Dr Steven Sommer
Dr Steven SommerDr Steven Sommer has held a number of senior management roles within the leading global technology organisations. He has worked at both Australian and multinational companies including Cisco, Microsoft, Oracle, and IBM. He has created and led high performance groups within a range of professional services areas including research and development, consulting, and customer support.
In 2007, Dr Sommer left his role as Vice President of Research and
Development at Clarity International to take up a series of corporate and
academic contract engagements. These have included lecturing Masters and
Undergraduate courses at the University
of Sydney and Macquarie University
within both their Business and Economics faculties and their Information
Technology schools. Dr Sommer has taught Business Information Systems, Project
Management, Negotiation, Operating
Systems, and Strategic Operations
Management.
Dr Sommer received his MBA in 2003 from the Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM). He received his PhD at the Microsoft Research Institute in conjunction with Macquarie University; his PhD thesis was titled: Support for Competing Distributed Real-Time Applications within the Conventional Operating System Paradigm. In 1991 he was awarded a BSc (Hons) and University Medal from the University of Sydney.
Dr Sommer’s management expertise includes People-Centric Management, Organisational Design, Strategy, Organisational Culture and Cultural Change, High Performance Teams, Leadership, Project Management, Negotiation, Innovation, General Management, Agile Development, Decision Making, IT Based Strategic Change, and Game Theory. His technology expertise includes Security, Operating Systems, Distributed Systems, Real-Time Systems, Algorithms, Object Oriented Development, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, and Networking.
Email: steve @ sommer.net.au
Web: http://www.steve.sommer.net.au
Phone: +61-405-330-143