Staff Page for Brian Gallagher

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Job title

Director, Acquisition Support Program

Administrative home

Acquisition Support Program

Key responsibilities

Responsible for building acquisition support teams focused on understanding and meeting the needs of the DoD software acquisition community.

Professional Background

1999 - 2002: Senior Member of the Technical Staff, SEI. Lead evaluator for SW-CMM and SA-CMM. SCAMPI lead appraisor. Instructor for SA-CMM, CMMI, Risk Management courses. Technical Integration Manager for SEI's strategic partnership with the NRO and SSA.

1997 - 1999: Engineering Specialist, The Aerospace Corporation. Provided software engineering and acquisition consulting to government program offices in the space and intelligence domains. Member of the Object-Oriented mentor program. Session chair for the Ground Systems Architecture Workshop.

1996 - 1997: Member of the Technical Staff, The Software Engineering Institute. Member of the Acquisition Risk Management initiative. Developed the Introduction to the SA-CMM course. Co-author of Software Acquisition Risk Management Key Process Area: A Guidebook CMU/SEI-97-HB-002.

1981 - 1996: United States Air Force. Deputy Chief, Software Engineering, Bad Aibling Station, Germany; Chief Engineer, Range Operations Control Center, Cape Canaveral AFS, FL; Deputy Program Manager, Titan Launch Control Systems, Vandenberg AFB, CA; Software Engineer, Joint Strategic Target Planning Staff, Offutt AFB, NE.

Publications (recent or significant)

Interpreting the CMMI for Operational Organizations, SEI-CMU-SEI-2002-TN-002, Software Engineering Institute, Apr 2002
Basic Concepts of Product Line Practice For The DoD, SEI-CMU-SEI-2000-TN-001, Software Engineering Institute, Feb 2000
Software Acquisition Risk Management Key Process Area - A Guidebook, CMU-SEI-99-HB-001, Software Engineering Institute, Aug 1999

Education

M.S. Computer Science/Software Engineering, Florida Institute of Technology
B.T. Information Systems, Peru State College, Peru NE

Professional Memberships and Activities

Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association

Contact Information

Electronic mail address: bg@sei.cmu.edu

Phone: (412)268-7157

Fax:412-268-5758

Room: 5110

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