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Professional

  • Softrel,LLC - Owner, May 1992 to present. Industry leader in the below analyses:
    • IEEE 1633 Software reliability prediction and assessment, software reliability benchmarking
    • Software Failure Modes Effects Analysis (SFMEA)
    • Software fault tree analysis
    • Software safety analysis as per Joint Software Systems Safety Engineering Handbook, Mil-Std 882-E, AMCOM Software System Safety Policy Regulation 385-17, AOP-52, IEC 61508, NASA-STD 8719.13B
  • Chairperson and primary author of the IEEE 1633 Recommended Practices for Software Reliability, 2016
  • For more than 25 years I have been data mining software reliability practices in industry. My study currently includes practices from 100+ companies in space, semiconductor, defense, aerospace, medical devices, other industries.
  • I have mathematically correlated more than 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 am a published author on the subject including an IEEE Recommended Practices, 2 books, 2 military guidebooks, and industry guidebook and numerous papers.

Major accomplishments

  • Recipient of the EEE RS Lifetime Achievement Award in January, 2017
  • I have 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.
  • I have a patent pending for "A method to predict the number of defects in a software program prior to development or execution of that program"
  • I have authored 4 industry standards on software reliability.
  • I published "Ensuring Software Reliability" for Marcel Dekker Incorporated.
  • I published "Effective Applications of Software Failure Modes Effects Analysis" for Quanterion Solutions.
  • I am currently the Chairperson of the IEEE 1633 Recommended Practices for Reliable 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.
  • 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.

Patents

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

Computer Skills

  • Development environments/COMs - C,C++,C#, Visual Basic 2013 and Visual Basic .Net, ASP, ASP.net, ADO.net, XSLT, XML, HTML, FORTRAN, Crystal reports
  • Operating Systems - Windows, Mac, 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.