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Hays
W. "Skip"
McCormick
Hays Int. Business Consulting
Prior to stepping out on his own as a consultant to companies including
Litton/PRC, Northrop Grumman, The Harris Corp., The Discovery Channel,
Satellite Services of America, The US Patent and Trademark Office, SAIC,
DARPA, The Office of the Secretary of Defense, The Interoperability
Clearinghouse, and the Objective Technology Group, Skip worked at the
MITRE Corporation as chief software architect and development lead for
secure, web-based distributed collaboration systems. He also ran MITRE's
National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) Interoperable Technology
Reification with Objects (NITRO) project and the Data Integration and
Synergistic Collateral Usage Study (DISCUS) project.
As webmaster and coordinator for the AntiPatterns Group
( http://www.antipatterns.com), Skip interfaces constantly with fellow
AntiPatterns discoverers, and is working on two new books.
Skip is a sought-after speaker, recently giving Keynote Addresses at the
7rd Annual European Conference on JavaT and Object Orientation in
Denmark and the Visual Basic Insiders' Technical Summit (VBITS99) in
Orlando. He has a diverse background in many information systems areas,
including computer security, artificial intelligence, and distributed
object computing.
Skip is co-author of AntiPatterns: Refactoring Software, Architectures and
Projects in Crisis, AntiPatterns and Patterns in Configuration
Management, and AntiPatterns in Project Management, all published by J.
S. Wiley, and has written for technical journals including Dr. Dobbs.
Skip holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the
U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, and resides in Manassas,
Virginia with lovely his wife, Kim, and two children. Skip is also
assistant scoutmaster of .Troop 1195.
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