Bill Appelbe is the Chief Executive Officer of Victorian Partnership For Advanced Computing (VPAC) and formerly the Head of the Computer Science Department at RMIT. Bill completed an undergraduate honours science degree at Monash University in 1974 and was then awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship for postgraduate study in Canada. Bill completed a Masters then Doctorate in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering in 1978 at the University of British Columbia. Subsequently, he was employed as an Assistant Professor at the University of California, San Diego (1978-1986), then as an Associate Professor at Georgia Tech, Atlanta. Bill has been a consultant for or employee of dozens of major organisations including IBM, HP, Sun Microsystems, Motorola, and USA government laboratories and defence departments. Bill has authored computer training courses and lectured worldwide, in countries including: USA, Canada, Britain, Sweden, Denmark, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Hong Kong, and Japan. Bill is an expert in several fields of Computer Science: Programming, Software Engineering, and Computer Architecture, and has been associated with several patents. Bill has over 50 referred publications.