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PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS

  1. Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA), 1983-1993

  2. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 1974-1995

  3. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), member since 1976; fellow since 1994

  4. New York Academy of Sciences, 1998-2000

  5. Product Development & Management Association (PDMA), 2000-2002

  6. Sigma Xi, 1971-1999

   
EDITORSHIPS

IEEE Computer Society Software Engineering On-Line Resource (SE Portal)

  1. Area Editor, Requirements Engineering, 2003-2005

IEEE Software

  1. Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, 1998-2002

  2. Editor-in-Chief, 1995-1998

  3. Associate Editor-in-Chief, 1992-1994

  4. Member, Editorial Board, 1984-1986 and 1991-1994

  5. Member, Industrial Advisory Board, 1998-2002

  6. Guest Editor, Special Issue on Requirements Engineering, March 1994 (with P. Hsia)

  7. Columnist for Software Manager Column, 1992-1994 (with W. Royce)

Requirements Engineering Journal

  1. Member, Editorial Board, 2005-2011

Journal of Systems and Software

  1. Associate Editor, 1987-2010

Communications of the ACM

  1. Area Editor, Software Engineering, 1989-1991 (with B. Nejmeh)

  2. Member, ACM Computing Practices Advisory Panel, 1981-1991

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

  1. Guest Editor, Special Issue on Requirements Engineering, March 1991 (with P. Freeman)

IEEE Computer Society Press

  1. Member, Editorial Board, 1994

GTE Systems World-Wide Communications Journal

  1. Member, Editorial Board, 1983-1984

   
CONFERENCE LEADERSHIP

IEEE International Conferences/Symposia on Requirements Engineering (RE/ICRE)

  1. Co-Founder, International Conference on Requirements Engineering (ICRE), 1991

  2. Member, Steering Committee, International Conference on Requirements Engineering (ICRE), 1991-2001

  3. Chair, Steering Committee, International Conference on Requirements Engineering (ICRE), 1992-1996

  4. Member, Program Committee, San Diego, California, 1993

  5. Session Chair, Opening Plenary, January 1993

  6. General Chair, Colorado Springs, Colorado, April 1994

  7. Member, Program Committee, York, UK, 1995

  8. Finance Secretary, Steering Committee, International Conference on Requirements Engineering (ICRE), 1996-1998

  9. Local Arrangements Chair, Colorado Springs, Colorado, April 1996

  10. Member, Program Committee, Colorado Springs, Colorado, 1996

  11. Member, Program Committee, Annapolis, Maryland, 1997

  12. Member, Program Committee, Colorado Springs, Colorado, 1998

  13. Member, Program Committee, Monterey, California, 2003

  14. Member, Program Committee, Kyoto, Japan, 2004

  15. Session Chair, "Handling Non-Functional Requirements," Kyoto, Japan, September 2004

  16. Member, Program Committee, Delhi, India, October 2007

  17. Member, Program Committee, Industrial Track, Barcelona, Spain, September 2008

  18. Session Chair, "Elicitation," Barcelona, Spain, September 2008

  19. Member, Program Committee, Industrial Track, Seattle, Washington, October 2009

  20. Member, Program Committee, Industrial Track, Atlanta, Georgia, August-September 2009

  21. Member, Doctoral Symposium Experts Committee, Atlanta, Georgia, August-September 2009

Requirements Engineering: Foundations for Software Quality (REFSQ)

  1. Member, Program Committee, Porto, Portugal, June 2005

  2. Member, Program Committee, Luxembourg, June 2006

  3. Member, Program Committee, Trondheim, Norway, June 2007

  4. Facilitation Coordinator & Reporter, "Goal-Driven Requirements Engineering," Trondheim, Norway, June 2007.

  5. Member, Program Committee, Montpellier, France, June 2008

  6. Member, Program Committee, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 2009

  7. Session Chair, "Empirical Studies," Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 2009

  8. Member, Program Committee, Essen, Germany, June 2010

  9. Member, Program Committee, Essen, Germany, March 2011

International Workshop on Requirements Engineering Education and Training (REET)

  1. Member, Program Committee, Paris, France, August-September 2005

  2. Member, Program Committee, Barcelona, Spain, September 2008

  3. Member, Program Committee, Atlanta, Georgia, September 2009

Australian Workshop on Requirements Engineering (AWRE)

  1. Member, Program Committee, Melbourne, Australia, December 2002

  2. Member, Program Committee, Adelaide, Australia, December 2004

  3. Member, Program Committee, Melbourne, Australia, November 2005

  4. Member, Program Committee, Adelaide, Australia, December 2006

U.S. Army CECOM Workshop on Requirements Engineering and Rapid Prototyping

  1. Chair, Requirements Development Process Working Group, Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, November 1989

IEEE Global Requirements Engineering Workshop (GREW)

  1. Member, Program Committee, Munich, Germany, August 2007

Workshop on Comparative Evaluation of Requirements Engineering (CERE)

  1. Member, Program Committee, Delhi, India, October 2007

IEEE Workshop on Challenges and Best Practices in Requirements Engineering

  1. Member, Program Committee, Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 2007

International Workshop on Aligning Web Systems and Organisation Requirements (AWSOR'07)

  1. Member, Program Committee, Como, Italy, July 2007

First International Workshop on Requirements Engineering for Meeting Business Needs

  1. Member, Organizing Committee, Paris, France, August-September 2005

IEEE Requirements Engineering for Services (REFS) Workshops

  1. Session Chair, "Methods for Requirements Engineering Services," Turku, Finland, August 2008

Spanish Conference on Software Engineering (JISBD)

  1. Member, Published Papers Dissemination Committee, Zaragoza, Spain, September 2007

IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering

  1. Member, Program Committee, Berlin, Germany, April 1996

IEEE Computer Software and Applications (COMPSAC) Conferences

  1. Session Chair, "Automation to Support Software Testing and Verification," Chicago, Illinois, November 1982

  2. Member, Program Committee, Chicago, Illinois, 1983

  3. Member, Program Committee, Chicago, Illinois, 1984

  4. Session Chair, "Languages for Software Development," Chicago, Illinois, November 1984

  5. Member, Program Committee, Chicago, Illinois, 1985

  6. Session Chair, "Software Engineering Management," Chicago, Illinois, October 1985

  7. Plenary Panel Moderator, "Major Software Productivity Initiatives," Chicago, Illinois, October 1985

  8. General Chair, Chicago, Illinois, October 1986

  9. Member, Program Committee, Chicago, Illinois, 1986

  10. Session Chair, "Software Reusability," Chicago, Illinois, October 1986

  11. Member, Program Committee, Chicago, Illinois, 1987

  12. Session Chair, "Design Environments," Tokyo, Japan, October 1987

  13. Member, Program Committee, Chicago, Illinois, 1988

  14. Track Chair, "Methodology and Applications," Chicago, Illinois, October 1988

  15. Session Chair, "Life Cycle Support Tools," Chicago, Illinois, October 1988

  16. Member, Program Committee, Chicago, Illinois, 1989

  17. Member, Program Committee, Chicago, Illinois, 1990

  18. Session Chair, "Software Tools," Chicago, Illinois, October 1990

  19. Member, Program Committee, Chicago, Illinois, 1991

  20. Session Chair, "Software Metrics," Tokyo, Japan, September 1991

  21. Member, Program Committee, Beijing, China, June 2007

  22. Session Chair, "Requirements: Design and Modeling," Beijing, China, June 2007

  23. Member, Program Committee, Turku, Finland, August 2008

  24. Session Chair, "Requirements II: Process Analysis and Service Management," Turku, Finland, August 2008

  25. Member, Program Committee, Seoul, South Korea, July 2010.

IFIP Working Conference on Principles of Method Construction and Tool Support

  1. Member, Program Committee, Atlanta, Georgia, August 1996

Software Engineering Approaches for Offshore and Outsourced Development (SEAFOOD)

  1. Member, Program Committee, Zurich, Switzerland, July 2009

  2. Member, Program Committee, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, June 2010

ACM Computer Science Conference

  1. Co-Chair, Program Committee, Washington, D.C., February 1990

  2. Member, Organizing Committee, Atlanta, Georgia, October 1980

International Conference on Software Engineering and Its Application

  1. Member, Program Committee, Paris, France, November 1993

  2. Member, Program Committee, Hyderabad, India, December 1997

IEEE Software Engineering Standards Workshops

  1. Member, Program Committee, 1981, 1983

  2. Session Chair, "Experience with National Standards," May 1983

International Conference on Achieving Quality in Software (AQuIS)

  1. Member, Program Committee, Florence, Italy, 1996

Colorado Springs Ventures in Software Conferences

  1. Member, Program Committee, 1992

  2. Member, Planning Committee, 1994

   
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

GreenGold Lubricants, LLC, Colorado Springs, Colorado

  1. Member, Board of Directors, 2011

VentureDay R+ Iberoamericano 2010, Montevideo, Uruguay

  1. Member, Business Plan Evaluation Team, November 2010

Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)

  1. Member, Research Proposal Evaluation Team, 2004-2005

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Requirements Bibliography (REQBIB)

  1. Creator and Maintainer, 1996-present

Software Productivity Consortium, Herndon, Virginia

  1. Chair, Technical Visiting Committee, 1995-1996

  2. Member, Technical Visiting Committee, 1993-1996

Requisite, Inc., Boulder, Colorado

  1. Member, Board of Directors, 1994-1997

National Software Alliance (nee Government-Industry-University Software Alliance), Washington, D.C.

  1. Member, Board of Directors, 1995-1997

  2. Member, Executive Board, 1995-1997

Catalyst Venture Partners, LLC Colorado Springs, Colorado

  1. Member (Non-Managing General Partner), 1995-2002

  2. Member, Board of Advisors, Catalyst Infotech Development Fund, L.P., 1995-2002

University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, Colorado

  1. Member, Board of Directors, Colorado Institute for Technology Transfer and Implementation, 1993-2001

  2. Member, Advisory Group, Center for Entrepreneurship, UCCS Business School, 1993-1995

  3. Member, Engineering Advisory Council, College of Engineering and Applied Science, 1992-1994

  4. Member, Evaluation Committee, Pikes Peak Celebrate Technology Awards, 1995, 1997

Cutter Consortium, Boston, Massachusetts

  1. Senior Consultant, 1997-2000

IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, California

  1. Chair, Requirements Standards Task Force (Project 830), 1981-1990

  2. Member, Search Committee, IEEE Computer Society Press Editor-in-Chief, 2003-2004

  3. Member, Executive Committee, Technical Committee on Software Engineering, 1987-1992

  4. Member, Operations Committee, Technical Council on Software Engineering, 1995-1998

  5. Member, Fellow Evaluation Committee, 1997-1998

  6. Member, Magazine Operations Committee, 1995-1998

  7. Member, Electronic Products and Services Advisory Committee, 1995-1996

  8. Member, ex-officio, Publications Board, 1995-1998

  9. Member, Standards Steering Committee, 1984-1990

IEEE, Washington, DC

  1. Member, Engineering Research Initiation Awards (ERIA) Committee, 1992-1994

  2. Member, IEEE Software Engineering Standards Subcommittee, 1984-1990

  3. Member, IEEE Communications Society Software Technology Committee, 1978-1984

  4. Lecturer, IEEE Standards Seminars, 1985-1990

Carnegie-Mellon University Software Engineering Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

  1. Visiting Scholar, June 1991-December 1991

Computer Sciences Accreditation Board, New York, New York

  1. Program Evaluator, 1986-1992

   
COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES

  1. Member, Selection Committee, High Altitude Investors Angel Network, 2008-present

  2. Member, High Altitude Investors Angel Network, 2008-present

  3. Mentor, Colorado Springs Technology Incubator, 2008-present

  4. Member (ad hoc), Selection Committee, Colorado Springs Technology Incubator, 2008-2009

  5. Judge. Colorado College Entrepreneurship Competition (CCEC) "The Big Idea," $50,000 First Prize, March 2013

  6. Member, Board of Directors, Puchowitzer Society, 2004-2008

  7. Member, Board of Advisors, Colorado Springs Technology Incubator, 2001-2006

  8. Member, Board of Directors, Colorado Springs Symphony Orchestra, 1992-1997

  9. Member, Executive Committee, Colorado Springs Symphony Orchestra, 1994-1995

  10. Chair, Marketing Committee, Colorado Springs Symphony Orchestra, 1994-1995

  11. Member, Marketing Committee, Colorado Springs Symphony Orchestra, 1995-1996

  12. Member, Artistic Affairs Committee, Colorado Springs Symphony Orchestra, 1992-1994

  13. Member, Financial Committee, Colorado Springs Symphony Orchestra, 1993-1994

  14. Member, Educational Task Force, Colorado Springs Symphony Orchestra, 1993

  15. Member, Colorado Springs Strategic Planning Oversight Committee, 1992-1993

  16. Member, Fairfax County (Virginia) Chamber of Commerce, High Technology Council, Education Committee, 1989

  17. Member, Arizona Task Force on Engineering Excellence in CAD/CAM, 1983-1984

  18. Volunteer, Southern Colorado AIDS Project, 1996-1998

   
UNIVERSITY COMMITTEE/SERVICE WORK

2012-2013 (UCCS)

  1. Chair, Promotion and Tenure Committee, College of Business

  2. Member, University of Colorado Executive MBA, Curriculum Redesign Committee

  3. UCCS Faculty Misconduct Inquiry Committee
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2011-2012 (UCCS)  --  Sabbatical

  1. Member, University of Colorado Executive MBA, Program Redesign Committee

2010-2011 (UCCS)

  1. Chair, Promotion and Tenure Committee, College of Business

  2. Academic Chair, University of Colorado Executive MBA Program

2009-2010 (UCCS)

  1. Chair, Promotion and Tenure Committee, College of Business

  2. Faculty Marshal, University of Colorado Executive MBA Graduation Ceremony, June 5, 2010

  3. Academic Chair, University of Colorado Executive MBA Program

  4. Speaker, "International Business," UCCS Freshman Seminar, October 9, 2009

2008-2009 (UCCS)

  1. Chair, Promotion and Tenure Committee, College of Business

  2. Panelist, Vice Chancellor's Tenure Workshop, October 2008

2007-2008 (UCCS)

  1. Chair, Promotion and Tenure Committee, College of Business

  2. Chair, Search Committee, El Pomar Chair in Entrepreneurial Finance

2006-2007 (UCCS)

  1. Chair, Promotion and Tenure Committee, College of Business

  2. Member, Journal Quality Review Committee, College of Business

  3. Member, Vision and Mission Team, College of Business

2005-2006 (UCCS)

  1. Chair, Promotion and Tenure Committee, College of Business

  2. Chair, Endowed Chair Review Committee, College of Business

  3. Member, Vision and Mission Team, College of Business

2004-2005 (UCCS)

  1. Chair, Colorado Springs Software Distinguished Speaker Series

  2. Member, Promotion and Tenure Committee, College of Business

2003-2004 (UCCS)

  1. Chair, Colorado Springs Software Distinguished Speaker Series

  2. Member, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Promotion and Tenure Committee, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

2002-2003 (UCCS)

  1. Chair, Colorado Springs Software Distinguished Speaker Series

  2. Chair, Committee for the Formation of the Colorado Academy for the Management of Software (CAMS)

  3. Member, Promotion and Tenure Committee, College of Business

2001-2002 (UCCS)

  1. Member, Search Committee for Faculty Member, Dept. of Information Systems

  2. Chair, Colorado Springs Software Distinguished Speaker Series

  3. Chair, Committee for the Formation of the Colorado Academy for the Management of Software (CAMS)

  4. Member, Promotion and Tenure Committee, College of Business

1997-1998 (UCCS)

  1. Member, Promotion and Tenure Committee, Department of Computer Science

  2. Member, Masters of Engineering Admissions Committee, College of Engineering & Applied Science

  3. Chair, Colorado Springs Software Distinguished Speaker Series

  4. Chair, Software Engineering Graduate Committee, Computer Science Department

  5. Member, Search Committee for Chaired Professorship, College of Business and Administration

1996-1997 (UCCS)

  1. Member, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Promotion and Tenure Committee, U. of Colorado at Colorado Springs

  2. Member, Masters of Engineering Admissions Committee, College of Engineering & Applied Science

  3. Chair, Colorado Springs Software Distinguished Speaker Series

  4. Chair, Software Engineering Graduate Committee, Computer Science Department

  5. Member, Search Committee for Chaired Professorship, College of Business and Administration

1995-1996 (UCCS)

  1. Member, Masters of Engineering Admissions Committee, College of Engineering & Applied Science

  2. Chair, Software Engineering Graduate Committee, Computer Science Department

  3. Chair, Colorado Springs Software Distinguished Speaker Series

1994-1995 (UCCS)

  1. Member, Peer Teaching Evaluation Committee, Computer Science Department

  2. Chair, Promotion and Tenure Committee, Computer Science Department

  3. Chair, Colorado Springs Software Distinguished Speaker Series

  4. Member, Masters in Engineering Admissions Committee, College of Engineering & Applied Science

  5. Chair, Software Engineering Masters Program, Computer Science Department

  6. Member, Search Committee for Chaired Professorship, College of Engineering and Applied Science

  7. Member (Alternate), Grievance Committee, College of Engineering & Applied Science

1993-1994 (UCCS)

  1. Member, Dean's Tenure and Promotion Committee, College of Engineering & Applied Science

  2. Member, Dean's Tenure and Promotion Committee, College of Business and Administration

  3. Member, Student Services Task Force, College of Engineering & Applied Science

  4. Chair, Masters in Software Engineering Committee, Computer Science Dept.

  5. Chair, Colorado Springs Software Distinguished Speaker Series

  6. Chair, Certificate Program in Software Engineering Committee, Computer Science Department

1992-1993 (UCCS)

  1. Member, Dean's Tenure and Promotion Committee, College of Engineering & Applied Science

  2. Member, Tenure and Promotions Guidelines Committee, Computer Science Dept.

  3. Member, Hardware Maintenance Committee, Computer Science Department

  4. Chair, Colorado Springs Software Distinguished Speaker Series

  5. Member, Research Council, College of Engineering & Applied Science

  6. Chair, Masters in Software Engineering Committee, Computer Science Dept.

1991-1992 (UCCS)

  1. Chair, Colorado Springs Software Distinguished Speaker Series

  2. Member, Tenure and Promotion Committee, Computer Science Department

1990-1991 (GMU)

  1. Chair, Tenure and Promotion Committee, Computer Science Department

  2. Chair, Policies and Procedures Committee, Computer Science Department

  3. Chair, Recruitment Committee, Computer Science Department

  4. Member, Infrastructure Committee, Information Systems & Systems Engineering Department

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