About

Bruce Lerner

Systems Analysis and Design (Computer Engineering)

Systems engineer from a software/digital background. Currently SE on a mid-sized electronics/software project covering the requirements, testing, compliance and ordering process. International project team includes engineers in China, Korea, Japan, Germany, USA.

Interests include architecture analysis and the decision-centric engineering process.

Technical Sketch

Software Development. Mid-rise elevator control software (1986/87). Position encoder firmware (1988). Contract engineering tool (89/91). Electroluminescent Display firmware (92).

Software Process Improvement. Introduction of SEI CMM (1988). Initial standards manual development (1989). Initiation of SEPG (1989). Metrics team leader (divisional 92/93 and corporate 94/95). Software Productivity Consortium contact point.

Process Definition and Deployment. Developer and process owner of a Configuration Management process for software including worldwide numbering and tools based on DEC CMS (1988-1994). Member of a team that developed a reuse repository based architecture development process. Co-developer of a System Engineering Process Guidebook. Modeled and analyzed this process (using CORE) and developed an Information Architecture (IA) framework to support smooth flow of process activity products. Implemented the IA in DOORS from QSS (now IBM). Defined and implemented a worldwide, system-level issue management process using PVCS Tracker (1998). Managed deployment to 20 users and growth to 615 (2003). Developed the process and format for capturing existing product component implementations and moving them toward a reference model (see FA&A). Team member coordinating the population of the implementation model (2002-2005).

Tool Selection and Deployment. Selection of RDD-100 to evaluate Model Based System Engineering process and integrated System Engineering support tools (1993). Internal RDD training for 3 additional engineers (1994). Early adopter support for Rational Rose (1995). Project start-up support for DOORS (1997). CORE specialist and trainer (1997/8, 2003). Simulation tool evaluation (1998). Software Configuration Management tool evaluation (2002).

OO Technology Introduction. Deployment of Object Oriented Technology on a major joint program (US/Japan) using Booch method and Rational Rose (1995). Worldwide training coordination (Tokyo and Berlin - 1996). Extensive work with engineering center in Berlin on OO method and tool to support analysis of a new product architecture (1996/7).

Functional Analysis and Allocation. Application of RDD-100 and CORE to model systems and components from requirements to trial physical allocation. Report generation and dynamic modeling. Various controller and system analysis activities (1993-2002) culminating in a system reference architecture which provides the basis for evaluation of all new design activity.

Education

Employment

Affiliations
Member of IEEE
Member of INCOSE (Constitution Chapter past-Treasurer, past-President)

Papers
Cost Effective Systems Engineering for Companies that Build-on-Speculation (INCOSE International Symposium 2003)
Validation of a Modular Commercial Product Architecture (ICAD-2002)
Functional Analysis for Existing Products: A Detailed Procedure (INCOSE International Symposium 2002)
Validating a Commercial Product Architecture (INCOSE International Symposium 2001)

Tool Experience
Green Hills Toolchain - Coldfire
Eclispe IDE - cdt
Extend (Imagine That, Inc)
PVCS Tracker (Merant)
DOORS (QSS /Telelogic/IBM)
CORE (Vitech)
RDD-100 (Ascent Logic) for those who remember
Rational Rose (Rational Software/IBM)

Knowledge Areas

last update 12/28/2008