Ann Marie Neufelder

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RESUME

Professional

• Softrel,LLC Lewisville, TX - Owner, May 1992 to present. I started this company to provide hands on R&D services and products in software reliability prediction, software reliability benchmarking, software reliability assessment, Software Failrue Modes Effects Analysis (SFMEA), software fault trees, software lifecycle cost management, software testing and software engineering management.

Software reliability and predictive modeling

• For more then a decade I have been data mining software reliability practices in industry. My study currently includes practices from 90 companies in space, semiconductor, defense, aerospace, medical devices and other industries.
• I have mathematically correlated more then 600 development characteristics to defect density. I have also correlated these characteristics to the probability of a late software delivery.  This ongoing benchmarking allows me to know what works and what does not when it comes to software development practices. 
• I have automated the above into a commercially deployed software package - Frestimate.

• I provide consulting and implementation of methods for improving the reliability of software within the constraints of cost and schedule. These methods include software defect and reliability predictions, metrics,scheduling, and software process and product improvement.
• I am a published author on the subject including a book, military guidebook, industry guidebook and numerous papers.

My major accomplishments include:

• Benchmarking studies I have produced for the semi-conductor industry, that are one-of-a-kind. I have measured the improvements my clients have made during and after employment of my services.
• A United States patent - PStiMate, 1993 patent number #5,473,741 - Method for Determining the Time To Perform Raster Image Processing (RIP). I developed this software design and code jointly with a client.
• A patent pending for "A method to predict the number of defects in a software program prior to development or execution of that program"
• Authoring 2 industry standards on software reliability.

• A hardback book publication with Marcel Dekker Inc. "Ensuring Software Reliability"

Major clients include

• The defense, space and aerospace industries including work directly with the government and government contractors
• The semi-conductor equipment industry including:

• Etch
• CMP
• PVD
• Lithography
• Ion implant
• Wet processing
• Test equipment
• Laser marking
• Metrology
• Automation
• Cluster tools

• The printing and printer industry
• Financial/banking industry
• Medical devices
• Mathematical and scientific software

Previous Industry experience as Ann Marie Leone

Baltimore, MD. November 1986 - April 1991. Westinghouse Defense Center - Senior Software Engineer responsible for development of avionics and electronic warfare software systems.

Atlanta, GA. April 1984 - November 1986. Unisys Corporation. Product Assurance Engineer responsible for quality assurance, integration and test of financial systems.

Atlanta, GA May 1983 - April 1984. Computer Sciences Corporation. Associate Engineer responsible for reliability, availability, maintainability of mass transit systems.

Education

• Georgia Tech, Bachelors of Industrial and Systems Engineering. 1983.

Publications

• "Facts and Fiction About Software Reliability", IEEE Metron Conference, Arlington, TX October 10, 2007.
• "Integrating Hardware and Software Reliability Analysis" with Jeffrey Jacobs at the 2007 Applied Reliability Symposium in San Diego, CA
• "A Practical Toolkit for Predicting Software Reliability" ARS Symposium, June 14, 2006, Orlando, Florida

• "A Toolkit for Predicting & Managing Software Defects Before Code is Written" at the Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference on October 11, 2005 in Portland, OR.

• "Real Software Reliability Successes" ,2005 ARS Symposium May 18-20 in San Diego.
• "How to Measure the Impact of Specific Development Practices on Fielded Defect Density", ISSRE Conference Proceedings, 2000
• "How to predict software defect density during proposal phase", NAECON Conference Proceedings, 2000
• "System and software Reliability and Assurance Notebook", January 1997, Rome Laboratory, Griffiss Air Force Base, NY.
• "SEMATECH Tactical Software Reliability Guidebook", August 1995, Austin TX.
• "Ensuring Software Reliability",Marcel Dekker, 1993
• "Applying Software Reliability and TQM Principles" Tenth Annual Software Reliability Symposium Proceedings, June 1992, Denver, COL.
• "An Expert System For Electronic Design",1988 ASME Proceedings, San Francisco, CA.

Activities

• Self authored seminar "System Software Reliability" with the Systems Reliability Center (formerly the Reliability Analysis Center.)
• Self authored course "Tactical Software Reliability" with SEMATECH.
• Teacher of seminars and graduate course with the University of Maryland.
• Past chair and co-founder of the ASQC Software Quality Technical Committee.
• Associate Editor of IEEE Reliability Transactions 1988-1990.

Awards

• Who's Who in Science and Engineering, 1997
• Strathmore's Who's Who, 1996
• Who's Who in the World, 1996
• Who's Who in the Southeast, 1995
• George Westinghouse Quality Achievement Award, 1988
• Burroughs Excellence Award, 1986

Patents

• PStiMate, 1993 patent number 5,473,741- Method for Determining the Time To Perform Raster Image Processing (RIP)
• Patent Pending for Method to Predict Software Defects In A Computer Program

 

Computer Skills

• Development environments/COMs - C,C++,C#, Visual Basic 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, 6.0 and Visual Basic .Net, ASP, ASP.net, ADO.net, XSLT, XML, HTML, FORTRAN, Graphics server 5.5, Crystal reports
• Operating Systems - Windows 9x, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows NT, Mac 7.x, Unix, OS/2.
• Other - Postscript; Computer Automated Software Engineering tools such as Visual Test; PC-Metric;Code Analyzers and Formaters.
• Data mining environments - SPSS Clementine.