Tom DeMarco
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Tom DeMarco (born August 20, 1940) is an American software engineer, author, and consultant on software engineering topics.wikipedia
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Structured analysis
Structured DesignSA/SDstructured'' approaches
He was an early developer of structured analysis in the 1970s.
SA and SD are displayed with structure charts, data flow diagrams and data model diagrams, of which there were many variations, including those developed by Tom DeMarco, Ken Orr, Larry Constantine, Vaughn Frick, Ed Yourdon, Steven Ward, Peter Chen, and others.






Tim Lister
In the 1980s with Tim Lister, Stephen McMenamin, John F. Palmer, James Robertson and Suzanne Robertson, he founded the consulting firm "The Atlantic Systems Guild" in New York.
Lister's work with collaborator Tom DeMarco on non-technical factors affecting team and individual performance eventually resulted in their book, Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams originally published in 1987.

Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
It was written by software consultants Tom DeMarco and Tim Lister, from their experience in the world of software development.
Stevens Award
DeMarco was the 1986 recipient of the Warnier Prize for "lifetime contribution to the field of computing", and the 1999 recipient of the Stevens Award for "contribution to the methods of software development".
Software quality
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Dr. Tom DeMarco has proposed that "a product's quality is a function of how much it changes the world for the better."

Software engineer
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Tom DeMarco (born August 20, 1940) is an American software engineer, author, and consultant on software engineering topics.


Software engineering
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Tom DeMarco (born August 20, 1940) is an American software engineer, author, and consultant on software engineering topics.
Hazleton, Pennsylvania
HazletonHazleton, PAHazelton
Tom DeMarco was born in Hazleton, Pennsylvania.









Cornell University
CornellCornell University PressUniversity of Cornell
He received a BSEE degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University, a M.S. from Columbia University and a diplôme from the University of Paris at the Sorbonne.









Columbia University
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He received a BSEE degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University, a M.S. from Columbia University and a diplôme from the University of Paris at the Sorbonne.









Diploma
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He received a BSEE degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University, a M.S. from Columbia University and a diplôme from the University of Paris at the Sorbonne.




University of Paris
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He received a BSEE degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University, a M.S. from Columbia University and a diplôme from the University of Paris at the Sorbonne.









Number One Electronic Switching System
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DeMarco started working at Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1963, where he participated in ESS-1 project to develop the first large scale Electronic Switching System, which became installed in telephone offices all over the world.



Electronic switching system
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DeMarco started working at Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1963, where he participated in ESS-1 project to develop the first large scale Electronic Switching System, which became installed in telephone offices all over the world.
Conveyor system
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Later in the 1960s he started working for a French IT consulting firm, where he worked on the development of a conveyor system for the new merchandise mart at La Villette in Paris, and in the 1970s on the development of on-line banking systems in Sweden, Holland, France and New York.







ZeniMax Media
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He has also been a technical advisor for ZeniMax Media, the parent company of video game publisher Bethesda Softworks.
Bethesda Softworks
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He has also been a technical advisor for ZeniMax Media, the parent company of video game publisher Bethesda Softworks.

Camden, Maine
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He lives in Camden, Maine, and is a principal of the Atlantic Systems Guild, and a fellow and Senior Consultant of the Cutter Consortium.









Cutter Consortium
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He lives in Camden, Maine, and is a principal of the Atlantic Systems Guild, and a fellow and Senior Consultant of the Cutter Consortium.
Emergency medical technician
EMTEmergency Medical TechniciansEMTs
In his spare time, DeMarco is an emergency medical technician, certified by his home state and by the National Registry of EMTs.


National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians
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In his spare time, DeMarco is an emergency medical technician, certified by his home state and by the National Registry of EMTs.
Software metric
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Structured systems analysis and design method
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