Welcome to the page that gives you a brief introduction to some of Compita's consultants and associates.

Compita's involvement in international standards creation has created an expertise in process which is unparalleled.  This expertise provides the ability to offer facilitation services, process management knowledge, improvement services and support, and senior management capability.

As you will see below, Compita's consultants have usually been practitioners in the areas in which they consult.

Mac Craigmyle - Founder & Director

Mac is the original founder of Compita. He is well respected internationally in process improvement circles and is often asked to speak at a variety of events worldwide.  He was invited to serve as a core member of the SPICE project (which developed the ISO15504 standard) because, along with Irwin Fletcher, he had developed the Software Technology Diagnostic method, one of the 6 key methods selected for inclusion by the ISO.

Mac's experience of assessment and process management led him to spearhead the development of Compita's Process Professional Portfolio of products. He is the architect of the Process Professional Model and the Process Professional Assessment method.

He has successfully deployed Compita's products in some of the largest companies in the UK, including British Telecom, British Aerospace and Barclays Bank, extending the Process Professional Model to match their business requirements. This has involved incorporating systems and hardware processes into what was originally designed to encompass software development.  Mac's contribution to product development continues to be significant.

Rob Clark - Chairman

With a successful career spanning some 30 years in the IT industry Rob has been with Compita since 1994. His strong sales, marketing, commercial, and managerial experience is the perfect complement to the highly specialised technical skills of Compita's consultants.

Cyril Dyer - Managing Director

Cyril has over 20 years experience in the IT industry, 9 of these in senior management positions.  As a successful consultant he has gained extensive experience from a background in software engineering and resource management.

Cyril is a qualified Process Professional for CMM^® Lead Assessor, Process Professional for ISO15504 Lead Assessor and Process Professional for CMMI^® Lead Assessor.

Cyril has worked with many international organisations and government agencies. Recent clients include Mitsubishi (Japan), AXA Investment Managers, Citibank, Origin, Origin (India), Agilent Technologies (formerly Hewlett Packard), Symbian, SEMA Group, Barclays Bank, National Australia Group, McQueen, British Aerospace, UK MoD, DERA, Indigo Active Vision Systems, British Telecom, Logica (UK) and Glasgow City Council.

Kevin Pulford

Kevin has over thirty years experience in the software industry, fifteen of those at senior management levels and 8 years in software process improvement. He has managed a number of large projects including several international collaborative projects. He joined Compita in 1999.

Kevin is a fully qualified CMM^® IPI Assessor and PPA for ISO15504, Automotive SPICE, CMM^® and CMMI^® Lead Assessor. Kevin has contributed to many publications including co-authoring ``A Quantitative Approach to Software Management - The AMI Handbook" published by Addison-Wesley.

Kevin has worked with many international organisations and government agencies. Recent clients include IBM (UK), Mitsubishi (Japan), Hitachi Unisia, Goodrich Controls, Xerox, Citibank, Hewlett Packard, UK (MoD), Alenia Defense, DTI, National Nuclear Corporation, Vickers Ship Building and Engineering, CAA, the European Commission, British Aerospace, Cisco Systems, AXA IM, PPP Healthcare, SEMA, TRW, and Symbian.

Stephen McAinsh

Stephen has been involved in the IT industry since 1984 and has extensive experience of software development, project management, and managing large process improvement programmes.

Before joining Compita in 1998, Stephen worked for a variety of companies including Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems in the UK and the US. At Sun Microsystems he managed a large process improvement programme impacting over 1,000 employees world-wide.

Stephen is a PPA Lead Assessor for CMM^® and CMMI^® and has worked with a wide range of clients in Europe and Asia.

His academic qualifications include a B.Eng (Hons) Electronics & Software Engineering from the University of Glasgow.

Donald Craigie

Donald has over twenty years experience in the software industry, ten of those at senior levels, spanning all aspects of software development. His management experience includes posts at both project and organisational level. With an Edinburgh University honours degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and a sound background in engineering and quality principles, Donald is well qualified to appreciate both the practitioner and managerial views. He is an experienced Lead Assessor for ISO15504, CMM^® and CMMI^®, and is contributing to the review of the CMMI^® for Services model.

In addition to his technical and managerial roles, Donald has over a decade of consultancy experience in software and process improvement – both as an independent consultant and as the Process Improvement Manager for a major multi-national organisation, in which capacity he has received several awards.

Donald has been authorised by the SEI^SM both as a Lead Assessor and as an Instructor for their Introduction to CMM^® course, and has led or taken part in many assessments on both sides of the Atlantic, with scopes up to and including Maturity Level 5.

Donald has worked with major organisations in the defence, financial and commercial sectors on both sides of the Atlantic. Recent clients include Allmerica Financial, Marconi, BAe Systems and Sun Life.

Derek Glen

Derek is Compita's Product Marketing Manager.  He has delivered training and led assessments in the UK, Europe and Japan, and is a qualified PPA Lead Assessor for CMM^® and CMMI^®.

Formerly the Training & Quality Manager with one of the UK's leading software and process engineering firms, Derek's background includes several years software development on behalf of large blue-chip clients including Cadbury's, Thames Water, Yorkshire Water and Whitbread.

An experienced trainer in topics ranging from bespoke software applications to health & safety, he is also an ISO9001 and TickIT auditor, having assisted a number of organisations in migrating to the ISO9001:2000 standard. Derek also has experience composing quality and procedures manuals and leading internal and supplier audits.

Recent clients include the Department of Work & Pensions, IBM, British Telecom, CapGemini, Lloyds TSB, Accenture, Seiko Epson, Mitsubishi, Norwich Union Life, AXA (Ireland), Marks & Spencer, Sony, Rolls Royce, Student Loans Company and Renault.

Irwin Fletcher

Irwin has held senior positions with a number of high technology blue-chip companies both in the UK and overseas. As a consultant his recent clients include the Scottish Parliament, Babcock BES, BDO Germany, British Telecom, Norwich Union Life, IBM (UK), Bank International Luxemburg and Telcordia in the USA. Irwin also has a track record of helping young SME's cope with growth and was a core member of the ISO15504 development team.

Irwin is an ISO9000 Lead Auditor, a PPA Lead Assessor for CMM^®, CMMI^®, ISO15504 and Automotive SPICE and has extensive experience in providing consultancy and both public and in-house workshops in the following areas:

• Corporate governance
• IT Governance, measures and processes
• Change management
• Risk management
• Performance measurement
• Project management
• One to one mentoring and coaching
• Team development

Additionally, since all change is fundamentally a person centred activity Irwin, a certified NLP practitioner, provides one-to-one mentoring and coaching as well as team development services to encourage leadership, commitment and motivation.

Doug Ashworth

Doug has more than 20 years experience as a software engineer, initially working in projects, moving on to become an expert software trouble-shooter. He has worked in process control, telecommunications, avionics and banking business sectors.

Leaving front-line engineering, he has worked for the last 10 years in Customer Support, Configuration Management and Software Quality before focussing on Software Process Improvement, an activity that has been a continuous thread, along with training, throughout his project engineering activities.

Within Compita, he provides practical training & consultancy services including process maturity assessment to the CMM^®, CMMI^® & ISO15504 models.

Doug's previous companies include British Steel Corporation (now Corus), Kent Process Control & Combustion Engineering (now both part of ASEA Brown Boveri), Philips Business Systems, Telecom Sciences, BAE Systems, JPMorgan Chase and Visteon.

Steve Christian

With over 30 years experience in the electronic systems and software industries, involving design, development, project management and quality management, Steve has an in-depth knowledge of many different software development lifecycles, models and tools and has been involved at every stage of development from proposal to client acceptance testing.

In addition to his technical and managerial experience, Steve spent 12 years as an independent consultant specialising in software quality systems design and process improvement and has been responsible for the successful management and completion of many quality improvement and change programmes.

Steve has worked with many major organisations including British Telecom, AVEVA Solutions, London Underground Limited, HM Customs & Excise, British Airways, Konica Minolta, Ernst & Young and Essex County Council.

A trained ISO9001 & TickIT auditor, and a PPA Assessor for CMMI^®, Steve now provides practical training and consultancy services including involvement in process maturity assessments.

Paul Terrell

Paul joined Compita in 2004 as a Training Consultant, having completed his MBA at Napier University. 

Previously he worked for Computer Associates in the United States, with responsibility for planning and designing the implementation of a range of more than 30 products within their virtual e-Business Centre. He then moved into technical pre-sales and client liaison, specialising in development platforms and database management software.

Since moving to Scotland Paul has been involved in research and development, sales and marketing for a software reseller, including developing partnerships and sponsorship agreements with international corporations and local industry bodies.

Paul is a trained PPA Assessor for CMMI^® and his recent clients include Norwich Union Life and British Telecom.

David Hinley

David is an experienced business analyst with specialist knowledge and experience in process definition, identifying management metrics, and applying models and metrics for process assessment and improvement programmes.

David started his career in engineering business analysis with Rolls-Royce plc in 1978 and went on to work in quality assurance with McDonnell Douglas, prior to joining the academic staff in Computer Science at the University of Durham in 1990. Whilst at Durham, research was conducted into models and metrics for software maintenance management with Lloyds Register and Ferranti. He also led projects in applied research into applications management with BSO/Origin and knowledge management with ICI, and an Esprit Project with GEC-Marconi and Datacep concerned with requirements management.

Since 1995, David has been engaged in consultancy in the areas of service management, strategic alignment, programme management, and ICT enabled business change.  He has undertaken much public sector work for the Office of Government Commerce (OGC), including authoring, editing and reviewing the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL).

Consultancy engagements on behalf of OGC include: The British Library, Companies House, Customs and Excise, Department of Health, Department of Trade and Industry, EDS/Inland Revenue, GCHQ, and National Savings.

Private sector clients have included: General Accident, Bank of Scotland, BT-Syntegra, Centrica-IS, EDS/Kelloggs, General Motors, National Australia Group, PinkRoccade, and The Royal Bank of Scotland.