Who are you?  I am Stephen J. Mellor.  My card reads “Freeter”, a Japanese word, derived from English, that means “free agent.”  I was previously Chief Scientist of the Embedded Systems Division at Mentor Graphics Corporation.  In 2004, MGC acquired Project Technology, Inc., the company I founded in 1985 to “make software development a rational, controllable, predictable process.”

What do you do?  I explain, with clarity and humor, the intricacies of real-time and embedded systems model-driven development, in both presentations and text.  I speak at commercial conferences such as the Embedded Systems Conference, academic conferences, such as «MODELS», in public courses, and in private settings.  I have also written several books:

• Structured Development for Real-Time Systems (Vols 1-3)
• Object-Oriented Analysis: Modeling the World (Two volumes)
• Executable UML: A Foundation for Model-Driven Architecture
• MDA Distilled: Principles of Model-Driven Architecture.

What else do you do?  I am a prime mover at the Object Management Group (OMG), having proposed and submitted several executable UML-related standards. I was also elected to the Architecture Board, the final technical gateway for all standards adopted by the OMG. And I have sat on their Board of Directors."

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