This is the home site of Martin Ohly.
Originally from the UK and now over 25 years in Germany based in Berlin. I have worked for over 33 years in different areas of engineering and IT. The last 20 years working on large and distributed systems in different application domains - covering factory control, healthcare, SAP deployments, global PLM solutions and most recently concerned with electronic toll collection systems - with many successful and some not so successful large and small projects.
Areas of interest
My interests lie in several areas:
- the challenges of building reliable, secure and distributed systems, such as global PLM systems, platforms for supporting global collaborative product development
- learn from real systems - how they work, why they work - and maybe why they failed (please send me any interesting references, stories, etc - if applicable, I will post these on this site)
- learn from experts (see links to those that I respect from software engineering and other domains, my favorite books, papers, blogs etc). In fact I learn most from my customers. I have worked in over 50 companies and seen many good ideas put into use.
- take pleasure in successful projects - providing useful, performant, reliable, manageable systems
- project management, software development and related methodologies
- realize that success only comes through the consequent application of sensible project and risk management and the cooperation and hard work of dedicated and competent persons (in most instances, rarely is technology the real cause of project failure)
- automate from design to test - optimize using appropriate tools
- build working systems, not powerpoint solutions.
- software engineering (as a discipline), software architectures, integration methods, SOA, IT security
- web technologies, integration technologies, network infrastructures, web application performance tuning
- communications, mobile technologies, embedded systems, safe, reliable and fault-tolerant systems
My IT background is coupled with a particular interest in the application domain of PLM - product lifecycle management - and related processes covering:
- global product development, production and production planning, control and documentation methodologies
- as applied in automotive, high-tech/electronics, telecommunications, mechanical, process industries, consumer product and other industry sectors
- mass serial production, mass customization of highly configurable products