Thanks for asking: I started my career as a "real" engineer - safety boots, hard hat, big SUV, million dollar a day decisions. I morphed into financial engine

Thanks for asking: I started my career as a "real" engineer - safety boots, hard hat, big SUV, million dollar a day decisions. I morphed into financial engineering guy (with engineering skills you can model and understand any complex system) and I've always been involved with ICT - SCADA & telemetry along with concrete footings and steelworks. Over the years I became very frustrated about the lack of real engineering in what passes for software engineering - obviously by this time my exposure was to fund managers, insurance companies, merchant bankers and the software based systems there. So I decided to make a mark in that corner of the universe. I'm still working on my PhD, but also do consulting, involved in a startup and teaching SE courses at postgrad level. I guess my point is that I really wanted to do something about a problem that wasn't being well addressed. Typical engineer personality - see problem - go about fixing it. Try to not make it worse!