Experience

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  Self

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  Software Engineering Institute | Carnegie Mello...

  • Pittsburgh, PA

  • Director, Technology Division

    • 1999 - 2004
    • Pittsburgh, PA

    My responsibilities included leading the technical staff responsible for the continuing development of the Capability Maturity Mode (CMM) for Software and in personally assisting Dr. Peter Feiler, Dr. John Goodenough, Dr. Mario Barbacci and others in designing and developing the CMM for Systems E...

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  Heron Integrated Marine Systems, Inc.

  • Tracy's Landing, MD

  • Co-President

    • 1996 - 1999
    • Tracy's Landing, MD

    This small business was started by my partner Dave Berger and me to design and install integrated electrical, mechanical and electronic systems in sailing and power yachts, The business was sold in 1999 and continues in business as Marine Technical Services.

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  Federal Aviation Administration - FAA

  • Washington, DC

  • Chief Scientist for Software Engineering

    • 1994 - 1996
    • Washington, DC

    My responsibility was to initiate a software improvement program based on the Defense Department's successful use of the Software Engineering Institute's Capability Maturity Model (CMM). This was accomplished and Dr. Arthur Pyster, previously of the Software Productivity Consortium, too...

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  Texas Instruments

  • Dallas, TX

  • Vice President, Corporate Research & Director, Computer Science Center

    • 1985 - 1990
    • Dallas, TX

    I led this group of three TI laboratories which focused on Symbolic Processing, Artificial Intelligence and Speech Understanding. Approximately 200 computer scientists were employed in these world-class laboratories. The TI "Explorer", a special purpose symbolic computer was jointly d...

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  Texas Instruments, Equipment Group

  • Richardson, Plano, & Lewisville, TX

  • Director, Image Processing Systems Department

    • 1978 - 1984
    • Richardson, Plano, & Lewisville, TX

    I started work at Texas Instruments in their Equipment Group which manufactures hardware for defense applications. specialized in the application of Kalman Filtering to defense problems. I was first assigned to the Radar Division as a Systems Engineer but after about 2 years I was chosen to sta...

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  Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

  • Rosslyn, VA

  • Program Manager

    • 1974 - 1978
    • Rosslyn, VA

    I was responsible for managing the development and operation of the first large scale application of ARPANET packet- switched networking to defense needs, This program was called the Advanced Command & Control Architectural Testbed and had facilities at Pearl Harbor, HI, San Diego, CA, Mon...

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  Naval Ocean Systems Center

  • San Diego, CA

  • Control Systems Engineer

    • 1965 - 1969
    • San Diego, CA

    Managed the development of the first computer-based addition to the 16" main-battery gunfire control system for the USS New Jersey (BB-62) just before she deployed to Vietnam in 1968. This was a short-fuze high visibility project to significantly improve the accuracy of these guns whose 190...