Keynote Speaker

Tecolote is proud to announce that Mr. Joe Dean will be giving the Keynote Address on Tuesday morning, February 1, 2011 during the general session.

Mr. Joe Dean
Air Force Cost Analysis Agency (AFCAA)
Operating Location Chief at Hanscom AFB in Massachusetts

Joe Dean is the Air Force Cost Analysis Agency (AFCAA) Operating Location Chief at Hanscom AFB in Massachusetts. He spent 19 years with Tecolote Research Inc., as a Senior Cost Analyst and Technical Expert.  His focus is on cost estimating Software intensive systems and he applies his skills on everything from submarines to satellites. He is a former member of the Software Engineering Institute’s Software Acquisition Metrics Working Group.  Joe was the SCEA National Vice President and is now the current SCEA Region 1 VP.

He is also retired from the Air Force where he spent the last seven of his 22 year career at ESC/FMC, Hanscom AFB as a Cost Analyst and Cost Research Analyst where he developed the “ESC Cost per Line of Code Model”.  Before that he was a Software Systems Analyst for the Communications Computer Programming Center at Tinker AFB in Oklahoma. Among many other things Joe has a Bachelor of Science degree in Math, a Masters Degree in Business Administration, is a Co-author of, Practical Software Measurement, Objective Information for Decision Makers and enjoys being a reenactor of the Revolutionary War era.