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Peter Abowd


Peter Abowd is currently (as of June 2007), the VP of engineering at DANLAW Inc., a Global Embedded Software Engineering Corporation. Previously, he was the Associate Director of Embedded Software development at Visteon Corporation, Van Buren Michigan, where he oversaw the software development for all Audio/Infotainment, Driver Information and Climate Control products in North America and Europe. Mr. Abowd spent nearly 19 years with Visteon, a global tier 1 supplier performing 11.6 Billion in sales in 2006 with approximately 45,000 global employees. Mr. Abowd’s most recent assignment with Visteon was to execute a global software product line project to converge Visteon’s software for the 3 cockpit electronic product areas, utilizing Software Architecture technologies from the Software Engineering Institute in Pittsburgh PA. He has previously developed Visteon's Visualization and Simulation Laboratory for cross-disciplined development of Human Machine Interfaces utilizing model-based software engineering extensively.

He has also contributed extensively to Visteon's software process maturity, leading programs for the implementation of the Personal Software Process (PSP) and productline software architectures. Mr. Abowd is a licensed Personal Software Process instructor with over 10 years experience in application and teaching of the PSP. Mr. Abowd has an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from the University of Notre Dame and a Master of Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. During his time at Carnegie-Mellon he worked with Watts Humphrey, creator of the Capability Maturity Model and the Personal and Team Software Processes creating extensions to the PSP for embedded development. He is a frequent conference speaker on the topics of automotive and embedded software development and is an adjunct lecturer for the University of Michigan-Dearborn as well as Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.