Executive Board Biographies

"Preacher of the CM Fundamentalist Gospel"

President: Ram White

RAM (Robert Arthur Michael) White has worked for Integrated Support Systems since 1996 as the InSync Training Manager, providing configuration management training, software user training and technical consultation services. Previously, he worked for 12 years at McDonnell Douglas Helicopter as CM Manager for the Apache Helicopter program and served 21 years in the U.S. Air Force as a fighter pilot, instructor and program manager. He is a certified Configuration Manager with the American Defense Preparedness Association (ADPA, now the NDIA). Ram considers himself a CM "Fundamentalist" - one who adheres to the four basic elements of all management, identifying, accounting, auditing, and controlling, as a core of the CM and DM profession.

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"Software Configuration Management Activist and Mentor"

Vice President of Education: Dick Carlson

Dick is a consultant with more than 20 years of software engineering experience that includes software development, software engineering training and mentoring, development and implementation of software lifecycle methodologies, software configuration management, software project management, software quality assurance, and software process improvement. He is skilled at developing iterative system development lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies, and determining the most advantageous SDLCs for IT projects and groups. Dick has trained and mentored teams and individuals on efficient SCM activities, project management, requirements management and development, risk management, business modeling, and business re-engineering. He has also been involved in software process improvement initiatives preparing organizations for SEI CMM compliance. Dick's educational background includes Business Management and Computer Science. Dick is a member of the Software Engineering Institute.  He is certified in both Configuration Management and Data Management by the National Defense Industry Association (NDIA), and carries a Software Configuration Management certificate from the System Technology Institute (STI).

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"Of Minivans and CM"

Vice President of Services: Steve Konieczka

Steve, along with others at SCM Labs drives the latest practical thinking around effective implementations of CM solutions in environments demonstrating significant resistance - ever hear of that?!?. His background has primarily been in application development within the telecommunications, financial and retail industries. Appreciating the challenges to IT organizations lacking proper CM, Steve joined SCM Labs in February of 1998 and has never looked back. In other areas of his life, Steve spends time flying, coaching soccer for his two daughters, participating in local Junior Achievement activities and is an active member of Young Entrepreneurs' Organization.

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"Southern Born and Proud!"

Secretary: Sue Fair

Sue was born in Ardmore, Tennessee and raised on a small farm on the outskirts of (town) Huntsville, Alabama. The 14th child of 15 children total (7 girls and 8 boys), her brothers and sisters say she was spoiled because she was the baby girl. Others say she was blessed to have such a large and loving family. She also says she was blessed and proud of her southern heritage!

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"Movin’n Up!"

Treasurer: Curt Jagger

Last year Curt wrote something about moving on and so he did, he is now in Connecticut working at Sikorsky Aircraft. He looks out his window and sees... helicopters. How do those things fly, anyway? Curt is working Software CM on the Blackhawk upgrade programs. Sikorsky will be assessed for SEI level four next year. He is also Air Force retired, L-M retired, CM-II certified and was part of the working group which wrote IEEE ’s "Guide to Software Configuration Management".

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"Configuration Management must look beyond the requirements and anticipate needs to help shape world-class processes"

Configuration Management Chair: Daniel H. McCurry

Dan has over 19 years of diversified experience in the fields of Configuration and Data Management, first with Hughes and McDonnell Douglas Helicopters, and since 1989, at Boeing where he was assigned the responsibilities of Configuration Management and Audits for the 737 and 757 Commercial Airplane programs.  For the past seven years, he has been recognized by government and industry as an authority in the development of Configuration and Data Management standards.  Dan has been heavily involved with the GEIA in generating Industry Standards such as the revision effort on ANSI/EIA-649, Configuration Management Standard, and has also provided valuable support to the EIA 836, CM Data Dictionary standards effort.  Dan is certified both as an Arizona State University CMII program in 1996, and a National Defense Industries Association, Configuration Management Manager in 1997.  Dan is a recipient of the National Defense Industrial Association, Technical Information Division Stern’s Award, for recognition of his outstanding contributions and achievements in the management of engineering technical information.

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"The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do"

Data Management Chair: Cynthia Hauer

That sentence pretty much sums up Cindy Hauer's career - which has been mainly focused on Data Management.  Many times, it has seemed that her challenges have been squarely in the ballpark of that which cannot be easily done.  Fortunately, it's just the stimulation that she's needed to stay in the game.  Cynthia C. Hauer has a BS in Computer Science and 21 years experience in the application of information technology to large-scale government and industry projects. She holds certifications in configuration and data management from both the Institute of Configuration Management and the National Defense Industrial Association.  Cynthia is also pursuing certification in the records management discipline, as well as certification in the contracts field.  Ms. Hauer is the current Data Management Chair for the Association for Configuration and Data Management, and is also the Industry Data Management Chair for the NDIA Technical Information Division. She has authored and presented over 50 technical papers on configuration and data management over the past twelve years. A practicing Configuration Management and Data Management professional, Ms. Hauer is now president and chief executive officer for Millennium Data Management, as well, in Huntsville, Alabama – a small, woman-owned business. MDM was founded in 1999 to provide high-end Data Management services, consulting, strategic asset planning, and solutions development. MDM currently provides consulting and training services to an international client base, from very small organizations to  Fortune 500 firms, across a broad spectrum of data applications in Europe and the Pacific Rim.  Ms. Hauer has a special interest in intellectual property contracting issues, and how the area of intellectual property continues to impact the ability of Data Management policy and practice in building trading partner and contracting relationships with high technology firms.  Her work is in the policy and guidance end of Data Management, as well as the application and implementation areas of both CM and DM. Presently, Ms. Hauer is leading a team of industry and government professionals in the development of  a new industry consensus data management standard, GEIA-Standard-859, currently in balloting (as of December 2003) and slated for release to the public for use in early 2004. In the early part of 2004, GEIA-859 is scheduled for American National Standards Institute (ANSI) status, as well.

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1 year Governor: Louis Taborda

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2 year Governor: Steve Konieczka

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"Some Things Never Change!"

3 year Governor: Sam Packer

Over the last 25 years, Sam has been working in submarines, rockets, and satellites. He is certified through CMII, and is a manager in CDM at Lockheed Martin Astronautics in Denver. He is an ACDM charter member, and an active Board member since the inception of ACDM.

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4 year Governor: TBD 

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5 year Governor: Richard Henrick 

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