Dr. Mark Paulk teaches software engineering at the University of Texas at Dallas. While at the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, he led the work on the Capability Maturity Model for Software. He is a co-author of the eSourcing Capability Model for Service Providers, has contributed to ISO and IEEE standards, notably ISO/IEC 15504, was the 2016 Vice President of the Standards Activities Board for the IEEE Computer Society, and a 2014-2017 member of the IEEE Software and Systems Engineering Standards Committee (S2ESC) Executive Committee. Dr. Paulk has a PhD in Industrial Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh, an MS in Computer Science from Vanderbilt University, and a BS in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He is a Fellow of the ASQ and a Senior Member of the IEEE.