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Our Team
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Chris Raistrick
Chris joined Kennedy Carter in 1989 and joined Abstract Solutions when it took over the business in 2010. Chris is responsible for managing all professional services. Over the last thirty years, he has developed and delivered training courses for a variety of software development methodologies. Chris has also provided consultancy on use of the OMG’s Model Driven Architecture and Unified Modelling Language for large projects which include military, telecommunications, and automotive systems. Today, Chris is Abstract Solutions’ lead expert in the modelling of complex systems.
Chris has a BSc in Computer Science and a Diploma in Industrial Studies both from Loughborough University. He is an OMG Certified Advanced UML Professional, and an OMG Certified Advanced Real-Time & Embedded Systems Specialist. He also has IBM Professional Certification for Rhapsody in C++.
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Mark Slater
Mark joined Kennedy Carter in 2008 and was co-founder of Abstract Solutions when it acquired the Kennedy Carter business in 2010. Mark is responsible for sales and marketing strategy and operations in addition to managing the key business partner relationships with IBM and Axilica. Previously Mark has held sales management leadership positions delivering significant revenue growth at software engineering tools suppliers Serena, Compuware, Merant and CAST.
Mark has a BSc in Chemistry from the University of Nottingham.
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Ian Wilkie
Ian joined Kennedy Carter in 1990 and was co-founder of Abstract Solutions when it took over the Kennedy Carter business in 2010. Ian is responsible for defining Abstract Solutions’ product development strategy; producing product development plans; and for liaising with and contributing to international standards bodies. As such, Ian represented the company in the OMG effort that resulted in the adoption of the UML Action Semantics. Ian is a recognised authority in modelling with executable UML and an expert in the use of Abstract Solutions‘ tools to address software development challenges across many vertical markets. He continues to be involved in some of the company’s most challenging customer projects which include the development of a SPARK Ada code generator for a UK customer, feasibility studies into use of executable UML for specifying System-on-Chip hardware and defining the architecture for a complex multi-threaded, multi-process code generator.
Ian has a BSc in Physics from the University of Edinburgh and a Ph.D. in High Energy Physics from the University of Glasgow.
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