LabVIEW Champion: Steve Watts

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LabVIEW Champions Member Profile - Steve Watts

Home:

Whitchurch, Hampshire, England

Company:

Programming Languages:

LabVIEW (inc RT and FPGA)

Rocky Mountain Basic

Pascal

VB

Java

Smalltalk

Machine code (8051)

1s and 0s

Certification:

CLA

Used LabVIEW Since:

1998 - LabVIEW 4.01

Applications Areas:

Systems integration with a heavy bias towards design, database design, control systems mainly for Manufacturing, Marine, Aerospace,Defence, Research and academic customers.

Products:

SingleShot DAQ - Large channel count oscilloscope experiment system.

Alarm Unit System for Maritime use.

Biography:

Been writing industrial software since 1984 which is a long time ago!

Been Co-owner of SSDC Ltd  since 2000 where we design and build stuff.

Discussion Groups:

Organise and present at Central South LabVIEW User group that won the Best Advanced LabVIEW User Group at NIWeek 2015.

Articles:

Co-Author of "A Software Engineering Approach to LabVIEW"

Blog "Random Ramblings on LabVIEW Design"

Wrote and presented "LabVIEW Smells" at European CLA summit 2012

Chair of European CLA summit 2012

Case Study:Using LabVIEW Scripting to enforce good programming practice

Wrote and presented "Process Smells or How a bit of corporate anthropology can make your career more sustainable" for European CLA summit 2014 at CERN......CERN!!!!

Wrote and presented Debugging and Immediacy for European CLA summit 2015 in Rome.

Updated and presented Immediacy V2.00 for CLD Summit 2015 in Newbury

Presented ISO9000 and LabVIEW for NIWeek 2016

Presented Pushing Risk Forward Mitigation and Judgement case studies European CLA Summit Vienna 2017

Presented SSDC Way : Desire Paths to a Simple Software Process for NIWeek 2017

Presented Modular Deep Dive for European CLA Summit Madrid 2018

Presented Lean LabVIEW at NIWeek 2019

Presented Prof Watts' Theory on Why Programming in LabVIEW is Fun! at NIWeek 2019

Presented State Machines Done Right at GDevCon 2019

Chair of GDevCon and General Causer of Trouble

Instigator of VIWeek

Mentor at DSH Workshops

[Thoric]

Yay! About bloody time you became recognised as a Champion dude! 😉

[swatts]

Thanks Richard,

You're not alone any more

[Thoric]

I've always wondered what your avatar icon was. Now I know thanks to Google image search - is it a good read?

[FabiolaDelaCueva]

This is great news! Congratulations on joining the club

[FabiolaDelaCueva]

And you forgot to mention: Europe CLA Summit 2012 Chair. You chaired the first CLA Summit in Europe.

[swatts]

Makes me laugh, 2000AD is still the best tho'

[Intaris]

2000AD man, the best.

I'm still waiting for the Zenith series to come our as a graphic novel though.  Licensing issues apparently stopped a wider reprint issuing.

[swatts]

10 Seconders Graphic Novel out now, that's got a movie written all over it!