Professor Rob Witty

Academic
Location: MH201A
E: r.witty@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1793 785656
Informatics and Systems Engineering

Current activities

Professor Rob Witty is an academic in the Department of Informatics and Systems Engineering at Cranfield University, overseeing all major educational, research and consultancy projects.

Clients

Background

Lead the UK’s air traffic control engineering through the transition from being a public sector organisation to being a commercial organisation; introduced enterprise architecture and capability improvement; responsible for the corporate £1 billion programme to renew the entire UK ATC system.

Lead the capability improvement programme for a global software engineering workforce of ten thousand staff.

Created and lead the UK’s biggest (only) national software engineering research programme.

Has held the following positions:

Chief Technology & Programmes Officer - National Air Traffic Services Ltd

Director of Software Engineering - Marconi plc (formerly GEC plc)

Director of Software Engineering - GEC-Marconi Ltd

Director (A2, CEC) - European Institute for Systems Engineering & Informatics, Italy

Head of Systems Engineering Division - SERC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Informatics Department

Visiting Scientist - Xerox PARC, California, USA

Deputy Director, then Director - Alvey Software Engineering Programme

Manager, SERC Specially Promoted Programmes in Computer Science - SERC Atlas/Rutherford Laboratory

Researcher - S(E)RC Atlas Computer Laboratory