Desmond D'Souza, Computer Associtates

Desmond D'Souza is senior vice president of component-based development at Computer Associates, responsible for defining methods, tools, and architectures for effective component-based software engineering. He heads up CA's Catalysis Technology Center. He is co-author and developer of the CATALYSIS method, published by Addison Wesley in 1998. He has worked with software technology since 1981, developed object systems since 1985, and worked on modeling and design methods and tools since 1990. Desmond is a frequent invited speaker at companies internationally. He may be contacted at dsouzad@acm.org