Stephen Shook, ISHPI’s Vice President of Software Engineering & Quality, brings more than 25 years of experience in senior management, business development, development management, project management, software engineering, and implementation of Capability Maturity Model^® Integration (CMMI^®). He is one of the principal architects of ISHPI’s Agile High Velocity Development℠ software development methodology, which is appraised at CMMI Development Maturity Level 5.

As an experienced program manager, instructor, coach, consultant, and subject matter expert, he leads and mentors teams to consistently deliver secure software and achieve exceptional cost, schedule, and quality performance in order to achieve customer business goals. His dedication to software quality was instrumental in the ISHPI AIS Division’s receipt of the prestigious 2023 IEEE Computer Society/SEI Watts S. Humphrey Software Quality Award as well as a prior Humphrey Software Quality Award in 1998. He actively contributes to the software community through his involvement in the Software Excellence Alliance and as an esteemed member of the Watts S. Humphrey Software Quality Award selection committee.

Stephen has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Illinois.