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With 30 years of experience in a wide variety of software, systems and management positions, Dr. Robert N. Charette is an internationally acknowledged authority and pioneer in IT management and engineering, business and technical risk management, and the lean development & management of large-scale software-intensive systems. Dr. Charette is the President of the ITABHI Corporation, an international high technology company involved in information and telecommunications systems management consulting. Dr. Charette serves as a senior advisor to a wide variety of Global 100 companies, high tech consortiums, as well as government departments. Dr. Charette is on the advisory board of the Project Management Institute�s special interest group on risk management (1997-present), was the working group chair (1998-2001) of the new IEEE standard 1540 on software risk management, served on the advisory board of the Usenix / UMichigan ICAMP II computer security project (1998-1999), was the elected chair of the US Software Engineering Institute risk advisory board (1995-1997), has served as a member of the National Research Council's Review Committee of Space Shuttle software safety (1992-93), was past elected vice-chairman and chairman of the National Security Industrial Association Software Committee (1988-89, 1990-91), and is a member of various professional society technical review committees. Dr. Charette is the author of over 75 articles on software, systems, and management, served as a consulting editor and columnist to Software Management magazine in London, and is now on the editorial board of Software Quality Professional. He is also the author of the books: Software Engineering Environments: Concepts and Technology (1986), Software Engineering Risk Analysis & Management (1989), Applications Strategies for Risk Analysis (1990), "Introduction to the Management of Risk" (1994) and co-author of A Unified Methodology for Systems Development (1987) . | 