Gavin Oddy

SFC Software Forensics Centre

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Gavin Oddy has well over twenty years’ experience in industrial research, development, technical and programme management. He started his career at Marconi Research Centre where he worked in real-time software and systems engineering R&D. After contributing to and leading a number of development projects his main research interests became development methods and environments, reuse and high-integrity systems. Gavin was a significant contributor to numerous national and European collaborative research projects and programmes in these areas. He was the author of technical papers and publications, a presenter at seminars and conferences, a member of professional, technical and conference programme committees, a referee for professional journals and a proposal evaluator and project reviewer for publicly funded industrial research projects. He continued to mix his research interests with involvement in development projects in which the research could be applied. Amongst these projects was the Boeing 777 flight control system, in which he contributed to the safety analysis of the methods and tools deployed. He was a leading contributor to the MOD’s standard for the development of safety-related software, DEF-STAN 00-55.

He then moved into technical management. He became Technical Director of GEC’s systems and software house, EASAMS, where he had responsibility for technology, engineering, quality, business improvement and IT across a business that employed more than 1000 people on ten sites. During this time he was also engaged by other GEC businesses to review many major high-technology development programmes.

As Technical Director of GEC’s newly created Corporate Programmes Office, Gavin had responsibility for selecting and overseeing the technologies and technical strategies deployed in a number of major business improvement programmes across GEC and Marconi. This included a project to design and to prototype a means of deploying networked hand-held computers to all of the company’s 50,000 employees world-wide. His last project with Marconi, completed in 2002, was the design of a global corporate business system. He is currently working as an independent consultant.

Gavin holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge and a Postgraduate Diploma in Management Development from the University of Coventry. He is a member of the BCS, the IEEE and the IoD.