Our clients deploy RippleDown Knowledge Bases as core components of their business rules, workflow processes and value-adding services. The Pacific Knowledge Systems team ensures that our Knowledge Base solutions meet the stringent security, safety and privacy requirements demanded in these mission-critical applications. Mr Bruce McConochie (CEO) Dr Shane Brown: PhD (Medical Director) Shane Brown is a highly experienced Senior Management Consultant in the Australian public and private Health sectors. His roles have included IM&T Consulting and Management positions delivering clinical solutions to diverse groups of stakeholders. In a career spanning 25 years, he has held senior positions in Public Pathology Organisations, Central Government Agencies, and Private Health Sector Organisations. Shane has also been responsible for the implementation of complex information systems to manage clinical reporting and disease management in both National and International settings. Shane also has extensive experience in Quality Systems Management design and implementation; Risk Management; Standards Development; Software Design and Development and Delivery of software solutions from consolidated data centres. As Medical Director of Pacific Knowledge Systems, Shane works with clients to determine clinical solutions using LabWizard (RippleDown) Knowledge Bases to enhance quality, safety and efficiency in health care environments. Dr Lindsay Peters: PhD (UNSW), BSc (Chief Technical Officer) In his role as Chief Technical Officer of PKS, Lindsay coordinates the Product Development and Research teams, together with the continuous software process improvement activities. Lindsay has held the position of Software Engineering Manager for a number of defence and communications companies including Siemens Plessey Defence Systems and Global Tracking Systems. Lindsay has also consulted for numerous large software developments, software quality audits, tenders, and algorithm development. Lindsay has introduced exacting quality standards into the Pacific Knowledge Systems development team based on his 25 years of experience in software mangement and formal processes. Prof Paul Compton: (Senior Research Adviser) Paul Compton is the Associate Dean (Research) of the Faculty of Engineering UNSW, the largest engineering faculty in Australia. He is also a Professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering UNSW and is currently Head of this school. Prior to joining UNSW he was Head of the Computing Services Group at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research and conducted research in a number of areas of medical computing. This included work on GARVAN-ES1, one of the first medical expert systems to go into routine clinical use internationally and Australia's most successful early expert system. This led to a major research focus on the knowledge acquisition problems for expert systems. His research has received continuous Australian Research Council funding for over a decade and Paul and his research group have published over 130 scientific papers in the area. Paul has also been a member of the organizing committee or chaired many international workshops on knowledge acquisition over this period. The major result from his research is a different approach to developing knowledge-based systems whereby, for the first time, systems can be built and maintained by domain experts without knowledge engineering or programming expertise and with little demand on the experts' time or effort. The commercial utility of this technology has now been proven by Pacific Knowledge Systems. Dr Tim Lavers: PhD (USyd) (Senior Software Engineer) As principal architect, Tim is responsible for the design and implementation of the server and client components of the PKS product suite. Tim manages the advanced software engineering techniques used in PKS such as Extreme Programming, Extreme Testing and Design By Contract as well as the range of Java technologies used in development and deployment. Mr Matthew Pittman: BSc, CEng, PMP (Program Manager, Senior Software Engineer) Matthew is responsible for program management including new projects and pilots. He is also a senior member of the design and implementation team. He brings brings to the team his long experience in executive-level consulting and program execution in the banking and finance sector. Ms Susanne von Richter: BAppSc (Biomedical) (Customer and Sales Support) Sue is responsible for user training, customer support and installations. She brings to the team many years of experience as a senior scientist and manager in the anatomical pathology departments of several major Sydney hospitals.