Anthony Earl Ph.D.
Email: Anthony.Earl @at@ AnthonyEarl.com
Home Page: www.AnthonyEarl.com
Phone: +1 970 416 5768
Dual Citizenship: United States & United Kingdom
Major Skills:
Internationally recognized expert in software engineering environments;
Publications include books, journals, and conference proceedings;
Knowledge of a very wide range of methods, notations, languages and tools for:
Project and Portfolio Management;
Software specification, design, and analysis;
Software process modeling, workflow, simulation and analysis.
Ph.D. level understanding of relational database management systems.
Employment History:
July 2004-Present: Sun Microsystems Inc. Project Manager, Product Lifecycle Process Consultant, Technical expert in HP's PPM (formerly Mercury ITG) Tool, CO, USA.
July 2000- June 2004: Sun Microsystems Inc. Design Consultant, Java Engineer, and Six Sigma leader, Broomfield, CO, USA.
September 1999- June 2000: Software Design Engineer at OpenView within Hewlett Packard, Ft Collins, CO, USA.
Jiro Investigator;
Storage Management Standards Tracker;
Part-time Member of Technical Staff at the SEI in process technology group.
March 1999-September 1999: Architect at Computer Associates & Platinum Technology.
September 1997-February 1999: Software Design Engineer at CoCreate Software Inc., Ft Collins, CO, USA
Team leader for group developing Java-based collaboration support for manufacturing design engineers;
Member of the Workflow development team;
Founder of CoCreate's Java SIG, "Caffeinate";
Part-time Member of Technical Staff at the SEI in process technology group.
September 1995-September 1997: Member of Technical Staff at the Software Engineering Institute(SEI), Pittsburgh, PA
Member of the COTS-based Initiative team (Java and Distributed Object Technologies);
Member of the Process Technology team (simulation of S/W processes);
Member of team supporting Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) system evolution.
June 1992-August 1995: Senior Member of Technical Staff at MarkV Systems Ltd., Encino, CA
Developer and product manager of a new tool, "ProcessMaker" for process modeling and analysis;
Consultant for OO design methods and their tool support;
Publication of a book, "Software Engineering Environments: Automated Support for Software Engineering".
May 1988 to May 1992: Member of Technical Staff at Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK.
Development of, "A Reference Model for Frameworks of CASE Tool Environments", subsequently adopted by NIST and ECMA, and subsequently used in commercial (HP, IBM, Digital) marketing, and government procurement;
Joint development of a demonstration product: HP-SoftBench on PCTE (an ISO Standard Object Management System for CASE tools).
September 1981 to May 1988: University Education:
Bachelor of Computer Science with Honors from the University of York;
Doctor of Philosophy from Department of Computer Science at the University of York for a thesis entitled,
"The Specification and Implementation of an Extended Relational Model and its Application within an Integrated Project Support Environment".