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Darmstadt, Hessen, De

Consulting practice focused on software product development strategies from both a business and technical perspective. Coaching tech founders. Assignments include strategic direction, improvement of development processes, target market analysis, and competitive analysis. Focus on getting software products and services effectively defined, designed, developed, and deployed. Particularly interested in open source projects. Served on Advisory Board for several small software companies.

IFIP Working Group 2.13 is part of the International Federation of Information Processing's Technical Committee on Programming. It is the organizer of the annual International Conference on Open Source Systems. As a co-founder of this group, I have served as General Chair of the conference in 2009 and 2014, and Co-Chair of the Program Committee in 2015. I served as Chair of the Working Group from May, 2015 to September, 2022..

Moffett Field, Ca, Us

Professor in the Software Management professional MS program with its theme of "Developing Software Leaders". Created research group to build a trusted center of expertise (Center for Open Source Investigation) related to evaluation and adoption of free and open source software (OSSpal project). Developed and taught courses on software product strategy (marketing focus), product definition, requirements, and open source, with a focus on entrepreneurship. Developed and taught "The First Time Manager" for those moving from technical to management track.

Palo Alto, California, Us

The Open Source Initiative is a leading advocate for adoption and use of open source software, as well as a leader in educating people and organizations about open source software. I worked to expand these educational activities and with the FLOSS Competence Center Network.

Houston, Texas, Us

Joined HP when it acquired Bluestone Software and formed the Middleware Division (HPMD). Managed distributed R&D team that developed requirements and architecture for Mobile Web Services Delivery Platform, supporting voice, mobile phone, PDA, and web browser access to portal framework. Led development of open source Mobile Toolkit for HP/Bluestone Application Server, update of Bluestone Total-e-Mobile. Represented HPMD in Executive Briefings for customers, resulting in $100M sale to NEC Corporation for NTT DoCoMo; represented HPMD re Open Mobile Alliance partnership with Nokia; assisted in HP Developer and Mobile Bazaar Programs; represented HPMD on corporate coordinating committee for mobile and wireless activities; served on corporate task forces for software excellence and mobile strategy

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Created and managed West Coast product development laboratory responsible for Bluestone’s J2EE mobile strategy and products; managed geographically distributed team building award-winning open source Total-e-Mobile toolkit, demonstrating interaction between J2EE application server and mobile devices; product was instrumental in multi-million dollar sale to Swisscom. Recruited, hired, and managed development team. Participated in architectural design and review of products. Performed product management tasks, including requirements definition, competitive analysis, development of collateral, and tracking of relevant OASIS and Java standards.

President and CEO (1983-1993), Chairman (1983–1996). Founder and chief executive of leading computer-aided software engineering tools company. Successfully grew company to 200 employees and $25M annual revenue; established subsidiaries in four countries. Obtained top-tier venture funding after bootstrapping company.Conceived and architected IDE’s innovative Software through Pictures (StP) integrated multi-user software modeling environment, the first multi-user graphical modeling tool, producing more than $100M total revenue. Oversaw initial development, rearchitecture, and ongoing development of successive product releases. StP supports numerous modeling notations, including UML.Represented company to industry analysts, financial community, press, partners, customers, and prospects; frequent speaker at industry events.IDE was among the first 100 companies to receive a dotcom domain name (No.78, June, 1987) and one of the first companies to include open source software in a commercial product (after Sun Microsystems). Software through Pictures has evolved into Ameos, which has been released as open source software, available from openameos.org

San Francisco, California, Us

Lecturer 1971-2, Asst. Prof. 1972-78, Assoc. Prof, 1978-83, Professor, 1983-88Developed and taught graduate level computer science courses (database management, information structures, computer systems, operating systems, and software engineering). Research on software development tools and methods, emphasizing interactive information systems. Created User Software Engineering methodology and multi-tier environment, including rapid prototyping tools and relational DBMS. Released User Software Engineering tools under BSD license beginning in 1980.

Ab, Mathematics And Physics

Ph.D., Computer Sciences