Committee Members

Julian is previous NSW State Chairman of the Australian Computer Society and was founder of the Australian Information Technology Society.  He has presented papers at conferences in the UK, USA, New Zealand, Australia, and throughout Asia. He was editor of the popular Australian magazine 'SoftWare' and has written many published articles for a variety of IT and business publications. He is a Member of the Australian Computer Society and the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Ted is Managing Director, Montrose Computer Services Pty Limited, former National Chairman, Software Quality Association (SQA) and former ASMA/SQA NSW Chairman. His specialties are Software Process Improvement, Software Project Management, Software Quality Assurance & Testing and Software Risk Management.

Ted has project managed numerous IT process improvement and certification programs and is a qualified ISO 9001, ISO 20000 and ISO 27001 lead auditor. He has run many training courses in Australia and overseas and has consulted to a wide range of clients, including Australia Post, Australian Quarantine & Inspection Service, Optus, RailCorp NSW and RTA NSW. Ted is a member of the Australian Computer Society.

Pam is the Managing Director of Total Metrics and has over 20 years experience in the area of Software Measurement.  She was a founding member of the Australian Software Metrics Association (ASMA) and held a position on the executive for 10 years including the position of President.  Pam was a founding member of International Software Benchmarking Standards Group (ISBSG) and has represented Australia on that committee since 2001, and in 2007 was elected as Vice President.  She represents Standards Australia as the international project editor of the ISO standard 14143-1 and 2 for Functional Size Measurement. 

Pam has been an IFPUG Certified Function Point Specialist (CFPS) since 1994, and a COSMIC Certified Practitioner and a Certified Software Measurement Specialist (CSMS Level 3) since 2006. In 2006 she was awarded the Australian ITP Lifetime Achievement Award for her services to the IT Industry. Pam is a regular guest speaker on the topic of software metrics at numerous international conferences in the USA, China , Japan, India, South Korea, New Zealand, Germany, South Africa , Spain, Italy and the UK. Pam is a member of the Australian Computer Society.

Melanie Cheong is an IT Consultant with over 14 years experience in the energy, commercial IT and communications sectors. Melanie has degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics and a Masters in Electrical Engineering from the University of the Witwatersrand. She is skilled in process-based ISO 9001 quality management system and enterprise architecture implementation, ISO/IEC 15504 and CMMI process assessment, ISO/IEC 38500 IT governance and audit-inspired IT security, IT risk and compliance management, non conformance investigation and reviews and IT measurement.
She has been involved in software engineering standards development and review since 1996, and has written and presented papers on emerging needs and developments in the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC7 arena and case studies on quality implementations. 
She is the past convenor of SABS StanSA SC71c WG10, the South African liaison to the workgroup develop process assessment standards, and a member of Standards Australia committee IT 030-6. 
She is past co-editor of ISO/IEC TR 20000-4: Service Management Process Reference Model and past board member of ImproveIT. 

Melanie is a member of ISACA and a Certified Software Quality Analyst.

Jeff is a founding member of the Software Quality Association (NSW) and have been the Treasurer for some 20 years.

He has been employed with the Department of Education and Training for close to 20 years as an IT Auditor and prior to that with Westpac Banking Corporation within there IT Security unit.

David Cleary is a senior consultant with CHARISMATEK Software Metrics in Melbourne.  Over more than fifteen years in the IT industry, he has worked in the areas of software project development, software tool research and development, tertiary education and software metrics and measurement.

At CHARISMATEK David provides consulting and training services to a wide range of clients.  He is also actively involved in the ongoing development of CHARISMATEK’s Function Point WORKBENCH™ software.  David has been an IFPUG Certified Function Point Specialist since 1998

Abbass Ghanbary has completed his PhD (with full scholarship) from University of Western Sydney (UWS), focusing on the issues and challenges in incorporating Web Services in Businesses Integration and creating a model for Collaborative Business Process Engineering. Abbass works as a consultant in the industry; he also teaches in various universities such as UWS and Australian Catholic University (ACU).

Abbass has numerous publications in conferences, book chapters and has submitted his co-authored book in the area of business process engineering and service collaboration as a framework for organisations integration. He is also a member of Australian Computer Society (ACS) and is active in attending various forums, seminars and discussions

Ms Robyn Lawrie is a director and principle consultant for CHARISMATEK Software Metrics.  She has more than 35 years of IT Industry experience. A major focus of her career is the improvement of the software process in general and, in particular, the use of metrics in Software Requirements Management.

Robyn provides consultancy and training services in Software Measurement, both in Australia and internationally.  She is speaker at various conferences, such as the Australian Conference on Software Measurement (ACOSM) and International Function Point Users Group (IFPUG). She is a member of a number of IFPUG Working Committees.

Robyn is the Subject Matter Expert and Product Manager for CHARISMATEK’s Function Point WORKBENCH™.  

Emilia Mendes is Associate Professor in Computer Science at the University of Auckland (New Zealand). She has active research interests in the areas of Empirical Web & Software Engineering, Evidence-based research, Hypermedia, Computer Science & Software Engineering education, in which areas she has published widely and over 100 refereed publications, which include two books (one edited (2005) and one authored (2007)). A/Prof. Mendes is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology, the Journal of Web Engineering, the Journal of Software Measurement, the International Journal of Software Engineering and Its Applications, and the Empirical Software Engineering Journal. She worked in the software industry for ten years before obtaining in 1999 her PhD in Computer Science from the University of Southampton (UK), and moving to Auckland. .  

Graeme is an IFPUG certified Function Point Counting Specialist and has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Administration. He is also a Member of the Australian Computer Society and the Australian Institute of Management.

Graeme works for the Commonwealth Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations in Canberra in the ESG Program Office where he directs and manages the sizing of ESG’s IT investment using IFPUG Function Points, and maintains a database tracking the distribution and growth of ESG's applications.

He also mentors staff on schedule maintenance, administers the Microsoft Project server and runs Project Risk and Implementation Reviews.

Paul Wilkins is a Certified Function Point Specialist (CFPS) with IBM and has presented papers at ACOSM and IFPUG conferences. He leads a team of Software Metrics Analysts, engaged in the estimation, sizing and productivity analysis of projects for both potential and existing clients. He is also a trained and skilled communicator, coach and mentor within the Rostrum movement and the Business Skills program of Young Achievement Australia, working with small to medium sized groups of senior secondary students, business persons and retirees. In 2008, he won the SA Rostrum Speaker of the Year competition.