Assistant Professor of Computer Science
School of Information, Technology and Computing
Abilene Christian University
258 Mabee Business Building
ACU Box 28036
Abilene, TX 79699-8036
dwayne.towell@acu.edu
office: (325)674-2173
Software System as an Efficient Client or Case Management Tool, provisional patent application, 2007, with Deon Botha.
A Language Facilitating Informal Reasoning about Programs, Boston, SEKE 2007, with Nelson Rushton.
Increasing the Efficiency of Communication: Using Technology to Connect At-Risk Students to Faculty, Staff, and Campus Resources, Toronto, Canada, The First-Year Experience, July 24-27, 2006, with Deon Botha and Dewayne Miller.
A Software Progress Model, ETAPS/FASE'06, Vienna, Austria, Spring 2006.
Blue Box Technology, ImageBuilder Software internal, technical-marketing, white paper, 2000.
Display Maintenance: A Pattern Language, in Pattern Languages of Program Design 4, Addison-Wesley, 2000.
ImageBuilder Software: A Framework Development Experience Report, in Software Architecture, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999.
Request Screen Modification, in Pattern Languages of Program Design, Addison-Wesley, 1995.
Information Technology and Its Impact on the Ghanaian Church, Accra, Ghana, July 2008.
Save Our Students: a early-alert support system for crisis prevention, Re-invent Abilene, January 10, 2008.
A Software Progress Model, Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering (FASE'06), March 27-29, 2006.
2004-present: Abilene Christian University, Abilene, TX
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Teach, research, write, committee, advise, organize, sponsor, director, etc.
2007-present: Consultant, Abilene, TX
Consultant in the area of software development for legal counsel.
2007-present: Docket Navigator™, Abilene, TX
Owner/Developer
Designed, developed and deployed web-based, intellectual property legal research products.
2005-2008: Support Our Students (SOS), Abliene, TX
Inventor/Developer
Designed, developed and deployed a web application to assist in the support of students in higher education.
2000-2003: ActiveArts, Portland, OR
Technology Consultant
Provided vision and technology leadership for an early social network application, now defunct SportsMVP.com, a sport-participant community web site.
1988-2003: ImageBuilder Software, Portland, OR
Technology Director
Vice-president level position. Responsibilities included policy making, engineering department management, directing research, and process improvement.
Principal Software Engineer
Management level position. Responsibilities included improving engineering processes, new technology development and integration, engineering department education programs.
Software Engineer
Project level position. Responsibilities included writing and shipping multimedia software for various platforms.
1986-1987: Milford Engineering, Abilene, TX
Programmer
Project level position. Rewrote and supported a power distribution analysis tool.
Doctor of Philosophy of Computer Science
Easel: an Indefinite Computing Language
2007 Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
Masters of Science, Software Engineering
A Software Progress Model
2004 Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Systems Software
1986 Abilene Christian University, Abilene, TX