Ron Chernich
	Position: Phone: Fax: Email: Affiliations:	Principal Research Fellow, School of ITEE Level 7, GP South, Staff House Rd, The University of Queensland QLD, 4072, AUSTRALIA +61 7 3365 4534 +61 7 3365 4999 chernich@itee.uq.edu.au Data and Knowledge Engineering, Engineering manager of eResearch group

Ron is a Principal Research Fellow working with the DART and ARCHER projects within the ITEE school of the University of Queensland. Ron has over 30 years of experience in IT working in Australia and overseas in commercial software development. On returning to Australia from the USA in 1998, Ron joined the Co-operative Research Centre for Distributed Systems (DSTC) at the University of Queensland as the Director of Engineering. He remained with them until the the Centre closed in June 2006, driving the development of commercial grade products from DSTC research outcomes. These included dCON, a Java implementation of the Object Management Group (OMG) cosNotification specification for asynchronous messaging, and MetaSuite, a complete solution for schema independent metadata incorporating editing, validation, searching, and retrieval. Both systems attracted commercial users in Australia and overseas. Ron's current research projects and interests are:

• Virgil: Capture and replay of Access Grid sessions.
• Metadata management. Click here for a paper describing the metadata tools developed by DSTC.
• RCOS: Ron Chernich's Operating System
• RDBMan: A tool for managing infra-red remote control code sets created by Phillips Pronto Edit Professional