John Walz
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Email: johnwalz@ameritech.net

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John has served the Computer Society since 1980. He is currently the CS Standards Activities Board Secretary since 1985 and Awards Committee since 2003. He 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).

As a senior member of IEEE, was appointed to the IEEE CS Standards Activities Board and serves as Secretary. John 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.

He 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.

Other interests are:

• Member of the U.S. TAG to Technical Committee 176 Quality Management
• 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
• 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, and Buenos Aires.

Software Engineering Standards for CMMI
The Software Engineering Institute (SEI) has created the popular Capability Maturity Model Integrated for Software CMMI-SW in 2002. While the requirements and guidance are over 600 pages, software engineering companies have freedom on the format and content of typical software engineering project documents. IEEE software engineering standards codifies industries best practices for all critical software engineering processes and their outputs.  Both Susan K. Land and the speaker have been involved in the IEEE software engineering standards development process for the past decade. Their experience in both standards development and practical implementation lead to the 2004 book "Practical Support for CMMI-SW Software Project Documentation Using IEEE Software Engineering Standards".  This presentation will describe the steps that software engineering companies can take to implement CMMI along with critical project documents.

Software Engineering Standards for ISO 9001
Over 750,000 companies are registered to ISO 9001:2000 Quality Management Systems Requirements.  While the high-level requirements are only 14 pages, software engineering organizations and companies have freedom on the format and content of typical software engineering project documents. IEEE software engineering standards codifies industries best practices for all critical software engineering processes and their outputs.  Both Susan K. Land and the speaker have been involved in the IEEE software engineering standards development process for the past decade. Their experience in both standards development and practical implementation lead to the 2006 book "Practical Support for ISO 9001 Software Project Documentation Using IEEE Software Engineering Standards".  This presentation will describe the steps that software engineering companies can take to implement ISO 9001 along with critical project documents.

Software Engineering Standards for IT Departments Supporting Sarbanes-Oxley
IT departments have been in a growth mode for the past decades in both dimensions of corporation control and costs.  This has resulted in IT outsourcing and strong regulations on corporate governance, including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX).  IT organizations have freedom on the format and content of typical software engineering project documents and can chose from several frameworks, standards, and methods to implement and enhance their mission and value-added services within their company.  These include ISO 9001, CMMI, CobiT, ITIL, ISO 20000 Information technology — Service management, and IEEE software engineering standards suite.  IEEE software engineering standards codifies industries best practices for all critical software engineering processes and their outputs.   

How to Contributing to Developing Computer Standards
Computer and IT engineers have choices on how to formalize their intellectual property. The methods include technical publication, patents, industry-wide computer specifications and standards.  Many computer and IT segments are dominated by a variety of consortiums whose companies share and formalize best practices into specifications to facilitate interoperability and new developing markets.  While individuals sometimes have little say in these consortium outcomes, IEEE Standards Association welcomes individual contributors to work on teams to develop world-class standards.