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Mel Rosso-Llopart, Associate Teaching ProfessorAreas of interest: Project management in resource constrained domains, Developing a taxonomy for software project identification, Decision making in high technology projects Overview: Mel Rosso Llopart is currently an Associate teaching professor at the Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh campus in the Institute for Software Research and the Silicon Valley Campus. He has been teaching at Carnegie Mellon since the Fall of 2000. He currently teaches in the Master of Software Engineering (MSE) program and the INI bicoastal program. He previously served as the Director for distance education in the MSE program. Prior to joining Carnegie Mellon he worked for Adtranz Transportation, now Bombardier Transportation as a software development manager for two years. Mel managed development on projects such as San Francisco BART, Los Angeles Blue Line, New York City Transit and Pittsburgh airport tram system. He had as many as seven projects and over 40 engineers working directly for him. Before joining Adtranz, Mel worked as a civil servant in the department of defense for 15 years. He worked at Edwards AFB in California. He was assigned to the B2 bomber testing project and took 16 months off to obtain his Master of Software Engineering degree. He met his wife while working at the B2. Me has written a book with two other co-authors on “Evaluating Project Decisions”. He has also published a number of IEEE papers on various project management topics. He has been on the steering committee for the IEEE Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEET) for the last 5 years. |