Orla Greevy is an IT Professional with 25 years experience in software development, architecture and design, networking software in telecoms and travel domains and unix system administration. She obtained Bachelors (1984) and Masters (1996) Degrees in Computer Science (Trinity College Dublin. Ireland) and a PhD (2007) in Computer Science from the University of Berne, Switzerland. She has worked in Ireland, Scotland, Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands and Italy.
In 1998 she founded Sw-eng. Software Engineering GmbH, a consultancy employing highly-qualified IT Professionals. Orla is a Software Engineer, IT Architect and Technical Project Leader.
A recent professional achievement has been her involvement in the the Visa Consultation Network application for the Swiss Federal Government. She was instrumental in the successful go-live of the system in December 2008 in conjunction to the adoption of the Schengen-Dublin Agreement in Switzerland. Her key responsibilities in this project were: requirements engineering, architectural design and technical project leading of the development team. She fulfilled compliance with the European Union specifications and lead customer acceptance testing at the Swiss Federal Office for Migration.
Orla Greevy currently is the Swiss technical representative at the European Commission in Brussels for the VISION Technical Experts group and VISMail projects. She is a co-autor of the European Commision specification for the newly defined communication protocol and business processes between Schengen Member states concerning Visa related matters.
During her doctoral and postdoctoral research in the field of software engineering and reverse engineering, she researched and developed techniques for software feature analysis and has published scientific research papers on this topic. Orla maintains strong ties with the Software Composition Research group at the University of Berne.
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