Jeff De Luca is a global

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strategist and an author in the field of

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. He is considered the primary architect of ''

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'' (FDD) circa 1999 JDLBIO a

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for developing computer software with reduced management overhead, time and money. In 1999, Jeff De Luca co-authored ''Java Modeling In Color With UML'' (1999, ), along with

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and Eric Lefebvre. Jeff De Luca was born in 1964. Although Jeff dropped out of secondary school (high school), and did not start with a college degree, he learned, on-the-job, working for years with programmers and designers at IBM in

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and transferred with IBM to the United States in Raleigh, North Carolina
^JDLBIO
. At the IBM Rochester Minnesota Programming Laboratory, Jeff developed network software to connect different types of IBM computer systems, and continued learning at IBM for those 11 years. He had begun in the mailroom: in 1981, aged 17, he had left school and started working at IBM, Melbourne, as the mailroom clerk. Jeff resigned from IBM in 1993, as a senior systems strategist. After IBM, Jeff formed his own consultancy company, Nebulon Pty Ltd, based in

, Australia, and developed extensive, complex software systems using the

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technology (with the programming language), object-modelling in

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, and FDD.

External links

^JDLBIO - Bio of Jeff De Luca, at his Nebulon companySE-Radio Interview with Jeff DeLuca
{{DEFAULTSORT:De Luca, Jeff 1964 births American computer businesspeople American computer programmers American technology writers Australian technology writers Living people IBM employees Place of birth missing (living people)