Al Davis is professor
in the College of Business at the
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.
He performs research in requirements management,
project management, and entrepreneurship. He teaches
courses in entrepreneurship, information systems, and business strategy. He also serves as president of The Davis Company, a consulting
company dedicated to helping organizations define, build and/or acquire systems that address
real
needs. He was a member of the board of directors of Requisite, Inc.,
acquired by Rational Software Corporation in February 1997, and subsequently
acquired by IBM in 2003. He has consulted for many corporations over the
past twenty-seven years, including Boeing, British Telecom, Cadence Design
Systems, Cigna Insurance, Federal Express, Flight Dynamics, Fujitsu, General
Electric, Great Plains Software, IBM, Loral, MCI, Mitsubishi
Electric, NEC, NTT, Rational Software, Rockwell, Schlumberger, Sharp, Software
Productivity Consortium, Storage Tek, Sumitomo, and XAware. Previously, he was:
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Chairman and CEO of Omni-Vista, Inc., a Colorado Springs-based company that
built decision-support software
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Vice President of Engineering Services at BTG, Inc., a Virginia-based company
that went public in 1995, and was acquired by Titan in 2001
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Director of R&D at GTE Communication Systems in Phoenix, Arizona
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Director of the Software
Technology Center at GTE Laboratories in Waltham, Massachusetts.
He has
held academic positions at George Mason University, University of Tennessee, and
University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. He also has
held temporary academic positions and/or Fulbrights at Atma Jaya University
(Indonesia), University of Technology, Sydney
(Australia), University of Jos (Nigeria), Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
(Spain), and University of the Western Cape (South Africa).
He was Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Software from 1994 to
1998. He is an editor for the Journal of Systems and Software
(1987-present) and was an editor for Communications of the ACM
(1981-1991). He is the author of five books:
Software Requirements: Analysis and Specification (Prentice Hall 1990),
Software Requirements: Objects,
Functions and States (Prentice Hall,
1993)
the best-selling 201 Principles of Software Development (McGraw
Hill, 1995)
Great Software Debates (Wiley and IEEE Computer Society Press,
2004)
Just Enough Requirements Management (Dorset House, 2004).
He was the founder of the IEEE International Conferences of
Requirements Engineering, and served as general chair of its first
conference in 1994. He has been a fellow of the IEEE since 1994, and
earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois in 1975.
To contact me by mail: Al Davis, UCCS, School of Business, PO Box 7150;
Colorado Springs, CO 80933-7150
To contact me by email: adavis@uccs.edu
To contact me by phone: 719-262-3579 (office); 719-262-3494 (fax);
719-232-1938 (cell)
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