Pyxis Systems International, Inc.

Corporate Overview

PYXIS Systems International, Inc. is a small business established and chartered in the state of Maryland in 1980. Founded to address the rising demand for software quality management, the emphasis of the company has been to provide services and products that improve the ability of corporations to develop and deliver quality software.

PYXIS Systems International, Inc. offers services that include:

  • Project Management Consulting
  • Process Definition, Improvement and Metrics Analysis, and Appraisal Support
  • SCAMPISM, Class B, Class C
  • CBA-IPI
  • Software Capability Evaluation (SCESM)
  • Internal assessments
  • ISO internal audits
  • Process Training
  • Technical Consulting in Systems, Software and Hardware
  • Software Validation & Verification
 

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Principals

More than 60 years of software management expertise is provided by Gordon Schulmeyer and James Holden, PYXIS Systems International, Inc.'s principals. On-site, in-process development management is offered on a consulting or full time basis. The key element is managing and directing development - not statusing its progress. Software management consulting includes:

  • setting up the software project,

  • establishing and evaluating software metrics for tracking development efforts, and

  • risk assessment/abatement techniques.

Software process definition and improvement activities encompass:

  • the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI®)

  • the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Capability Maturity Model (CMM®),

  • ISO 9001/ISO 9000-3

  • customer process definition and measurement, and state of the art methodologies.

The management and development experience of the principals is highlighted by:

  • more than 1,000,000 lines of code development managed

  • more than $25M of software development managed

  • more than 15 years Software Quality experience

  • more than 20 years Process Analysis/Definition experience

  • more than 400 software engineers managed

  • 7 books published on software quality and process

  • 7 awards for engineering excellence

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Affiliates

PYXIS Systems International, Inc. has relationships with the following independent consultants:

Roy P. Basler (baslerr@attbi.com)
(Senior Systems Analyst)

Edwin C. Hildebrand (editllc@comcast.net)
(Senior Software Developer)

James J. Holden IV (webmaster@pyxisinc.com)
(Enterprise Systems Engineer, Network Consultant, Web Developer)

Jesse W. Martak (jmartak@aol.com)
(CMM® Lead Assessor & CMMI® Authorized Appraiser)

Michael A. Parisi (mparisi@valpar.com)
(Senior Systems Analyst)

Joseph Vonusa (vonusa@infionline.net)
(Authorized SCAMPI Lead Appraiser, Senior Process Consultant)


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Pyxis Systems International, Inc.

P.O. Box 28985
Baltimore, MD 21240

Tele: (443) 454-9404
Tele: (443) 838-3231
Fax: (410) 741-1216

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