David Caminer

David Caminer
Born	26 June 1915 London, England
Died	19 June 2008
Other names	David Treisman
Occupation	Systems analyst
Employer	J. Lyons and Co.

David Caminer, OBE (26 June 1915 – 19 June 2008) has been called the World's First Corporate Electronic Systems Analyst & The World's First Software Engineer. He carried out the systems analysis and charting for the world's first routine business computer job. He was a British computer engineer who developed the World’s First Business Computer, LEO. LEO means Lyons Electronic Office. David Caminer also called The First Business Application Programmer.

Caminer was born David Treisman in the East End of London. His father was killed in action during the First World War. When his mother remarried, he was given his stepfather's surname Caminer.

In March 1943 Caminer lost a leg at the Battle of Mareth, whilst serving with the Green Howards in Tunisia.

Caminer worked generally in the area of operations management and cost accounting. He helped to design, along with John Pinkerton, the LEO (Lyons Electronic Office), which has been certified by the Guinness World Records as the world's first business computer.

Caminer joined Lyons & Co. as a management trainee in 1936 and became Manager of the Lyons Systems Research Office before concentrating on the computer innovation. He became Director of LEO Computers Ltd in 1959 and was subsequently General Sales Manager of English Electric LEO Marconi, while retaining his responsibility for consultancy and systems implementation. After the merger to form ICL, his posts included the delineation of the systems software requirements for the New Range and Director of New Range Market Introduction.

He chose to complete his formal career in the field as Project Director for the implementation of the computer and communications network for the European Economic Community, where he developed a computer system for the European Common Market. For this work he was appointed to the Order of the British Empire in 1980.

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