Al Davis is professor of information systems at the University of Colorado
at Colorado Springs. 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, Cigna Insurance, Federal Express, FrontRange Solutions,
Fujitsu, General Electric, Great Plains Software, IBM, Loral, MCI, Mitsubishi
Electric, NEC, NTT, Rational Software, Rockwell, Schlumberger, Sharp, Software
Productivity Consortium, Storage Tek, and Sumitomo.
Previously, he was
Chairman and CEO of Omni-Vista, Inc., a software company in Colorado
Springs
Vice President of Engineering Services at BTG, Inc., a Virginia-based
company that went public in 1995, and was acquired by Titan in 2001
a
Director of R&D at GTE Communication Systems in Phoenix, Arizona. GTE was
acquired by Verizon in 1999
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 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).
Dr. Davis has published 100+ articles in journals, conference and
trade press, and lectured 500+ times in more than 20 countries. He maintains the
most extensive bibliography on the Web for requirements-related subjects (http://web.uccs.edu/adavis/reqbib.htm).
He is the founder of the annual IEEE International Conference on 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.
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