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Don O’Neill is a seasoned software engineering manager and technologist currently serving as an independent consultant. Following his twenty-seven year career with IBM’s Federal Systems Division, Mr. O’Neill completed a three year residency at Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute (SEI) under IBM’s Technical Academic Career Program. There he developed a blueprint for charting software engineering evolution in the organization including the training architecture and change management strategy needed to transition skills into practice.

As an independent consultant, Mr. O’Neill conducts defined programs for managing strategic software improvement. These include implementing an organizational Software Inspections Process, directing the National Software Quality Experiment, implementing Software Risk Management on the project, conducting the Project Suite Key Process Area Defined Program, and conducting Global Software Competitiveness Assessments. Each of these programs includes the necessary practitioner and management training. As an expert witness, he provides testimony on the state of the practice in developing and fielding large scale industrial software and the complex factors that govern their outcome.

In his IBM career, Mr. O’Neill completed assignments in management, technical performance, and marketing in a broad range of applications including space systems, submarine systems, military command and control systems, communications systems, and management decision support systems. He was awarded IBM’s Outstanding Contribution Award three times: 1. Software Development Manager for the Global Positioning (GPS) Ground Segment (500,000 source lines of code) and a team of 70 software engineers within a $150M fixed price program. 2. Manager of the FSD Software Engineering Department responsible for the origination of division software engineering strategies, the preparation of software management and engineering practices, and the coordination of these practices throughout the division’s software practitioners and managers. 3. Manager of Data Processing for the Trident Submarine Command and Control System Engineering and Integration Project responsible for architecture selections and software development planning (1.2M source lines of code).

Mr. O’Neill served on the Executive Board of the IEEE Software Engineering Technical Committee and as a Distinguished Visitor of the IEEE. He is a founding member of the Washington DC Software Process Improvement Network (SPIN) and the National Software Council (NSC) and served as the President of the Center for National Software Studies (CNSS) from 2005 to 2008 and the Co-Chair of the National Software Strategy Steering Group (NSG) from 2005 to 2006. He was a contributing author of “Software 2015: A National Software Strategy to Ensure U.S. Security and Competitiveness”, a report on the Second National Software Summit. An inventor, he has two patents pending. . One, trademark registered Trusted Pipe™, is entitled “Business Management and Procedures Involving Intelligent Middleman,” an apparatus and method for the inside track to offshore outsourcing. The other, trademark registered Smart Pipe™, is entitled “Business Management and Procedures Involving a Smart Pipe of Tiered Innovation Management Teams,” an apparatus and method for harvesting ideas as intellectual property from knowledge workers on projects, whether onshore or offshore.

His current research is directed at public policy strategies for deploying resiliency in the nation’s critical infrastructure; disruptive game changing fixed price contracting tactics to achieve DOD austerity; smart and trusted tactics and practices in Supply Chain Risk Management Assurance; and a defined Software Clean Room Method for transforming a proprietary system into a Clean System devoid of proprietary information, copyrighted material, and trade secrets and confirming, verifying, and validating the results. He is an active speaker on software engineering topics and has numerous publications to his credit. Mr. O’Neill has a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

® Trusted Pipe is registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office by Don O’Neill.

® Smart Pipe is registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office by Don O’Neill.