Mandy Chessell
FREng CEng FBCS
Mandy has worked for IBM since 1987. She is an IBM Distinguished
Engineer, IBM Master Inventor, and member of the IBM Academy of
Technology Leadership Team. As the chief architect for InfoSphere®
Solutions in IBM’s Software Group, Mandy designs common information
integration patterns for different industries and solutions.
In earlier roles, Mandy’s work has focused on transaction
processing, event management, business process management,
information management, and model-driven development. This breadth
is reflected in her invention portfolio, which to date stands at
over 50 issued patents worldwide.
Outside of IBM, Mandy is a fellow of the Royal Academy of
Engineering and a visiting professor at the University of
Sheffield, UK. In 2001, she was the first woman to be awarded a
Silver Medal by the Royal Academy of Engineering, and in 2000, she
was one of the “TR100” young innovators identified by MIT’s
Technology Review magazine. In 2006, she won a British Female
Innovators and Inventors Network (BFIIN) “Building Capability”
award for her work developing innovative people and the BlackBerry
“2006 Best Woman in Technology - Corporate Sector” award. More
recently, she was granted an honorary fellowship of the Institution
for Engineering Designers (IED) and she won the “2012 everywoman
Innovator of the Year.” For more information on Mandy’s
publications, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Chessell.
Harald Smith
Harald has worked for IBM since 2005. Harald is a software
architect in IBM’s Software Group specializing in information
quality, integration, and governance products, and is IBM certified
in delivering IBM Information Management solutions. In this role,
he develops best practices, methodology, and accelerators for
common information integration use cases.
Harald has 30 years of experience working with data quality
products and solutions; product and project management; application
development and delivery; system auditing; technical services; and
business processes across the software, financial services,
healthcare, and education sectors. Harald was the product manager
at Ascential® Software and IBM responsible for designing and
bringing the IBM InfoSphere Information Analyzer product to market
as a key component in IBM’s information quality portfolio. He has
been issued three patents in the field of information quality and
rule discovery and was recently recognized as an IBM developer-
Works Contributing Author.
His publications include the IBM developerWorks articles “The
information perspective of SOA design” [parts 6, 7, and 8], “Use
IBM WebSphere® AuditStage in a federated database environment,”
“Using pre-built rule definitions with IBM InfoSphere Information
Analyzer,” “Designing an integration landscape with IBM InfoSphere
Foundation Tools and Information Server” [part 1], and “Best
practices for IBM InfoSphere Blueprint Director” [parts 1 and 2].
For the IBM InfoSphere Information Server documentation, Harald
contributed to the “IBM InfoSphere Information Analyzer Methodology
and Best Practices Guide” and “IBM Info- Sphere Information Server
Integration Scenario Guide”; he has also contributed to three IBM
Redbooks®.
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