Dan Galorath

Daniel D. Galorath is the President and CEO of Galorath Incorporated and the chief architect of SEER-SEM, an algorithmic project management software application. He is a recognized expert in the fields of software estimation and sizing and the author of Software Sizing, Estimation, and Risk Management.

Dan Galorath attended California State University where he completed both his undergraduate and graduate work. He graduated in 1980 with an MBA in management.

Following college, Galorath worked in software development with a focus on software management. One of his earliest forays into the creation of a software-based software estimation program found Galorath working with Don Reifer on the creation of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Softcost program for R. Tauseworth. The program was used for the majority of the 1980s and is seen as one of the forebears of modern software estimation systems.

In 1984, Dan Galorath began consulting for Computer Economics, Inc. It was in that consulting role where Galorath became familiar with Dr. Randall Jensen's modifications to the Putnam model. While Jensen's work was a marked improvement on the original Putnam model, the work was not usable in a commercial environment. For CEI, Dan Galorath worked to design a more user-friendly software estimation program, which was known as CEI System-3.

By 1988, Dan's company Galorath Inc had formed the SEER Technology Division and Galorath was working as one of the lead architects on the foundation of what would come to be known as SEER-SEM. SEER-SEM took the usability which was similar to the work Dan had done for CEI System-3 and added historical case studies and a graphic user interface. These advances made SEER-SEM an application which could be used by project managers to better estimate the needs for their software applications.

Since its inception, Galorath and his company have made numerous improvements to the original SEER-SEM, adding a library of thousands of projects which have helped contribute to the product being used by companies ranging from aircraft manufacturers Lockheed Martin and Northrup Grumman, to electronics manufacturer Siemens, and even the United States Department of Defense.

In 2006, Dan Galorath and Michael W Evans collaborated on a book about software estimation.

Galorath received a lifetime achievement award in 2009 from the Society of Cost Estimating and Analysis. The award honored his contributions toward the advancement of parametric modeling of cost, schedule, risk and reliability for software development and maintenance, hardware development, production, reducing the costs of parts and assembly, and IT projects and operations infrastructure and services.

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