Bhuvan Unhelkar

Bhuvan Unhelkar (BE, MDBA, MSc, PhD; FACS) has more than two decades of strategic as well as hands-on professional experience in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and their application to business and management. He has authored/edited fourteen books in the areas of globalization, mobile business, software quality, business analysis, business processes and the UML, and has extensively presented and published research papers and case studies. His current work in progress is an edited handbook on Green ICT, and a book on Environmentally Responsible Business Strategies.

He is the founding principal of MethodScience.com and has notable consulting and training expertise in software engineering (modelling, processes and quality), enterprise architecture, project management, collaborative web services and mobile business. Dr. Unhelkar earned his Doctorate in the area of "object orientation" from the University of Technology, Sydney, in 1997. Subsequently he designed and delivered course units like Global Information Systems, Object Oriented Analysis and Design, Business Process Reengineering and IT Project Management in various Universities in Australia, China and India. He leads the Mobile Internet Research and Applications Group (MIRAG) at the University of Western Sydney, where he is also an adjunct Associate Professor. His current research interests include composite software development processes for mobile applications and application of mobile technologies in helping organizations with their Environmentally Responsible Business Strategies (ERBS). Dr. Unhelkar is a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society Life member of Computer Society of India, Rotarian at St.Ives, Discovery volunteer at NSW parks and wildlife, and a previous TiE Mentor.