Dr Bruce Douglass
Chief Evangelist, IBM Rational
Bruce Powel Douglass is the Chief Evangelist for IBM Rational® with over 30 years specializing in the development of real-time and embedded systems and software.
He is the author of the IBM Rational Harmony™ for Embedded RealTime Development (Harmony/ERT) process. He and Peter Hoffmann developed the original Harmony process that combined systems and software engineering with a well specified hand-off for a smooth, integrated workflow.
Bruce is a well known speaker and member of the Advisory board of the Embedded Systems Conference and UML World Conference. He is also an invited speaker at many other conferences, such as Embedded World (Germany), Embedded Systems (Japan), SET (Switzerland), OOP (Germany), and Software Development. The special “Bruce’s night” at the Embedded World show has been popular for many years.
In his role at IBM, he provides both consulting and advanced training in the application of UML®, SysML, and DoDAF to not only IBM Rational customers, but also to IBM’s own professional service engineers and application engineers, R&D, and marketing.
Bruce developed the IBM Rational Rhapsody® DoDAF profile that currently ships with the product as well as a Safety Analysis Profile that allows engineers to include Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) diagrams, Fault Means and Effect Analysis (FMEA), and hazard analysis in their models.
Bruce can be followed on Twitter @BruceDouglass and on Facebook. In addition, he runs the Real-Time Agility Community of Practice and the Real-Time UML yahoo technical group (link resides outside of ibm.com). See also, the IBM System of Systems Web page and his developerWorks blog.