Eric Brunel is co-founder and CTO of PragmaDev, and co-designer of the SDL-RT language. He also participates in the ITU-T Study Group on System Design Languages. Before the company creation in 2001, he had 10 years of experience as a project leader on development support and modeling tools in a major company in the telecommunication industry. He is a specialist in UML, SDL, and SDL-RT, and is an expert in object oriented development methodologies, extreme programming, and test driven development.