User:Demery

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David Emery is Chief Software Architect for DSCI, a system engineering house primarily (but not exclusively) focusing on the US DoD. He has been a "practicing software systems architect" since about 1990, and has worked with such luminaries as Rich Hilliard, Philippe Kruchten, Mark Maier and Paul Clements :-). A paper he co-wrote with Rich Hilliard and Tim Rice in 1995 while at The MITRE Corporation is available here: A Practical Software Architecture Method. You'll see a lot of the concepts that are in IEEE 1471/ISO 42010 appear (many for the first time) in this paper. Some other brief articles on the practice of architecture are located at the SEI's architecture Essays page.

He was a contributor to IEEE Std 1471-2000 and currently is head of the US delegation to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC7/WG42 Architectures, revising ISO/IEC 42010:2007. See also www.iso-architecture.org.

His research interests are in the software/systems boundary and how 'architecture' is (or should be) used to bridge this gap, distributed systems, and high confidence/safety critical systems. His day job is supporting the US Army's Future Combat Systems program.

He lived in Vancouver for 2 1/2 years working on the Canadian Automated Air Traffic System CAATS (PDF marketing literature).