Alan M. Davis

Al Davis is professor of information systems at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. He was a member of the board of directors of Requisite, Inc., acquired by Rational Software Corporation in February 1997, and subsequently acquired by IBM in 2003. He has consulted for many corporations over the past twenty-seven years, including Boeing, Cigna Insurance, Federal Express, FrontRange Solutions, Fujitsu, General Electric, Great Plains Software, IBM, Loral, MCI, Mitsubishi Electric, NEC, NTT, Rational Software, Rockwell, Schlumberger, Sharp, Software Productivity Consortium, Storage Tek, and Sumitomo.

Previously, he was

• Chairman and CEO of Omni-Vista, Inc., a software company in Colorado Springs
• Vice President of Engineering Services at BTG, Inc., a Virginia-based company that went public in 1995, and was acquired by Titan in 2001
• a Director of R&D at GTE Communication Systems in Phoenix, Arizona. GTE was acquired by Verizon in 1999
• Director of the Software Technology Center at GTE Laboratories in Waltham, Massachusetts.

He has held academic positions at George Mason University, University of Tennessee, and University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.

He was Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Software from 1994 to 1998. He is an editor for the Journal of Systems and Software (1987-present) and was an editor for Communications of the ACM (1981-1991).

Dr. Davis has published 100+ articles in journals, conference and trade press, and lectured 500+ times in more than 20 countries. He maintains the most extensive bibliography on the Web for requirements-related subjects (http://web.uccs.edu/adavis/reqbib.htm). He is the founder of the annual IEEE International Conference on Requirements Engineering, and served as general chair of its first conference in 1994. He has been a fellow of the IEEE since 1994, and earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois in 1975.

Find out more about Al Davis at http://web.uccs.edu/adavis.

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