César González-Pérez

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 Curriculum

PRESENT POSITIONS:
Researcher at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) since 2008.
Scientific advisor for Neco Information Technologies since 2002.

DEGREES:
Doctor’s degree in Geography and History, University of Santiago de Compostela, 2000.
Diploma in Computing, Open University, 1998.
MA in Applied Electronics, School of Industrial Organization, 1992.
Degree in Biology (Fundamental Biology), University of Santiago de Compostela, 1990.

 Work & Activities

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY:
Director of R&D Projects in the European Software Institute (2005-2007).
Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Software Engineering, University of Technology, Sydney (2004-2005).
Post-doctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Software Engineering, University of Technology, Sydney (2002-2004).
Founder and director of Neco Tecnoloxías da Información S.L. (1999-2003).
Coordinator of the Services of Information Technologies, Laboratory of Archaeology and Cultural Forms, University of Santiago de Compostela (1992–1999).
-System analyst, Data Processing Centre, Consellería de Economía e Facenda, Xunta de Galicia (1993-1997).

AREAS OF INTEREST:
Method engineering.
Metamodelling and development of formal languages.
Conceptual and information modelling.
Project management and organization of working parties.
Implementation of the information technologies to the research and management of the cultural heritage.

SELECTED EXPERIENCE:
Founder and leader of one of the firs spin-off firms of the University of Santiago de Compostela: Neco Tecnoloxías da Información S. L. (1999).
Coeditor and author of the project for a review about graphic notation to the standard ISO/IEC 24744 “Software Engineering - Metamodel for Development Methodologies”, developed by the JTC1 SC7 WG19 of ISO since 2007.
Coeditor and author of the international standard ISO/IEC 24744 “Software Engineering Metamodel for Development Methodologies”, developed by the JTC1 SC7 WG19 of ISO (2004-2007).
Author of the standard AS4651-2004 “Standard Metamodel for Software Development Methodologies”, published by Standards Australia (2004).
Researcher in the project “OOSPICE (Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination for Object-Oriented / Component-Based Development)”, partially financed by the 5th PM of the EC and the Australian Research Council (2002-2003).
Main researcher of the OPEN/Metis Framework (www.openmetis.com), an integral methodological environment for software development (1998-2003).
Design and construction of the CVS technology (Segmented Vectorial Cartography), which includes a file format, access to book shops and associated tools to store, visualize and manage vectorial cartographic information (1998).
Design and construction of the SIA+ (System of Archaeological Information), a corporative software to manage archaeological information at the Laboratory of Archaeology and Cultural Forms, University of Santiago de Compostela (1997-1999).
Member of the subcommittee AEN/CTN 71/SC 7 “Ingeniería de software y sistemas”, Spanish Agency of Normalization and Certification (AENOR) (2007).
Member of the Steering Committee of the International Conference on Composition-Based Software Systems (ICCBSS) (2006-2007).
Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (since 2005).
Member of the committee IT-015-19 (Modelling Languages, Metadata, ODP Framework and ODP components) of Standards Australia and Joint Standards Australia / Standards New Zealand (2004-2006).
Member of the IFIP WG 8.1 Method Engineering Task Group (since 2004).
Member of the Australian Computer Society (2004-2005).
Member of the OPEN Consortium (www.open.org.au) (since 2001).

SELECTED RESEARCH PROJECTS:
Member of the consortium in the project CSD2007-0058 “Programa de Investigación en Tecnologías para la Conservación y Revalorización del Patrimonio Cultural” (2007-2011), Consolider/Ingenio 2010, Ministry of Education and Science: 5.000.000 €.
He got a Giza:Xede economical aid for specially qualified researchers, Bizkaia County Council (2006-2007): 56.000 €.
Main researcher of the project S-PE06ES03 “PIMet: Plataforma para Ingeniería de Métodos” (2006-2007), Saiotek Programme, Basque Country: 129,368 €.
Member of the consortium in the project FIT-340503-2006-3 “Vulcano: Forja de Proyectos Software de Calidad” (2006-2006), Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Commerce: 42,205 €.
Main researcher of the project PGIDT00PAT03E “Deseño e Construcción de Ferramentas Informáticas para a Xestión e Explotación do Patrimonio Cultural de Galicia” (2000-2001), Xunta de Galicia: 7,200 €.

 Other Interesting Aspects

PUBLICATIONS:
He is the author of six monographs, two books, five chapters of books, ten articles in peer-reviewed magazines (most of them listed by ISI), ten articles in non peer-reviewed scientific magazines, twenty-second articles in peer-reviewed conferences, six published reports, sixteen invited speeches and another five various publications.
González-Pérez, C. and Henderson-Sellers, B. “Metamodelling for Software Engineering”, Wiley, 2008.
González-Pérez, C. and Henderson-Sellers, B. “A Work Product Pool Approach to Methodology Specification and Enactment”, in Journal of Systems and Software (vol.81, nº8), 2008.
González-Pérez, C. and Henderson-Sellers, B. “An Ontology for Software Development Methodologies and Endeavours”, in Ontologies for Software Engineering and Technology, F. Ruiz González, C. Calero and M. Piattini (eds.), Springer 2006.
González-Pérez, C. and Henderson-Sellers, B. “A Representation-Theoretical Analysis of the OMG Modelling Suite”, in the 4th International Conference on Software Methodologies, Tools and Techniques (SoMeT) (Tokyo, Japan, 28-30th September 2005), published in “New Trends in Software Methodologies, Tools and Techniques”, H. Fujita and M. Mejri (eds.), IOS Press, 2005.
Henderson-Sellers, B., Serour, M., McBride, T., Gonzalez-Perez, C. and Dagher, L. “Process Construction and Customisation”, in Breakthroughs and Challenges in Software Engineering (vol. 10, nº 4) of the Journal of Universal Computer Science (June 2004).