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- March 18, 2009 -

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Daniel Galorath, President and CEO.  For over 30 years, Daniel D. Galorath has been solving management, costing, systems and software problems for both information technology and embedded systems. One of Dan’s strengths is reorganizing troubled software projects, assessing progress applying methodology and plans for completion and estimated cost to complete. Dan’s company, Galorath Incorporated, develops the SEER™ applications for software, hardware, electronics & systems, IT and manufacturing cost, schedule, risk analysis and management decision support. He is one of the principal developers of the SEER-SEM™ software evaluation model. Dan’s book, Software Sizing, Estimation, and Risk Management was published in 2006. Follow Dan’s blog at http://www.galorath.com/wp/.

 

Robert Hunt, VP, Services.  Mr. Hunt is responsible for the management and technical direction of Galorath services staff and the quality of services products.  Mr. Hunt has provided software program assessments, SEI Checklist evaluations, software sizing analyses, and software cost estimating for commercial and federal clients including the Customs and Border Patrol, the Department of Defense, NASA, and various commercial clients. Prior to joining Galorath, Mr. Hunt was President of CALIBRE Services, Inc. Prior to joining CALIBRE, he was a Vice President of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) responsible for the Cost and Acquisition Management Operation.  Mr. Hunt has also been Deputy Director of Cost Analysis for Automation and Modeling, Cost Analysis Division, U.S. Army.  In this position, Mr. Hunt was the principal author of the initial Army Cost Analysis Manual.  Mr. Hunt has held leadership positions in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), the Society of Cost Estimating and Analysis (SCEA), and the National Association of Environmental Professionals (NAEP), and the IEEE.

 

Brian Glauser, VP, Business Development.  Mr. Glauser has over 25 years of experience in technical software sales and management.  Prior to joining Galorath, he was Director of Sales and Marketing for Cognition Corp., makers of high end engineering analysis and cost management software. During his sixteen-year tenure with Cognition, he helped grow and guide the company into several new markets, commercial as well as aerospace and defense.  Mr. Glauser also spent six years as the Manager, Corporate CAD/CAM Administration and Engineering Computing Services for Applied Materials, Inc. where he was responsible for the selecting, implementing and managing corporate CAD/CAM systems and engineering computing systems.  Mr. Glauser has degrees in Computer Science and Management from Temple University, DeAnza College, and St. Mary’s University, and he served in the U.S. Air Force from 1975-1978.

 

Karen McRitchie, VP of Development. Ms. McRitchie is responsible for the design, development, implementation and validation of the parametric estimation relationships found in the SEER™ estimation product line. In addition to existing SEER™ products, Ms. McRitchie oversees the development and implementation of new products and serves as principle investigator for Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) projects. Ms. McRitchie has participated in numerous estimation, data collection, and calibration efforts and has trained hundreds of cost analysts in the use, application, and calibration of SEER-SEM™ and SEER-H™. She has been active in the International Society of Parametric Analysts (ISPA) for over a decade. She was awarded best paper at the 1993 conference, and in 2002, ISPA honored her with the Parametrician of the Year award. Ms. McRitchie earned her bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and System Science at UCLA. Her master’s work is in Mathematics at California State University, Northridge.

 

Carl Dalton, Managing Director of International Operations. In May 2001, Carl was appointed Managing Director responsible for International Operations for Galorath, the U.S. organization responsible for the SEER suite of tools. Prior to that, he was a Partner/Owner at HVR Consulting Services Ltd. He held various positions at HVR in the UK including Decision Support Group Director, where he directed the cost, risk and safety consultancy groups, Marketing Director as well as Vice-President Operations for HVR Canada Inc. Carl had joined HVR in 1989 from Theta Analysis and Systems Ltd, where he was a Principal Consultant in Cost and Risk Analysis. Previous to that he was a Cost Engineer within the UK MoD(PE), now DE&S.