Biography
Ambler received a BSc in computer science and a MA in information science from the University of Toronto. He has been working in the IT industry since the mid-1980s, and with object technology since the early 1990s. Since 1990 he has worked with OO technology in various roles: Business Architect, System Analyst, System Designer, Project Manager, Smalltalk programmer, Java programmer, and C++ programmer. Further he led the development of several software processes, including Agile Modeling (AM), Agile Data (AD), Enterprise Unified Process (EUP), and Agile Unified Process (AUP) methodologies.
Scott has been a contributing editor with Dr. Dobbs Journal, and has written columns for Software Development, Object Magazine, and Computing Canada.
He is speaker at a wide variety of practitioner, Academic and private conferences world wide, such as conferences on Software Development, Agile Universe, UML World, JavaOne, BorCon, Comdex, and Application Development, conferences such as OOPSLA, EuroSPI, and CAiSE and conferences held by large, Fortune 500 conferences for their managers and IT staff.
He is a Fellow of the International Association of Software Architects, an Eclipse Process Framework (EPF) committer, and a Jolt Judge at the Jolt Awards.
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