Rich Hilliard is a consulting software systems architect to public and private sector clients. He is project editor of ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010, Systems and software engineering — Architecture description, the internationalization of IEEE Standard 1471:2000. Software systems architecture services including stakeholder and concern analyses, architectural viewpoint definition, architectural view modeling, modeling and analysis to address extra-functional concerns (e.g., quality of service, performance, safety and security), and best practices on architecture description using ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010 (IEEE Std 1471).
Rich is vice-chair of IFIP Working Group 2.10 on Software Architecture; invited expert for The Open Group Architecture Framework next version; and member of the IEEE Computer Society and the Free Software Foundation.
Author of +40 publications, articles and professional papers.