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Dr Steven Sommer
Business Information Systems, University of Sydney
Contact Details
E-mail: steve@it.usyd.edu.au
Phone: +61 2 9351 7109
Web-site: http://www.steve.sommer.net.au/
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Research Interests
Management: Organisational Design, Strategy, Organisational Culture and Cultural Change,
High Performance Teams, Leadership, Project Management, Negotiation, Innovation,
General Management, Agile Development, Problem Solving and Decision Making,
IT Based Strategic Change, People-Centric Management, and Game Theory.
Technology: Security, Operating Systems, Distributed Systems, Real-Time Systems,
Algorithms, Object Oriented Development, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence,
Networking, Education, and Mathematics.
About
Dr Steven Sommer has held a number of senior management roles within the leading global technology organisations.
He has worked at both Australian and multinational companies including Cisco, Microsoft, Oracle, and IBM.
He has created and led high performance groups within a range of professional services areas including research and
development, consulting, and customer support.
In 2007, Dr Sommer left his role as Vice President of Research and Development at Clarity International
to take up a series of contract engagements. He is currently lecturing Business Information Systems,
Project Management, and Negotiation, at the University of Sydney for the Faculty of Economics and
Business and the School of Information Technology.
Dr Sommer received his MBA in 2003 from the Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM).
He received his PhD at the Microsoft Research Institute in conjunction with Macquarie University;
his PhD thesis was titled: Support for Competing Distributed Real-Time Applications within the
Conventional Operating System Paradigm. In 1991 he was awarded a BSc(hons) and University Medal
from the University of Sydney.
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