User:Danaroper

DANA ROPER has over thirty-six years experience in technical and management positions for IBM Corporation and Lockheed Martin. He was Manager of Software and Process Quality Assurance at Lockheed Martin Naval Electronics & Surveillance Systems - Undersea Systems, Manassas, VA. Since 1994 he was responsible for all software TQM activity, coordination of sitewide 'best practices' and process improvement initiatives. He has developed training curricula for Manassas' engineering processes, helped coordinate the activities leading to ISO 9001 registration, and led the efforts to have Lockheed Martin Undersea Systems assessed at SEI CMMI Level 4 and then Level 5.

Prior to this assignment, Mr. Roper spent over eleven years managing both Systems Engineering and Software Development for mission critical, complex software development projects for the Department of Defense. During this time, he received an IBM Management Award for managing multiple contractors to produce an advanced signal processing software system. He was Chief Software Engineer for the TRIDENT Submarine Operating System and for multiple software modules in the FAA's National Airspace System.

Mr. Roper is now retired and an active philatelist. He is a VP and Editor of Europa News, the bi-monthly journal of the Europoa Study Unit, a worldwide association of philatelists devoted to the study of philatelic manifestations of the Europa ideal of political, economic, and social integration of Europe. The ESU is a unit of the American Philatelic Society and the American Topical Association. The ESU website can be found at www.europastudyunit.org.