Grace Lewis is a member of the technical staff at the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Lewis has 13 years of software development experience in industry. Her main areas of expertise include enterprise information systems, database management systems, modeling with UML, project management, systems integration, and Java programming.

Before joining the SEI, Grace Lewis was Chief of Systems
Development for Icesi University, where she served as project
manager and technical lead for the university-wide administrative
systems. Systems were developed using Oracle tools and database
on Solaris and NT platforms, interfaces to the legacy accounting
system and the COTS library application. Other tasks included the
development of an in-house software development methodology
based on CASE*Method and SSADM, data analysis for academic
purposes, data architecture, database administration, development of
the information systems strategic plan, and work towards CMM level 2.
Prior to this position, she worked as Systems Analyst developing the
feasibility study, project plan, requirements gathering, requirements
analysis, systems and data architecture, data migration plan from an
HP/3000 hierarchical database, and design of the above system using
CASE*Method, a proprietary Oracle software development
methodology. And previously, for this same company, served as
Technical Support Engineer for all the computer clusters (Novell, UNIX,
OS/2, AS/400) and office users (Mac, PC, UNIX), and participated in
the development of the initial Student Registration system for the
graduate school, using 4th Dimension running on a Macintosh
platform.

Other work experience includes Design and Development Engineer
for the Electronics Division of Carvajal S.A. where she developed
software for communication between PCs and electronic devices
using Dbase III+ interacting with Assembly for the 8086/8088
processor; developed embedded software on the 8051 Intel
microcontroller that was used on the devices; and provided technical
assistance to sales personnel during on-site visits to potential and
actual clients.

Lewis has teaching experience at the graduate and undergraduate
level. She is currently part of associated technical faculty and a mentor
for the Master of Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon
University.

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