Standards Reviewer
ISO/IEC 33xxx Process Assessment Standards reviewer as member of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 7 Software and systems engineering, WG 10 Process Assessment, 2013-present
CMMI reviewer, as Member of CMM Integration (CMMI) Project: Member of Steering Group for DoD/ Government/ Industry/ Software Engineering Institute Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) project – 1998-2007
Reviewer for ISO/IEC 15288 Life Cycle Management – System Life Cycle Processes, 1999
US Reviewer for SPICE (ISO/IEC 15504) Process Improvement Guide, 1994-1995
Conference/professional society reviewer and organizer
SPICE Program Committee, Member, 2011 – present
Federal CIO Council Best Practice Committee, 2009-2012
Founder and Co=chair, Federal CIO Council Enterprise Process Improvement Community of Practice (EPIC), 2006-2012
Reviewer for 9th International Symposium of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE), 1998-1999
Chair, 8th Conference on Software Engineering Education, New Orleans, LA, 1995
Reviewer, Fifth International Conference on Software Quality, 1995
Program Committee, 7th Conference on Software Engineering Education, 1993-1994
Reviewer, ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium, 1993, 1994
Co-Program Officer, Pittsburgh Software Process Improvement Network (SPIN), 1994-1995
Founder and Coordinator, Software Engineering Research Group (SERG) – a voluntary National professional group, Doha, Qatar, 1989-1992
Scientific Committee, Computer Usage Workshop, Kuwait, 1981
Scientific Committee, Arab Summer School on Science and Technology, Bloudan, Syria, 1980
Professional Society Memberships
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), Life Member, 1989-present, IEEE Computer Society, Technical Committee on Software Engineering, IEEE Engineering Management Society, IEEE Education Society, IEEE Standards Association
ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), 1989-2019, ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (SIGSOFT), ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE)
INCOSE (International Council on Systems Engineering), 1997-2009. INCOSE Capability Assessment Working Group (CAWG), INCOSE Standards Technical Committee
Participant in IEEE-CS/ACM Efforts to Establish Software Engineering as a Profession Task Force to identify the body of knowledge and recommended practices, 1994