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Katrina D. Maxwell 7 bis
boulevard du Maréchal Foch 77300
Fontainebleau, France Email: kmaxwell@datamax-france.com Phone: (33.1) 60.74.00.41 Fax: (33.1) 60.74.01.87 |
PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS
I am interested in
uncovering useful information/relationships hidden in databases (any subject).
I enjoy writing, public
speaking, teaching, data analysis and learning new skills.
I am known for my quantitative
work in the area of software management and software engineering. In
particular,
- identifying the factors which affect the productivity and quality of software development and maintenance projects
- improving software cost estimation models
I have
recently applied my quantitative skills in the field of Finance, comparing the
stock market and accounting performance of various portfolios; in Marketing,
studying the variables which impact the sales of milk; and am currently working
in the area of Organizational Behavior, determining the factors that make a
consulting project a success.
EDUCATION
03.84-12.86 Ph.D. in
Mechanical Engineering (Fluid Mechanics)
08.83-12.83 One
semester of graduate study in Applied Mathematics
University of Illinois at
01.79-05.83 B.S. in
Civil Engineering
University of Illinois at
Major: Hydrosystems Engineering
Minor: Mathematics
(exchange student for one year at the University of Dundee, Scotland)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Business
DATAMAX, Fontainebleau,
France
09.97-present Partner
* consulting and research in software metrics
* data analysis
* training in quantitative and statistical methods
* software development
ID Partners, Paris,
France
03.91-06.92 IT
Consultant
* development of software to manage insurance claims
- database management (Focus 5.5)
- automatic letter production (Interface Word 5.5)
* programming in Focus and One-Up
PRISM, Fontainebleau,
France
10.90-02.91 IT
Consultant
* modifications to user interface of marketing simulation game
* programming in Turbo-Pascal
M&M/MARS
Corporation, England
09.86-02.88
Management Scientist
* econometric modelling (SAS and Acumen)
* market research studies
* organizational studies
Research
INSEAD (European Institute
of Business Administration) ,
04.03-present Senior Research
Fellow
* statistical analysis of data (Finance, Marketing, Organizational Behavior)
01.94-08.97
Research Fellow (Technology Management)
* author research papers on software productivity and effort estimation
* statistical analysis of software metrics data (SAS)
* manage contacts with data providers and external collaborators
11.92-05.93
Research Associate (Operational Research)
* development of software to validate production system simulations
(Turbo-Pascal)
02.90-07.90
Research Associate (Marketing)
* econometric modelling
* programming in SAS and Gauss
01.89-01.90
Administrative Manager of the Management of Technology and Innovation Research
Programme and Research Associate (Business Policy)
* managed relationships between the industrial sponsors funding the research
and the professors
* wrote case study on Canon, Inc.
* wrote paper about satellite and satellite-based service industries
03.88-12.88
Research Associate (Economics)
* mathematical modelling
* programming in Fortran, SAS and TSP
03.84-09.86
Research Assistant (Mechanical Engineering)
* computer simulation of wave movement
* programming in Fortran
* consulting
Teaching
Technical Consultant for
Markstrat - a Marketing Simulation Game, Marketing II (INSEAD, 2000, 2001)
Adjunct Professor, Building a Web Site, (Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris, 1999)
(teaching in French and English)
Adjunct Professor, Statistics
and Data Analysis, (Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris,
1998/99) (teaching in French and English)
Guest Lecturer, Estimation of
Software Development Project Cost, (Ecole Supérieure de
Commerce de Paris, 1997, 1998, 1999)
Development and teaching of
Algebra & Calculus for Business course (INSEAD, 1996, 1997,
1998)
Teaching Assistant, Marketing
II (INSEAD, 1990)
Teaching Assistant, Mechanical
Engineering Lab (Brunel University, 1985)
Teaching Assistant, College
Algebra (University of Illinois, 1983)
HONORS
Keynote Speaker, International
Function Point Users Group Conference, San Diego, CA, September 2004
Keynote Speaker, Experience
Forum 1998, Helsinki, Finland, September 1998
Keynote Speaker, International
Function Point Users Group Conference, Cincinnati, Ohio, April 1997.
Who’s Who in the World, 16th Ed., 1999, 17th Ed. 2001, Chi Epsilon (Civil Engineering Honor Society), Alpha Lambda Delta, Dean's List, James Scholar, National Honor Society, French Honor Society, Selected to be in the first group of engineering students sent abroad by the University of Illinois.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Maxwell, K., Applied
Statistics for Software Managers, Prentice Hall PTR,
Chinese translation published by
Tsinghua University Press, June 2006.
Maxwell, K., S. Oligny, R.
Kusters, and E. van Veenendaal, Editors, Project Control: Satisfying the
Customer,
Proceedings of the 12th European Software Control and Metrics conference,
April 2001, Shaker Publishing B.V.
Maxwell, K., R. Kusters, E.
van Veenendaal and A. Cowderoy, Editors, Project Control: The Human Factor,
Proceedings of the combined 11th European Software Control and Metrics
conference and the
3rd SCOPE conference on Software Product Quality, Munich, Germany, April
2000,
Shaker Publishing B.V.
Book Chapters
Maxwell, K., “What You Need to Know about
Statistics”, in Web Engineering, Mendes E. and Mosley, N. (Eds.)
Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg,
2006.
Maxwell, K., "Software Development Productivity", in Advances in Computers, Volume 58, Academic Press, 2003.
Journal Publications
Maxwell, K., "Collecting
Data for Comparability: Benchmarking Software Development Productivity",
IEEE Software, September-October 2001. Abstract
Forselius, P. and K.
Maxwell, "Sovelluksen kunnossapidon oikea hinta?",
Systeemityö-yhdistys Sytyke ry,
Systeemityö 3/2001.
Maxwell, K. and R. Kusters,
"Software Project Control and Metrics", Journal of Information and
Software
Technology, Vol. 42, No. 14, November 2000.
Maxwell, K. and P.
Forselius, “Benchmarking Software Development Productivity”,
IEEE Software, January-February 2000. Abstract.
Maxwell, K., L. Van
Wassenhove and S. Dutta,“Performance Evaluation of General and Company
Specific Models in Software Development Effort Estimation,” Management Science,
June 1999. Abstract.
Maxwell, K., L. Van
Wassenhove and S. Dutta, "Software Development Productivity of European
Space, Military and Industrial Applications," IEEE Transactions on
Software
Engineering, October 1996. Abstract.
Greves, D., B.
Schreiber, K. Maxwell, L. Van Wassenhove and S. Dutta, “The ESA
Initiative for
Software Productivity Benchmarking and Effort Estimation,” ESA Bulletin, No.
87,
August 1996. Full Paper
Swaffield, J.A. and K.
Maxwell, "Improvements in the Application of the Numerical Method of
Characteristics to Predict Attenuation in Unsteady Partially Filled Pipe Flow,”
Journal of Research of the National Bureau of Standards, Vol. 91, No. 3,
May-June
1986.
Working Papers
Corstjens, M., K. Maxwell and
L. Van der Heyden, "Family Ownership and Firm Performance:
Evidence from the French Stock Market”, 2005.
Corstjens, M., K. Maxwell,
U. Peyer and L. Van der Heyden, "Stock Market Performance
of Family Firms”, 2005.
Corstjens, M., K. Maxwell
and L. Van der Heyden, "How do Investors assess the Relative
Performance of
Retailers and Manufacturers in the
Conference Publications
Corstjens, M., K. Maxwell and
L. Van der Heyden, "The performance of family-owned firms
in the French stock market 1993-2002", Proceedings of The Evolution of Corporate Governance
and Family Firms, A CEPR/ECGI/NBER/University of
Maxwell, K. and P.
Forselius, "Cost drivers of annual
maintenance: One commercial bank's experience",
Project Control: Satisfying the Customer,
Proceedings of ESCOM
2001,
Edited by K. Maxwell, S. Oligny, R. Kusters, and E. van Veenendaal,
London, England, April 2001, Shaker Publishing B.V.
Maxwell, K. and R. Kusters,
"Controlling Software Projects: The Human Factor",
Project Control: The Human Factor, Proceedings of ESCOM-SCOPE 2000,
Edited by K. Maxwell, R. Kusters, E. van Veenendaal and A. Cowderoy,
Munich, Germany, April 2000, Shaker Publishing B.V.
Briand, L.C., K. El Emam,
K. Maxwell, D. Surmann and I. Wieczorek, “An Assessment and
Comparison of Common Software Cost Estimation Modeling Techniques”,
Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering, Los
Angeles, May 1999. Abstract
Maxwell, K., “Benchmarking
software development productivity: Statistical analysis by business
sector,” Project Control for 2000 and Beyond, Edited by R. Kusters, A.
Cowderoy,
F. Heemstra and J. Trienekens, Proceedings of ESCOM-ENCRESS 98,
May 1998, Shaker Publishing B.V.
Maxwell, K., L. Van
Wassenhove and S. Dutta, “Benchmarking : The Data Contribution Dilemma,”
Proceedings of the 1997 European Software Control and Metrics
Maxwell, K., L. Van
Wassenhove and S. Dutta, “Analysis of European Software Development
Productivity,” Proceedings of the 4th European Conference on Information
Systems,
Lisbon, Portugal, July 1996.
Maxwell, K., L. Van
Wassenhove and S. Dutta, “Improving Software Development Effort
Estimation in your Company,” Proceedings of the 1996 European Software Control
and
Metrics Conference, Manchester, England, May 1996.
Swaffield, J.A., R.H.M.
Wakelin and K. Maxwell, "Surge wave generation as an aid to drain
self-cleansing: wavefront and site evaluation,” Proceedings of CIB W62 Seminar,
Swaffield, J.A., R.H.M.
Wakelin and K. Maxwell, "Surge generation as an aid to water
conserving building drainage design," Proceedings of the CIB W62 Seminar,
PRESENTATIONS
Conferences
International Function Point
Users Group Conference, San Diego, California, 2004
Experience Forum 98, Helsinki,
Finland, 1998
European Software Control and
Metrics Conference, Rome, Italy, 1998
European Software Control and
Metrics Conference, Berlin, Germany, 1997
International Function Point
Users Group Conference, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1997
European Conference on
Information Systems, Lisbon, Portugal, 1996
European Software Control and
Metrics Conference, Manchester, England, 1996
CIB W62 Seminar, Copenhagen,
Denmark, 1986
Colloquia/Workshops
WICFE Seminar, INSEAD, June
2005
Axa IS Strategic Committee
meeting, New York, December 2003
Axa Financial Services, New
York, December 2003
Wharton Business School,
February 1999
University of Pittsburgh,
February 1999
Fraunhofer Institute for
Experimental Software Engineering, July 1997
UCLA, April 1997
University of Minnesota, April
1997, February 1999
Carnegie Mellon University,
April 1997
Carnegie Group, Inc., April
1997
European Commission Joint
Research Centre Workshop, Dependability of Extensively Deployed Products with
Embedded IT, Brussels, Belgium, November 1996.
JOURNAL/BOOK REVIEWS
2006 Reviewer, IEEE
Transactions on Software Engineering
2004-2006 Reviewer, Journal of Information and Software Technology
2004
Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
2003 Reviewer, John Wiley and
Sons, Inc.
2000-2002 Reviewer, IEEE Transactions
on Software Engineering
2000-2002 Reviewer, Journal of
Information and Software Technology
2001 Reviewer, Journal of
Information Systems Research
2000 Associate Editor, Special
Issue of the Journal of Information and Software Technology.
1996-1999 Reviewer, Management
Science
COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
Program Committee member,
METRICS 2004
Program Committee member,
International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM) 2003
Treasurer, Eglise Anglicane de
Fontainebleau, 2002 - 2004
Membre du Conseil
d'Administration du CIDEM, 2002
Program Chair, European
Software Control & Metrics Conference 2001
Program Committee member,
METRICS 2001
Program Chair, European
Software Control & Metrics Conference 2000
Program Committee member,
European Software Control & Metrics Conference 1998, 1999
Program Committee member,
FESMA, 1998, 1999