Lynn Robert Carter, Ph.D., has been a senior researcher and educator at Carnegie Mellon University for 20 years. He currently teaches in the Software Engineering Foundations and introductory programming courses in Qatar as well as graduate software engineering courses in India, Japan and the United States. Carter has worked at Carnegie Mellon West Coast Campuse and the Software Engineering Institute. Carter has taught at Portland State University, Pacific University, University of Portland, University of Colorado and Arizona State University. Additionally, he spent 17 years in industrial software development and research work at Tektronix, Motorola, GenRad and two start-up companies. He holds a BS and MS in mathematics with specialization in computer science from Portland State University and a Ph.D. in computer science from University of Colorado at Boulder.