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	Name: Dr. Jim Cooling BSc, PhD, CEng, FIEE, MIEEE Specialities: Real-time Design, Embedded Systems

Present Position
Partner, Lindentree Associates.

Background
12 years service with the Royal Air Force; Systems Designer, flight control, with British Aircraft Corporation; Electronic Circuit and Systems Designer, later Project Manager, Naval Electronic Control Systems, Marconi Radar Systems Ltd.; Research Fellow, Loughborough University; Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer, Loughborough University; Consultant and partner, Lindentree Associates.

Research and Design Experience

Flight control system design
Electronic system design (analogue, digital and processor-based), including high temperature electronic systems.
Analogue and digital control systems - conventional and adaptive control techniques - for servo and process control applications.
Local Area Networks for real-time vehicle applications.
Operating systems and scheduling policies for real-time embedded systems including the development of hardware scheduling coprocessors.
Software design methods/methodologies for real-time systems.
Safety critical software systems.
Animation techniques, prototyping and formal specifications for real-time embedded systems.
Programming languages: CORAL66, PL/M-51, PL/M-80, BASIC, PASCAL, Modula-2, Ada 83, Ada 95, C, C++, Java and Assembler.

Previous Consultancies
Marconi Command and Control Systems, Leicester; Tesel Services Ltd., Basingstoke; Loughborough Consultants Ltd.; Institute for Consumer Ergonomics, Loughborough University; Jaguar Cars Ltd., Coventry; Negretti Aviation Ltd., Southampton; Future Computers Ltd., Croydon; JBM Microsystems Ltd. Ashby de la Zouch; Rolls Royce and Associates, Derby; Transmitton Ltd., Ashby de la Zouch; Dowty Maritime Systems Ltd., Feltham; Learning Tree International, UK; Rational Software Corp., UK; Artisan Software Tools Ltd., Cheltenham; Robinson Associates, Painswick, UK; Sterling Software Ltd., Chertsey; Electronic Arts, Vancouver, Canada, Mars Electronics International, Wokingham; GKN Westland Helicopters Ltd., Yeovil; West Instruments Ltd., Brighton.

Professional Activities

Chairman, MISRA UML Working Group
Member, Technical Advisory Panel, IEE Microelectronics and Embedded Systems Professional Network.
Editorial board member for the journal 'Microprocessors and Microsystems'.
European Editor for the journal 'Microprocessors and Microsystems', 1992-2003.
Member, IEE Professional Group A1, 1996-1999.

Miscellaneous Items

Invited reviewer and assessor - Motor Industry Software Reliability Association Development Guidelines for Vehicle Based Software, 1994.
Invited reviewer - BSI IST/15/-/202 Documents Information content for System Definition, 1994.
Research advisor, Slovene Ministry of Science (1992).
Invited guest lecturer, Centro Tecnico Aeroespacial, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, 1994.
Academic expertise
Conference activities