Michael J. Gagliardi has over 20 years experience in real-time, mission-critical software architecture and engineering activities on a variety of DoD systems. Mr. Gagliardi is currently working in the SEI Product Line Practice Program on a Software Architecture Technology initiative involved in the development of a System of Systems Architecture Evaluation methodology, based on the key principles successfully used on many evaluations using the SEI Architecture Trade-off Analysis Method (ATAM). While at the SEI, Mr. Gagliardi served as the Chief Engineer for Navy Programs in the Acquisition Support Program and was also a member of the Rate Monotonic Analysis (RMA) project.
Prior to joining the SEI, Mr. Gagliardi had been involved in the software design, development, and integration of medium and large-scale real-time radar and sonar-based systems and small scale fire control systems at General Electric Company.
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