David McRoy Price

Senior Consultant

Objective

To assist organizations in the industrial deployment of systems and standards for integration, data management and publishing.

Experience

EUROSTEP LIMITED - CONSULTING IN OIL & GAS, LIFE-CYCLE INTEGRATION, STEP/OMG HARMONIZATION, SHIP CLASSIFICATION
April 2001 - current

• Developing an integrated UML model of ship classification systems for use in systems integration between those systems and ship design systems and developing the generation of XML Schemas and data access interfaces from the UML
• Initiated an open-source software development, exff, project aimed at enabling the use of IDEs and UML software engineering tools for STEP/EXPRESS implementation and at exploring model-driven software architectures using EXPRESS and UML
• Providing services managing the world-wide acquisition of data for a major Oil and Gas company building a central, global product management catalogue
• Technical leader and editor for ISO 10303-25 EXPRESS to UML for XMI binding
• Leading the efforts in the OMG ManTIS DTF and STEP communities on EXPRESS/UML harmonization
• Providing services in defining the implementation of thru-life integration of logistics data for a large government organization

PDES, INC. - IBM ASSIGNEE TO INDUSTRY CONSORTIUM ACCELERATING DEVELOPMENT AND DEPLOYMENT OF ISO 10303 DATA INTEGRATION AND EXCHANGE STANDARD, "STEP"
April 1989 - April 2001

• Leader of consortium Web team transforming ISO engineering data integration standard for both Web publication and Web implementation.
• Leader of consortium architecture team addressing application interoperability and harmonization, data frameworks and modularization.
• Leader of consortium team addressing STEP Data Access Interface (SDAI), C, C++, OMG CORBA IDL and Java language bindings.
• Technical expert for EXPRESS data modeling language.
• SQL training developer and teacher.

ISO TC 184/SC4 INDUSTRIAL DATA (ISO 10303 "STEP" STANDARD) RESPONSIBILITIES
April 1989 - April 2001

• Deputy Convener of ISO Working Group developing information technology and conformance testing standards for data modeling, sharing, integration and exchange.
• Project Leader of ISO STEP Modularization Project in the Technical Architecture Working Group.
• Technical leader and editor for ISO 10303-11 EXPRESS data modeling language Edition 2.
• Technical leader and editor for ISO 10303-25 EXPRESS to UML for XMI binding.
• Technical leader and editor of ISO 10303-22 SDAI and ISO 10303-24 C language binding of SDAI.

IBM MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES ENTERPRISE INTEGRATION
January 1995 - June 1998

• Provided consulting services in the Aerospace and Oil & Gas Industries.
• Developed and taught EXPRESS and SDAI training courses.

IBM CORPORATE DESIGN PRACTICES
June 1988 - January 1995

• Responsible for IBM Corporate Mechanical Design Data Management Architecture and Implementation using CATIA Data Manager (CDM).
• Engineering Data Management consulting with IBM Consulting Group.
• Team leader and developer for CDM and CDM Release Application development.
• Co-directed team that planned and executed IBM internal installation and production cut over to CATIA Data Manager at 40 sites world wide.
• Validated new product release of CATIA Data Manager during three month assignment at Dassault Systemes in Paris, France in 1988.

IBM RALEIGH MECHANICAL AND ELECTRONIC DESIGN AUTOMATION
June 1981 - June 1988

• IBM Raleigh Mechanical Design Automation application development team leader.
• Systems planning, installation, maintenance, training and support of design automation and analysis software used by 300 engineers.
• Large system hardware planning, I/S service level agreements and security administration for a network of mainframes.
• Developed CATIA GUI/CATGEO applications, CADAM APT/NC output processors and CADAM IUE applications.

STUDENT COOP AT IBM RALEIGH NETWORK HARDWARE DEVELOPMENT LABORATORY
January 1980 - May 1981

• Developed an assembler and microprocessor simulator for an IBM microprocessor under development using assembler generation software and PL/AS.

Consulting and Services

Engagement leading and designing systems integration and mapping tool software for a petroleum industry consortium in Norway with IBM UK and IBM Norway consultants.
April 1997 - December 1997

Performed an evaluation of a life-cycle integration product model with respect to implementation and completeness for a petroleum industry consortium in Norway with IBM UK and IBM Norway consultants.
November 1996

Training for 100 engineers and programmers in EXPRESS and SDAI for an aerospace company in the U.S.
January 1996 - December 1996

Engagement developing the plan for an aerospace company migration to a networked product data management system as part of overall plan for migration to a integrated engineering and manufacturing environment in the U.S with IBM US consultants.
September 1994 - October 1994

Engagement modeling and prototyping a workflow management system for an international government consortium designing a thermonuclear reactor in the U.S. with IBM US consultants.
May 1993 - September 1993

Selected Presentations and Papers

A Brief Foray into Semantic Web Technology and STEP
October 2003

EXPRESS for Free Open-Source Project
July 2003

STEP and OMG Product Data Management Specifications - A Guide for Decision Makers (Lead STEP team)
November 1999

A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO STEP AND SC4 FOR OMG, AND STEP MODULAR EXTENSIONS STRATEGY
OMG Manufacturing Domain Task Force, December 1997

EXPRESS - WHAT IS IT?
OMG Analysis and Design Platform Task Force, December 1997

PART 21 EXTENSIONS FOR AP INTEROPERABILITY (With David Loffredo, STEP Tools)
December 1996

USER FRIENDLY INTRODUCTION TO SDAI
PDES Inc. Technical Advisory Committee, and PDES, Inc. Executive Board, and ISO, June 1994 June 1996

ENGINEERING DATA MANAGEMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL THERMONUCLEAR EXPERIMENTAL REACTOR (With Howard Crothers, IBM)
CATIA Operators Exchange Plenary, October 1993

PDES/STEP AND ITS REQUIREMENTS ON CATIA
CATIA Operators Exchange Data Exchange Committee, October 1993

DASSAULT SYSTEMES/IBM VIEWS OF STEP
Society of Manufacturing Engineers, June 1993

Education

THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL
B.S., Mathematics 1981

SENIOR PROJECT
Four person team development of a microprocessor simulator in C on PDP 11.

Skills

• Investigating new technologies, designing and implementing software system strategies and architectures.
• Writing, editing and presenting technical specifications and documents including International Standards.
• Development for the Web using HTML, XML and XSLT
• Developing and teaching technical education.
• Distributed project management and guiding projects through consensus based organizations.
• Data/process modeling using ISO 10303 11 EXPRESS, IDEF0, IDEF1X, UML.
• Programming in various languages (e.g. PL1, Fortran, C, Java, C++) on various platforms (MVS, Windows, AIX)
• Data management using CATIA Data Manager, DB2, Oracle, DB2 performance.

Awards

PDES, INC. BRIAN K. MARTIN TECHNICAL EXCELLENCE AWARD
March 1993

IBM SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTION AWARD, CDFMAGIC PILOT
May 1988