Amanda Elizabeth Chessell is a computer scientist and a Distinguished Engineer at IBM. She has been awarded the title of

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. 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

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. In 2002 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. Chessell is a visiting professor at the

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and at the Surrey Centre for the Digital Economy (CoDE) at the University of Surrey.

Career at IBM

Mandy Chessell joined IBM in 1987. She is based at IBM's Hursley laboratory located near Winchester in Hampshire, UK. Her early work focused on distributed transaction processing, adding features to products such as

CICS IBM CICS (Customer Information Control System) is a family of mixed-language application servers that provide online transaction management and connectivity for applications on IBM mainframe systems under z/OS and z/VSE. CICS family products ...

, Encina, Component Broker and

WebSphere Application Server WebSphere Application Server (WAS) is a software product that performs the role of a web application server. More specifically, it is a software framework and middleware that hosts Java-based web applications. It is the flagship product with ...

. 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 Master data management (MDM) is a technology-enabled discipline in which business and information technology work together to ensure the uniformity, accuracy, stewardship, semantic consistency and accountability of the enterprise's official shared ...

. Her work today is focused on data lake architectures,

metadata management Metadata management involves managing metadata about other data, whereby this "other data" is generally referred to as content data. The term is used most often in relation to digital media, but older forms of metadata are catalogs, dictionaries ...

and

information governance Information governance, or IG, is the overall strategy for information at an organization. Information governance balances the risk that information presents with the value that information provides. Information governance helps with legal compl ...

. She is the Chair of the ODPi Technical Steering Committee (TSC) and leader of th
, ODPi Egeria Project
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. She was also one of the 30 women identified in the BCS Women in IT Campaign in 2014. Who were then featured in the e-book "Women in IT: Inspiring the next generation" produced by the BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT.

Achievements

In 2000, she was among the first group of ''

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'' magazine's

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. In 2001, she won the Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal for the invention and engineering of Reusable Software Component Architecture. In 2002, she was elected a Fellow of The Royal Academy of Engineering. In 2004, Chessell won the British Computer Society nomination for th
Women's Engineering Society "Karen Burt"
award. In 2006, Chessell won a Female Inventor of the Year Award for building capacity for innovation. Also in 2006, Chessell was awarded a prize for the Best Woman in the Corporate Sector at the Blackberry Women in Technology awards. In 2011, Chessell was made an honorary fellow of the Institution of Engineering Designers (IED). In 2012, Chessell received Innovator of the Year at the Cisco everywoman in Technology Awards. In 2013, Chessell received an Honorary Doctor of Science from

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. In 2015, Chessell received an Honorary Doctorate of Technology from

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. She was appointed

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(CBE) in the 2015 New Year Honours for services to engineering. In 2016, Chessell was named in the Top 50 Influential Women in Engineering List 2016 and received an Honorary Doctorate of Technology from

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In 2017, Chessell received an Honorary Doctor of Science from

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Education

Chessell studied Computer Science from an early age and has both an

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and an

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in the subject. She studied at

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up to 1987Honorary Doctorates of Plymouth University
and obtained a Bachelors Honours Degree in Computing with Informatics.
''Archive.bcs.org'' Subsequently, Chessell joined IBM in 1987 a
Hursley Park
Winchester where she studied for a master's degree in software engineering at the

(completed in 1997). Her studies at Brighton were sponsored by IBM.

Publications

* 2020
CDEI and BCS study into ethical maturity of AI practice
by Mandy Chessell * 2019
AI is not magic but it is complex
by Mandy Chessell * 2018

by Mandy Chessell, Ferd Scheepers, Maryna Strelchuk, Ron van der Starre, Seth Dobrin, Daniel Hernandez * 2017
The case for open metadata
by Mandy Chessell * 2016
InsightOut: The case for open metadata and governance
by Mandy Chessell * 2016
InsightOut: The role of Apache Atlas in the open metadata ecosystem
by Mandy Chessell * 2015
Building a data reservoir to use big data with confidence
by Mandy Chessell * 2015
Common Information Models for an Open, Agile and Analytical World
by Mandy Chessell, Gandhi Sivakumar, Dan Wolfson, Kerard Hogg, Ray Harishankar * 2015

by Mandy Chessell, Jay Limburn, Kevin Shank, Nigel Jones, David Radley * 2014

by Mandy Chessell, Ferd Scheepers, Nhan Nguyen, Ruud van Kessel, Ron van der Starre * 2014
Ethics for big data and analytics
by Mandy Chessell * 2013
Design Patterns for Information in a Service-Oriented Architecture
by Mandy Chessell and Harald C Smith * 2013
Patterns of Information Management
by Mandy Chessell and Harald C Smith * 2013

by Mandy Chessell * 2013

by Mandy Chessell, Eric Jenney, Scott Gerard, Bill Rapp * 2012

by Mandy Chessell and David Pugh * 2008

by Mandy Chessell and Larry Yusuf * 2008

by Mandy Chessell and Larry Yusuf * 2008

by Mandy Chessell and Larry Yusuf * 2006

by Mandy Chessell and Birgit Schmidt-Wesche * 2005

by Peter Swithinbank, Mandy Chessell, Tracy Gardner, Catherine Griffin, Jessica Man, Helen Wylie and Larry Yusuf * 2005

by Mandy Chessell, Larry Yusuf and Tracy Gardner * 2000

by Thomas Mikalsen, Isabelle Rouvellou, Stanley Sutton Jr., and Stefan Tai, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center and Mandy Chessell, Catherine Griffin, and David Vines, IBM United Kingdom Laboratories

Lectures

References

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