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.

• Certified Catalysis/UML Instructor;

• Catalysis Process definition;

• Reengineering of course material.

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".