Dr Richard Messnarz Dr. Richard Messnarz - ISCN

Dr Richard Messnarz
Dr. Richard Messnarz (rmess@iscn.com) is the Executive Director of ISCN LTD. He studied at the
University of Technology Graz and he worked as a researcher and lecturer at this University from
1991 - 1996. In 2 European mobility projects (1993 and 1994) he was involved in the foundation of
ISCN, and he became the director of ISCN in 1997. He is/has been the technical manager of many
European projects:
• PICO - Process Improvement Combined Approach 1995 - 1998,
• BESTREGIT - Best Regional Technology Transfer, 1996 - 1999,
• TEAMWORK - Strategic Eworking Platform Development and Trial, 2001-2002,
• MediaISF - Eworking of media organisation for strategic collaboration on EU integration, 2001-
2002
• ORGANIC (http://www.innovationmanager.org) - Innovation Management Strategies for Europe
(2003 - 2006)
• E-Security Manager - Best European Practices for E-Security Management
• European Quality Network
• European Certification and Qualification Association (www.ecqa.org), Dr Messnarz is a Vice
President
He is the general chair of EuroSPI (European Software Process Improvement and Innovation)
Initiative. See EuroSPI 2008 at http://2009.eurospi.net
He is an ISO 15504 and Automotive SPICE Principal Assessor. He is a founding member of the
INTACS (International Assessor Certification Scheme) Board.
In the EU Project CREDIT project (1998 – 2001) he was responsible for the architecture of the
systems and later became the project leader of the Capability Adviser system (SPICE Assessment
Portal) development. In the EU projects EPI (2005 – 2006) and PLATO (2007-2008) he has been the
project leader for the integratrion of Capability Adviser with a set of LMS (Learning management
Systems) in Europe and Eastern Europe.
He is the editor of 1 IEEE book (Better Software Practice for Business Benefit), 3 books in Springer
LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series) about SPI experiences, 3 guest edited books in
the Wiley SPIP (Software Process Improvement in Practice) series, 1 Springer book in the CCIS
(Communications in Computer and Information Science) series about SPI experiences, and recenetly
he edited his first German book which comes out in the D-Punkt Verlag in Spring 2009 which was
co-written with Continental about the experiences for reaching a SPICE level 3 in electronics
projects.
Quality Systems/Assessments Experience
• Key researcher in the Bootstrap methodology who developed a tool and published articles in
Springer about capability profiles in 1991 - 1992 (this part of Bootstrap has been considered
by SPICE / ISO 15504 later)

• As one of the original developers of the Bootstrap assessment methodology he has been
granted a life long honours assessment certificate by the Bootstrap institute in 1994 in Italy.
• Lead assessor/consultant for Bootstrap/SPICE assessments at Robert BOSCH Gmbh
(www.bosch.com, largest automotive supplier in the world), Germany, 1993 - 1998 .
• Lead Assessor / consultant for SPICE assessments at ZF (www.zf.com, one of the largest
automotive suppliers in the world) , Germany, 1998 - now. He is the lead SPICE assessor and
consultant for the central research unit, production sites, and recently for the concern
worldwide.
• Lead assessor / consultant for SPICE for ContiTEMIC (www.temic.com, one of the largest
automotive suppliers in the world) since 2003 .
• Leader of the SOQRATES Group (www.soqrates.de, supported by the Bavarian state) as
SPICE lead assessor / consultant for 8 selected leading Bavarian technology companies in
automotive, banking, and embedded systems in security. This initiative continues under his
guidance from 2004 on a commercial basis (without state funds) and some larger German
firms additionally joining.
• Lead SPICE assessor and consultant to the VW concern group on behalf of AUDI
(www.audi.de) for SPICE trial assessments at Audi/VW and their suppliers in 2001, resulting
in a version 1 of the HIS assessment tailoring . This tailoring applies now as an assessment
model for all suppliers of German automotive companies.
• Lead SPICE assessor and consultant for Micron Electronic Devices GesmbH, Germany, in
2003 (embedded systems for high price and racing cars).
• Lead SPICE assessor for OneVision , the leading firm in newspaper production systems
(e.g. the Washington Post), in 2003.
• Moderator of the innovation initiative SOQRATES in Bavaria, in which leading German
companies participate. http://www.soqrates.de
• Lead SPICE assessor and consultant for ZF Sachs since 2004.
• Lead SPICE assessor and consultant for ZF Lenksysteme since 2004.
• Lead SPICE assessor and consultant for Magna Powertrain since 2005.
• Lead SPICE assessor and consultant for T-Systems since 2005.
• Lead SPICE assessor and consultant for Saxonia-Systems since 2008.
In total he has done so far more than 100 project assessments in the last 10 years . He has held a
number of ISO 15504 based courses. He is the project leader of the ISO 15504 Assessment Portal
running at companies like ZF, Continental, Magna, G&D, ISQI, SeppMedd, T-Systems, etc.
Trainer Experiences
• Certified trainer for ISO 15504 Provisional Assessor
• Certified trainer for ISO 15504 Automotive SPICE ® Provisional Assessor
• Certified trainer for ISO 15504 Competent Assessor
• Certified trainer for ISO 15504 Competent Automotive SPICE ® Assessor
• Certified trainer for ECQA/ISQI certified innovation managers
Selected Publications
See in Amazon.com and select books and search for Messnarz. Below are some book screen shots.

A new book about level 3 experiences in Automotive: http://www.dpunkt.de/buecher/3069.html

Private Data
Birthdate: 28.9.1962
Birthplace:
Klagenfurt, Carinthia, Austria
Citizenship:
Austria
Familiy Status:
Married, 1 daughter
Primary School :
Grammar School:
1969 – 1973 , Villach, Austria
1974 – 1981 , Villach Austria
Army Officer Education: 1982
In parallel to his study later he served in total
about 3 years in different army exercises.
He finished army participation in 1992. His
Grade was senior lieutenant and he was at this
time S1 (chief of staff) of a battalion (approx 1200 staff).
University of Technology Graz 1982 - 1990
Technical Mathematics
- Informatics
He finished the study with research projects
developing fast and time efficient algorithms
which were published at a joint US/Russian/EU
conference in Canada.
He was offered a research post in 1990 at the University
of Technology Graz.

Researcher and Lecturer Post 1990 - 1996
At University of Technology Graz
Lecturer in
- programming practices and algorithms
- systems architectural design
Research Projects with
- FESTO
- BOSCH
- BOOTSTRAP (members were e.g. SQS, CCC Finland,
NATO Defence, etc. )
Industry Career as described
before at ISCN
1997 - now