Curriculum Vitae

Scott P. Overmyer

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Center for Graduate Studies

Baker College

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Flint, Michigan 48507

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Education

PhD - Information Technology (Information & Software Systems Engineering) - 1995, George

Mason University, Fairfax, VA. Thesis topic: A Methodology for the Representation of

Requirements Specifications for Large-Scale Systems Using Multimedia Techniques

MS - Industrial Engineering/Human Factors - 1983, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.

Thesis topic: The effects of irrelevant stimulus attributes on retrieval time for color

and shape.

BA - Psychology - 1979, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Colorado

Academic ExperienceAugust, 2006 to Present Baker College, Flint, Michigan

Director MSIS Program

Baker College Center for Graduate Studies

Responsible for teaching and building a new program in Information Systems (online) at

the graduate level.

August, 2004 to July, 2006 South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota

Associate Professor

Department of Electrical Enginering, Computer Science, and Software Engineering

Responsible for teaching and conducting research surrounding in software engineering, and

building the undergraduate software engineering program.

January, 2001 to August, 2004 Massey University, Albany, Auckland, New Zealand

Associate Professor

Institute of Information and Mathematical Sciences (IIMS)

Discipline Leader Information Systems Subject Area

Major Co-ordinator Software Engineering Major College of Engineering

Responsible for teaching and conducting research surrounding the analysis and design of

information systems and software engineering. Industry liason for the Institute; IIMS

representative on the Business Initiatives Group for the Albany Campus.

September, 1997 to December, 2000 - Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA

Associate Professor

College of Information Science and Technology

Responsible for teaching and conducting research surrounding the analysis and design of

information systems and software engineering. Courses include: Information Systems

Analysis and Design - OOAD (INFO 620), Requirements Engineering (INFO 627), Human-Computer

Interaction (INFO 609), Software Measurement (INFO 630).September, 1995 to August, 1997 - University of Maine, Orono, ME

Assistant Professor of MIS & Cooperating Assistant Professor of Computer Science:

Responsible for teaching and conducting research regarding management information systems

in the College of Business Administration. Courses include: Decision Support Systems,

Introduction to Management Information Systems. Also funded to perform research for the

National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis specializing in Human-Computer

Interaction with Geographic Information Systems (Summer, 1995).

August, 1992 to June, 1995 - Minot State University, Minot, ND

Assistant Professor: Responsible for teaching and conducting research regarding

information systems in the College of Business. Courses include: Systems Analysis and

Design, Human Aspects of Information Systems (HCI), Telecommunications Systems and

Networking, Database Management Systems, Introduction to Information Processing.

August, 1982 to July, 1983 - University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA - Graduate research

assistant - College of Engineering - Manager of human factors computer facility

August, 1981 to July, 1982 - University of South Dakota - Graduate research assistant -

Human Factors Lab.

Commercial Experience

March, 2001 to 2002Esphion, Ltd., E-Centre, Albany, Auckland

Consultant: Web site design, software engineering assistance

June, 1996 to 2000 - Trefoil Corporation, Orono, ME

Consultant: Responsible for requirements engineering on the U.S. Department of Labor

Occupational Network (O*NET) Database and Development Toolkit. Currently leading

development of the Operational Concept Document and associated requirements for the system

development toolkit for the U.S. Government s electronic replacement of the Dictionary of

Occupational Titles.

October, 1991 to August, 1992 - DCS Corporation, Alexandria, VA

Senior Scientist: Responsible for developing usability evaluation plans for U.S. Army

Counter-Air command & control systems. Also responsible for contributing human engineering

expertise and information systems engineering expertise to proposals and current

contracts. Contributor to Software Operational Test and Evaluation Plans (SOTEP) for Army

Operational Test and Evaluation Command (OPTEC).

January, 1990 to February, 1992 - George Mason University, Fairfax, VA

Research Instructor: Center of Excellence in Command, Control, Communications &

Intelligence. Responsible for technology research in the areas of rapid prototyping,

system and software requirements analysis, and human-computer interface design.

Responsible for CASE tools collection and maintenance, guest lectures on rapid prototyping

and HCI design, and proposal writing and research marketing.

April, 1989 to January, 1990 - CONTEL Technology Center, Fairfax, VA

Member of the Technical Staff: Responsible for technology research in the areas of rapid

prototyping, voice/speech input and output, and human-computer interface design. Assigned

as CTC consultant to CONTEL Federal Systems due to my background in federal and defense

systems.

April, 1988 to April, 1989 - TRW Federal Systems Group, Fairfax, VA

Manager - Research and Technology Center - TRW Systems Division.

Provided human factors, requirements engineering, human-computer interface design, rapid

prototyping, systems engineering, marketing and other support to business units within

Systems Division. Supported numerous proposal efforts; provided extensive briefings on

iterative system design methodologies, and provided hardware installation and maintenance

in my facility.

November, 1987 to Present - User-System Interface Design Consultants (USIDC).

Private consultant in, requirements analyses, rapid software prototyping modeling and

simulation and interactive system design, development and installation. (Software and

hardware systems.)

Contracts With: TRW, CONTEL Federal Systems, Federal Bureau of Investigation, CoGenTex.

August, 1983 to October, 1987 - TRW Defense Systems Group, Colorado Springs, CO; Redondo

Beach, CA; Omaha, NE; Seoul, Korea; Fairfax, VA.

Accepted a variety of assignments on government programs and Independent Research and

Development (IRAD) efforts, leading to a position as Manager of the Command Support

Division Rapid Prototyping Facility from 1985 - 1987. Performed Human Factors and

Requirements Engineering including human-computer interface design on a number of large-

scale C3I information systems. Principal investigator for over $600,000 in User

Engineering and Rapid Prototyping IR&D projects.

Honors/Awards

August, 1996 - Technical Program Chair and Co-Chair - EWHCI 96 - East-West Human-Computer

Interaction Conference -

Moscow, Russia

Summer, 1994 - NASA/ASEE Summer Faculty Fellowship - Selected for research award at

Johnson Space Center, Flight Crew Support Division, Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory.

Research project was to develop the user interface to a new video control system which

allows crew members to configure audio and video equipment to record and view events, and

to downlink events from the Space Shuttle to the ground.

Summer, 1993 - NASA/ASEE Summer Faculty Fellowship - Selected for research award at

Johnson Space Center, Flight Crew Support Division, Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory.

Research project was to evaluate the manner in which non-routine maintenance procedures

are developed for Space Station, and to design and evaluate the HCI to an automated system

(MILP) to assist in this process.

Member (1993 to 1995), Board of Directors - Center for International Business - Minot

State UniversityCo-Chair - ITaP'93 - Information Technology and People - 1993, Moscow, Russia.

Grants and Contracts

1-March-2005 to 30-June-2006

Specification and Design Defect Identification via Rapid Prototyping

NASA-EPSCoR Program Initiation Grant (PIG), $17,715 (including matching funds)

25-July-2003

Fund for Innovation & Excellence In Teaching (FIET) Massey University

Virtual Worlds for Teaching Systems Analysis, $9,500

1-August-2002 to 30-December-2002

Subcontractor North Shore Schools Net program A support program for primary and

secondary schools in the Auckland Area, $6,000

1-December-1999Project Manager - soccerlife.com, Contract with Bluestone Consulting,

$18,000.

1-

July-1999Program Director - Pennsylvania Governor's School for Information Technology,

Pennsylvania Department of Education, $250,000 per year for initial 2 years, with our

option to continue indefinitely ($300,000 second year budget).

1-October-1994 (added to existing grant 1-September-1998)

Co-Principal Investigator Human Resources for Information Systems Management W. K.

Kellogg Foundation, $1,100,000.

1-September-1997Principal Investigator - Evaluation Contract Design Expert: Knowledge-Based Software

Engineering CoGenTex/USAF Rome Laboratories, $162,296.

1-October-1996

Egenhofer, Max J. & Overmyer, Scott P. Multi-modal Spatial Querying National Science

Foundation, $482,606 (est total).

Teaching/Lecturing

2004PresentSouth Dakota State UniversityAssociate Professor Dept of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Foundation of Software Engineering (Undergraduate SE270)

Software Requirements & Formal Specifications (Undergraduate SE320)

Human Factors & User Interface (Undergraduate - SE330)

Software Architecture (Undergraduate SE340)

Software Test and Quality Assurance (Undergraduate SE410)

Software Project Management (Undergraduate SE420)

Software Engineering for Game Development (Dual Level SE492/592)

20002004Massey UniversityAssociate Professor Institute of Information and Mathematical Sciences

Research Methods (Post-graduate 157.750)

Systems Analysis and Design (Undergraduate 157.221)

Design of Web-Based Systems (Undergraduate 157.250)

Information Systems Project Paper (Undergraduate 157.321)

User Interface Design and Evaluation (Post-graduate 157.757)

19972000Drexel UniversityAssociate Professor College of Information Science and Technology

(Adjunct Associate Professor IST Online 1997-Present)

Information Systems Management (Graduate INFO 646)

Human-Computer Interaction (Graduate INFO 608)

Introduction to Systems Analysis and Design (Graduate INFO 503)

Software Evaluation (Metrics) (Graduate INFO 630)

Requirements Engineering and Management (Graduate INFO 627)

Information Systems Analysis and Design (Graduate INFO 620 - Object-Oriented A&D using

UML)

Introduction to Systems Analysis and Design (Graduate INFO 503)

Human-Computer Interaction (Undergraduate INSYS 110)

Introduction to Information Systems (Undergraduate INSYS101)

Expert Consulting Systems (Undergraduate INSYS 450)

1995 - 1997 - University of Maine

Assistant Professor of MIS - College of Business Administration

Cooperating Assistant Professor - Department of Computer Science

Introduction to Management Information Systems

Decision Support Systems for Management

Management Information Systems (Graduate - MBA Program)

1993, September - 5-Day Custom Intensive Course - Human Factors in C2I Systems

MacDonnell-Detweiler, Vancouver, B.C., Canada

1992 - 1995 - Minot State University - Assistant Professor - College of Business

Introduction to Information Processing

Telecommunications Systems Management

Systems Analysis and Design

Database Management Systems

Human Aspects of Information Systems (HCI)

Independent Study in Systems Analysis

1986 - 1991 - Lecturer for Armed Forces Communication and Electronics Association

Professional Development Seminars:

Overmyer, S.P. (1991, June) The role of human-computer interface design in adaptive

systems. In: Proceedings of the Symposium on Associate Technology, DARPA/George Mason

University, Fairfax, VA.

Overmyer, S.P. (December, 1991) White Paper: Maximizing End User Influence Over Software

Design and Development. Contract #DCA100-91-C-003, Technical Report; Center of Excellence

in Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence; George Mason University; Fairfax,

VA.

Overmyer, S.P. (March, 1990) Throwaway vs. Evolutionary Prototyping: A Software

Productivity Perspective. Technical Report; Center of Excellence in Command, Control,

Communications and Intelligence; George Mason University; Fairfax, VA.

Overmyer, S.P. (January, 1990) Survey of Rapid Prototyping Tools for C3I Requirements

Definition and User-Computer Interface Design. Technical Report; Center of Excellence in

Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence; George Mason University; Fairfax, VA.

Principal Supervisor:

Ralph Miller, Ph.D. - Drexel University - Graduated 2002 - Learning and using

requirements representation notations by information technology professionals

Ramesh Lal Master s Candidate - Massey University 2004 User interface

design practice for web sites and web-based applications in New Zealand

Committee Member:

5 Ph.D. committees, 14 M.S. committees,

Professional Membership/Service

Association for Information Systems (AIS) Member

Association for Computing Machinery - Member

ACM SIGCHI Member

PhiCHI - Philadelphia Local SIGCHI Chapter - Founding Chair

SIGCHI Paper Reviewer 1994-Present

SIGCHI Associate Paper Chair - 1999

IEEE Computer Society Member

Drexel University (previously)

Budget, Planning & Development Committee of the Faculty Senate

Douglas Englebart Award Committee

Curriculum Committee School of Biomedical Engineering, Science & Health

Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Past Member

- Past Newsletter Editor Virtual Environments Technical Group

- Past Chair - System Development Technical Group

- Past Newsletter Editor - System Development Technical Group

Elective/Political Office

School Board - Old Town, Maine (1996

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