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| | Dr. Nancy Eickelmann’s career spans over four decades of computing technology in industry research and development (R&D) laboratories, the federal government, and academia, successfully taking on greater responsibilities and remaining current in applied technologies. She has worked in internationally preeminent research labs, including the Hughes Research Laboratory (HRL) as a member of the technical staff, NASA’s Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) Facility as a senior research associate, and the Motorola Systems and Software Engineering Research Lab (SSERL) as a distinguished member of the technical staff.
Nancy’s federal service in a senior leadership position focused on federal acquisition for the program and project management of information technology (IT) systems. Specific programs required the transitioning from legacy mainframe systems to either on-premise or cloud-based technologies. Challenges of note include multi-tenant architectures, data integrity, financial models for cloud-based shared services, the appropriate application of agile methods, and managing security in evolving DevOps environments.
She concurrently taught at the postgraduate level and developed courses on software metrics, systems and software test technologies, software architecture documentation and analysis, and business statistics. Her credentials include: MBA in information and decision sciences, and PhD/MS in information and computer science; Motorola Black Belt and Master Black Belt; Federal Acquisition Certification for Program and Project Managers (FAC-PPM) Senior Level III; Federal Acquisition Certification for Contracting Officer’s Representatives (FAC-COR) Senior Level III; and National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) certified federal records officer.
Nancy holds multiple honors and awards, including the prestigious Hughes Doctoral Fellow, California Doctoral Scholar, and membership in Beta Gamma Sigma (the business honor society). Her professional volunteerism includes multiple years as coeditor of IEEE Software’s “Quality Time” column, ABET Commissioner, and program evaluator of information and computer science programs.
She has been a reviewer for Computing Reviews since 2010. |
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 Beginning blockchain: a beginner’s guide to building blockchain solutions
Singhal B., Dhameja G., Panda P., Apress, New York, NY, 2018. 386 pp. Type: Book (978-1-484234-43-3)
Blockchain, a distributed ledger technology, is experiencing a surge of popular interest in the context of various domains, including electronic health records, supply chains, cryptocurrencies, and electronic voting, to name a few. A b...
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Software architecture for big data and the cloud
Mistrik I., Bahsoon R., Ali N., Heisel M., Maxim B., Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc., Cambridge, MA, 2017. 470 pp. Type: Book (978-0-128054-67-3)
Systems and software architecture has been a significant engineering endeavor for many years, requiring formal languages and models to document and analyze the structure and functionality of systems. This mature domain of interest has ...
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Sep 24 2018 |
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Partial evaluation of string obfuscations for Java malware detection
Chawdhary A., Singh R., King A. Formal Aspects of Computing 29(1): 33-55, 2017. Type: Article
Cyber security has become a major concern in government, industry, and academia and in the everyday lives of individuals. How we secure our information systems and maintain the privacy and integrity of our online presence and data is a...
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Oct 2 2017 |
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Model checking Petri nets with names using data-centric dynamic systems
Montali M., Rivkin A. Formal Aspects of Computing 28(4): 615-641, 2016. Type: Article
Carl Adam Petri established Petri net theory, in 1962, with the publication of his doctoral thesis, “Kommunikation mit Automaten.” In the following 54 years, a rich and extensive body of work has been added to the t...
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Mar 10 2017 |
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Application of big data for national security: a practitioner’s guide to emerging technologies
Akhgar B., Saathoff G., Arabnia H., Hill R., Staniforth A., Bayerl P., Butterworth-Heinemann, Waltham, MA, 2015. 316 pp. Type: Book (978-0-128019-67-2)
It is a pleasure to review a compilation of current works that address diverse perspectives of the timely topic of big data analytics for national security. The work consists of 18 chapters organized by topic areas into four sections.<...
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Sep 8 2016 |
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DevOps: a software architect’s perspective
Bass L., Weber I., Zhu L., Addison-Wesley Professional, Old Tappan, NJ, 2015. 352 pp. Type: Book (978-0-134049-84-7), Reviews: (2 of 2)
What is DevOps? It is defined by the authors as “a set of practices intended to reduce the time between committing a change to a system and the change being placed into normal production, while ensuring high quality.̶...
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Semantic metrics for software products
Mili A., Jaoua A., Frias M., Helali R. Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering 10(3): 203-217, 2014. Type: Article
Software reliability is one of the most extensively studied of all software quality attributes. There are literally dozens of models to predict and assess software reliability, some that date back to the 1970s. The measurement goal est...
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Jul 9 2015 |
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SOA in variability-intensive environments: pitfalls and best practices
Galster M., Lapre L., Avgeriou P. IEEE Software 31(1): 77-84, 2014. Type: Article
The US Federal Chief Information Officer, Vivek Kundra, published the Federal Cloud Computing Strategy in 2011. It has become commonly known as the “Cloud First” strategy. The strategy proposes the aggressive...
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May 12 2015 |
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More agile testing: learning journeys for the whole team
Gregory J., Crispin L., Addison-Wesley Professional, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2014. 544 pp. Type: Book (978-0-321967-05-3)
Information and communications technology is big business. According to the National Science Board, global output from information technology (IT) industries more than doubled, from $1.2 trillion in 1995 to $2.8 trillion in 2010, accou...
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Mar 26 2015 |
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SOA with Java: realizing service-orientation with Java technologies
Erl T., Tost A., Roy S., Thomas P., Balasubramanian R., Chou D., Plunkett T., Prentice Hall Press, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2014. 592 pp. Type: Book (978-0-133859-03-4)
The “Prentice Hall Service Technology Series from Thomas Erl” provides several texts that are supported by online resources that augment the text and provide in-depth explanations of concepts and principles. The tex...
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