex systems using a model driven Architecture based on EMF,  form based GUIs using RCPForms and graphical editors using EMF, GEF, GMF and a whole lot of other Eclipse APIs, more than 8 years of experience