Caroline Graettinger
Senior Member of Technical Staff
Software Engineering Process Management Program

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Key responsibilities

Lead of the International Process Research Consortium, and SEPG Conferences Manager.

Teams

Teams: Improving Processes in Small Settings.

Teams: SEPG Conferences.

Professional Background

Caroline Graettinger has been in software engineering research and development for the last nineteen years. Her project experience covers a broad scope, from one-off, customer-driven projects, to projects aimed at achieving broad market appeal, and from feasibility studies and early maturation projects, through technology packaging and implementation.

Since joining the SEI in 1999, Dr. Graettinger has served in several technical and managerial positions in the SEIs research and development of technology transition practices. Her research and development interests include management frameworks for the maturation and transition of software engineering methods, metrics for evaluating transition readiness, and the application of these approaches to real-world programs of software-intensive-systems development.

Before joining the SEI, Graettinger was a Principal Consultant with Oracle, Corporation, in charge of one of Oracles most cutting-edge demonstration projects of the time, deploying network-computing systems into distributed learning environments. She oversaw a multidisciplinary, geographically-dispersed team throughout the project life cycle.

Between 1988, when she received her PhD from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Carnegie Mellon University, and 1997, Graettinger was a member of the technical staff at Carnegie Mellon Research Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. Her area of research and development was in image processing and pattern recognition as applied to the Federal Aviation Administrations threat detection program (explosives in luggage). Other R&D customers included Pittsburgh Plate Glass, Sony Corporation, and The New York Daily News.

Publications (recent or significant)

• Using the Technology Readiness Levels Scale to Support Technology Management in the DoD's ATD/STO Environments (A Findings and Recommendations Report Conducted for Army CECOM), September 2002, http://www.sei.cmu.edu/publications/documents/02.reports/02sr027.html
• The Road to CMMI: The Results of the First Technology Workshop, February 2002, http://www.sei.cmu.edu/publications/documents/02.reports/02tr007.html
• Army Workshop on Lessons Learned from Software Upgrade Programs, Jan 2002, http://www.sei.cmu.edu/publications/documents/01.reports/01sr021.html
• Spiral Development- Building the Culture, A Report on the CSE-SEI Workshop, February, 2000. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/publications/documents/00.reports/00sr006.html

Education

• PhD (Electrical and Computer Engineering), 1988, Carnegie Mellon University
• MS (Electrical and Computer Engineering), 1984, Carnegie Mellon University
• BS (Electrical and Computer Engineering), 1983, Carnegie Mellon University

Professional Memberships and Activities

• The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• IEEE Engineering Management Society, Member
• Project Management Institute, Member