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DR. JOHN T. BOARDMAN
301 Birkdale Street Phone: (863) 420-9045
Davenport, FL 33897 Email: john@elipsis.com
Academic Management/ Technology Research & Development/ Management Consulting
EXECUTIVE PROFILE
Accomplished senior executive in academe and management consultancy with practical
experience and proven results in functional management and consulting projects. Broad
experience in corporate-level academic policy making, innovation management, fiscal
management, and decision-making. Experienced consultant, excellent communicator,
skilled facilitator, and acclaimed expert in collaborative project design and management.
Demonstrated track record in planning and leading large-scale academe/industry
collaborative RTD initiatives. Can grasp complex issues quickly, translating volumes of
information into succinct and potent knowledge structures, laying them out in systemic
diagrams invented for that unique purpose. Demonstrated strategic vision with an ability
to inspire, lead and ensure delivery of results.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND PRINCIPAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS
• Founded John Boardman Associates Ltd. (1990), Elipsis Limited (1994) and Co-
Founded Elipsis, Inc. (2003). John Boardman Associates (www.jba.net)
specializes in system engineering and management consultancy, operating
training courses, workshops, assignments, and resident consultancy on behalf of
the aerospace, defense and transportation sectors. Elipsis (www.elipsis.com)
specializes in seminars, workshops, consultancy services and software for
collaboration within and between companies, building ‘Community @ Work’
and optimizing resources to achieve budget conformancw. 1990 – date.
• Relocated, re-established, re-equipped and extended Systems Engineering Group
at De Montfort University, and subsequently won 3 major EPSRC contracts
with support from GEC Marconi and Rolls-Royce to a value exceeding £3M.
Developed major pieces of intellectual property in techniques and software
technologies for defining and implementing structures for extended enterprise
behaviors. Technologies include: intra and inter company business process
capture, definition and institution; management simulation; and cycle time
compression by collaborative design across the EE landscape. 1995 – 2003.
• Successfully founded and led the College of Technology at the University of
Portsmouth formed by the combination of 4 Departments: Electrical and
Electronic Engineering, Information Science, Mathematics, and Mechanical &
Manufacturing Engineering. Introduced the following strategies, policies and
initiatives to guide and establish the new College. 1994 – 1995:
• creation of a transparent budgeting system agreed and owned by
Department Directors, University Chiefs and College faculty;
• formation of a modular Masters programme integrating curriculum
elements from 4 Departments to promote economy of scale and
diversity of student choice;

• investment in IT infrastructure to support virtual campus (the
College was spread over 3 buildings on 2 sites), to prepare electronic
study packs to support student-centered learning, and to promote
effective marketing of new College.
• Successfully initiated and nurtured the establishment of an entirely new School of
Systems Engineering at the University of Portsmouth created by the merger
of the Departments of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and of Mechanical
Engineering, by means of the following strategies. 1990 – 1994:
• creation of an organizational structure according to divisionalised line
management based on an agreed definition of the academic relevance of
Systems Engineering to staff expertise, market forces, and strategic
industrial support;
• creation of a Faculty handbook covering all processes for managing the
academic and resource operations and planning functions in the School;
• creation of a single portfolio of all School programmes in accordance with
an integrated, credit-rated, modularized and semesterised academic plan;
• establishment of an academic task force to plan the migration of existing
courses towards a system based approach for engineering and business
analysis, and to develop new courses based on a market survey of
demographic trends and industrial requirements;
• injection of new resources for faculty development, office automation
(network of PCs for e-mail, study packs and programme administration).
• Translating the original concept of the I.T. Research Institute at the University
of Brighton into a reality, developing a sound management infrastructure for 38
faculty and staff, generating strategies for its credibility as a unit for I.T. research
in expert planning systems, computer vision, and CAD. 1986 – 1990.
• Winning 20 research contracts (£5M plus) with industry and EPSRC for high
technology projects producing results which are being actively exploited in
ongoing developments by many of the sponsors. At the Universities of
Brighton, Portsmouth, and De Montfort. 1986 –2003.
• Academic Headship of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at
Brighton Polytechnic. The Department was reinvigorated, new faculty hired,
personnel development & appraisal initiated, injection of resources secured, and
a foundation laid for a subsequent 5-year accreditation by the IE. 1985 – 1986.
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MAJOR PUBLISHED WORK
“Computer method for design of electricity-supply networks”, (1972) (with BW Hogg)
Proc. IEE, 119, (7), pp 851-856.
“Interactive design of electricity-distribution networks”, (1973) (with RJ Wilde)
Proc. IEE, 1973, 120, (9), pp 1006-1011.
“Design of dynamic programming feedback controllers for multivariable time-invariant
linear systems”, (1973) Int. J. Control, 17, (1), pp 33-43.
“Maximin algorithms for interactive synthesis of electricity-supply networks”, (1975)
(with I Richards) Proc. IEE, 122, (11), pp 1235-1240.
“Security synthesis algorithm for electricity-supply networks”, (1976) (with JR Green)
Proc. IEE, 123, (11), pp 1213-1216.
“Interactive graphics aid for power system planning”, (1976) (with R J Wilde) Proc. IEE,
124, (1), pp 71-72.
“Computer method for design of electricity-supply networks”, (1972) (discussion paper
with B.W. Hogg) Proc. IEE, 120, (7), pp 775-776.
“Interactive design of electricity-distribution networks”, (1974) (discussion paper with R.
J. Wilde) Proc. IEE, 122, (8), pp 853-854.
“Maximin algorithms for interactive synthesis of electricity-supply networks”, (1975)
(discussion paper with I. Richards) Proc. IEE, 123, (12), pp 1368-1370.
“Comparative analysis of heuristic synthesis methods for electricity transmission
networks”, (1977) (with CC Meckiff, I Richards and JR Green) IEEE Trans. on Power
Apparatus and Systems, Vol. PAS-98, No. 1, pp 187-196.
“Circuit optimization algorithms for electrical networks using dynamic contingency
analysis”, (1979) (with C C Meckiff) IEEE Trans. on Power Apparatus and Systems, Vol.
PAS-100, No. 5, pp 2343-2349.
“A branch-and-bound formulation to an electricity distribution planning problem”, (1985)
(with CC Meckiff) IEEE Trans. on Power Apparatus and Systems, Vol. PAS-104, No. 8, pp
2112-2118.
“Towards a problem-solving methodology for coping with increasing complexity:
an engineering approach.” (1986) (with GCA Robson) The Computer Journal,
Vol. 29, No. 2, pp 161-166
“A recursive algorithm for the optimal solution of a complex allocation problem
using a dynamic programming formulation.” (1986) (with C Garrett and GCA
Robson) The Computer Journal, Vol. 29, No. 2, pp 182-186.
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“A microcomputer implementation of an interactive critical path analysis system”, (1986)
(with TJ Barber and G Marshall) Journal of Microcomputer Apps., 9, pp 1-3.
"A methodology for modelling a project management control environment", (1987) (with
TJ Barber and G Marshall) Proc. IEE Vol. 134, Pt. D, No. 4,
"Knowledge-based project control employing heuristic optimisation", (1988) (with TJ
Barber) Proc. IEE, Vol. 135, Pt. A, No. 8, pp 529-538.
"A methodology for knowledge engineering and an interactive graphics tool for
knowledge modelling", (1989) (with JM Kellett and G Winstanley) Artificial Intelligence
Engineering, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp 92-102.
"A philosophy and architecture for a rule-based frame system: RBFS", (1988) (with TJ
Barber and G Marshall) Eng. Appl. of AI, Vol. 1, pp 67-86
"Practical evaluation of an intelligent knowledge-based project control system", (1990)
Proc. IEE Vol. 137, Pt. A, No. 1, pp 35-51
"A Process Model for unifying Systems Engineering and Project Management", (1994)
Engineering Management Journal. Feb. 1994. pp 25-35
"Wholes and Parts - A Soft Systems Approach", (1995) IEEE Transactions: Systems Man
and Cybernetics. Vol. 25, No. 7, July 1995.
"Assisting cultural reform in a project-based company using systemigrams", (1996) (with
DG Sherman and AJ Cole). International Journal of Project Management. Volume 14,
Number 1, February 1996, pp 23-30.
"Reinforcing learning using soft systemic frameworks", (1996) (with DA Ramsay, and AJ
Cole). International Journal of Project Management. Volume 14, Number 1, February
1996, pp 31-36.
"Integrated process improvement in design and manufacture using a systems
approach", (1996) (with AJ Cole). IEE Proceedings Part D, Vol. 143, No. 2, March 1996,
pp 171-185.
“Process integration and improvement using systemic diagrams and a human-centred
approach”, (1996) (with BT Clegg). Concurrent Engineering: Research and Applications,
Vol. 4, Number 2, June 1996. ISSN 1063 293X . pp 119-136
“Towards the formalisation of soft systems models using Petri net theory”, (1998), (with
JS Sagoo), IEE Proc. – Control Theory Appl., Vol. 145, No. 5, September 1998, pp 463 –
471.
“Tool support for integrating extended enterprises”, (2000) (with BT Clegg, IF
Alexander, SJ Wingrove, and AJ Boardman) IEE Proc.-Software, Vol. 147, No. 4, August
2000.
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PRINCIPAL CONSULTING PROJECTS
1988 - 1993: Commission of European Communities, Brussels
“Advising on project organisation maturity and redefining project
management mission and management structures for a Pan-European
software project”
1990 - 1994: GEC Marconi Avionics
“Defining the systems engineering and project management processes
using systemigrams and integrating the resultant process models within
an interactive handbook”
1990 - 1995: Matra Marconi Space (UK)
“Analysing the project management culture and recommending a revised
organisational and communications infrastructure for large-scale civil
telecommunications projects”
1993 - 1994: Eurocontrol Agency, Brussels
“Re-engineering the planning process for harmonisation and integration
of ATC systems in Europe”
1993 - 1994: Lear Astronics Corp., Santa Monica
“Capturing the systems engineering process using systemigrams”
1994 - 1995: GEC Marconi Radar and Control Systems
“Process modelling in systems engineering and project management”
1994 - 1996: Pall Europe Ltd.
“Modelling and improving the new product development process”
1995 - 1996: British Broadcasting Corporation
“Defining a requirements framework for digital terrestrial broadcasting
using a systems engineering perspective”
1997 - 2002: Rolls-Royce Corporation
“Integration of business and technical processes involving key Tier 1
suppliers in the desing and manufacture of the Trent 900”
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EDUCATION, QUALIFICATION AND PROFESSIONAL HONOURS
Bachelor of Engineering (1 st Class Honours), University of Liverpool, 1967.
PhD, Univerisity of Liverpool, 1970.
Winner of the IEE's Lord Hirst Premium in 1990 for the paper:
"Practical evaluation of an intelligent knowledge-based project control system",
(co-authored with with TJ Barber and G Marshall),
Proc. IEE Vol. 137, Pt. A, No. 1, pp 35-51.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Chartered Electrical Engineer, UK, since May, 1973. Corporate Member No 144748 25.
Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, UK, since August, 1987.
Member of International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE)
Member Editorial Board, Journal of Systems Engineering.
Chairman of the Board for John Boardman Associates Ltd., UK.
Chairman of the Board for Elipsis Ltd., UK
HISTORY OF ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Professor of Systems Engineering, De Montfort University, 1995-2003
Professor and Dean of Technology, University of Portsmouth, 1994-1995
GEC Marconi Professor of Systems Engineering and
Head of School of Systems Engineering, University of Portsmouth, 1990-1994
Professor and Head of Research Institute, Brighton Polytechnic, 1986-1990
Head (Academic) of Electrical Engineering, Brighton Polytechnic, 1986-87
Visiting Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Ga., 1982-83
Reader in Electrical Engineering, Brighton Polytechnic, 1974-86
Lecturer in Electrical Engineering, University of Liverpool, 1970-74
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