Nancy Van Schooenderwoert

The shortest story...

I've been working with large scale real-time systems for quite a few years, in all sorts of project situations. Recent projects have been embedded software for medical devices and scientific instruments. I've always looked for better ways to do software, and was amazed by XP when I got my team to try it. There is simply no going back.

The current thing happening is that since our project was cancelled, myself and my team have been looking for work in the Boston area. Trouble is we won't go back to the "old ways" now that we know XP, and it's difficult to find companies receptive to XP. But we don't give up...

Email vanschoo@acm.org

The slightly longer story...

Here's more of an official "short bio"

Nancy Van Schooenderwoert specializes in bringing a systems perspective to software engineering for real-time and embedded systems. She has extensive experience in building large-scale, real-time systems for flight simulation and ship sonars, as well as software development for safety-critical applications such as factory machine control and medical devices. Over the years, Nancy has held positions in electrical, systems, and software engineering, as well as in test design.

Having seen the problems fostered by a “hero” approach to software development, Nancy became convinced that a team approach is the best way to build reliable systems efficiently. Recently, she has begun leading teams using Extreme Programming (XP), with great success, in building embedded software for scientific instruments. She is currently working on a paper detailing the software metrics collected from these XP development efforts.

Nancy is interested in the issues of technical management and offers presentations on XP. Other interests include recreational mathematics, especially nonperiodic tilings and the invention of games. She will soon be publishing a game based on penrose tilings. Nancy holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology.

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