Current Courses

• BD360

• BD400

• BD610

• BG630

Education

• Ph.D. Texas A&M University, 1981. Major in Business Analysis and Research. Minor in Computer Science.

• M.S. University of South Florida, 1975. Major in Management Science.

• B.A. University of South Florida, 1970. Major in Industrial Management. Minor in Mathematics.

Funded Grants

• "Visual 2000 Classroom Integration." McCabe & Associates, Inc. 1998, $150,000.

• "ITS Strategic, Tactical and Project Planning Applied Research." Star Enterprise, 1997. $12,000.

• "ITS Tactical and Project Planning Applied Research for Information Technology Services." Star Enterprise, 1996. $12,343.

• "Texas Instrument's Academic Liaison." Texas Instruments, 1995-96. $30,000

• "ITS Strategic, Tactical and Project Planning Applied Research for Information Technology Services," Star Enterprise, 1995. $22,878.

• "ITS Operational Management of Production Applications in the Client Server Environment." Star Enterprise, 1995. $13,585.

• "Automated Software Engineering Techniques." McCabe & Associates, 1994. $50,000.

• "Texas Instrument's Academic Liaison." Texas Instruments, 1994-95. $31,000.

• "Star Enterprise ITS Data Modeling and Prototyping." Star Enterprise, 1994. $8,000.

• "Hewlett Packard Enterprise Modeling and Professional Training." Hewlett Packard, 1993. $24,000.

• "Cyclomatic-Based Metrics." McCabe & Associates, 1992. $50,000.

• "Software Evaluation." USDA Soil Conservation Services, 1992. $3000.

• "Function Point Analysis." USDA Soil Conservation Services, 1992. $2500.

• "The Cost of Client Server Applications." Texaco, Inc., 1992. $10000.

• "CASE Tool Requirements Analysis." USDA Soil Conservation Services, 1991. $2800.

• "SAGE Micro Estimator - Phase II." Texaco, Inc., 1987. $7500.

• "SAGE Micro Estimator." Texaco, Inc., 1986. $4000.

• "A Real Estate Development Knowledge-Based System." Texas Instruments, Inc., 1986. $6000.

• "A Loan Grading Knowledge-Based System." Texas Instruments, Inc., 1986. $6000.

• "A Crop Selection Knowledge-Based System." Texas Instruments, Inc., 1986. $3000.

Publications

• Readings In Information Technology Project Management.  With Gary L. Richardson, Thomson Course Technology, December 2005.

• "Adventures in M&A Wonderland,"  With Gary L. Richardson.  The Journal of Information Technology Management, Cutter Consortium, Volume 18, No. 10, October 2005.

• “The Application of McCabe’s Structured Testing Methodology to Use Cases,” National Business and Economics Society Annual Conference Proceedings. Key West, Florida, March 2005.

• “The Value of IT Project Management,” National Business and Economics Society Annual Conference Proceedings. Key West, Florida, March 2005.

• “Potential Control Processes for Sarbanes-Oxley,” co-authored with Gary L. Richardson. Information Security Control Journal Online, Volume 2, March 2005.

• “Methodology Object Management,” Journal of Applied Business and Economics, Volume 5(1) March 2005.

• “The Implications of Sarbanes-Oxley for the IT Community,” co-authored with Gary L. Richardson. Cutter Consortium Enterprise Risk Management and Governance Executive Report, Vol. 2, No. 3, March 2005.

• "Absorbing Sarbanes-Oxley within the Agile Community,” co-authored with Gary L. Richardson. APM Executive Update, Volume 5, No. 23, December 2004.

• “Meta Enterprise Development Methodology,” co-authored with Gary L. Richardson. Projects and Profits, The ICFAI University Press, Volume IV, No. 11, November 2004.

• “Methodology Object Management: A Multi-Disciplinary Project Management Approach,” co-authored with Gary L. Richardson. The Evolution of Agile Project Management, Cutter Consortium, August 2004. Article reprinted with the permission of the authors.

• “Methodology Object Management: A Multi-Disciplinary Project Management Approach,” co-authored with Gary L. Richardson. The Journal of Information Technology Management, Cutter Consortium, Volume 17, No. 6, June 2004.

• “A Distance Education Learning Model,” National Business and Economics Society Annual Conference Proceedings. Kona, Hawaii, March 2004.

• “Methodology Object Management,” National Business and Economics Society Annual Conference Proceedings. Kona, Hawaii, March 2004.

• “Vulnerability Assessments: Communication Cannot be Overlooked,” co-authored with Jackie L. Hartman, Proceedings of the 2003 Association for Business Communication Annual Conference. Albuquerque, New Mexico, October 2003.

• “Critical Infrastructure Protection and Software Asset Management,” National Business and Economics Society Annual Conference Proceedings. St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, March 2003.

• “A Knowledge-Based Corporate Communication Structure,” National Business and Economics Society Annual Conference Proceedings. St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, March 2003.

• “Selecting Information Technology Projects Using the Business Case Model,” National Business and Economics Society Annual Conference Proceedings. Maui, Hawaii, March 2002.

• “Collaborative Software and E-Mail as a Communication Model,” National Business and Economics Society Annual Conference Proceedings. Maui, Hawaii, March 2002.

• ”Service Level Measurement for Information Technology Outsourcing,” National Business and Economics Society Annual Conference Proceedings, San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 2001.

• “’Cruisin’ Along the Autobahn – On the Road to Merger and Acquisition.” National Business and Economics Society Annual Conference Proceedings, San Diego, California, March 2000.

• "Reverse Engineering: A Contemporary Perspective," co-authored with Jon Clark. IT Professional, Volume 1, No. 3, May/June, 1999.

• "The Seven D's of Information Systems Evolution," co-authored with Gary L. Richardson. Journal of Systems Management, Volume 44, No. 5, May, 1994.

• "Software Management Controls for Client-Server Architectures," co-authored with Gary L. Richardson. The EDP Auditor Journal, Volume IV, December, 1993.

• "Competitive Surveillance and Security Policy," co-authored with Norman Schultz. Security Management, Volume 37, No. 3, March, 1993.

• "Are Desktop Processor a Rational Choice?" co-authored with Gary Richardson. Journal of Systems Management, Volume 42, No. 2, February, 1991.

• "An Empirical Study of Competitive Information Gathering Through Effluence Collection," co-authored with Norm Schultz. The Internal Auditor, Volume XLVI, No. 6, December, 1989.

• "Design Complexity Metrics," co-authored with Tom McCabe. Communications of the ACM, Volume 32, No. 12, December, 1989.

• "Information System Network Architecture: An Option for the 1990s," co-authored with Brad M. Jackson and Gary L. Richardson. Journal of Systems Management, Volume 40, No. 2, February, 1989.

• "Library Architecture - One Company's Approach," co-authored with Gary L. Richardson. The EDP Auditor Journal, Volume II, 1988.

• "Building Knowledge-Based Systems with Procedural Languages," co-authored with Earl D. Hodil and Gary L. Richardson. IEEE Expert, Volume 3 No. 2, Summer, 1988.

• "Integrating Internal Controls With Software Management," co-authored with Gary L. Richardson. EDP Auditing, Auerbach Publishing Inc., Summer, 1988.

• "Applying Expert Systems Technology to Software Maintenance." Proceedings of the 1987 Conference on Software Maintenance, May 1987.

• "A COBOL Program Metrics Generator," co-authored with Norman D. Brammer. Proceeding of the Eighteenth Annual Conference of the Southwest Region Decision Sciences Institute, March, 1987.

• "Knowledge-Based Systems: Tools for Acquiring and Disseminating Expertise," co-authored with Bob Fetter. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Decision Sciences Institute, November 1986.

• "Tomorrow's Computer Graphic," co-authored with Eric Stroheim. Journal of Systems Management, November 1986.

• "Knowledge-based Systems in the Commercial Environment." co-authored with Earl Hodil and Gary Richardson. IBM Systems Journal, Vol. 25, No. 2, 1986.

• "Software Reengineering." co-authored with Earl Hodil and Gary L. Richardson. Data Processing, July/August, 1986.

• "A Resource Allocation Model for Maintenance Programming." Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Conference of the Southwest Region Decision Sciences Institute, March 1986.

• "An Automated System for Controlling Operational Program and JCL Changes," co-authored with David L. Wiggins. Proceedings of the 1985 Conference on Software Maintenance, November 1985.

• "Technology and the Future." Update, Fall, 1985.

• "Utilization of COMPUSTAT Tapes in Decision Support System Education." Co-authored with Ralph J. Byington. The Journal of Computer Information Systems, Fall 1984.

• "Issues of Effective Maintenance Management." co-authored with Gary L. Richardson. Datapro Applications Software Series, June 1984.

• "Mending Crazy Quilt Systems." co-authored with Gary L. Richardson and Earl D. Hodil. Datamation, May 1984.

• "Organizational Support for Installed Applications." co-authored with Gary L. Richardson. Data Processing, December 1983.

• "Organizational Issues for Effective Maintenance Management," co-authored with Gary L. Richardson. Proceedings of the National Computer Conference, May 1983.

• "The Integration of Innovative Instruction, Computers, and Administration in an Academic Environment," co-authored with Paul T. Cronan. Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Conference of the Southwest Region Decision Sciences Institute, March 1982.

• "Software Productivity in the Eighties: A Non-Traditional Approach," co-authored with Gary L. Richardson. Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Conference of the Southwest Region Decision Sciences Institute, March 1982.

• "The Role of an Automated Data Dictionary in the Project Life Cycle," co-authored with Bill Clarke. Ninth North American Data Dictionary Conference Proceedings, September 1981.

• "Audit Aspects of Small Computer Systems," co-authored with James Benjamin and Winston Shearon. The CPA Journal, August 1980.

• Primer on Structured Program Design. co-authored with Gary L. Richardson and John T. Tomlinson. Petrocelli Books, Inc., May 1980.

• "Contemporary Structured Design Techniques," co-authored with Gary L. Richardson. Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Conference of the Southwest Region Decision Sciences Institute, March 1979.

• "Role of Pseudo Coding in Contemporary Systems Design," co-authored with Gary L. Richardson. Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Conference of the Southwest Region Decision Sciences Institute, March 1979.

• "LOBUG: A Model for Production Planning and Control," co-authored with Gary L. Richardson and John T. Tomlinson. Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Conference of the Southwest Region Decision Sciences Institute, March 1978.

• "Top-Down Structured Design Techniques," co-authored with Gary L. Richardson and John T. Tomlinson. Presented at the Fifth Joint College Curricula Workshop in Computer Science, Engineering and Data Processing, February 1978.

• "Future Communications Network Evolution in Line with Population Changes and Movements," co-authored with Robert L. Hodges and Joe V. Reineman. Telephone and Engineer Management, September 1975.

• "A Critical Evaluation of the Sub-Center Ring Theory of Shopping Center Site Location," co-authored with Robert L. Anderson and Stanley J. Birkin. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Northeast Region Decision Sciences Institute, April 1973.

• "LOB/BUDGET: An Algorithm for Product Analysis," co-authored with Gary L. Richardson and Philip B. Coup. Presented at the 41st National Meeting of the Operations Research Society of America, April 1972.

• "Regional Information -- A New Dimension for Businessmen," co-authored with Gary L. Richardson. Florida Times, April 1972.

Professional Experience

• 2003-Present Inovant, a Visa Solutions Company, Foster City, California. Consultant. Developed enterprise process architecture for test methodology incorporating various test approaches within the waterfall, prototyping, rapid application development, and Rational Unified Process (RUP) methodologies. Integrated test methodology with Inovant’s Project Management Methodology (PMM).

• 1986-Present McCabe & Associates, Columbia, Maryland. Senior Software Scientist. Teach professional seminars, conduct research, and provide consulting services for software metrics, testing strategies, and test methodology. Seminars include structured real-time analysis, design, and testing, reverse engineering, year 2000 testing, and integrated quality. Conduct consulting engagements for the development of embedded real-time systems in the avionics and medical imaging applications. Technical environment includes McCabe Integrated Quality (IQ).

• 2002-2003 Tactical Training Specialists, Denver, Colorado. Consultant. Assessed Information Assurance (IA) and Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) for the Defense Finance and Accounting Services (DFAS). Assessment included site visits among the 29 central and field operating locations and review of business continuity for 118 Mission Critical (MC) and Mission Essential (ME) systems. DFAS is the IT organization for the Department of Defense (DOD), and the organization processes DOD’s $380B budget including appropriations, commitments, payments, reconciliations, and civilian, vendor, and military pay.

• 2001-2003 Envirotech Services, Inc., Greeley, Colorado. Consultant. Evaluated 2nd tier software vendors with a detailed micro implementation for Lawson Insight, Industrial and Financial System (IFS), and Syspro. Implemented Industrial and Financial Systems (IFS) for business finance, marketing, and distribution. The project successfully implemented the accounting, financial, and distribution modules with Oracle back end databases. Wrote the business and software requirements for extensive modifications for the distribution module including product loading and freight carrier assignment.

• 2000-2001 Inovant, a Visa Solutions Company, Foster City, California. Consultant. Developed a prototype application portfolio including static and dynamic software testing metrics; developed risk-based testing procedures for improved testing coverage; formulated and calculated prototype quality indexes for productivity, effectiveness and efficiency.

• 1999 Lockheed Martin, Los Angeles, California. Expert witness. Evaluated and testified on the McCabe software complexity analysis performed by Lockheed Martin for the Statewide Automated Child Support System (SACSS).

• 1981-1997 Texaco Inc., Houston, Texas, Information Technology Department. A series of consulting assignments related to development methodology, automated data dictionaries, production library management, and decision support systems. Evaluated outsourcing productivity provided by IBM's Global Services. Served as a facilitator for the drafting of architectural principles. Wrote automated data dictionary standards and procedures and developed a user friendly interface to facilitate dictionary use. Developed a library framework to ensure operational and internal control over using and changing production application systems. Developed an expert advisory system to evaluate resource requirements and operational performance of production applications. Completed study of outsourcing measurement with IBM Global Services. Technical environment was an IBM token ring LAN/WAN and a 3090 utilizing PL/I, TSO/SPF with Dialog Manager, and DATAMANAGER.

• 1989-1995 Star Enterprise, Joint Venture between Texaco, Inc, and Saudi Refining Inc. (SRI), Consultant. A series of special assignments for the Director, Information Technology. Assignments include competitive analysis and strategic direction, development methodology, project resource estimation and management, metrics and function points, information modeling and strategic alignment of information technology. Designed the development, test and production architectures for installed applications supported by Intersolv's PVCS. Developed and implemented the tactical planning system in Paradox 3.5 and Paradox for Windows. Implemented a series of departmental prototypes for tactical planning using Microsoft Access, Microsoft Project and Innate Multi-Project as the graphical user interface. Technical environment was LAN/WAN architecture using LanManager netware.

• 1995-1998 Hewlett Packard, Greeley, Colorado. Consultant. A series of special assignments for the Manager, Information Technology. Assignments include information engineering technical advising and completing information strategy plans (ISP) for the Information Technology Department. Developed data models for a new product release.

• 1991-1993 Otsuka Electronics, USA/Chemagnetics, Inc. Consultant. A series of special assignments for the Vice President, Operation. Developed real-time software specifications for NMR clinical imaging and liquid spectroscopy systems.

• 1989-1991 IBM, Boulder, Colorado. Instructor. Taught professional seminars including system and unit testing.

• 1988 Auto-Trol Technologies, Denver, Colorado. Consultant. Developed structured specifications for CAD/CAM applications. Taught professional seminars for structured analysis and design methodologies.

• 1987 Adolph Coors Company. Faculty Intern. Assisted the Vice President, Controller with the development of the Modern Sophisticated Financial Database (MSFDB). The project provided decision support software for executive management.

• 1978 Agency Records Control, Inc., College Station, Texas. Systems Analyst. Designed and coded modules for a word processing system. Systems environment was PDP/11 utilizing interactive BLISS COBOL.

• 1977 University of South Florida, Department of Institutional Research. Data Base Coordinator. Responsible for administration, integrity, and efficiency of a multi-user database. Compiled and evaluated statistical data and designed research programs. System environment was an IBM 370 utilizing COBOL, EASYTRIEVE, and MARK IV.

• 1976 General Telephone of Florida, Tampa, Florida, Marketing Department. Marketing Administrator. Developed econometric models for telephone forecast and designed systems to improve forecasting methods. System environment was CDC 6600 and Honeywell 6000 utilizing FORTRAN.

• 1972-1975 Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council, St. Petersburg, Florida. Systems Analyst/Consultant. Designed Regional Impact Analysis System (RIAS), developed pilot regional information system, analyzed census data, and updated geographic base files. Programming included NIPS 360 languages Formatted File System, COBOL, FORTRAN, PL/1, GPSS, and SIMSCRIPT.