I’ve been working in industry projects providing domain-specific modeling languages and supporting tools since 90’s. My work on this topic originally started via an academic research project (http://metaphor.it.jyu.fi/) but then quickly lead to founding MetaCase (www.metacase.com) together with my research colleagues. MetaCase provides tooling (MetaEdit+) along with support services, consulting and training.

In the last years I’ve mostly acted as a consultant (Europe, Asia, North America) for modeling language and generator development as well as for their introduction into real use – and benefits. In this role I have worked with over 100 language engineering projects.

I’ve have made about 90 publications on this subject and a PhD dissertation (http://users.jyu.fi/~jpt/doc/index.html). I still enjoy research work and act as an adjunct professor at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland (http://users.jyu.fi/~jpt/). If I’m not metamodeling, defining languages or generators, I prefer sailing or skiing depending on the season.