====== Candidate Application for Bill Chown ======


Title: Product Line Director, System Level Engineering, Mentor Graphics; CIO, INCOSE

First Name / Prenom: Bill

Last Name / Surname: Chown

Conference Sponsor: NA

Professional Affiliation: Mentor Graphics

===== Brief Biography / CV =====

Bill Chown,

Bill Chown is product marketing director for the System-Level Engineering division at Mentor Graphics, a leading Electronic Design Automation (EDA) vendor. 

EE degree from the University of Wales

MBA from the University of Oregon

Bill worked in design and systems engineering in the UK, managing projects through to manufacture and production test, before moving to the US semiconductor industry with Intersil Semiconductor.

He has worked in EDA and test software development with Mentor Graphics, Summit Design/TSSI, Integrated Measurement Systems and Credence. 
A three decade design automation industry veteran, Bill currently specializes in system-level design, analysis and management across technology disciplines. 

He has been involved with standards activities for many years, and is currently a Board member of OMG, a member of the OASIS OSLC Steering Committee, and Board member and CIO of INCOSE. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, and IEEE CS.

Email: cio@incose.org 

===== Position Statement =====

Integration between software tools intended to be used together in a work flow remains challenging. 
While individual software providers address some of these challenges, often in discipline-specific ways, the problem is compounded when work flows employ best in class tools contributed by different suppliers. 
Increasing the productivity of an engineering team and improving first time quality of its end product requires maintaining coordination and synchronization of the information needed between software environments. 

We look at an innovative solution to this problem based on OSLC, extended by a focused approach to incorporate a central organizing structure for data tracking, history and analysis. 
Additionally, a plugin augments each connected tool with communication, GUI and data access that enables direct participation in the lifecycle without discontinuities and losses associated with separate tools and flows. This strategy is applied across many different design and analysis disciplines to effectively and efficiently augment current tools and flows and increase systems engineering and design productivity.