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Fan Ye

Position: Consultant

Education and qualifications

University of York, UK: October 2001—September 2005
PhD in Computer Science
Thesis: Justifying the use of Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) software components within safety-critical applications

University of York, UK: October 2000—September 2001
MSc in Software Engineering with Distinction

Zhengzhou University, China: September 1994—July 1998
BSc in Management Information Systems

Qualified internal auditor for ISO9001:2000.

Assessed at 'Supervised Practitioner' level for Independent Safety Audit function in accordance with IEE Competency Guidelines for Safety-Related Practitioners.

Current and previous project experience

September 2005—Present: Consultant, Adelard LLP, London, UK:
  • (2007–present) Member of Adelard's teams providing safety engineering support to DOSG.
  • (2006–present) Member of Adelard's teams developing safety assessments for a series of RAF airfield systems.
  • (2006–present) Member of Adelard's team providing safety engineering support to UKHO.
  • (2006–present) Member of Adelard's team providing safety engineering support on the development of motorway signage systems.
  • (2006–2007) Member of Adelard's team providing safety engineering support to ALM IPT. The main task involved converting a series of safety cases (in eSafetyCase format) to Adelard's ASCE format to support on-going maintenance.
  • (2005–present) Member of Adelard's ISA team for Bowman and the associated CBM(Land) project. This has included reviewing various product, installation and operational safety cases, and providing specialist advice on modular/compositional safety cases for CBM(Land) project.
  • (2005–present) Member of Adelard's ISA team for IADM. This has included producing a safety case for the Early Entry/Small Scale control platform (EE/SS – a portable tactical air command and control system – used for identifying aircraft, tactical airspace management and the provision of flight information and control) and Coningsby Remote Workstation System (CRWS – an air command and control system installed at RAF Coningsby), which are based on the MASE software system (provided off-the-shelf by the NATO Programming Centre (NPC), Glons, Belgium).
  • (2006) Member of Adelard's team acting as the expert witness (on behalf of Data Systems & Solutions Limited) for the dispute between DSSL and Westinghouse Rail Systems Limited (WRSL) on a contracted safety-critical software development project.
  • (2005–2006) Member of Adelard's team developing a safety appraisal for the ATC Filterswitch used at UK RAF bases.

August 2004—October 2005: Associate, Origin Consulting(York) Limited, York, UK:
  • Project-based (part time) consulting work for Origin. The work involves translating the existing text version safety cases for the subsystems of RAF C-130J Aircraft into a graphical format with an improved argument structure using Goal Structuring Notation (GSN) and identifying problems with original safety cases.