David alvey

Capabilities and Focus

Having served over 25 years in the industry as a senior software consultant, program manager, system engineer, and test director, David Alvey provides consulting services related to:

Enterprise Level

• Roll out of software/ system development best practices

• Creation of functional centers of excellence

• Portfolio Management and IT Governance

• Metrics Programs

• Annual Planning

• Outsourcing/Supplier Management

• Enterprise Architectures which leverage UML

• SEPGs

• Risk reviews

Project Level

• Adoption of modern, iterative development practices such as RUP, Agile Methods, and SCRUM

• Project Management best practices

• Metrics Programs

• Requirements Management best practices using Use Cases

• Representing system architectures with UML

• Testing best practices

• Phase End Reviews

• Risk Reviews

Career History

David Alvey founded TeamPQT in 2005. His vision is to assist a limited number of clients to better meet the needs of their businesses through better software.

From 2000-2005 David Alvey was employed with Rational Software as a Senior Software Consultant (Rational Software was acquired by IBM in 2003). From 2004-2005 he served as Worldwide Lead for the Process Adoption Community of Practice. In this position he served clients and the Rational Software technical field by harvesting best practices related to adopting modern practices. From 2000-2004 he was the Team Lead/Technical Services Manager for the services delivery arm of Rational Software which focused on the Federal and Mid-Atlantic market area. Throughout his term with Rational Software, David personally delivered services to over 30 clients in the Enterprise-level and Project-level areas listed above. In delivering consulting services, David predominately served C-level, Director-level, and Project Manager-level positions.

From 1996-2000 David Alvey was employed with TASC as a Program Manager (TASC was acquired by Northrop Grumman). While serving as Program Manager, Dave successfully delivered high risk projects on time and within budget. Projects typically involved development at multiple sites, subcontractors, and the application of advanced technology. Markets served included the intel, modeling and simulation communities. David also served as a project manager representative on the SEPG as TASC was moving from CMM level 1 to 3.

From 1983 to 1996 David Alvey was employed with Ford Aerospace as Test Director, System Engineer, and Program Manager (Ford Aerospace was acquired by Loral and later Lockheed-Martin). As a Program Manager, David became a turn around specialist for troubled and high risk projects. He successfully delivered projects involving multiple development teams and subcontractors in the intel, communications, and modeling and simulation markets. As a system engineer, David had a key role on a 400 person project where he led a team that defined the user interfaces and performance requirements of an intel ground station that would be staffed by approximately 100 people per shift. As test director, David was responsible for selling off a prototype intel ground station system to the customer. The project entailed over 100 Ford Aerospace engineers and coordination with multiple associate contractors. Testing included functional, load, security, and user acceptance tests supported by live flights.

From 1979 to 1983 David Alvey was a system engineer and officer in the United States Air Force. David was the Lead Engineer providing technical oversight on development efforts that brought Synthetic Aperture Radar and associated real time digital image processing, analysis, and reporting from the labs to an operational capability. In 1980 he received the Junior Engineer of the Year Award within the Avionics Division at Wright-Patterson AFB. In 1983 he received the Air Force Medal of Commendation.

Miscellaneous

SCI Clearances held since 1982

BSEE, Cornell University 1979

Member IEEE since 1979, Computer and Engineering Management Societies

Recent Presentations:

• RUP Overview – a Brief Orientation
• Performing Software Capability Assessments, presented at IBM’s 2005 Software University
• Improving Software Development Organizations – Iteratively!, co-presented with Kurt Bittner at IBM’s 2005 Software University
• SEPGs that Work, presentation accepted and to be presented at Rational Software Development Users Conference, May 2005

Rational Software Tools

Proficient in RUP, Rational Process Workbench, Rational Portfolio Manager, ProjectConsole, RequisitePro, and Rose.

Rational Class Instructor

While employed with IBM Rational Software, David Alvey taught the following classes:

• Essentials of Rational Unified Process (RUP)
• Mastering the Management of Iterative Development
• Implementing RUP
• Rational Process Workbench
• Principles of Architecting Software Systems
• Essentials of Visual Modeling with UML
• Object-Oriented Analysis
• Fundamentals of Rose
• Business Modeling with UML
• Mastering Requirements Management with Use Cases
• Essentials of RequisitePro
• Technical Engagement Management Workshop (internal only)
• Software Capability Assessments (internal only)