Biography:  Mr. Williams is a Principal Member of the Technical Staff at TASC, Inc., specializing in applying software systems engineering concepts and methodologies. He is a member of the Virginia Joint Commission on Technology and Science - Y2K Advisory committee, Northern Virginia (NOVA) IEEE Computer Society (Chair), and NOVA IEEE Section (Secretary). He is currently the Y2K Project Manager for one of TASC's customers.

Mr. Williams also provides system lifecycle engineering and IV&V support to government organizations developing object-oriented software intensive systems. He is involved in developing requirements, reviewing and monitoring all phases of systems development (i.e., analysis, design, implementation, testing, O&M, etc.), and establishing verification plans and processes for systems being acquired by the government. He is supporting programs associated with the global broadcast dissemination of near real-time tactical intelligence information to U.S. and allied forces, the migration of a enterprise network from a NeXT operating system to Windows NT, and the deployment of enterprise and network management information system applications.

Mr. Williams' experience in software development includes working in the areas of: distributed systems, satellite command and control systems, smart weapons, automatic test equipment, secondary imagery dissemination, and tactical data dissemination. He has worked for McDonnell-Douglas Corp in St Louis, Mo., Northrop Electronics Systems Division in Hawthorne, CA, and TASC, Inc. in Chantilly, VA. Mr. Williams' interests are in object-oriented analysis and design, software testing, metrics, and software life-cycle process improvement. Mr. Williams holds a MS degree in Software Systems Engineering from George Mason University and a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Missouri at Rolla.