Clive Boughton

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Clive Boughton
Birth name	Clive Boughton
Born	August 4, 1956 (1956-08-04) (age 51) Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Origin	Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Years active	1973 – present
Website	[1]

Clive Boughton (born August 4, 1956) is an Australian computer science professor residing in Canberra, Australia. He is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology at the Australian National University. He is also the Managing Director of Software Improvements. Boughton has been involved in developing managers' capabilities in the broad range of skills required for successful software development and implementation.^{[citation needed]}

1 Professional career
2 Personal life
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Professional career

Clive Boughton obtained his BSc (Applied Physics) from RMIT in 1976 and his PhD in Molecular Physics from ANU in 1988. Before completing his BSc Boughton undertook both research (at ARRB) and industrial practice (USL as Lab Manager) concerning the physical properties of soils.^{[citation needed]}

His research work into soils provided the first opportunity for publication of the soil compacting properties of rollers for road-making. After completing his BSc he became a Professional Officer in Dept of Physics at Monash University where he undertook experimental research into the specific heat of superconducting alloys.

His work at Monash also provided the first opportunity for significant research publication of the Fe(3-x)Mn(x)Si category of superconducting compounds/alloys. Boughton began his PhD at ANU in 1981 which stemmed from his keen interest in gaseous dynamics.^{[citation needed]}

Opportunities to continue his molecular physics research within Australia were so slim that he left the university environment to take up a senior software engineering position at C3 in 1984. C3 needed someone who could solve problems and who possessed significant computing and software experience in an embedded systems environment. Since that time Boughton has continued to expand his skills in relation to software engineering practice and management by working at several companies (ultimately including his own) requiring someone who possessed reasonable technical skills as well as well-honed decision making and managerial skills.

Observing the poor state of affairs in industry surrounding software engineering practice, Boughton became increasingly interested in the educational aspects of professional software engineering at first providing industry-based training. Ultimately his attention turned to a source of software engineers and so in 1995 he accepted a Visiting Fellow position in DCS, eventually moving onto a full-time member of the department in 2000.^{[citation needed]}

Boughton has been a significant contributor to the establishment of the BSEng degree program within DCS/FEIT. His research interests today centre on the people-process-technology triangle and how this triangle needs to be balanced in regard to making improvements in the software engineering profession.

Dr. Clive Boughton has over 25 years of practical experience as a scientist, engineer, software developer, consultant, project manager, company manager, and company director. He also lectures in software engineering. Clive has a PhD in Experimental Physics from the Australian National University.^{[citation needed]}

He was directly involved in eVACS (Electronic voting and counting), a computer system that provides for electronic voting and electronic counting for ACT Legislative Assembly elections. It provides for counting according to the Hare-Clark electoral system rules set out in the Electoral Act 1992. He was specifically involved in requirements identification and design.