Customers at Consultant
Houston, Texas Area
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- President and Senior Principal Consultant, SEI-authorized HM Lead Appraiser and CMMI Instructor at Process and Product Quality Consulting
- Customers at Consultant
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- Principal Consultant at Borland
- Director, Process Improvement at TeraQuest
- Partner at Technology and Process Consulting
- Consultant at independent consulting (Self-employed)
- Instructor at Data Tech Institute
- Quality Assurance Specialist at ADAC Healthcare Information Systems
- Manager of Systems and Procedures at Futuresoft
- Instructor at Houston Community College
- Project Manager at McDonnell Douglas
- Engineer at Lockheed Electronics Company
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- Rice University
- University of Virginia
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Henry Schneider’s Summary
Henry is an active SEI-certified CMMI Lead Appraiser, SEI-certified High Maturity Lead Appraiser, and SEI-authorized CMMI instructor for the CMMI-DEV, CMMI-ACQ, and soon the CMMI-SVC. Henry is President and Senior Principal Consultant at Process and Product Quality Consulting. Henry has over 30 years experience in software and systems development as a systems engineer, project manager, developer, trainer, consultant, and assessor (ISO 9000/TickIT and SW-CMM). His background includes more than 15 years in project management, software quality, and process improvement (Quality Circles, TQM, ISO 9000, and CMM). He is an SEI-authorized Lead Assessor for SW-CMM, an SEI-authorized SCAMPI Lead Appraiser for CMMI, and is an SEI-authorized instructor for the Introduction to CMMI course. Henry’s software consulting experience encompasses commercial, government, aerospace, product software, finance, insurance, health care, data communications, and telecommunications organizations. He has also trained software professionals nationwide on how to conduct software quality assurance and testing activities.
Henry has participated on or led more than 130 appraisals, encompassing appraisals in more than 60 companies, four countries, three continents, and many appraisals at Maturity Levels 4 and 5.
Henry Schneider’s Specialties:
SEI-Certified SCAMPI A Lead Appraiser
SEI-Authorized Intro to CMMI Instructor
SEI-Certified SCAMPI A High Maturity Lead Appraiser
SEI-Authorized SCAMPI B and C Team Leader
Henry Schneider’s Experience
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President and Senior Principal Consultant, SEI-authorized HM Lead Appraiser and CMMI Instructor
Process and Product Quality Consulting
(Computer Software industry)
January 2007 — Present (2 years 7 months)
Consultant to clients on software process improvement projects. Facilitates and trains clients in all areas relating to planning and implementing software process improvement. Provides guidance on software processes, project management, requirements management, configuration management, and software quality assurance. Performs quality assessments.
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Customers
Consultant
(Computer Software industry)
January 1994 — Present (15 years 7 months)
Customers include:
United States - ABN Amro, Accenture (BellSouth), American Systems, ANICO, ATC Logistics, Baker Hughes, Ball Aerospace, Bayer, BellSouth, Boeing, Bombardier, Borland Software, Celanese, Cimarron Software, Dynacs (MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd.), Ericsson, General Motors, GM Electromotive, Hughes, Indus, JM Family, KLA Tencor, Kodak, Landmark Graphics, McKesson, MetLife, Northrup Grumman, Riverside County (California), Selective Insurance, Siemens Building Technology, Sprint, The Gap, Titan/L3 Systems, Toshiba, Unilever, United Space Alliance, USAA, Visual Numerics, Inc., Washington Mutual, WatchMark
Canada - filogix
China - Huaze, Tianze, Netec
Japan - NTT
Korea - LG CNS, Virtualtek
United Kingdom - Accenture (ABN Amro, London Stock Exchange, UBS) -
Principal Consultant
Borland
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; BORL; Computer Software industry)
January 2005 — January 2007 (2 years 1 month)
Consultant to clients on software process improvement projects. Facilitates and trains clients in all areas relating to planning and implementing software process improvement. Provides guidance on software processes, project management, requirements management, configuration management, and software quality assurance. Performs quality assessments.
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Director, Process Improvement
TeraQuest
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Management Consulting industry)
March 2000 — January 2005 (4 years 11 months)
Consultant to clients on software process improvement projects. Facilitates and trains clients in all areas relating to planning and implementing software process improvement. Provides guidance on software processes, project management, requirements management, configuration management, and software quality assurance. Performs quality assessments.
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Partner
Technology and Process Consulting
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
January 1998 — March 2000 (2 years 3 months)
Responsible for establishing, managing, and controlling a requirements baseline for a state government's child welfare project. Developed and managed the project planning, tracking, and oversight procedures, configuration management procedures, and testing procedures for a Y2K project at a large telecommunications company. Wrote and implemented the Deployment and Operations Plan for a large telecommunications application. Defined the workflow and designed a trouble report tracking system for a client’s production support group. Participated as a team member on one Level 3 and two Level 4 CBA IPI assessments.
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Consultant
independent consulting (Self-employed)
(Self-Employed; Computer Software industry)
1995 — 2000 (5 years)
Performed ISO 9000/TickIT/CMM gap analyses of client’s business practices. Led internal quality audits and participated as a British Standards Institute team member on ISO 9000 audits. Provided business process reengineering consulting services to client companies. Presented a tutorial on International Harmonization of Software Quality Auditing efforts at the first International Congress of Software Quality, June 1995.
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Instructor
Data Tech Institute
(Computer Software industry)
1994 — 1998 (4 years)
Provided interactive and participant centered training for hundreds of software professionals nationwide on Software Quality Assurance and Testing techniques.
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Quality Assurance Specialist
ADAC Healthcare Information Systems
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)
March 1997 — October 1997 (8 months)
Performed gap analyses of ADAC’s business practices. Designed, developed, and managed ADAC’s Quality System.
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Manager of Systems and Procedures
Futuresoft
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 1994 — March 1997 (2 years 10 months)
Assembled, managed, and trained a cross-discipline team of Internal Auditors. Designed, developed, implemented, and managed FutureSoft’s Quality System. Managed and performed FutureSoft’s ISO 9000 certification efforts.
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Instructor
Houston Community College
(Educational Institution; Education Management industry)
January 1994 — May 1994 (5 months)
Developed and taught a college course on the Macintosh hardware and operating system.
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Project Manager
McDonnell Douglas
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Aviation & Aerospace industry)
August 1977 — January 1994 (16 years 6 months)
Managed the systems engineering group responsible for defining and analyzing system software requirements for the Space Station’s on-board Integrated Station Executive, Operations Management System, and the Space Shuttle’s Inertial Measurement Unit Redundancy Management applications. Co-authored the Space Station Integrated Avionics Development Plan. Managed cost accounts, participated on the Space Station proposal team, developed system architecture and design requirements, and planned development life cycle activities. Provided consulting services to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in Nagoya, Japan. Managed two Quality Circles for analyzing process improvements. Served as a ground controller for the first seven Space Shuttle flights.
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Engineer
Lockheed Electronics Company
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Aviation & Aerospace industry)
July 1975 — August 1977 (2 years 2 months)
Designed, developed, and tested Space Shuttle flight code simulations.
Henry Schneider’s Education
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Rice University
1972 — 1975
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University of Virginia
BS , Physics , 1968 — 1972
Additional Information
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Henry Schneider’s Interests:
CMMI, Training - at your site or public offerings, SCAMPI A Appraisals, SCAMPI B Appraisals, SCAMPI C Appraisals, Process Improvement Consulting, Public speaking at professional organizations, conferences, and symposia
Henry Schneider’s Groups:
Associate Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Society for Software Quality West Houston Chapter – Founding Member 1994, Membership Chair 1994 – 1998, Vice President 1997
National Vice President, Society for Software Quality, 1998 – 2004
Editorial Review Board Software Quality Professional
Judging Coordinator, Science Engineering Fair of Houston, 1980 - present
SCAMPI Lead Appraiser Body of Knowledge Advisory Board Member 2007
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Key Publications and Presentations
"A Practical Approach to Defining Useful Measures"; presented at the Houston Chapter of the IIBA, August 7, 2008.
"Improving your Risk Identification and Management Approach"; presented at the Clear Lake - Galveston Chapter of the PMI, June 26, 2008.
"The CMMI: It’s So Much More Than Merely Improving Software Processes"; presented at the Greater Houston Section of the American Society for Quality, January 17, 2008.
"Beating the Odds: A Tale of One Company's Rapid Rise to Maturity Level 5"; presented at the 7th Annual CMMI Technology Conference and User Group in Denver, CO, November 12 - 15, 2007.
"Managing Cultural Change"; presented at the Bay Area Texas Section of the American Society for Quality, September 4, 2007.
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