Rocco Muller

Senior Metrics Consultant

Rocco Muller has B.Eng and M.Eng degrees and 20 years experience in systems analysis and software development.

Prior to his current role as software metrics consultant, Rocco held positions of methodology and quality manager to an Australian bank (four years), software methodology consultant with an international IT consulting company and project manager at a software house. His consulting assignments include a range of private and government organisations in Australia and New Zealand, including the AMP Society, Perpetual Trustees, Accident Compensation Corporation, New Zealand departments of Health, Labour, Rail, the NZ Broadcasting Corporation, Westpac Bank, Optus, IBM, ISSC Australia, RTA and EDS.

Rocco also has experience in software quality management. He had the opportunity to write a new quality management system (based on AS3563, ISO 9000) and introduce it in a 40-developer environment IBM-DB2 environment.

In recent years Rocco has developed special expertise in the field of software metrics, including function point analysis. Salient activities in this field include: 

• Establishment of comprehensive metrics programs in both a financial institution and a software house. This included the integration of the metrics program components into the in-house software life cycle and QMS processes.

• Specification of procedures, standards and software facilities for automating the collection of project, maintenance and operations data which feed into a metrics program, enabling the periodic reporting of key productivity indicators.

• Delivery of Function Point training courses and management presentations on Function Point Metrics to institutions in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide.

• Rocco is certified to IFPUG 4.2 and has been certified CFPS since 1997.