Staff Page for Ray C. Williams

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Job title

Senior Member of the Technical Staff

Administrative home

Acquisition Support Program

Key responsibilities

Overall management of the general area of Software Risk Management, which includes:

definition of the Software Risk Evaluation (SRE) process for initial identification, analysis, and mitigation strategy planning of a project's software risks;
stewardship of Continuous Risk Management (CRM), a discipline to define a project's steady-state process of identification, analysis, planning, tracking, and control of risks; and
development and promotion of Team Risk Management (TRM), a discipline the management of risks between (for example) a customer and a supplier within a program.

Responsibilities include the design of courses, teaching courses and tutorials on these topics, consulting to government and industry, and presenting papers at conferences.

Teams

Acquisition Improvement Team Risk Management Focus Team

Professional Background

Manufacturing engineer for Hamilton Standard Division of United Aircraft Corporation, 1966-67.
Design and procurement engineer for instrumentation, logic hardware, and integrated computer system design in naval nuclear applications (rod control, primary plant instrumentation, and nuclear instruments), Westinghouse Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory, 1967-79.
Process engineer and computer programmer for United States Steel (thermal modeling and work process flow), 1980-84.
Computer applications specialist for a steel industry supplier, 1984-85.
Software/hardware project manager at Daxus Corporation (a 1989 management buyout of Dravo Corporation's computer automation department), 1985-91.
Developer, instructor, and consultant in the SEI's Risk Program, 1991-98, member of the SEI's SEPM Process Improvement Team, 1991-2002, member of SEI's Acquisition Support Program, 2002-.

Publications (recent or significant)

Software Risk Evaluation (SRE) Method Description, Version 2.0, CMU/SEI-99-TR-029
SEI Continuous Risk Management Guidebook, August 1996
"Putting Risk Management Into Practice," IEEE Software, May/June 1997

Education

B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University (1966)
MBA, Katz School, University of Pittsburgh (1980)

Professional Memberships and Activities

VP of Administration for the Project Management Institute's Risk Management Specific Interest Group, (PMI RiskSIG)

Contact Information

Electronic mail address: rcw@sei.cmu.edu

Phone: 412-268-7614

Fax:412-268-5758

Room: 2506