Herb Krasner
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Herb Krasner is a senior lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin where he teaches undergraduate and graduate classes in software engineering, data structures, database engineering, agile methods and software process improvement. Also, he performs and supervises research in the science of design, the economics of software engineering, and software quality and process improvement. As Founder, Chairman and former Director of the Software Quality Institute (SQI) at the University of Texas, he was largely responsible for creating and shaping the software engineering educational outreach organization into a successful business entity. He is the founder of the Austin Software Process Improvement Network. Herb is well known for his leading edge work on modeling the costs of software quality, reporting the ROI data for IT/software process improvement, coaching organizational improvement programs and the reported results from the empirical studies of professional programmers. He has published over 55 papers, articles and book sections in peer reviewed literature, and has spoken at many professional conferences and meetings.
As President of Krasner Consulting, Herb has had successful client engagements with many commercial companies and various agencies. His mission is to enable his clients to succeed in the development of superior software systems, and to eliminate poor quality software, wherever found. As a diagnostician, coach, mentor, change agent and/or troubleshooter, he assists organizations to become more effective producers of superior software products and information systems, using a variety of tools and approaches to help them. For example, as a Master Lead Assessor, he successfully led over 50 CMMI-style assessments since his training and certification at the CMU SEI in 1988. Herb currently serves on the UMR Computer Science Department Advisory Board. He is a book series editor for the IEEE Computer Society Press and a member of their Publications Board. He is active in both the ACM and IEEE Computer Society, and served as past chairman of several international conferences, as well as, Director of the ACM Scholastic Student Programming Contest. His professional awards include the ACM Distinguished Service Award and ASQ Golden Quill Award. Herb began his professional career at Missouri University of Science and Technology (formerly UMR). From 1974 to 1979 he worked as a Research/Teaching Assistant and then Lecturer in Computer Sciences. During that time, he taught undergraduate computer science courses in introductory computing, machine/assembly language programming, programming methods and data structures. He also was the head lecturer for the Missouri S&T Summer Institute on Data Processing for high school students, and was the chief programmer on an airlines passenger reservation system project. He led independent research under contract to the Department of the Army (at Redstone Arsenal), designing and developing real-time data acquisition software for chemical laser experimentation. For his dissertation he performed independent research on instrumented reorganization in hierarchical database management systems. Herb received academic degrees in Computer Science from the Missouri University of Science and Technology (formerly UMR): BS ('73), MS ('75) and PhD/ABD ('79). After leaving Missouri S&T, Herb worked as Assistant Professor of CS at Clemson University, Senior Technologist at Harris Corporation, R&D project leader at MCC, Chief Software Technology Officer at Lockheed, and Division General Manager at SAIC. Herb and his wife Judy have been married for 35 years and live on Lake Travis in Spicewood, TX. They have two adult children and one very precious new granddaughter. Herb is an elected member of the Board of Directors for the Ridge Harbor Property Owners Association where they reside. |
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