S. Ron Oliver has been in the Software Industry since 1968, with a roughly equal mixture of industrial and academic experience. Since 1974 he has specialized primarily in Concurrent and Real Time Software Engineering, including Computer Communication (Network) Systems. During 9 years with the Computer Science and Computer Engineering programs at Cal Poly, he lead many research and student projects in Object Oriented Design and Implementation for Concurrent and Real Time Systems, and in the Distributed Computing Environment (DCE). Considerable work was also done with projects to simulate Computer Networks. Dr. Oliver took early retirement from Cal Poly to return to Colorado and work on methods to improve Software Quality. Most recently he has also been focusing on CORBA.