Alastair O’Brien, Public Sector Business Unit Director
With a University of Glasgow BSc (2nd Class Honours) in Computing Science 1979 Alastair is an experienced business manager, programme manager and IT Consultant with 30 years of project experience in a variety of market sectors, and an outstanding track record of successful delivery of complex, high-risk projects.
As a Real Time business manager, his responsibilities include full profit and loss accountability for designated aspects of Real Time’s operation. His external facing responsibilities include customer and contract relationship management.
Alastair is a confident professional leader with well developed interpersonal skills and a strong customer focus. He has been instrumental in establishing Real Time as a major force in delivering Business and IT Consultancy services to the Public Sector and as a leading player in Scotland providing consultancy and services to the Scottish Executive, NHS Scotland, Scottish Police Information Services, Glasgow City Council and many Non-Departmental Public Bodies.
Papers
- A MASCOT Design Support Environment’ – ALVEY conference proceedings.
- Experiences in the development of a Real Time Heterogeneous distributed application designed using MASCOT and implemented in Ada.
Conferences
- XML Masterclass – ScotlandIS
- A Process Model for Real Time Systems – IEE
- An Approach to Modelling a MASCOT3 Design – MASCOT Users Forum.





