Publications by Glenn Booker

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Most of Mr. Booker's professional publications are limited to proprietary reports for Hughes Aircraft Company (1986 to 1994), Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) (1999 to 2004), and various other employers. Typical work includes:

• Design of a Stagnation Heater for the Rarefied Gas Wind Tunnel, Master's Thesis for the University of California at Berkeley, December 1990.
• Baggage Inspection System Airport Operational Demonstration Test and Evaluation Master Plan, Thomas Guarini, James Connelly, DOT/FAA/CT-95/31, June 1995.

Mr Booker has contributed to many proposals related to system development, including the following.

• Fiber-Optic Guided Missile (FOG-M), submitted by Hughes Missile Systems Co. to the US Army, 1988. Made substantial technical contributions to proposal.
• Sector Operations Support (SOS 3), Proposal submitted by DCS, Inc., dated April 1995. Was in charge of, and wrote much of, the Management Volume.
• Test Enterprise Support, response to ACT-200 RFP DTFA03-97-R-00013, submitted by E & I Systems, DSCI, and SAIC, dated April 23, 1997. Co-wrote most of the proposal.
• Aviation Security Technical Support Services, response to Screening Information Request for DTFA03-97-R-00003, submitted by ATMS, AES, DE Technologies, and DSCI, dated January 23, 1997. Made substantial technical contributions to proposal.
• Summary of Capabilities for Dynamic Security Concepts, Inc., submitted by Caribbean Integrated Systems Ltd., to support development of security systems for new airport terminal facilities at Piarco and Crown Point (Trinidad and Tobago), dated January 24, 1997. Wrote most of the proposal.
• Evaluation of Housing Database, response to Invitation for Bid 165-97-5204 for Virginia Dept. of Housing and Community Development, submitted by E & I Systems Inc., dated April 4, 1997. Wrote proposal.

Less formal publications include entries for CSC Papers competitions, and other guides developed to support Drexel courses.

• Too Many Standards! A Comparison of Software and Systems Engineering Standards. [April 2004]
• Currency Converter Application Implementation. [August 2003] An example of the connection between UML diagrams and the corresponding code used to implement them.
• Intersexuality Explored, submitted for the 2003 CSC Papers competition. (Warning! blunt medical terminology) [2002]
• Process Definition Overview, submitted for the 2002 CSC Papers competition. [2001]

In addition, Mr. Booker has contributed detailed review of several international, industry and government standards.

• ISO/IEC 9000-3, Guidelines for the Application of ISO 9001:2000 to Computer Software. [FDIS reviewed in 2003]
• The (United States Department of Defense's) Joint Technical Architecture (JTA), v5.0. [2003]
• Safety and Security Application Area for the SEI CMM Integration (CMMI). [2003]
• The Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK) [2000]
• The Federal Aviation Administration Integrated Capability Maturity Model (FAA-iCMM) Appraisal Method (FAM) [1999]