Peter A Keiller, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Department of Systems and Computer Science

Howard University

School of Engineering, 2300 6 St, N.W.
Washington, DC 20059

Telephone: (202) 806-4828

Fax: (202) 806-4531

[email protected]

Education

DSc., Engineering Management, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 1996
App.Sc., (Professional Degree) Operations Research, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 1983
M.S., Operations Research,George Washington University, Washington, DC, 1982
M.S., Computer Science, Howard University, Washington, DC, 1974
B.S., Civil Engineering, Howard University, Washington, DC, 1972

Research Interest

Software Engineering Process
Reliability Engineering
Statistical Modeling and Analysis

Majors Achievements

Twenty-three years experience in the computer industry in the following positions:
Systems Analyst / Applications Programmer with focus on Capacity Planning, Performance modeling, and Software Development methodologies.
Quality Research Analyst concentrating on predicting the quality of software products using software reliability growth models and software metrics analysis techniques.
Professor/Consultant to three major universities in the Washington D.C. area, teaching courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels in Software Engineering and developing and implementing outreach programs within the local community.
Conducted Capacity Planning and Performance studies as the lead analyst in a CICS, IMS, and DB2 environment. Programmed in CSP, COBOL, FORTRAN, PL/1, PASCAL, and C languages. Consulted in application development tools, techniques and methodologies concentrating in Cost estimation, Software testing, Maintenance modeling, CASE technology and Object-Oriented analysis.

Education Experience (1974-Present)

School of Engineering, Department of Systems and Computer Science, Howard University, Washington, DC. Visiting Professor 1982-1983; Assistant Professor (Part time), 1974-1992; Assistant Professor, 1994-Present.
School of Engineering and Applied Science, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, George Washington University, Washington, DC. Visiting Professor 1990-92; Assistant Professor (Part time), 1992-Present.
School of Business, University of the District of Columbia, Washington, DC. Assistant Professor (Part time), 1977-1979.

Engineering Experience (IBM (ISSC)/LORAL FSC) (1974-1994)

Consulted with clients in the selection and implementation of application development strategies including, application development process and methodology, Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools, software testing methodologies, and project management tools. (1993-1994)
Technical lead in the justification and roll out of the SOFTWARE RELIABILITY ENGINEERING methodology. Tasks included selection of software reliability modeling tools, methods for model comparisons, procedures for collection of failure data, selection of software metrics and data analysis with emphasis placed on improving productivity, zero defects, and shortening the testing cycle (when to stop testing). Development of statistical analysis tools. (1992-1993)
Led technical team in developing simulation and analytical models to predict and evaluate the performance of systems in MVS and VM environments. Provided recommendations to resolve Performance and Capacity issues and to establish optimum resource utilization. Evaluated performance impact assessment analysis of software, hardware and workload changes. Justified and implemented the use of BEST/1, ANCICS, RESQ and SNAPSHOT modeling tools to ensure accurate measurement and predictions. (1983 - 1992)
Developed programs/applications in CSP and COBOL both for batch and on-line systems for the SCORE billing project. Used Assembler language in the development project for the JES2/NJE and JES3 sub-systems. Coded statistical analysis application in C and PASCAL on the OS/2 2.0 environment for the Software Reliability Engineering (SRE) project. Used PL/1 and FORTRAN languages in the development of Software Reliability models and GPSS in the development of simulation queuing network models. (1974- 1993)
CONSULTANT (1993-Present) School of Engineering and Applied Science, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, George Washington University, Washington, DC. Consultant (Minority Women in Science Project) 1993-Present. School of Education, George Washington University, Washington, DC. Consultant (D.C. Spirit Project) 1994-Present.

Honors, Awards and Nominations

Phi Delta Kappa
Omega Rho
Tau Beta Pi
IBM Author Recognition Awards, 1986-1993 (First paper, First plateau, Second plateau).
Professor of the Year Award, School of Engineering and Applied Science, George Washington University, Washington DC, (1990-1991).
IBM Thank You Awards, (1984; 1987-1988).
Nominated for the national Black Engineer of the Year Award by the George Washington University, 1993.
Nominated for the national Reginald Jones Distinguished Service Award by the George Washington University, 1993.
Nominated for the Gaithersburg Volunteer of the Year Award by IBM, 1993.
Multicultural Recognition Certificate, George Washington University, 1991.

Scientific and Professional Societies

American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE)
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
American Society of Computing Machinery (ACM)
Operations Research Society of America (ORSA)

Professional Education Activities

Executive Board member of the educational fraternity Phi Delta Kappa of the George Washington University, 1994-1996; Member of the Senate Affirmative Action Committee at George Washington University, 1991-1992.
Referee for the Annals of Software Engineering (Special volume on Software Requirements) conference at Pittsburg, PA., 1996.
Referee for the IEEE FTCS-14 conference at Orlando, Florida, 1984.

Recent Publications

"On the use and Peformance of Software Reliability Growth Models,"Software Reliability and Safety, March 1991.
"On the Quality of Software Reliability Predictions,"NATO ASI, Electronic Systems, Effectiveness and Life Cycle Costing, June 1982.

Conference Papers

"Comparison of Two Software Reliability Models," TR9301, IBM/ISSC, 1993.
"Improving the Quality of Software Using the Software Performance Engineering (SPE)
Methodology," 2nd IBM ITL Performance Engineering Conference, Toronto, Canada, 1992.
"Addressing the Reliability of a Software System Using Software Reliability Models," 2nd IBM ITL Software Engineering Conference, Thornwood, New York, 1992.
"Getting to Six Sigma Using Modeling Techniques and a Structured Testing Methodology," 4th IBM ITL Software Testing Conference, Austin, Texas, 1991.
"Adaptive Software Reliability Modeling," IEEE FTCS-14, Orlando, Florida, 1984.
"Predictive Quality of Software Reliability Models," IEEE JCIT, Israel, 1984.
"The Comparison of Software Reliability Predictions," IEEE FTCS-13, Italy, 1983.
"Software Reliability Modeling" presented at IBM SRI, (class 67), New York, 1982.
"Queuing Network Models" presented at IBM Yorktown Heights, 1981.
Developed the "Keiller-Littlewood (KL)" software defect model. This model was introduced at the NATO ASI, FTCS-13 and JCIT conferences (1982-1984).