David N. Card is a Fellow of the Software Productivity Consortium. During 15 years at Computer Sciences Corporation, Mr. Card spent six years as the Director of Software Process and Measurement, one year as a Resident Affiliate at the Software Engineering Institute, and seven years as a member or manager of the research team supporting the NASA Software Engineering Laboratory. Mr. Card is the Editor-In- Chief of the Journal of Systems and Software. He is the author of Measuring Software Design Quality (Prentice Hall, 1990), co-author of Practical Software Measurement (Addison Wesley, 2002), and co-editor of ISO/IEC standard 15939:2002, Software Measurement Process. Mr. Card is a Senior Member of the American Society for Quality. He has received many awards for his professional activities from CSC, NASA, NSF, and IEEE.