BIOGRAPHY:

Dr. Carol Hoover has been actively engaged in software systems design and research for more than 20 years. She heads a start-up company with the goal to launch and grow a business process and technology company that enables organizations to solve management and operational problems at an affordable cost. Her company, BiznessLegion LLC, currently focuses on making best practices available to organizations involved in software engineering and management. As a consultant, Carol leads research involving the analysis and design of real-time software systems. She also shares her experiences with students as an Adjunct Faculty Consultant for Carnegie Mellon University.

From 2002-2004, Hoover held director and senior systems scientist positions at Carnegie Mellon University in the Institute for Software Research International. She worked with other faculty to develop and launch innovative programs in software engineering education at the new Carnegie Mellon West Coast campus. She designed scenario-based curriculum for professional master's programs that prepares students for careers in software engineering and project management. As a supervising faculty, she guided students to achieve program/project goals. In cooperation with corporate partners of Carnegie Mellon, she led the planning and creation of industry-specific projects to meet their needs. Recently she designed and supervised a two-course capstone series that focuses on the consulting practice for the aerospace industry. The inaugural graduate students and clients were from the Lockheed Martin Corporation.

Hoover completed her doctorate in electrical and computer engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Her dissertation, "Analytical Design of Evolvable Software for High Assurance Computing," discusses her semi-automatable approach for determining a partition of logic into components so that the resulting software architecture is evolvable. Funding for her thesis research came from a research agreement with the U.S. Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and from an Intel Corporation graduate fellowship.

From 1995 through 1998, Hoover set the vision and objectives for a research project involving the design of evolvable software for high-assurance computing. She managed the research project and led a team of staff and students in the research of software engineering techniques as a project scientist/manager in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon. She has written several proposals for funding, individually and in cooperation with faculty from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Hoover came to Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA) in 1992 as a lecturer for the Masters of Software Engineering Program and led the effort to define and create specialization tracks in the master's program for real-time computing, human-computer interaction, and business management. She also created and taught a course to introduce software engineers to engineering techniques and research relevant to the development of high-quality real-time software systems.

From 1988-1992, Hoover designed and developed motion control software for the Allen-Bradley Company (Highland Heights, OH) as a software engineer and was promoted to Senior Software Engineer after heading the design of a software device that enabled manually-guided homing and tracking. While at Allen-Bradley, she reviewed the software development practices of several project teams as a member of a software quality control team. Working closely with field engineers, salespeople, and marketing representatives, she serviced customers in the field and designed prototypes of software interfaces for potential new control products. As an independent consultant in the summer of 1992, she helped a start-up company to design a software process for the development of real-time data acquisition systems and a software architecture for these products.

Hoover attended graduate school at the Ohio State University where she was a University Fellow and completed her master's of science degree in computer and information sciences in 1987. She was a Graduate Research Intern at NASA Lewis Research Center (Cleveland, OH) after completing her post-baccalaureate degree in computer science and applied mathematics with additional studies in science and engineering at the University of Akron. Prior to 1985, she was involved in education and technology as a computer manager for a U.S. Congressional office, as an educational consultant, and as an educator in the public schools.

She has been a member of IEEE and ACM since 1987. She is a member of Sigma Xi.

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