Who's involved
Professor Barry Dwolatzky
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Prof. Barry Dwolatzky was appointed the Director of the Joburg Centre for Software Engineering (JCSE) in May 2007. Prior to that, he was academic director at the JCSE and a Professor in the School of Electrical and Information Engineering at Wits.
Prof. Dwolatzky’s driving passion is to promote the growth and development of the South African software industry. He set up the Information Engineering option in Electrical Engineering at Wits and developed a course-based Masters programme in Software Engineering, which was registered as a Learnership within the SA Government’s skills development framework. He also played a key role in the founding of the JCSE in 2005. Prof. Dwolatzky has published over 40 research papers in journals and conferences and has supervised 24 MSc students and three PhD’s.
He joined Wits in 1989, returning to the university he graduated and received a doctorate from, after working in Britain on software-related research at the Universities of Manchester (UMIST), London (Imperial College) and the GEC-Marconi Research Centre for 10 years.
Lance Stewart
Lance Stewart first became associated with the JCSE when he attended the Introduction to CMMI course.
He has since become an authorised SEI Introduction to CMMI v1.2 instructor as well as an SEI authorised SCAMPI B/C Team Lead. He has taught the introductory course more than 6 times, has lead two SCAMPI class B appraisals, and has been an appraisal team member in class A, B, and C appraisals. Lance is currently the project manager of the “Bringing CMMI to South Africa project”, co-ordinating and managing the JCSE’s CMMI activities in more than ten pilot organisations .
Lance has been involved in education and training for the major part of his working career and is committed to the skilling and training of individuals in order for them to contribute positively to society. Lance also taught at primary and secondary levels at schools in Westbury and Eldorado Park. Before his exit from the corporate environment, Lance, as Senior Manager, headed a performance management and monitoring unit which was charged with ensuring that the strategic performance monitoring of the organisation was practiced according to agreed upon criteria with the organisation’s shareholder.
Lance obtained a BA degree at the University of South Africa, an MBA from the University of the Witwatersrand and completed the Senior Management Programme at the University of Stellenbosch.
Adrian Schofield
Born in the south of England, Adrian’s career began in the retail petroleum industry and later moved into casino administration. Adrian emigrated to Southern Africa in 1981 (acquiring South African citizenship in the new democracy), where he has worked in casino management, in financial computer systems, in payroll processing, in software development & sales before moving into recruitment & contracting of IT skills, then on to technical training before joining CompTIA in January 2000 as the regional International Sales & Marketing Director. From 2003 to 2005, he carried out consulting contracts with ISETT SETA, SAP and City of Joburg/Wits University. He joined ForgeAhead in March 2005, where he was Head of Consulting until moving to the Joburg Centre for Software Engineering in 2008 as Manager: Applied Research Unit. Adrian has spent 20 years being involved in activities to promote standards and growth in the ICT sector.
- President of Computer Society South Africa;
- Chairman of the African Federation of ICT Associations;
- Member of the Steering Committee of the SAVANT Project to promote the capacity of the South African ICT industry;
- Member of the Industry Advisory Body for NEMISA;
- Chairman of the Wanderers Club
Estelle Trengove
Estelle is the JCSE head of research and a lecturer in the School of Electrical and Information Engineering at Wits University. She worked as a journalist for several years before qualifying as an electrical engineer. She then worked as a project engineer in industry for seven years before joining Wits as a lecturer in 1999. She is also one of the instructors of the “Introduction to CMMI course”.
Dr Pieter van Zyl
Pieter works with Nedbank and is partly seconded to the JCSE as part of Nedbank’s membership contribution to the JCSE. He is an instructor of the “Introduction to CMMI course” and a SCAMPI ( Standard CMMI Appraisal Method for Process Improvement) lead appraiser and leads appraisal teams to determine companies’ CMMI maturity or capability level rating.
Reinier Olivier
Renier is a Senior Manager at Nedbank and like van Zyl is partly seconded to the JCSE as part of Nedbank’s membership contribution to the JCSE. He is an instructor of the “Introduction to CMMI course”.