SEI Members Recognized for SEI Fifth Annual Members Awards Program
On Tuesday, March 18, 2008, Paul D. Nielsen, CEO and Director of the Software Engineering Institute recognized three SEI Members for their contributions to the SEI Membership Program and the field of software engineering. The SEI Member Awards was established to recognize and honor those members whose contribution, advocacy, and representation serve to enhance and promote the SEI Membership Program.
Outstanding Contributor Winner
Aldo Dagnino was the winner of the 2008 SEI Member Award for Outstanding Contributor for his established and strong track record and professional reputation for innovative approaches to applying SEI technologies in industry. As Software Architecture and Technology Program lead at ABB,Dagnino works with development groups that create products, which are increasingly software intensive, to improve on the architecture of their systems.
In addition to his work at ABB, Dagnino also serves as an adjunct professor at North Carolina State University, where he teaches software engineering courses and also conducts joint research with faculty members at the university's department of computer science. Dagnino, who holds Master's and Ph.D. degrees in systems design from the University of Waterloo in Canada, also speaks fluent Italian, Spanish, and English; and he also reads French.
Outstanding Representative Winner
Madhumita Poddar Sen, recipient of the 2008 SEI Member Award for Outstanding Representative, works as a senior program manager — delivery excellence — for IBM India.
Sen, an SEI member since 2004, has made a point of understanding the intent of CMMI and employing it in an innovative way at IBM to help the organization achieve high maturity and also sustain continuous improvement. IBM India, which has more than 15,000 employees, has completed Level 5 appraisals in six locations throughout India including Calcutta and Bangalore, where Sen lives. Sen also presents at various conferences. At the SEPG North America 2008 conference in Tampa in March, she led a panel session with four other high maturity lead appraisers. Sen is an authorized SCAMPI High Maturity Lead Appraiser and, for the last three years, has worked as an IBM-sponsored research affiliate in the SEI's Software Engineering Measurement and Analysis (SEMA) group. Sen also served as a reviewer for the SCAMPI Lead Appraiser Body of Knowledge (SLABOK).
Outstanding Advocate Winner
Phil Hill, winner of the 2008 SEI Member Award for Outstanding Advocate, is vice president and director of IT Optimization, does consulting, leads appraisals, and conducts training for American Systems in Chantilly, Va. Drawing on more than three decades of information technology experience, Hill brings expertise as a seasoned program manager and former program office director to his role as an instructor according to nomination form.
Hill was nominated for the award because he is a great advocate for the SEI Membership program and has encouraged many friends and colleagues to join. But Hill's reputation is also built on a proven track record of helping companies implement proven methods for project management, quality management, and configuration management in various industries. Hill is a certified software quality engineer (CSQE), project management professional (PMP®), and a graduate of the Institute of Configuration Management, skilled in the implementation of Configuration Management II (CMII). He is a licensed project management instructor and Parenteral Drug Association (PDA) auditor. Hill, a SCAMPI Lead Appraiser, has completed training at the SEI and is authorized by the SEI to teach "Introduction to CMMI for Development v 1.2."
Photos courtesy of Tim HealyYour source for SEPG North America 2008 post conference information
