Mandy Chessell Explained

Mandy Chessell
Birth Date:ca 1965
Birth Place:Bath, England
Citizenship:British
Nationality:English
Field:Computer Science, Software Engineering
Work Institution:IBM
Known For:software inventions, innovation, model-driven software development tools, information management, design patterns
Prizes:Silver Medal Royal Academy of Engineering, BCS Karen Burt Prize, FREng, Female Inventor, Best Woman in Corporate Sector (2006 Blackberry Women and Technology Awards), Innovator of the Year (2012 Cisco Everywoman in Technology), Doctorate of Science (Plymouth University)
Footnotes:BSc, MSc, FREng, CEng, FBCS, HonFIED, Distinguished Engineer, Master Inventor, Member of the IBM Academy of Technology, CBE

Amanda Elizabeth Chessell is a computer scientist and a Distinguished Engineer at IBM.[1] She has been awarded the title of IBM Master Inventor. She is also a Member of the IBM Academy of Technology.

Outside IBM, Chessell is the first woman to be awarded the Silver Medal of the Royal Academy of Engineering.[2] In 2002 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.[3]

Chessell is a visiting professor[4] at the University of Sheffield[5] and at the Surrey Centre for the Digital Economy (CoDE)[6] at the University of Surrey.

Career at IBM

Mandy Chessell joined IBM in 1987.[7] She is based at IBM's Hursley laboratory located near Winchester in Hampshire, UK.[8]

Her early work focused on distributed transaction processing, adding features to products such as CICS, Encina, Component Broker and WebSphere Application Server. She has also work on event management, business process modelling and outside-in design (OID).

Then she focused on developing model-driven tools to simplify the analysis and design of large systems and then to automate their development. This work covers the development of user interfaces, services, information integration technology in the field of Master Data Management.

Her work today is focused on data lake architectures, metadata management and information governance. She is the Chair of the ODPi Technical Steering Committee (TSC)[9] and leader of the ODPi Egeria Project[10]

Chessell frequently lectures on topics related to Computer Science and, in particular, innovation. Such lectures take place at universities such as Queen Mary University of London.[11]

She was also one of the 30 women identified in the BCS Women in IT Campaign in 2014.[12] Who were then featured in the e-book "Women in IT: Inspiring the next generation" produced by the BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT.[13]

Achievements

In 2000, she was among the first group of MIT Technology Review magazine's TR100.

In 2001, she won the Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal for the invention and engineering of Reusable Software Component Architecture.[14]

In 2002, she was elected a Fellow of The Royal Academy of Engineering.[15]

In 2004, Chessell won the British Computer Society nomination for the Women's Engineering Society "Karen Burt" award.[16]

In 2006, Chessell won a Female Inventor of the Year Award for building capacity for innovation.[17]

Also in 2006, Chessell was awarded a prize for the Best Woman in the Corporate Sector at the Blackberry Women in Technology awards.[18]

In 2011, Chessell was made an honorary fellow of the Institution of Engineering Designers (IED).[19]

In 2012, Chessell received Innovator of the Year at the Cisco everywoman in Technology Awards.[20]

In 2013, Chessell received an Honorary Doctor of Science from Plymouth University.[21]

In 2015, Chessell received an Honorary Doctorate of Technology from University of Brighton.[22]

She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2015 New Year Honours for services to engineering.[23]

In 2016, Chessell was named in the Top 50 Influential Women in Engineering List 2016[24] and received an Honorary Doctorate of Technology from University of South Wales[25]

In 2017, Chessell received an Honorary Doctor of Science from University of Bath.[26]

Education

Chessell studied Computer Science from an early age and has both an O-Level and an A-Level in the subject. She studied at Plymouth Polytechnic up to 1987[27] and obtained a Bachelors Honours Degree in Computing with Informatics.[28]

Subsequently, Chessell joined IBM in 1987 at Hursley Park, Winchester where she studied for a master's degree in software engineering at the University of Brighton (completed in 1997). Her studies at Brighton were sponsored by IBM.[28]

Publications

Lectures

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Articles - Professor Mandy Chessell FREng.
  2. Web site: "RAEng Silver Medal". raeng.org.uk. 26 February 2007. https://web.archive.org/web/20131016033023/http://www.raeng.org.uk/prizes/silver/winners_2000-2004.htm. 16 October 2013. dead.
  3. Web site: "FREng2002". raeng.org.uk. 26 October 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20131029195235/http://www.raeng.org.uk/about/fellowship/fellowslist.htm?Page=13&Size=20. 29 October 2013. dead.
  4. Web site: Professor Mandy Chessell featured in Ingenia - 2009 - News - About the Department - Computer Science - The University of Sheffield. University of. Sheffield. www.sheffield.ac.uk. 3 April 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20181212034339/https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/dcs/about/news/2009/chessellingenia09. 12 December 2018. dead.
  5. Web site: The University of Sheffield. www.dcs.shef.ac.uk. 3 April 2017. 30 September 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180930020655/http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/cgi-bin/makeperson?A.Chessell. dead.
  6. Web site: Home - Surrey CoDE. www.surreycode.org. 23 March 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20180831105352/https://surreycode.org/. 31 August 2018. dead.
  7. Web site: Articles - Professor Mandy Chessell FREng. www.ingenia.org.uk.
  8. News: Women and tech: Why don't girls want to be geeks? . 20 September 2013 . Wakefield, Jane . BBC News . 3 August 2012.
  9. https://www.odpi.org/about/governance https://www.odpi.org/about/governance
  10. https://github.com/odpi/egeria/blob/master/pom.xml https://github.com/odpi/egeria/blob/master/pom.xml
  11. Web site: Queen Mary University of London. qmul.ac.uk. 26 February 2007. https://web.archive.org/web/20120205071126/http://www.dcs.qmul.ac.uk/newsevents/detail.php?n=117. 5 February 2012. dead.
  12. Web site: Mandy Chessell . British Computer Society. 13 April 2017.
  13. Book: Women in IT: Inspiring the next generation. 1 Oct 2014. British Computer Society. 978-1-78017-287-3. 57. 14 Oct 2014.
  14. Web site: Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal. raeng.org.uk. 26 February 2007. https://web.archive.org/web/20131016033023/http://www.raeng.org.uk/prizes/silver/winners_2000-2004.htm. 16 October 2013. dead.
  15. Web site: The Fellowship – List of Fellows. raeng.org.uk. 29 July 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20140720025418/https://www.raeng.org.uk/about/fellowship/fellowslist.htm. 20 July 2014. dead.
  16. Web site: BCS Nominees - Karen Burt Award - Awards and competitions - Events - BCS - The Chartered Institute for IT. www.bcs.org. 26 February 2007. https://web.archive.org/web/20070930222102/http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=nav.8187. 30 September 2007. dead.
  17. http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.3474 http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.3474
  18. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6111090.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6111090.stm
  19. http://www.ied.org.uk http://www.ied.org.uk
  20. http://www.everywoman.com/techawards/finalists http://www.everywoman.com/techawards/finalists
  21. http://www1.plymouth.ac.uk/graduation/honorarydegrees/honoraries2013/Pages/Amanda-Chessell.aspx http://www1.plymouth.ac.uk/graduation/honorarydegrees/honoraries2013/Pages/Amanda-Chessell.aspx
  22. https://www.brighton.ac.uk/about-us/news-and-events/news/2015/07-31-award-for-software-pioneer.aspx https://www.brighton.ac.uk/about-us/news-and-events/news/2015/07-31-award-for-software-pioneer.aspx
  23. https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/391413/New_Year_Honours_List_2015.pdf 2015 New Year Honours List
  24. http://www.wes.org.uk/we50 http://www.wes.org.uk/we50
  25. http://www.southwales.ac.uk/about/graduation/honorary-awards-2016/professor-amanda-chessell-freng-ceng-fbcs-honfied "Honorary Doctorate of Technology, University of South Wales"
  26. http://www.bath.ac.uk/corporate-information/professor-amanda-elizabeth-chessell-cbe-freng-oration/ http://www.bath.ac.uk/corporate-information/professor-amanda-elizabeth-chessell-cbe-freng-oration/
  27. http://www1.plymouth.ac.uk/graduation/honorarydegrees/honoraries2013/Pages/Amanda-Chessell.aspx Honorary Doctorates of Plymouth University
  28. http://archive.bcs.org/BCS/Products/publishing/itnow/OnlineArchive/jan02/interview.htm http://archive.bcs.org/BCS/Products/publishing/itnow/OnlineArchive/jan02/interview.htm

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