About Insight

Insight Consulting was established in 1996 with the aim of providing Organisations with practical, professional support in the area of Software Quality and Software Process Improvement (SPI).

We are an indigenous company operating mainly in Ireland but have provided services to clients in the UK, Netherlands, France, Austria and Canada and the United States. Our strength lies in our ability to offer our Customers:

We have developed close associations with renowned International Service Providers, e.g. Systeme Evolutif Ltd U.K, Innovation Dynamics Consulting USA, Compita Ltd U.K., thus strengthening our service portfolio.

Principal Consultant Profile

Fran O'Hara B.E. M.Sc. Elec. Eng. Principal Consultant on Software Quality and Process Improvement

Fran has over 20 years experience, working with Philips Research Laboratories (Netherlands), Telectronics Pacing Systems (Australia) and Q-SET (Ireland).

In 1996, he formed his own company, Insight Consulting Ltd. (www.insight.ie) providing Software Process Improvement services. In 2002, he co-founded Insight Test Services providing managed testing/validation services (www.insight-test.com).

At Telectronics, he managed the Implant Software Dept. responsible for the design, development and test of real-time embedded safety-critical software for implantable cardiac defibrillators in an ISO 9001/CMM level 3-equivalent environment.

He is a regular speaker at seminars and International Conferences, a trained TickIT auditor, a qualified tutor for the ISEB software testing certificate and a trained SEI CMM lead assessor. He is ex-chairman and co-founder of the new Irish special interest group in software testing, SoftTest Ireland (www.SoftTest.ie) and he was recently made a fellow of the Irish Computer Society. He is a co-author of the RPI method developed with Jim Hart and supported through RPI Alliance Ltd. (www.rpialliance.com).