Cornelia Stinchcomb Davis

neli@SoftwareFederation.com

Technical Overview

• Current focus:  Project management, requirements analysis, software architecture and innovative user interfaces for telecommunications,  computer-aided design, software tools, using Java and object technology.
• Research interests: Human-computer interaction, direct manipulation graphics, software architecture, OOA/D, information retrieval, visual languages, information visualization, knowledge management.
• Object Analysis & Design: UML, Jacobson, Fusion, Rumbaugh (OMT).
• Tools: JDK/Java Workshop, Sun SPARCWorks, UIM/X, TeleUse, visualADE, FrameMaker, Select OMT, various Unix tools. Microsoft Office. Visio.
• Languages: Proficient in English, Java, C++, C.
• Platforms: Java, World Wide Web, Sun SPARC (SunOS/Solaris) and other Unix workstations, using Java, X/Xt, OSF/Motif, CDE.  Linux.  Microsoft Windows 2000.

Experience

President, Software Federation Inc. , 7/96 - present

• Sandia National Laboratories: Account management, design review and consulting and product test services to support development of a Java-based ECAD schematic capture tool written by Software Federation using Software Farm's Mica direct manipulation graphics framework.
• Archstone Communities:  Requirements analysis, scope definition, collaborative user interface design, change management, deployment planning, project management consulting for Web site that allows members of the public to lease apartments online. Created client specific, scalable software development methodology based on project-appropriate usage of directed template documents that individually address elements of the software development lifecycle. 
• Interactive Gaming & Wagering:  Strategic planning, management consulting, analysis and business engineering focused on front-to-back integration of operations and product development.  Served as interim head of technical operations. IGW is a rapidly growing software vendor that also provides ancillary telecommunications and Internet services, web and application hosting, and IT services to its clients.
• Xerox: Object oriented analysis to support knowledge management.   Prepared an enterprise document model (UML) that presents an overview of the document corpus to provide a foundation for a business specific document services architecture prepared for a Xerox client.
• National Center for Atmospheric Research: Object technology mentoring for organizational modeling and the development of an architecture and toolset to support community information sharing.
• Innovative Research: Business consulting, requirements analysis, architectural and UI design, testing and delivery of second generation capacity planning tool for analysis of distributed and parallel computer systems and software. Direct manipulation interface. Development in Java.
• Xerox:  Business process engineering and object oriented modeling to support corporate document services strategy and architecture (with Priority Process Associates ).
• Xilinx: Requirements analysis, design and Java prototyping of visual interface to custom release and software configuration management toolset.
• Prescient Group: Project management and requirements analysis for next generation WWW search site.

Consultant, for contract house, 1/91 - 6/96

• Clear Communications: Project management and design consulting, requirements analysis and user interface design for telecommunications network fault management system.
• Lifeline: Project management consulting, project planning and mentoring for personal emergency response system operations center software.
• COBE Renal Care: Business process consulting and mentoring. Built object model of current business processes focusing on problem areas. Taught OMT. Investigated document management, systems support for regulatory requirements and integrating manufacturing MRP and engineering configuration management.
• HiLife: Requirements analysis and system architecture for technology section of business plan for a new managed health care application that facilitates physician-patient communication.
• ICG Wireless: Requirements analysis for new wireless communication product.
• SunSoft: Collaborative object-oriented requirements analysis and user interface design for high availability system configuration and volume management tools. Storyboarding, paper prototypes, repeated reviews, and user tests were used to refine the design, which includes significant direct manipulation.
• Ericsson Raynet: Requirements analysis, architectural design, implementation and project management for an operations support system GUI for fiber optic network facilities to be deployed in the local loop. The OSS handles network  inventory, provisioning, service orders and maintenance, alarms for network operations, plus administration. Custom model-view-controller based framework, layered architecture, test drivers, level 3 internationalization (deployed in Europe). 125 large screens, 3 direct manipulation editors. Interfaced to client's database and network element communications subsystem.  Technology transfer to client staff. Led team of 5.
• Coral Systems: Prototyped network operations center interface for cellular fraud detection system that displays real time information about subscribers and patterns of deviant calls.
• Ericsson Raynet: Prototyped direct manipulation editor used to describe fiber optic network components and their interrelationships for a sales configuration and product ordering system.
• Innovative Research: Built a general tool for computer system and network analysis and capacity planning. A direct manipulation interface is used to specify system configurations and display results. Prototyped extension for analysis of parallel systems. Included requirements clarification, design revisions, screen implementation, validation of analysis specification, hierarchical editors, simulated annealing optimizer, object to relational data mapping. Led team of 2.
• Loral Data Systems: Co-implemented a library of OSF/Motif dialog box utilities that provide an inverted interface that allows control driven legacy applications to access event driven X/Motif. Included requirements clarification, internal documentation, user manual, man pages, internationalization, technology transfer to client staff.

President, Software Farm Inc. , 10/90 - present

Senior Software Engineer, WaveFrame Corporation, 4/90 - 10/90

Project Leader, Cadnetix Corporation, 1/85 - 3/90

• Printed circuit board routing: Coordinated systems software support and interface development for a next generation router based on a custom MIMD accelerator card. Designed and implemented application specific interactive graphic debugger and multiprocessor task execution controller.
• Graphics: Co-designed and directed a re-implementation of graphics database and rendering functions to achieve an order of magnitude speed increase in application operations. Managed maintenance of windowing, rendering and database software. Managed and participated in port of this graphics system from custom BSD Unix workstations and PCs to Sun/X/SunView with optional AMD 2900 series bit slice accelerator card. Advised application developers. Evaluated new hardware/software platforms.
• Computer aided engineering: Built schematic capture package based on semantically aware hierarchical direct manipulation editor. Enhanced and maintained compiler that generated physical CAD and simulation data from schematic designs. Designed and implemented annotation data access library and instructed others in its use.

Programmer, Rand McNally - Infomap, 9/84 - 1/85

Operations Research Analyst, Science Applications International Corporation, 5/82 - 8/84

Education

Short courses:

• A Comparison of Object Oriented Analysis and Design Methods, OOPSLA `94.
• Design Patterns, OOPSLA `94.
• Metaphor Design in User Interfaces, SIGCHI `95.
• Models, Prototypes and Evaluations: Making the Structured Approach Practical, SIGCHI `95.
• Java Developer's Camp, SunSoft, 1996.
• Presenting Data and Information, Edward Tufte, 1996.
• Information Visualization, SIGGRAPH `96.
• Visualizing Scientific Data and Information , SIGGRAPH `96.
• Practical 3D User Interface Design, SIGGRAPH `96.

Professional societies: ACM (SIGGRAPH, SIGCHI, SIGPLAN, SIGSOFT, SIGIR), Member of the IEEE and IEEE-CS.

Subscriptions:  ACM Transactions on CHI, ACM Transactions on Information Systems, Application Development Trends, Communications of the ACM, eWeek,  interactions, Intelligent Enterprise, IEEE Computer, IEEE Internet Computing, IEEE Communications, IEEE Software, IEEE Spectrum, Java Report, JavaPRO, J ava Developer's Journal, KM World, Linux Journal, Network Magazine, New Architect, XML Journal.