Biography of Robert Halligan

An executive professional engineer, manager and engineering practitioner, Mr Halligan is widely known in Australia and overseas for his role in the practice and improvement of technology-based projects. Mr Halligan obtained his qualifications at the University of Melbourne and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (now RMIT University). After early engineering, engineering management and project management roles within public enterprises and transnational corporations, Mr. Halligan has, for the last twenty years, contributed to major systems projects worldwide as a consultant and trainer.

Mr. Halligan has worked extensively in Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom. In recent years, Mr. Halligan has consulted and trained on engineering processes for enterprises whose goals have been to produce successful project outcomes. Clients for in-house training or consulting include Raytheon (USA), Smiths Aerospace (USA), Mitsubishi (Japan), BAe Systems (UK), Aerosystems International (UK), Tellabs Inc. (USA), Kongsberg Defence (Norway), Cochlear (Belgium), EADS (Germany), Thales (The Netherlands), Department of Defence (Australia), Civil Aviation Authority (Australia) and many others.

Mr. Halligan has led numerous requirements analysis efforts, on projects of up to $1B. As a hands-on engineering manager, he is expert in the strengths and weaknesses of a wide range of commercial and military specification standards. A sought-after consultant, Mr. Halligan developed, on behalf of an industry client, the procedures used for a multi-million dollar requirements analysis effort, conducted training of client staff in requirements analysis and led the analysis of critical system requirements. He has consulted extensively in the area of requirements quality and its relationship to project risk. He has prepared or reviewed well over 100 significant requirements specifications. His short tutorials and longer courses on aspects of systems and requirements engineering are popular worldwide.

Application areas in which Mr. Halligan has significant experience are aviation, consumer products, medical products, energy, communications, land transportation, space and defence.

Mr. Halligan led the development and delivery of the Masters module "Managing Engineering Projects" for the AGSEI, a joint ventue between two Australian Universities.

Mr. Halligan is a Past President of the Systems Engineering Society of Australia. He was an Australian delegate to the ISO WG7 developing the new international system life cycle processes standard, ISO/IEC 15288, and until recently lead the delegation of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) to ISO/IEC JTC1 SC7 on software and system engineering. Mr. Halligan was a kew reviewer of EIA 632 (Engineering of Systems) and EIA 731 (Systems Engineering Capbility Model). He was a contributor of content to EIA/IS 632 and its successor in the area of requirements quality, and to IEEE 1220 in the area of functional analysis. Mr. Halligan served as Director (International) of INCOSE.

Mr. Halligan has lead five systems engineering capability assessments, between other consulting engagements and an extensive program of public and in-house training in systems engineering and related topics such as technical reviews and audits, requirements analysis, specification writing, and project risk management. He delivers his training program on six continents.

Robert and Keio University, Tokyo, Graduate School of System Design and Management (page 3)