Mark Grechanik

Dr.Mark Grechanik is a Researcher with the Accenture Technology Labs. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the department of Computer Sciences of the University of Texas at Austin under the mentorship of Don Batory and Dewayne E. Perry.

Mark's research focuses on increasing programmers' productivity by improving software reuse and automating various activities at different stages of the development lifecycle. In his research, Mark utilizes various techniques from software engineering, language design, program analysis, and machine learning to address specific issues that affect programmers when they design, debug, and test software.

Mark Grechanik’s Specialties:

Design, development, and testing large-scale enterprise-level software projects

Mark Grechanik’s Experience

Member of the executive committee

ACM SigSoft

(Research industry)

August 2009 — Present (4 months)
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Computer Science

DePaul University

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

January 2009 — Present (11 months)

Teach advanced graduate-level software engineering courses
Adjunct Professor

University of Illinois at Chicago

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

July 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)

I teach graduate-level courses on theory and practice of programming languages and distributed computing. I conduct research with graduate students that is funded by NSF.
Research Manager

Accenture Technology Labs

(Public Company; ACN; Information Technology and Services industry)

May 2006 — Present (3 years 7 months)

Research in testing, software reuse, performance modeling, and security.

Our research on automatically finding abstractions for intuitive testing was funded by State Farm independently from Accenture Labs.

I designed and developed a tool for composing GUI-based applications with each other and web services.

Among other things I created an approach for maintaining and evolving testing scripts for automating testing processes that is estimated to save over $60 Mil annually for Accenture.
Software Consultant

Isochron

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

June 2002 — September 2005 (3 years 4 months)

I was the architect and lead consultant for The Coca-Cola Company (TCCC) designing and developing the Dispatcher for real-time Vending Machine Controller. The dispatcher service for the Project Leap Year (or simply Dispatcher) is a module of an embedded software system that controls vending machines.
Software Consultant

BMC Software

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; BMC; Computer Software industry)

2002 — 2002 (less than a year)

Design, and development of computer resources monitoring and administration software that is a part of the GuardianAngel Suite at BMC Inc.
Senior Consultant

KLA-Tencor

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Hardware industry)

November 2000 — February 2002 (1 year 4 months)

I was the architect and lead consultant for real-time semiconductor microlithography overlay analysis control embedded system Archer 10. Overlay is a vector quantity defined at every point on the wafer. I designed a distributed architecture and mathematical model for the technology. The solution provides a powerfully simple way to enable, deploy, and maintain real-time overlay analysis of wafer in a fab. The project was done under Windows NT using MS VC++ 6.0, ATL 3.0, COM+, XML DOM, various RogueWave/Stingray class libraries, Oracle 8.0 and SQL Server 2000.
founder

Mobiltap

(Research industry)

2000 — 2001 (1 year )

Research, design, and development of a distributed system that enables semi-automatic conversion of legacy applications into black-box components with the following integration into an open enterprise collaborative environment.
Consultant

Liaison Technologies

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

1999 — 2000 (1 year )
Consultant

GlobeSet

(Research industry)

1998 — 2000 (2 years )

Provide expertise for high complexity software projects using COM, Java, wireless technologies, Document Object Model (DOM), and embedded systems such as smart cards. These projects required expert knowledge of Java, C++, ATL, COM, MTS, JDBC, ActiveX, ORACLE, and SQL Server.

Offered methodology, did design and development of software layer that intercepted ActiveX IWebBrowser2 interface of AOL browser.

Designed and developed a custom toolbar for Netscape and IE similar to Yahoo Companion toolbar and Google toolbar using COM with Visual C++ 5.0/6.0.

Designed and developed an automatic form filler for the electronic wallet.

Participated in design and development of various components of the multi-tiered Web-based COM/CORBA compliant distributed highly functional e-commerce solution that run over TCP/IP networks for intranets and secured extranets.
Senior Consultant

IBM

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Computer Software industry)

August 1997 — November 2000 (3 years 4 months)

Design and development of Operating System Dependent (OSD) layer for Oracle Parallel Server for Windows NT and AIX with accordance to the Cluster Interface Specification for ORACLE. Made improvements to Linux kernel to add fault-tolerant system services. Created NT services that managed software high availability, fault-tolerant core cluster systems. Did design and development of VideoCharger Client/Server project, particular client network internals to enable MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and LBR full motion video to be played through standard modems, Ethernet and ATM networks.
Consultant

Ambac Connect

(Public Company; Research industry)

1998 — 1999 (1 year )
Consultant

Schlumberger Information Solutions

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SLB; Oil & Energy industry)

1998 — 1998 (less than a year)
Senior Software Engineer

UniSQL

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

April 1996 — August 1997 (1 year 5 months)

Design and development of concurrency control and lock management algorithm as a part of UniSQL/Cheetah Object-Relational DBMS for multiple CPUs on SMP.

Design and development of SQL Query interpreter particularly such features as compiled plan management, RTTI subsystem, and subquery evaluator.
Senior Software Engineer

Arrowsmith Technologies

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

April 1994 — March 1996 (2 years )

OOD & development of proprietory Fleetcon® 3.0 Remote Core Framework, particularly such features as proprietary minicomputer embedded OS modules, Interprocess Communication Library, and Communication Core Drivers managing various communication channels.

I also developed TCP/IP communication gateway subsystem (C++/UNIX) to interface Base Fleetcon software modules with Win32 remote software. Project was done using UNIX, Tools++, MS Visual C++ 4.0, MFC 4.0, Windows 95/NT compatible with Win32s.

Fleetcon® is a sophisticated workforce management system that incorporates embedded software, client/servers, RDBMSes, wireless data, mobile computers, automatic vehicle tracking and computer-aided dispatch.
Software Engineer

Precision Tracking

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

October 1991 — April 1994 (2 years 7 months)

Developed an embedded software package to support electronic infrared ray tracking system by processing NetBIOS messages (MS VC++ 1.0/C++ 7.0, MFC, Btrieve).

Mark Grechanik’s Education

The University of Texas at Austin

Ph.D. , Computer Sciences , 2001 — 2006

Dissertation: Design and Analysis of Interoperating Components
Advisors: Professors Don Batory and Dewayne E. Perry
Committee: Prof.Kathryn S. McKinley (UT), Prof. William R. Cook (UT), Prof.David Garlan (CMU), and Prof.Karl J. Lieberherr (Norteastern University)

Activities and Societies:

Member of IEEE since 1997
Member of ACM since 1997
Member of USENIX since 2003
The University of Texas at San Antonio

M.S. , Computer Science , 1993 — 1998

Thesis: Computer Techniques And Algorithms For Finding Heteroclinic Connections in Experimental Data
Advisor: Professor Kay A. Robbins

Additional Information

Mark Grechanik’s Interests:

Cooking, reading, exploring things

Mark Grechanik’s Groups:

SIGOPS, ACM SigSoft, Usenix, Sage, IEEE

International Association of Software Architects
The Greater IBM Connection: IBM's alumni program for past and present IBM employees
Texas Exes/University of Texas at Austin
On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs
SoftwareEngineering
UIC - University of Illinois at Chicago Alumni & Friends
The Official Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Group
Functional Programming
UT Austin Alumni Group
Linked.NET Users Group (LIDNUG)
Accenture
Methods & Tools
ACM Members
Software Testing & Quality Assurance
Accenture Employees and Alumni
University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)
ACM SigSoft
Computing Research Association
Performance & Automation Test Specialists
Eclipse Plugin Developers
University of Texas at San Antonio Alumni
KLA-Tencor Corporation Alumni Group
The University of Texas at Austin College of Natural Sciences Alumni Network
OOPSLA 2009
Software Reuse
UTCS
Global Software Development Collaboration