John W. Walz

John has served the Computer Society since 1980 and as an CS Standards Activities Board officer since 1985.

Mr. Walz, a Senior member of IEEE, was appointed was appointed Vice President for Standards in 2007 after serving on the IEEE CS Standards Activities Board as Secretary. He is a member of the CS History committee. Mr. Walz served as the Hans Karlsson Award Chair, 2003-2006. In 2004, he was appointed Planning Chair and Quality Management Study Group Chair for the IEEE-CS Software ad Systems Engineering Standard Committee (S2ESC). Previously, he was the Local Arrangements Chair for Computer Software Applications Conference (COMPSAC) under Dr. Steven Yau's leadership.

Mr. Walz was accepted into the IEEE-CS Chapters Distinguished Visitor Program. He has received the IEEE Computer Society Golden Core member and recipient of the Distinguished Service and Meritorious Service Awards.

Mr. Walz is a Senior Consultant of The Sutton Group after retiring from Lucent Technologies as a Senior Manager, Quality Strategy. He has over 30 years of Information Technology work experience, including software development, managing software and hardware development. He has extensive experience in implementing process improvement techniques, including Baldrige, ISO 9001, TL 9000, and SEI Capability Maturity Model Integrated (CMMI).

Other interests are:

• Member of the U.S. TAG to Technical Committee 176 Quality Management standards development
• Coordinator of U.S. Z1 Quality Management, CMMI Task Group
• Senior Member of ASQ and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Blog Author and SOX Discussion Board Moderator
• Membership Chair for ASQ Electronics and Communications Division
• Secretary of the Great Lakes Special Interest Group on TL 9000
• Former member of Quality Excellence for Suppliers of Telecommunications (QuEST) Forum, where he was the Metrics Work Group Secretary and before that the Metrics Implementation Co-Chair, helping to deploy the new TL 9000 worldwide telecommunications quality system requirements and metrics. John acquired international lecturer experience in Paris, London, Berlin, Montreal, Buenos Aires, and New Delhi.

Mr. Walz has published:

• Practical Support for ISO 9001 Software Project Documentation using IEEE Software Engineering Standards, John Wiley & Sons, 2006

• Practical CMMI Software Process Documentation- Using IEEE Software Engineering Standards, John Wiley & Sons, 2005

• TL 9000 Quality Management Standard for Telecommunications chapter
The ISO 9000 Handbook, 4th Edition, McGraw-Hill, 2002

Mr. Walz earned BS and MS Electrical Engineering from Ohio State University.