Latest
5 May 2024 - Working for Parra Consulting Group in engineering and science R&D in the intelligence community.
8 May 2022 - Working for Deftec in systems engineering and data analytics.
27 November 2020 - Updated my old image processing software and put it on GitHub. See in the Books section below.
1 October 2019 - Working for Zel Technologies as a researcher in advanced analytics.
3 November 2018 - I am now writing longer posts and putting them on medium.com. See https://medium.com/@phillips.dwayne.
Books
I have a new book coming in 2008 on project management. It is
titled "Working Up to Project
Management: How Crushing Rocks at the Asphalt Plant Prepared Me
for Government Work." (ISBN: 978-0-932633-66-8, 224 pages
softcover) It is available from
Dorset House Publishing at this
spot on their web site 
Roy O'Bryan and I have written It Sounded Good When We Started. It contains stories and lessons learned from working with people on projects over the years. We think project managers can benefit from our mistakes.
In addition, I have written The Software Project Manager's Handbook now out in it's second edition. It contains information I have learned over the years about managing software projects of all sorts and sizes. The IEEE Computer Society published this book.
These two books are available at http://computer.org and www.wiley.com/ieeecs. Amazon (http://www.amazon.com) and Barnes and Noble (http://www.barnesandnoble.com) also sell them.
I wrote Image Processing in C. It discusses many topics
in image processing. It is loaded with source code. R&D
Publishing (http://rdbooks.com)
published this in 1994. 
The second edition of this book is available online in several places. The UP TO DATE source code and a pdf of the book are now on my GitHub site. The text of the book is on scribd.com. The complete package (book, source code, etc.) is on this collection site.
Just Enough Systems Engineering
I have a text on Systems Engineering. Most books on Systems Engineering are 500+ pages long and cost over $150. My book is117 pages and is F R E E to download in a PDF file. It covers the essential practices and skills of Systems Engineering. Look here for information and to download.
Blogs
- Working Up where I share thoughts on project management, systems engineering, technology, and writing.
- My day book patterned after Jerry Pournelle's view. It contains daily entries of items I have found of interest.
- In 2008, I wrote 53 shorts stories (one per week). The last of these are linked here.
- Taking a Walk - walking from Northern Virginia to Southeastern Louisiana. I finished this 1,100-mile walk in October of 2009. It was great fun. There are nearly 100 entries in this blog.
Reviews
Here are a few books and other publications I have read and reviewed:- A book review of Scott Berkun's Making Things Happen.
- A book review of Jerry Weinberg's Perfect Software and other illusions about testing.
- A book review of Jerry Weinberg's The Aremac Project.
- A book review of Andrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies.
- A book review of
The Art of Lean Software
Development
Other Publications
I have also written a number of other
articles. Complete list of
publications.
Here is a list of my short stories I have for sale on smashwords.com .
See my Travel Blog posts I spend a lot of time traveling as part of my job. I have written a couple of essays about traveling. I hope you enjoy them.
I have written some longer pieces and published them on Medium.com. They are listed here.
Some have appeared in The Cutter IT Journal The Cutter IT Journal (formerly American Programmer). (see www.cutter.com).
Some have appeared in the Cutter IT e-mail Advisor (see www.cutter.com).
I wrote a series of articles image processing as well as other programming papers for The C/C++ Users Journal in the 1990s.
I wrote a couple of editorials for The Open Channel page of IEEE's Computer. (see www.computer.org)
The Open Channel of IEEE's Computer
Technocentrism
Is Your Project a Dilbert Cartoon?
Travel Essays
Summer TravelPOSH Travel Still Exists
Full Airplanes
About
My name is Dwayne Phillips. I live in the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington D.C. After about 28 years working for the U.S. government as a systems and computer engineer, I retired from that in November 2008. I did much the same for ITT Exelis in Northern Virginia. I am now working for Zel Technologies researching topics in data science with an emphasis on machine learning and things related to artificial intelligence. One of my avocations is writing about technical subjects.
A few credentials
- BS degree in Electrical Engineering from LSU May 1980
- MS degree in Electrical Engineering from LSU December 1984
- PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from LSU August 1990
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate 2017, 2019
- PMI PMP 2011
- ITIL 2015
- Certified Scrum Master 2016
- Security+ 2016
- Microsoft Data Science Program 2016
Security Clearances: Active TS and SCI
Updated May 2024