Personnel knowledgable in the area of software maintenance, or software support
Boehm, Barry - Currently the TRW Professor of Software Engineering, Computer Science Department Director, USC Center for Software Engineering. His current research interests include software process modeling, software requirements engineering, software architectures, software metrics
and cost models, software engineering environments, and knowledge-based software engineering. His contributions to the field include the Constructive Cost Model (COCOMO), the Spiral Model of the
software process, the Theory W (win-win) approach to software management and requirements determination.
Ferens, Daniel - Daniel V. (Dan) Ferens, who retired from Federal Service after more than 35 years in 2007, now works as a Program Manager for ITT Information Systems in Rome, NY. During his Government career, he worked at the Air Force Research Laboratory in Rome, NY and in Dayton, OH, and spent 13 years as a Professor at Air Force Institute of Technology in Dayton, OH, where he taught graduate-level classes in software estimation and other software management and engineering subjects.
Mr. Ferens is a founder and lifetime member of the International Society of Parametric Analysts (ISPA) and has been a member of the Society of Cost Estimating and Analysis (SCEA) for more than ten years. He was the ISPA Freiman Award for lifetime achievement winner in 1999, and the ISPA Parametrician of the Year in 1990. He also served on the ISPA Board of Directors in 1979-1980 and 2004-2006. He has presented papers or chaired panels at numerous national and international conferences and symposia, and has published two books and many journal articles.
Mr. Ferens has a Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Master’s Degree in Business from the University of Northern Colorado. He and his wife, Marcie, currently reside in Fulton, NY.
Galorath, Daniel D. - Daniel Galorath is one of the principal developers of the SEER-SEM™ software evaluation model. His teaching experience includes development and presentation of courses in Software Cost, Schedule, and Risk Analysis; Software Management; Software Engineering; and Weapons Systems Architecture. His company, Galorath Incorporated, has developed tools, methods, and training for software cost, schedule,
risk analysis, and management decision support. Among Mr. Galorath's published works are papers encompassing software cost modeling, testing theory, software life cycle error prediction and reduction, and software and systems requirements definition. Most recently, Mr. Galorath was named winner of the 2001 International Society of
Parametric Analysts (ISPA) Freiman Award. awarded to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the theoretical or applied aspects of parametric modeling. Dan is also the author of Software Sizing, Estimation, and Risk Management.
Jones, Capers - Capers Jones is Chief Scientist Emeritus of Software Productivity Research (SPR). Capers Jones founded the company. He has almost 40 years of experience in software cost estimating. Jones designed IBM's first automated estimation tool in 1975, and is also one of the designers of three commercial software estimation tools: SPQR/20, Checkpoint, and KnowledgePlan. These software estimation tools pioneered the use of function point metrics for sizing and estimating. They also pioneered sizing of paper documents, and the estimation of quality and defect levels. To build these tools, SPR has collected quantified data from more than 600 companies.
Pressman, Roger S. - Roger S. Pressman is an internationally recognized consultant and author in software engineering. For over 30 years, he has worked as a software engineer, a manager, a professor, an author, and a consultant, focusing on software engineering issues.
Dr. Pressman specializes in helping companies establish effective software engineering practices. He is the developer of Process Advisor, the industry's first self-directed software process improvement product and Essential Software Engineering, the industry's most comprehensive video curriculum in software engineering. His new Internet-based software engineering training curriculum, eSchool, developed in partnership with QAI, provides a unique on-line learning experience.
Walker, Ellen - Ellen Walker, is a DACS Analyst, currently developing a
series of publications on software “best practices” as part of the
DACS Gold Practice Initiative. She has spent the past 25 years as
a software developer in various roles spanning the entire software
life cycle including project management of multiple business
process re-engineering efforts within the DoD community.
She is also experienced with assessment initiatives such as the
Capability Maturity Model for Software (CMM-SW) and the
quality management practices of the New York State Quality
Award program. Ellen has an MS in Management Science (State
University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton), and bachelor
degrees in both Computer Science (SUNY – Utica/Rome) and
Mathematics (LeMoyne College).
DACS Gold Practice Initiative
