Also known as: DonFiresmith
I am a senior member of the technical staff at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI), where I work in the Acquisition Support Program (ASP) helping the US Department of Defense acquire large complex software-intensive systems. With 30 years of industry experience, I have authored 6 software and system engineering books in the areas of process, object orientation, and system architecture engineering. I am currently writing a book on engineering safety- and security-related requirements. I have also published dozens of technical articles, spoken at numerous international conferences, and have been the program chair or on the program committee of several conferences. I have taught several hundred courses in industry and numerous tutorials at conferences. I am also the founding chair of the OPEN Process Framework (OPF) Repository organization www.opfro.org, which provides the world’s largest free open-source website documenting over 1,100 reusable method components.
