Member Awards

Fourth Annual SEI Member Awards

Presented at SEPG '007 General Session Tuesday, March 27, 8:15 am
Austin Convention Center — Austin, Texas

Outstanding Advocate

The SEI Outstanding Advocate award is given to an individual who has made a far-reaching, sustained contribution to the promotion and support of the SEI Membership program by actively engaging in the software community.

Name:

Kathy Gallucci

Title:

Consultant

Organization:

P3I, Inc. and SEI Partner

City:

Hopkinton

State:

MA

SEI Member since:

2003

About the Winner:

This year's SEI Member Advocate Award recipient is Kathy Gallucci, a consultant with P3I. Gallucci was nominated and recognized as an advocate because of her willingness to share her experience and knowledge of process improvement best practices not only with SEI Members, but also with potential SEI Members. In addition, she has served as an ambassador and educator for the Capability Maturity Model® Integration (CMMI®) method¬ology to organizations that are interested in implementing and adopting CMMI.

Gallucci's commitment to process improve¬ment is reflected in her professional credentials. She is an SEI-authorized CMMI instruc¬tor, a SCAMPI V1.2 Lead Appraiser, and a SCAMPI B and C team lead. She is a model citizen of process improvement best practices through her adherence to the requirements and guidelines as prescribed by the SEI when teaching, auditing, or consulting with individu¬als and organizations. The SEI Member awards committee recognized that Gallucci's leader¬ship, professionalism, and dedication serve as a strong source of support when promoting the benefits of SEI Membership and SEI services and products, particularly CMMI.

Nominated by:

Beverly Munns, FGM, Inc.

Outstanding Representative

The Outstanding Representative award is given to an SEI Member who is recognized by the software community as an accomplished pioneer of principles and practices in software and systems engineering.

Name:

Jeffrey Schwalb

Title:

Computer Scientist

Organization:

NAVAIR

City:

China Lake

State:

CA

SEI Member since:

2003

About the Winner:

Jeffrey Schwalb has been awarded the 2007 SEI Member Representative Award. Schwalb has pioneered the use of the Personal Software ProcessSM (PSPSM) and the Team Software ProcessSM (TSPSM) methodologies at the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) of the U.S. Navy. Since the mid-1990s, he has worked to have these methodologies adopted throughout the NAVAIR software development community. In June 2006, Schwalb's contributions to NAVAIR's success were officially acknowl¬edged when he received the annual Michelson Laboratory Award that recognizes individuals for technical excellence based on outstanding performance of individual duties.

He has been instrumental in the conception and development of the Team Process Integrated (TPI) method, a disciplined, TSP-based process for acquisition and systems engineering. He is a driving force behind the development of the close relationship between NAVAIR and the SEI and instrumental in establishing NAVAIR as a co-sponsor of CrossTalk, the Journal of Defense Software Engineering. He is the author of numerous publications and presentations and is a direct participant in the annual Software Engineering Process Group confer¬ences and TSP Symposiums. In addition, his encouragement of others to pursue the publication of their efforts has made him a major force multiplier in the process improve¬ment community.

Nominated by:

Bradley Hodgins, NAVAIR

Outstanding Contributor

The Outstanding Contributor award is given to an individual who has made an exceptional contribution to the SEI Member community through networking, volunteering, and sharing experiences and knowledge.

Name:

Rakesh Radhakrishnan

Title:

Senior Architect

Organization:

Sun Microsystems

City:

Ashburn

State:

VA

SEI Member since:

2005

About the Winner:

Winner of the SEI Member Contributor Award is Rakesh Radhakrishnan, a senior architect with Sun Microsystems. He has more than 15 years of experience in software engineering and has received the SEI Software Architecture Professional Certificate.

Radhakrishnan was selected as the 2007 Outstanding Contributor because of his exception¬al contribution to the SEI Member and larger software engineering communities. In the past decade, Radhakrishnan has published more than 50 papers on topics in software architecture and the importance of software architecture in the development community. His papers include "Synergizing Methodologies to Achieve Architecture Targets," which highlighted the alignment of the SEI Attribute Driven Design (ADD) method as a system and software development method with TOGAF Architecture Design Method (ADM) as an enterprise architecture methodology. Radhakrishnan has also published papers on aligning service-oriented architectures (SOA) with many other architectural approaches. His work in this area led to his selection for the 2005 WS-INCITE Award. He has presented tutorials at IEEE WICSA events and IIR events.

An advocate of SEI software architecture methodologies, Radhakrishnan has incorporated concepts from the SEI's ADM, Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method® (ATAM®), product-line analysis, and other architecture methodologies with Sun's Architect Implement and Manage (AIM) program that synthesizes with TOGAF, Six Sigma, ITIL, Prince 2, and many more. He has presented papers on providing urban amenities to rural areas (e-connectivity) and is the author of a book titled Identity & Security: A Core Building Block for SOA and Network Convergence.

Nominated by:

Rakesh Radhakrishnan, Sun Microsystems

 

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SEPG '007 Trivia

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