Eoin Woods, Barclays Global Investors

Eoin Woods is a software architect at Barclays Global Investors, responsible for a new equities portfolio management system being built for the company's well known active management group. Prior to BGI, Eoin worked in the software engineering field for over 15 years, for a number of companies including Groupe Bull, Sybase, InterTrust and UBS Investment Bank.

He is a member of the BCS, the IET and is a fellow of the IASA. His main technical interests are software architecture, distributed systems, computer security, and data management and he is co-author of the book "Software Systems Architecture: Working With Stakeholders Using Viewpoints and Perspectives", published by Addison Wesley. Eoin can be contacted via his web site at www.eoinwoods.info.