Gail E.Harris: Qualifications

Project Manager

Gail's experience in managing diverse projects gives her an edge in ensuring each project stays focused on meeting the business needs. And Gail's technical background gives her an edge when directing the team throughout all phases of software development. Finally, Gail's knowledge of methodology and best practices in software engineering means projects are delivered successfully.

Experience: 6 years on 8 projects

Application Architect / Business Analyst

Gail analyses the dominant influences on business requirements and then balances their relationships to determine an appropriate architecture. These technology solutions often integrate custom built software with commercial off the shelf products to achieve the required business functionality, performance, and scalability.

Experience: 10 years on 8 projects

Knowledge Engineer and Artificial Intelligence Professional

Gail draws on theoretical techniques from research in artificial intelligence to develop automated solutions to real world problems. For these problems that don't lend themselves to straightforward automation, Gail uses technologies like expert systems, neural networks, fuzzy reasoning, case based reasoning, constraint satisfaction and intelligent agents.

Experience: 6 years on 4 projects

Object Oriented Analyst and Component Development

Gail first started using object-oriented technology in 1986, before it came into vogue. Since then she has developed and managed development of numerous systems and mentored others in learning this technology. Gail is experienced with the various OO methodologies including UML, and with the more recent evolution toward component technologies.

Experience: 16 years

Operations Research Analyst

Gail was responsible for all aspects of the research and analysis for assigned projects in manpower modelling, statistical analyses and mathematical modelling.

Experience: 5 years in 3 directorates