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.
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