Professional Volunteering

Professional Volunteering by Al Davis

Entrepreneurship

Coach, IGNITE Community Accelerator, Albuquerque, NM, 2018
High Altitude Investors Angel Network, Colorado Springs
  • Member, 2008-2015
  • Member, Selection Committee, 2008-2015
Colorado Springs Technology Incubator
  • Mentor, 2008-2015
  • Member, Board of Advisors, 2001-2006
  • Member (ad hoc), Selection Committee, 2008-2009
Catalyst Venture Partners, LLC, Colorado Springs
  • Non-Managing General Partner, 1995-2002
  • Member, Board of Advisors, Catalyst Infotech Development Fund, L.P., 1995-2002
VentureDay R+ Iberoamericano 2010, Montevideo, Uruguay, Judge, Business Plan Competition, November 2010
Judge, Colorado College Entrepreneurship Competition (CCEC), "The Big Idea," $50,000 First Prize, March 2013

Editorships

IEEE Software
  • Editor-in-Chief, 1995-1998
  • Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, 1998-2002
  • Associate Editor-in-Chief, 1992-1994
  • Member, Editorial Board, 1984-1986 and 1991-1994
  • Member, Industrial Advisory Board, 1998-2002
  • Guest Editor, Special Issue on Requirements Engineering, March 1994 (with P. Hsia)
  • Columnist for Software Manager Column, 1992-1994 (with W. Royce)
Requirements Engineering Journal
  • Member, Editorial Board, 2005-2011
Journal of Systems and Software
  • Associate Editor, 1987-2010
Communications of the ACM
  • Area Editor, Software Engineering, 1989-1991 (with B. Nejmeh)
  • Member, ACM Computing Practices Advisory Panel, 1981-1991
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
  • Guest Editor, Special Issue on Requirements Engineering, March 1991 (with P. Freeman)
IEEE Computer Society Press
  • Member, Editorial Board, 1994
IEEE Computer Society Software Engineering On-Line Resource (SE Portal)
  • Area Editor, Requirements Engineering, 2003-2005
GTE Systems World-Wide Communications Journal
  • Member, Editorial Board, 1983-1984

Conference Leadership

IEEE International Conferences/Symposia on Requirements Engineering (RE/ICRE)
  • Co-Founder, 1991
  • General Chair, 1994
  • Member, Steering Committee, 1991-2001
  • Chair, Steering Committee, 1992-1996
  • Member, Program Committees, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2003, 2004, 2007
  • Member, Program Committees, Industrial Track, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2014
  • Session Chair, 1993, 2004, 2008
  • Finance Secretary, Steering Committee, 1996-1998
  • Local Arrangements Chair, 1996
  • Member, Doctoral Symposium Experts Committee, 2009
Requirements Engineering: Foundations for Software Quality (REFSQ)
  • Member, Program Committees, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
  • Facilitation Coordinator & Reporter, 2007
  • Session Chair, 2009
International Workshop on Requirements Engineering Education and Training (REET)
  • Member, Program Committees, 2005, 2008, 2009
Australian Workshop on Requirements Engineering (AWRE)
  • Member, Program Committees, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006
U.S. Army CECOM Workshop on Requirements Engineering and Rapid Prototyping
  • Chair, Requirements Development Process Working Group, Fort Monmouth, NJ, November 1989
IEEE Global Requirements Engineering Workshop (GREW)
  • Member, Program Committee, Munich, Germany, August 2007
Workshop on Comparative Evaluation of Requirements Engineering (CERE)
  • Member, Program Committee, Delhi, India, October 2007
IEEE Workshop on Challenges and Best Practices in Requirements Engineering
  • Member, Program Committee, Minneapolis, MN, May 2007
International Workshop on Aligning Web Systems and Organisation Requirements (AWSOR'07)
  • Member, Program Committee, Como, Italy, July 2007
First International Workshop on Requirements Engineering for Meeting Business Needs
  • Member, Organizing Committee, Paris, France, August-September 2005
IEEE Requirements Engineering for Services (REFS) Workshops
  • Session Chair, Turku, Finland, August 2008
Spanish Conference on Software Engineering (JISBD)
  • Member, Published Papers Dissemination Committee, Zaragoza, Spain, September 2007
IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering
  • Member, Program Committee, Berlin, Germany, April 1996
IEEE Computer Software and Applications (COMPSAC) Conferences
  • General Chair, Chicago, IL, October 1986
  • Session Chair, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1991, 2007, 2008
  • Member, Program Committees, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 2007, 2008, 2010
  • Plenary Panel Moderator, 1985
  • Track Chair, 1988
IFIP Working Conference on Principles of Method Construction and Tool Support
  • Member, Program Committee, Atlanta, GA, August 1996
Software Engineering Approaches for Offshore and Outsourced Development (SEAFOOD)
  • Member, Program Committees, 2009, 2010
ACM Computer Science Conference
  • Co-Chair, Program Committee, Washington, D.C., 1990
  • Member, Organizing Committee, Atlanta, GA, 1980
International Conference on Software Engineering and Its Application
  • Member, Program Committees, 1993, 1997
IEEE Software Engineering Standards Workshops
  • Member, Program Committee, 1981, 1983
  • Session Chair, 1983
International Conference on Achieving Quality in Software (AQuIS)
  • Member, Program Committee, Florence, Italy, 1996
Colorado Springs Ventures in Software Conferences
  • Member, Program Committee, 1992
  • Member, Planning Committee, 1994

Professional Society Memberships

Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA), 1983-1993
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 1974-1995
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), member since 1976; fellow since 1994; life fellow since 2015
New York Academy of Sciences, 1998-2000
Product Development & Management Association (PDMA), 2000-2002
Sigma Xi, 1971-1999

Other

Committee Chair, Adventures in Travel Lecture Series, Univ of N Carolina at Wilmington, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
                            (OLLI), 2025-present

Benefactor, Morris Slobodow Memorial Scholarship, Univ of Colorado at Colorado Springs, College of Business

Benefactor, Information Technology Faculty Research Grant, Univ of Colorado at Colorado Springs, College of Business

Sami Jantunen's PhD dissertation opponent, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Lappeenranta, Finland, June 6, 2012

Member, Board of Directors, GreenGold Lubricants, LLC, Colorado Springs, 2011
Member, Research Proposal Evaluation Team, Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), 2004-2005
Creator and Maintainer, Requirements Bibliography (REQBIB), 1996-2015
Member, Board of Directors, Requisite, Inc., Boulder, CO, 1994-1997

Senior Consultant, Cutter Consortium, Boston, MA, 1997-2000

Visiting Scholar, Carnegie-Mellon University Software Engineering Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, June 1991-December 1991

Program Evaluator, Computer Sciences Accreditation Board, New York, NY, 1986-1992

Member, Colorado Springs Strategic Planning Oversight Committee, 1992-1993

Member, Fairfax County (Virginia) Chamber of Commerce, High Technology Council, Education Committee, 1989

Chair, Technical Visiting Committee, Software Productivity Consortium, Herndon, VA, 1995-1996
Member, Technical Visiting Committee, Software Productivity Consortium, Herndon, VA, 1993-1996

University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, CO:

  • Member, Board of Directors, Colorado Institute for Technology Transfer and Implementation, 1993-2001
  • Member, Advisory Group, Center for Entrepreneurship, UCCS Business School, 1993-1995
  • Member, Engineering Advisory Council, College of Engineering and Applied Science, 1992-1994
  • Member, Evaluation Committee, Pikes Peak Celebrate Technology Awards, 1995, 1997

 

IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA:

  • Chair, Requirements Standards Task Force (Project 830), 1981-1990
  • Member, Search Committee, IEEE Computer Society Press Editor-in-Chief, 2003-2004
  • Member, Executive Committee, Technical Committee on Software Engineering, 1987-1992
  • Member, Operations Committee, Technical Council on Software Engineering, 1995-1998
  • Member, Fellow Evaluation Committee, 1997-1998
  • Member, Magazine Operations Committee, 1995-1998
  • Member, Electronic Products and Services Advisory Committee, 1995-1996
  • Member, ex-officio, Publications Board, 1995-1998
  • Member, Standards Steering Committee, 1984-1990

 

IEEE, Washington, DC:

  • Member, Engineering Research Initiation Awards (ERIA) Committee, 1992-1994
  • Member, IEEE Software Engineering Standards Subcommittee, 1984-1990
  • Member, IEEE Communications Society Software Technology Committee, 1978-1984
  • Lecturer, IEEE Standards Seminars, 1985-1990

 

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