Consulting
Throughout his academic career Professor Rzevski has worked with industry and administrations as an advisor and consultant. He has recently founded a new company, Rzevski Solutions Ltd, specifically to support his consulting activities. Rzevski Solutions undertakes larger projects in collaboration with experts belonging to an international network of highly skilled and experienced researchers and consultants from the UK, Germany, France, The Netherlands, Russia and the USA.
Below are some of George’ past assignments.
:: | Software Engineering and Software Reliability
Professor Rzevski advised Hitachi in Tokyo on software engineering for advanced control systems; the assignment specified the aim of achieving error-free software for industrial controllers. Whilst in Tokyo he audited software engineering courses at Hitachi Institute of Technology.
His work abroad included an investigation of reasons for software failures in Danish Electricity Supply Authority and advice to German National Computing Centre, Bonn on software development methodologies.
He took a sabbatical year to help British Aerospace, Stevenage with developing fail-safe software for critical avionics applications and to advise ICL West Gorton on improving reliability of operating systems.
George advised National Computing Centre, Manchester on advantages of evolutionary software development methodologies.
:: | Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing
Professor Rzevski worked with ITT in Stuttgart, Antwerp, Paris and Harlow on the computer aided design of telephone exchanges and with GEC, Stafford on the computer aided design of turbine generators.
For many years George worked as a consultant to ICL in Putney, Kidsgrove and Reading on quality control systems and material requirements planning.
:: | Socio-Technical and Educational Projects
Later on in his career, Professor Rzevski undertook a wide variety of socio-technical assignments, which gave him a good understanding of how commercial world coped with rapid changes imposed by the emergence of global economy and new technologies.
This included a long-term assignment with Philips, Eindhoven advising on the introduction of advanced computer technology into Philips plants in Holland and Belgium. George provided training and advice for plant managers, supervised feasibility studies and audited plans for large capital projects.
Another of his large Dutch clients was a consortium of top banks, which was formed to finance and supervise the establishment of the first private IT University in The Hague. The idea was to offer postgraduate courses in IT for business, and George was commissioned to evaluate proposals for syllabuses, supporting technology and administrative aspects of the proposed University. The key problem was to match expectations of commerce with aspirations of Dutch academia.
For an extended period of time George worked with leading UK retailers on possible applications of Artificial Intelligence in retail and with engineering companies such as Alcatel, Romford; Lucas Industries, Birmingham; Unilever, Bedford; and Express Lifts, Northampton on wider aspects of managing engineering design and particularly on concurrent engineering.
Professor Rzevski has contributed to the UK Government Technology Foresight Programmes in Retail and Space Sectors and chaired an EU working group assessing trends in the ways information technology is used in industry and commerce. He conducted a study of competitiveness of the UK space technology companies for the Department of Trade and Industry.
He was a member of an international panel providing help to the Russian Government on issues related to distance education. As an EU expert Professor Rzevski led a Russian team of software designers that developed an advanced Internet-based system for distance education of air-traffic controllers in Russia. The system has been instrumental in preparing Russian air-traffic controllers distributed over vast distances throughout Siberia for communication with Western pilots.
George has given occasional Master Classes to top engineering managers and senior engineers from BA Systems on Virtual Design Studios, Virtual Manufacturing and Multi-Agent Applications in Design and Manufacturing.