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DR. DAVID F. RICO’S, PMP, CSM, SOFTWARE PROCESS IMPROVEMENT CAPABILITIES
HIGH-ENERGY MOTIVATIONAL LECTURES Dr. Rico can energize any software process improvement initiative by motivating executives, managers, and staff with lectures that serve as an immediate call to action. Dr. Rico has the unique ability to construct deeply compelling, data-driven presentations which are designed to win the support of even the most experience-hardened skeptics. He has made evangelical appearances at Lockheed-Martin, AT&T, Cisco, and Holland, and his motivational speeches have been distributed by Motorola world-wide. He has personally lit the flame which sparked fiercely resistant organizations to seek and achieve the height of software process maturity in a matter of months.
EXPERT PROGRAM DIAGNOSIS Dr. Rico can jumpstart any software process improvement initiative by empowering leaders with prescriptive advice to restart any stubbornly stalled program. Dr. Rico has unparalleled experience to prepare highly value-adding program diagnoses which are designed to help even the most resource-constrained organizations. He has been invited to evaluate the performance of Johns Hopkins University, Tracor, Raytheon, and multiple U.S. Air Force, Navy, Army, and government agencies. He has contributed numerous insightful corrective actions to some of the world’s most prestigious software organizations with expert ease in only a few hours of effort.
HARD ECONOMIC JUSTIFICATION Dr. Rico can justify any software process improvement initiative by winning over executives and managers with economic evidence to loosen the tightest purse strings. Dr. Rico is an internationally recognized figure in the fields cost and benefit analysis and return on investment analysis to provide the impetus for performance improvement. He has published numerous return on investment works in DoD Software Tech News, SPIder Koerier, and TickIT Journal, as well as SEPG, ICSPI, and ISPA/SCEA conferences. His return on investment works have been successfully used by educational institutions, government agencies, and firms in the U.S., Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia.
FOOLPROOF STRATEGIC PLANNING Dr. Rico can help launch any software process improvement initiative by endowing managers and leaders with ironclad plans that guarantee early measurable success. Dr. Rico draws upon 20 years of experience teaching, utilizing, and designing scientific management techniques to assemble foolproof plans that are impervious to failure. He has leveraged professional project planning principles to construct ironclad plans for Cisco, Trantech, and countless others to achieve near-term goals and objectives. He has helped organizations create strategic program plans to enable them defy impossible odds and achieve compliance with software process improvement goals in record time and efficiency.
CONCISE PROGRAM ORCHESTRATION Dr. Rico can orchestrate any software process improvement initiative by efficiently managing resources with proven skills to rapidly achieve process improvement goals. Dr. Rico draws upon deep experience with fierce political resistance on large and small-scale SEPGs and utilizes scientific management principles to achieve rapid closure. He has lead and served on over 15 SEPGs with organizations such as McDonnell Douglas, Fujitsu, Allied Signal, CDSI, and a myriad of U.S. government agencies. He has successfully produced thousands of pages of life cycles, policies and procedures, documentation, and training for prestigious international clients at seemingly impossible breakneck speeds.
INNOVATIVE APPRAISAL CONTRIBUTION Dr. Rico can diagnose any software process improvement initiative by assisting customers and suppliers with appraisal tools to objectively verify goals and objectives. Dr. Rico has experience managing, executing, and supporting dozens of mini-assessments and audits on mission-critical, multi-billion dollar programs and serves as an indispensable resource. He led more than 27 mini-assessments and audits for hundred-million dollar U.S. Navy programs and has supported multi-year SCEs for multi-billion dollar U.S. Air Force acquisitions. He personally devised evaluation instruments which revealed stealthily hidden weaknesses in organizations that had previously achieved high levels of software process improvement maturity.
CONTEMPORARY LIFE CYCLE ADAPTATION Dr. Rico can modernize any software process improvement initiative by designing advanced software life cycles to enhance project and quality management performance. Dr. Rico is a specialist in state-of-the-art software life cycle architecture and implements models which are based on scientific project and quality management principles. He has been tapped to lead the design of software life cycles for Lockheed-Martin, McDonnell Douglas, Fujitsu, and hundred-million dollar U.S. government programs. He’s designed thousands of pages of software life cycles based on advanced scientific project and quality management principles, ISO 12207, J-STD-016, MIL-STD-498, MIL-STD-1521B, and MIL-STD-973 for both development and maintenance purposes.
POLISHED POLICY AND PROCEDURE DESIGN Dr. Rico can illuminate any software process improvement initiative by introducing professional policy and procedure principles that result in high compliance and usability. Dr. Rico has spent nearly 20 years aligning his education, experience, skills, and talent to develop highly-polished policies and procedures with a professional fit and finish. He has designed professional policies and procedures for NASA, U.S. Air Force, DISA, DARPA, U.S. Navy, GSA, and a variety of prestigious U.S. government agencies. His software engineering policies and procedures have been used by hundreds of organizations and thousands of software engineers throughout the international community.
SAME-DAY COMPLIANCE VERIFICATION Dr. Rico can accelerate any software process improvement initiative by analyzing policies and procedures to instantly and accurately measure compliance and progress. Dr. Rico draws upon years of experience with process improvement models to design and utilize appraisal instruments which accurately diagnose strengths and weaknesses. He has quantitatively analyzed, compared, and evaluated policies and procedures from SPAWAR, DLA, U.S. Navy, Northrop Grumman, U.S. Air Force, and many others. His custom appraisal instruments are designed to perform deep analysis of the quality, usability, function, and compliance of policies and procedures for software engineering.
JUST-IN-TIME TRAINING AND ORIENTATION Dr. Rico can add a touch of class to any software process improvement initiative by teaching complex software engineering ideas to entry-level programmers at low cost. Dr. Rico is a talented communicator with the ability to effectively elucidate and illustrate complex topics in software engineering to audiences at all levels of an organization. He has successfully designed and administered simplified tutorials for organizations such as Cisco, SDI Infotech, Sonex, and dozens of international organizations. He’s designed briefings on topics ranging from the newest U.S. DoD process improvement models, historic U.S. DoD software process improvement models, software process improvement in general, scientific project and quality management principles, software inspection process, and return on investment analysis.
FAST AND EASY SOFTWARE MEASUREMENT Dr. Rico can streamline any software process improvement initiative by simplifying complex software metrics and models and designing procedures that anyone can use. Dr. Rico has the ability to simplify and communicate complex algorithms, metrics, models, and equations in software engineering, and proceduralize them for beginners. He’s developed some of the first known cost models for the latest U.S. DoD process improvement models, U.S. DoD software process improvement models, U.S. DoD software project and quality management training methodologies, U.S. DoD team-centered software project and quality management methodologies, software inspection process, and ISO 9001. He spearheaded the development of a software cost estimation methodology for the U.S. Naval Air Systems Command. He’s developed numerous software size, function point, and cost estimating procedures, and he’s demystified the esoteric statistical analysis behind the best U.S. DoD software project and quality management training methodologies. He’s designed simple procedures for statistical process control (SPC). And, he’s produced numerous publications on return on investment for software process improvement, simplifying complex algorithms for ROI, NPV, and breakeven analysis.
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