Robert W. Ferguson
Senior Member of Technical Staff
Software Engineering Process Management Program

Key responsibilities

Consult with customers to provide measurement guidance for process and product. Deliver SEI courseware on engineering measurement and analysis. Participate in research on methods of measurement and analysis of industry results.

Teams

SEMA 

Professional Background

Bob Ferguson is a Project Management Professional (PMP). He has 30 years of software development experience in five different industries. For 20 of those years he was a development manager and project manager. He has been actively involved in software measurement since 1992. His experience includes real-time flight simulation, CAD/CAM, instrumentation, telecommunications, MIS applications and decision support systems. He also served as chairman of the Chicago SPIN (Software Process Improvement Network) for more than 2 years.

Publications (recent or significant)

• "A Project Risk Metric," CrossTalk, April 2004.

Education

• BS, Mathematics, Eckerd College
• MS, Mathematics, Tulane University

Professional Memberships and Activities

• The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• Project Management Institute, http://www.pmi.org/info/default.asp