Anita Carleton
Acting Director of the Software Engineering Process Management Program

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Anita Carleton is the Acting Director of the Software Engineering Process Management Program at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI), Carnegie Mellon University where she has worked for over 20 years on software process improvement, process measurement, and the Team Software Process. She launched the software measurement initiative at the SEI and served as the manager of the Software Process Measurement Project till 1995. She has co-authored a book entitled Measuring the Software Process: Statistical Process Control for Software Process Improvement published by Addison Wesley in June 1999.

Ms. Carleton received an award from Dr. Barry Boehm, Director, DDR&E Software and Computer Technology office, for her leadership in defining a core set of measures and measurement definition frameworks that served as a basis for collecting well-understood and consistent software data throughout the DoD. This effort was in support of the DoD Software Action Plan Measurement Initiative.

Before joining the SEI, Ms. Carleton held various technical and management positions at GTE Government Systems located in Massachusetts and The Goodyear Technical and Research Center in Ohio. At GTE, Ms. Carleton designed, developed, and tested software for the Minuteman and Peacekeeper Missile Systems. She was also instrumental in initiating a software quality measurement program. At Goodyear, Ms. Carleton was the lead systems modeling and simulation engineer responsible for conducting tire tread wear studies utilizing experimental design techniques, statistical analysis techniques, and finite element analysis.

Ms. Carleton received a Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics with emphasis in Statistics and Industrial Management from Carnegie Mellon University. She has authored numerous technical reports on software measurement, Team Software Process, process definition, and strategic planning and has represented the SEI at many software conferences and panels on software measurement. She is a Senior Member of the IEEE Computer Society and NDIA.