Biographical sketch of author
Eric E. Inman World Enterprise Software
Corporation, 5871 Oxford Street, Shoreview, Minnesota 55126 (electronic
mail: inman002@gold.tc.umn.edu). Eric Inman, a software architect and development manager, received his B.A. degree in computer science from the University of Minnesota in 1980. He led the development of functional specifications for the orbital mechanics and radar imaging portions of a space object identification system for the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). He later operated a small business
for developing business applications, primarily for cost accounting in
the telecommunications industry. He then led the development of
requirements analysis and human factors engineering tools used in FAA
(Federal Aviation Administration) air traffic control system and NASA
(National Aeronautics and Space Administration) space station projects.
He then spent five years in Indonesia on the island of Java, where he
led the development of a production management system for an integrated
steel mill and also provided consulting and management assistance for a
construction accounting system. At Lawson Software, a provider of
business enterprise application software, he was first in charge of the
CASE (computer-assisted software engineering) and repository tool
development. He later accepted the position of manager of technology
planning in order to examine new technologies to be used in Lawson
Software products. Beginning in 1995 he became a member of the advisory
group and later the reference group for the IBM San Francisco project,
providing input to IBM on the requirements for a commercially viable
distributed object environment and development platform for enterprise
applications. In 1998 he founded World Enterprise Software Corporation
to build enterprise applications using San Francisco frameworks.
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