TOM DeMARCO is a principal of the Atlantic
Systems Guild and a fellow of the Cutter Consortium.
He is a recipient of the Warnier Prize for "lifetime
contribution to the field of computing" and the Stevens
Award for "contribution to the methods of software development."
His most recent Dorset House release, Waltzing
with Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects
(with coauthor Timothy Lister),
won the Software Development Jolt Award for best book.
In 1999, he and coauthor Lister released an expanded,
second edition of Peopleware:
Productive Projects and Teams, the software
development classic originally released in 1987. In
the summer of 1997, Dorset House published his Jolt-award-winning
novel on project management, The
Deadline.
Mr. DeMarco's career began at Bell Telephone Laboratories
where he served as part of the now-legendary ESS-1 project.
In later years, he managed real-time projects for La
CEGOS Informatique in France, and was responsible for
distributed on-line banking systems installed in Sweden,
Holland, France and Finland. He has lectured and consulted
throughout the Americas, Europe, Africa, Australia and
the Far East.
Mr. DeMarco has a BSEE degree from Cornell University,
an M.S. from Columbia University and a diplome from
the University of Paris at the Sorbonne. In his spare
time, he is an Emergency Medical Technician, certified
by his home state and by the National Registry of EMTs,
and a founding member of The Penobscot Compact, a business-education
partnership operating under the auspices of the Maine
State Aspirations Program. He makes his home in Camden,
Maine.
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