EXPERIENCE

Covesant Chicago, IL
June 2001–September 2002

      Principal Consultant

• Founded a consulting practice dedicated to improving the effectiveness of software development in organizations
• Collaborated with an organizational change management consultant to create an organizational improvement program specific to the software industry
• Researched techniques from the fields of organization development and software process improvement
• Presented an introduction to the SEI's Capability Maturity Model to graduate students at The New School University in New York

CodeFab New York, NY
February 2000–June 2001

      Project Manager

• Brought an over-schedule, over-budget project under control
• Managed development and testing staff to meet planned deadlines
• Developed and piloted procedures for requirements traceability, change control, release management, and defect resolution
• Discovered several problems in the project's development by tracking planned versus actual project results
• Served as member of the software process group, helping to create a development process based on agile methods

• Developed a web-based commodities trading system using WebObjects with an Oracle database
• Used Java, HTML, and CSS to implement the client-side application
• Designed communication between the web client and database using Mac OS X libraries

Software Engineering Institute Pittsburgh, PA
January 1998–August 1999

      Student Assistant

• Modeled algorithms and communications protocols for use in state-space model checkers including SPIN, SMV, and VeriSoft
• Researched the role of state-space model checking in software engineering
• Contributed to publications on model-based verification
• Maintained systems and modeling tools for the SEI's Model-Based Verification Technical Facility

Filoli Information Systems Palo Alto, CA
September 1995–August 1997

      Member of Technical Staff, Architecture Group

• Contributed to the design and implementation of a distributed transaction processing architecture for an insurance claims system
• Managed transactions using distributed objects, multi-site locking, and Sybase data replication
• Documented the overall system design for database and application developers

      Member of Technical Staff, Database Group

• Modeled the interaction between object-oriented application code and relational database schema using OO and E-R modeling techniques
• Managed multi-site transactions using BEA's TUXEDO with a custom database adaptor
• Developed a utility in Objective-C to verify consistency between application- and data-layer changes

      Member of Technical Staff, Applications Group

• Contributed to a NeXTstep-based worker's compensation claims processing system
• Implemented user interface specifications using Objective-C and NeXTstep tools
• Reduced application memory requirements by coding dynamically loaded modules

      Member of Technical Staff, Integration/Release Manager

• Automated a nightly build process using a modular-design UNIX shell script
• Served as a member of the change control board, managing code and database schema changes from the different development groups
• Managed software releases using RCS, integration and regression testing of multiple branches in the source tree

Envision St. Louis, MO
February 1995–September 1995

      Consultant

• Verified and validated a NeXTstep-based laboratory information system for Abbott Laboratories in Chicago
• Planned testing activities and estimated tasks
• Wrote and executed test cases
• Automated tests using perl and Objective-C

IBM Santa Teresa Laboratory San Jose, CA
April 1994–February 1995

      Information Developer (co-op)

• Revised and updated a multimedia tutorial for a query-by-image database
• Wrote and revised installation and support materials for shrink-wrapped software
• Demo'ed VisualAge at staff presentations
• Developed online help for query applications for the DB/2 database

EDUCATION

Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA

      Master of Software Engineering awarded August 1999

      Master of Human-Computer Interaction awarded March 1999

University of Washington Seattle, WA

      Bachelor of Science in Technical Communication awarded March 1995

SKILLS

• Project Management: Project planning and tracking, task estimation methods including Wideband Delphi, Function Points, and LOC metrics
• Analysis and design: Object-Oriented analysis and design, object modeling including Booch and UML, SAAM (Software Architecture Analysis Method)
• Process Training: Personal and Team Software Process (PSP & TSP)
• Platforms: Mac OS X, Windows, NeXT, UNIX
• Languages: Java, C, Objective-C, perl, Visual Basic, UNIX shell, HTML, XML, CSS
• Middleware and Frameworks: Cocoa/Appkit, WebObjects, EnterpriseObjects, JDK, TUXEDO
• Testing: system, integration, unit, and regression test, test case planning, design, and execution
• Database: E-R modeling, object-relational mapping, replication, locking protocols, Sybase, Oracle
• Distributed computing: transaction processing, protocol modeling and analysis, concurrent programming
• User interface: design, prototyping, programming, testing

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS

• SPIN Software Process Improvement Network
• BayCHI San Francisco Bay Area Computer-Human Interaction SIG
• ODNetwork Organization Development Network
• Mensa