Ian Wilkie – Technical Director 

Ian joined Kennedy Carter in 1990. Ian is responsible for defining Kennedy Carter’s product development strategy; producing product development plans; and for liaising with and contributing to international standards bodies. As such, Ian represented Kennedy Carter in the OMG effort that resulted in the adoption of the UML Action Semantics and is now working on Kennedy Carter’s submission to the OMG for the adoption of an executable UML standard. Ian is a recognised authority in modelling with executable UML and an expert in the use of Kennedy Carter 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 form the University of Edinburgh and a Ph.D. in High Energy Physics from the University of Glasgow.

Chris Raistrick – Director, Consulting Services

Chris joined Kennedy Carter in 1989. Chris is a member of Kennedy Carter’s Board of Directors and is responsible for managing all professional services. Over the last nineteen years, He has prepared and delivered training courses for a variety of software development methodologies. Chris has also provided consultancy on object-oriented methods and executable UML for large projects which include military avionics, telecommunications, and naval command and control systems. Today, Chris is Kennedy Carter’s lead expert in the modelling of complex systems and has completed modelling assignments for customers in military avionics, command and control systems and healthcare.

Chris has a degree in Data Processing and a Diploma in Industrial Studies both from Loughborough University.