Raymond J. Madachy
Biography
Dr. Raymond Madachy has 20 years of software experience working in industry,
academia and consulting in technical and management positions. His consulting
clients have included Chevron, Northrop-Grumman, Seagate, Motorola, Lucent,
USAA, Blue Cross and other Fortune 500 firms. He has also performed
as an expert witness on software cost, quality and contractual disputes.
Previously he was Chief Scientist at C-bridge Institute, where he led consulting
and training in software methodologies and economic analysis. Before
that he was manager of the Software Engineering Process Group at at Litton
Guidance and Control Systems achieving SEI CMM Level 4 after being
the lead for software metrics, cost estimation and risk management at Litton
Data Systems. He is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University
of Southern California in the Computer Science and Industrial and Systems
Engineering departments and research collaborator with the USC
Center for Software Engineering. He is a co-author of the book Software
Cost Estimation with COCOMO II and is currently writing the book
Software
Process Dynamics with Dr.
Barry Boehm as the co-author.
He completed his Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering at USC.
For his dissertation research, he developed a software project dynamics
model for process cost, schedule and risk assessment. He also has an M.S.
in Systems Science from the University of California, San Diego and a B.S.
in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Dayton. He is a senior
member of IEEE, ACM, INCOSE, Tau Beta Pi, Pi Tau Sigma, serves as program
chair for the International
Forum on COCOMO and Software Cost Modeling, is on the California
Software Symposium program committee, and serves on the LA
Software Process Improvement Network (SPIN) steering committee.