认识Thayer博士是在2005年,当时,中关村海淀园区推广CSDP,我任授权培训机构的高级讲师,他作为特聘CSDP的全球首席讲师也来到中国。
Thayer博士,70 多岁,很胖, 胖得从座位上站起来都很困难。可他特喜欢喝可乐,一听接一听地喝。按说,身体胖的人,不应该喝那么多含糖量高的饮料,可他全然不顾,照喝不误。
别看他70多岁,可讲起课来,一点都不象70多岁的老人,甚至比年轻人还精力充沛。你看,他来中国,一两讲6天,天天6个小时,一点不含糊。而且满世界到处飞,在全世界到处传播CSDP。我给他捏把汗,怕他身体吃不消,可他一点没事。
Thayer博士很可爱,他对知识产权的保护意识很强,强到让人难以接受。他给中国学生讲课,讲课笔记(Notes)不让我们复印,他的课不能有旁听生。我理解,正是这样,他在践行着职业化的精神。
他说起英语来很难懂,声音不大,而且很快,当他的翻译着实是件难事。有一次,刘向宁博士做他的现场翻译,一旁的袁传宽教授一直替他担心, 还好, 刘博士毕竟久经沙场, 一路顺利。
下图是博士和我在一起共进晚餐。我问他:一天下来累不累,他微笑着回答:NO。
Richard H. Thayer, Ph.D., is consultant in the field of software engineering and project management. Prior to this hew was a Professor of Software Engineering at California State University, Sacramento, California, United States of America. Dr. Thayer travels widely where he consults and lectures on software engineering, project management, software engineering standards, software requirements engineering, and software quality assurance. He is a Visiting Researcher and Lecturer at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland. His technical interests lay in software project management and software engineering standards.
Dr. Thayer is a Fellow of the IEEE, a member of the IEEE Computer Society, and the IEEE Software Engineering Standards Committee. He is a principle author for a Standard for a Concept of Operations (ConOps) document (IEEE std 1362-1998) and a principle author of the Standard for Software project Management Plans (IEEE std 1058-1998).
He is also an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) where he served on the AIAA Technical Committee on Computer Systems, and he is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). He is also a registered professional engineer.
He holds a BSEE degree and an MS degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana (1962) and a Ph.D. from the University of California at Santa Barbara (1979) each in Electrical Engineering.
Richard H. Thayer博士是软件工程和项目管理领域的咨询专家。Thayer博士曾是加利福尼亚州立大学的软件工程教授,还是英国苏格兰行政区斯特拉思克莱德区大学的访问研究员。 Thayer博士曾在美国空军担任了二十多年的高级职员,在计算机科学和数字处理方面,担任过有关工程、计算机编程、研究、教学和管理等各种职位,其中担任了六年科学编程组的主管和技术总监,担任了四年美国空军研发部门的主管,还担任了六年大型数据处理部门的经理。
Thayer博士是IEEE计算机学会成员之一,也是软件工程标准委员会的成员。Thayer博士是操作概念文档(Concept of Operation, ConOps)标准(IEEE标准 1362-1998)的主要作者,也是软件项目管理计划标准(IEEE标准1058-1998)的主要作者。