Bios
Chris Abts
Abts received a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering
from Georgia Tech in 1981, followed by a year on scholarship
at the Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. He earned a master's
degree in industrial & systems engineering from the University
of Southern
California in 1989. He spent 10 years in industry, working in
the area of Strategic Nuclear Weapons Mission Planning automation
and analysis. He is now at USC pursuing a PhD, combining studies
from both the ISE and computer science departments, as well
as the USC Center for Software Engineering where he is developing
the COCOTS COTS integration cost model under Barry Boehm. He
is one of the coauthors of the recently published book Software
Cost Estimation with COCOMO II (Prentice Hall, 2000).
Cecilia Albert
Albert is a senior member of the technical staff in the Commercial-Off-the-Shelf
(COTS)-Based Systems (CBS) Initiative at the Software Engineering
Institute (SEI). She is currently codeveloping an integrated
engineering, management, and acquisition process for use with
systems composed of COTS products. Before joining the SEI, Albert
was in the Air Force where she served in a variety of positions
related to information technologies: working on development
of major software programs for simulation, command and control,
and mission processing of national satellite systems; teaching
acquisition and leading an industry study on telecommunications
and information systems at the Industrial College of the Armed
Forces; and managing the archive and dissemination
programs at the National Imagery and Mapping Agency.
Tom Baker
Baker (tom.baker@boeing.com)
is a principle engineer for The Boeing Company. He is currently
the chief systems architect for the Product Data Manager (PDM),
the main repository in Boeing Commercial Airplane's DCAC/MRM
re-engineering project. In his 35-year software engineering
career he has developed a wide variety of applications and systems
ranging from simulation to data management and from CAD/CAM
to software engineering.
Keith Ballurio
Ballurio is a principal member of technical staff at the Software
Productivity Consortium. He is currently lead author of Phase
Integrated
COTS (PIC), the Consortium's contribution to the subject of
COTS Integration. Ballurio has trained a number of consortium
members on the topic of architectural frameworks and developed
a number of courses for the consortium. Keith has over 16 years
of software and system development experience as a director
of technology with Vector Research and others firms.
Joe Besselman
Besselman is a career acquisition officer in the United States
Air Force. He has held a variety of software acquisition positions
in programs both large (Joint STARS) and small (a variety of
command and control systems and logistics systems). He spent
several years working
in the Software Process Program at the Software Engineering
Institute. He presently serves on the Headquarters Air Force
staff as branch chief
for the modernization of more than 120 installations and logistics
systems. He holds an MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering
from LSU and a PhD in Management and Public Policy Analysis
from Carnegie Mellon University.
Elizabeth Clark
Clark is President of Software Metrics Inc., a measurement consulting
company she cofounded in 1983. She is a coauthor of the book
Practical
Software Measurement: A Guide to Objective Program Insight,
published in 2001 by Addison-Wesley. Clark was a principle contributor
to the
Software Engineering Institute's core measures. She is also
the author of a chapter on software progress measures in a forthcoming
book edited
by the International Function Point Users Group (IFPUG), to
be published this year by Addison-Wesley. She has contributed
to numerous studies of software best practices for the U.S.
Department of Defense and Federal Aviation Administration. She
maintains an active consulting business and is currently working
with Dr. Barry Boehm and Chris Abts to develop and
calibrate COCOTS, a cost model for COTS-based systems. She is
also working with one of the largest banks in the world to establish
software
performance benchmarks and to use measurement to guide process
and product improvement. Clark received her BA from Stanford
University and her PhD from U.C., Berkeley.
Annette Conger
Conger is a senior software developer for Computer Sciences
Corporation at Wallops Flight Facility. Her focus has been in
developing automated software in support of satellite data acquisition
and distribution. She has experience in a variety of operating
systems, programming languages, and development environments.
John Dean
Dean is a research council officer in the Software Engineering
Group of the Institute of Information Technology, National Research
Council of
Canada. A retired Canadian Armed Forces officer, Dean has extensive
experience in real-time software development and software engineering.
His research interests include commercial off-the-shelf (COTS)
software
issues and software engineering education. His current focus
is on the evaluation of candidate COTS software products for
inclusion in
large-scale, long-lived systems. He is also interested in issues
of security and privacy in systems based on COTS software. Dean
holds a BS in Mathematics and Physics from the Canadian Forces
Military College and a Master of Mathematics in Computer Science
from the University of Waterloo. He is a Certified Software
Test Engineer (CSTE).
Anthony Earl
Earl is a consultant in the Jiro group at Sun Microsystems Inc.
in Boulder, Colorado. He previously worked on Java-related distributed
object technology for Hewlett Packard in Colorado and for the
Software Engineering Institute in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
He was the originator of the NIST/ECMA Reference Model for software
engineering environments. He has worked on the formal specification
of databases and on CASE Tools and their environments. He has
a BS and PhD in Computer Science from the
University of York, UK.
Xavier Franch
Franch is an associate professor in the Computer Science Department
at the Technical University of Catalonia. His current lines
of research
include modelization of non-functional software requirements,
selection of COTS components, component-based software development,
and software process modeling. He is an author or coauthor of
many technical papers published in the proceedings of many conferences
in those fields. He is also author of a book on data structures
used as basic reference in many
Spanish universities.
Rose Gamble
Gamble is an associate professor of computer science at the
University of Tulsa, where she is the director of the Software
Engineering and
Architecture Team. Gamble received a BS in Mathematics and Computer
Science from Westminster College. She received her DSc and MS
in Computer Science from Washington University in St. Louis.
Jerry Gao
Gao is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer
Engineering at San Jose State University, where he has worked
since 1998. He has many years of research and working experience
in software engineering. From 1995 to 1998, he worked for Fujitsu
Network Communication, Inc. at San Jose as a manager for the
research and development group in the
software engineering division. He has done a lot of research
work on object-oriented technology and software testing methodology.
His current
research interests include component engineering, e-commerce,
and Internet computing. Gao has published over 30 technical
papers in IEEE journals and international conferences. He is
also one of the editors of a technical book titled Object-Oriented
Software Testing. You can reach him at jerrygao@email.sjsu.edu.
His Web address is
http://www.engr.sjsu.edu/gaojerry.
Sallie Gregor
Sallie Gregor currently works for Science Applications International
Corporation (SAIC), a Fortune 500 company that now ranks as
the largest employee-owned research and engineering firm in
the nation. Gregor, a
systems engineer, has been a program manager and system architect
for large COTS-based software development programs.
Rhoda Shaller Hornstein
Hornstein has over 30 years of progressively responsible experience
in formulating, advocating, and directing NASA programs. Throughout
her career, she has been recognized for executive leadership,
technical excellence, professional integrity, and innovation
in creating
multi-disciplinary alliances across government, industry, and
academia. She has written or cowritten more than 40 publications
in systems
engineering, requirements planning, technology transfer, commercialization
of aerospace products and services, and cost-effective
space operations. Hornstein's NASA honors include the Exceptional
Service Medal, the Silver Snoopy, and the Cooperative External
Achievement Award. Hornstein was recently elected to the International
Academy of Astronautics.
Joseph Hutson
Hutson currently works for Science Applications International
Corporation (SAIC), a Fortune 500 company that now ranks as
the largest
employee-owned research and engineering firm in the nation.
Hutson, a software engineer, has implemented COTS-based solutions
using
technologies such as application servers, portals, workflow,
and LDAP.
Christina M. Laiacona
Laiacona is the manager of the Integration Test Group at BASF
Corporation in Mt. Olive, New Jersey. She is a doctoral candidate
for a
degree in Information Systems from Nova Southeastern University,
Florida. Her dissertation topic is system test strategy for
COTS applications. Laiacona is the project manager for a global
COTS change management system. She is responsible for testing
a SAP R/3 implementation deployed to 9,000 users in the NAFTA
region, and conducting eCommerce portal regression testing for
a global PC standardization project. Laiacona has been a speaker
at four Quality Assurance Institute (QAI) International Conferences
and has been published by the Journal of Government Information,
Elsevier Science LTD. She is founder and chapter president of
the New Jersey Quality Assurance Association (NJQAA) a federation
chapter of QAI.
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Grace Lewis
Lewis is a member of technical staff at the Software Engineering
Institute (SEI) of Carnegie Mellon University, where she conducts
research on component-based systems, modernization of legacy
systems, and model-based verification. Her latest publications
include several reports published by Carnegie Mellon on these
subjects. Lewis has over
12 years of experience in software engineering. She earned a
BS in Systems Engineering and an MBA from Icesi University in
Cali,
Colombia, South America. After living in Colombia for 12 years,
she returned to the U.S. to obtain her Master in Software Engineering
from Carnegie Mellon University. She previously worked as systems
analyst,
support engineer, and finally Chief of Systems Development for
Icesi University, where she led the development and deployment
of all
university-wide information systems. While in Cali, Columbia
she also worked as an R&D engineer for the Electronics Division
of Carvajal S.A.
Anna Liu
Liu is the project leader of the Middleware Technology Evaluation
(MTE) research project at CSIRO in Sydney. The MTE project focuses
on the use of COTS technologies in building large-scale, mission-critical
enterprise systems. Liu has published numerous papers in journals
and conferences, presented tutorials at OOPSLA and TOOLS conferences,
and has authored numerous journal issues for Cutter Consortium
on middleware component technologies. She holds an adjunct senior
academic position at the Basser Department of Computer Science
at the University of Sydney and leads various consultancies
for MTE clients on enterprise application integration, technology
selection, and architecture analysis and design.
Neil Maiden
Maiden is head of the Centre for Human-Computer Interaction
Design, a research department in City University London's School
of Informatics. He received a PhD in Computer Science from City
University in 1992. His
research interests include frameworks for requirements acquisition
and negotiation, scenario-based systems development, component-based
software engineering, ERP packages, requirements reuse, and
more
effective transfer of academic research results into software
engineering practice.
Nancy Mead
At the Software Engineering Institute (SEI), Mead is the team
leader for the Survivable Network Analysis (SNA) Team and a
senior member of technical staff in the Networked Systems Survivability
Program. (The
CERT® Coordination Center is a part of this program.) She
was the SEI director of education from 1991 to 1994. She is
also a faculty member in the Master of Software Engineering
and Master of Information Systems Management programs at Carnegie
Mellon University. She is currently involved in the study of
survivable systems architectures and the development of professional
infrastructure for software engineers. Her research interests
are in the areas of software requirements engineering, software
architectures, software metrics, and real-time systems. Prior
to joining the SEI, Mead was a senior technical staff member
at IBM Federal Systems, where she spent most of her career in
the development and management of large real-time systems. She
also worked in the IBM software engineering technology area
and managed IBM Federal Systems' software engineering education
department. She has developed and taught numerous courses on
software engineering topics, in both university and professional
education settings.
Cornelius Ncube
Ncube is an assistant professor at the College of Information
Systems at Zayed University. Ncube is a visiting research fellow
in Requirements Engineering for COTS-based systems development
in the Centre for
Human-Computer Interaction Design at City University London,
UK. After graduating with a BSc (Hons) degree in Computer Science
from Brunel University, London, UK, Ncube earned an MSc in Software
Engineering and a PhD in Computer Science from City University
London, UK. A researcher in successful European projects, Ncube
is currently involved in a major 3-year European funded project
to develop methods and processes for building secure and dependable
banking systems using COTS software components. Ncube has published
referred papers in major international computing journals and
conferences. He is also a reviewer for the IEEE Computer Journal
and international conferences.
Patricia Oberndorf
Oberndorf is a senior member of technical staff at the Software
Engineering Institute (SEI). She is part of the COTS-Based Systems
Initiative and concentrates on the use of COTS products and
the investigation of acquisition, management, integration, and
open system
issues. She is a coauthor of Managing Software Acquisition:
Open Systems and COTS Products, a book published by Addison-Wesley.
She was a principal in the development of an outline for necessary
COTS-based systems activities, which is available in various
publications and
COTS-Based Systems training material at the executive and program
manager levels. Since coming to the SEI she has also codeveloped
and taught courses on open systems. She has spent much of her
career in the investigation of a number of integration and open
systems questions, often specifically in the context of computer-aided
software engineering
environments. Before coming to the SEI, Oberndorf was with the
Navy for over 19 years.
Colleen Oresky
Oresky currently works for Science Applications International
Corporation (SAIC), a Fortune 500 company that now ranks as
the largest employee-owned research and engineering firm in
the nation. Oresky, a software engineer, has been a program
manager and system architect for several COTS-based software
systems.
Tom Pfarr
Pfarr is a principal computer scientist with extensive experience
ranging from hardware and software engineering to systems and
application software development and deployment. He was the
system architect for the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Vision
2000 Control Center System (CCS) at the Goddard Space Flight
Center (GSFC). Pfarr has provided ground system development,
deployment, and post-launch support for eight GSFC science missions
since 1976 and has been involved
with HST for over 19 years. He is currently the ground system
engineer for the Next Generation Space Telescope (NGST) which
is planned for launch in December 2008.
Nguyen Thanh Quang
Quang is currently a PhD student in the Department of Information
and Decision Systems, ESSEC Business School, France. His research
interests concern information systems, software engineering,
and databases. His PhD thesis investigates the impacts of COTS
software products on COTS-based software systems.
Robert Seacord
Seacord is a senior member of technical staff at the Software
Engineering Institute (SEI) and an eclectic technologist. He
is coauthor of the book Building Systems from Commercial Components
and has written over 30 papers on component-based software engineering,
Web-based system design, legacy system modernization, component
repositories and search engines, security, and user interface
design and development.
Susan Semancik
Semancik is a senior software engineer in the Real Time Software
Engineering Branch at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Wallops
Flight Facility. Her development and project leadership duties
have spanned both orbital and suborbital activities, focusing
on mission critical and/or safety critical real time systems
development. She holds a masters degree in mathematics. She
has experience in a variety of operating systems, programming
languages, and development environments.
James Smith
Prior to joining the Software Engineering Institute (SEI), Smith
spent 15 years developing, acquiring, testing, and fielding
software-intensive systems within the U.S. Department of Defense
(DoD). He is certified
under the Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA)
at Level-III in both the Program Management and Systems Planning,
Research, Development, and Engineering career fields. Before
retiring from the Navy in 1999, Smith served in a variety of
system engineering and program management positions, including
Technical Director for the Joint Maritime Communication Systems
(JMCOMS) Program Office at SPAWAR, Deputy
Program Manager for the Battlefield Awareness and Data Dissemination
(BADD) Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration at DARPA, and
Chief Engineer for the Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) Joint
Program Office. Current activities include researching the employment
of COTS (and other software reuse) in the acquisition and development
of software-intensive systems within the DoD, and transitioning
this research into practice.
Sandy Tay
Tay is a project leader of the European Software Institute,
Spain, where she is currently managing the European COTS User
Working Group Project funded by the Information Society Technologies
Programme of the European Commission. Sandy has more than 12
years of software development
experience in industry as a COTS product provider and COTS products
integrator. She was one of the original developers of FloWare,
the flagship workflow product of Plexus Software, a division
of BancTec Inc. Tay later spent two years in Madrid working
for BancTec Iberica as a software consultant, where she implemented
various business process
reengineering projects in different European countries. After
that, she returned to the United States to become the Software
Development Manager of FloWare. She was the principal architect
to revamp the life cycle of the workflow product using CORBA
and JAVA. Sandy received her BS in Computer Science from the
University of Toronto, Canada, and an MBA from the University
of Texas, Edinburg, Texas.
Marco Torchiano
Torchiano holds an MS and PhD in Computer Engineering from Politecnico
di Torino, Italy. He is currently a post-doctorate researcher
in the Department of Computer and Information Science at the
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim. His
research interests include component-based development, COTS
products and software
architecture. He is a member of the IEEE Computer Society.
Will Tracz
Tracz is a senior member of technical staff for the SEI CMM
Level 5 Lockheed Martin Systems Integration in Owego, New York.
Currently, he is an IR&D principal investigator (PI) on
a task focused on enterprise architectures. Recently, he served
as lead PI on a large IR&D task
focused on collaborative e-business, and lead consultant on
a U.S. Gypsum e-procurement project. Currently, he is one of
the PIs on the
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Dynamic Assembly
of Systems for Adaptability, Dependability, and Assurance (DASADA)
Program. Finally, he is the outgoing chair of the corporate
Software Subcouncil
Working Group on COTS and Reuse. Tracz is a member of the IEEE
Computer Society Subcommittee on Software Reuse advisory board,
editor of the ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, and upcoming
chairman of the International Conference on Software Engineering
to be held in Buenos Aeries, Argentina in 2002.
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