Valerie A. Neumann has been a member of the technical staff of the Software Warehouse–Eastman Kodak Company's reusable artifacts library in Rochester, New York, for two years. Prior to coming to Kodak, she was a software engineer with Unisys and General Electric corporations, working on NATO and U.S. Navy defense software. She has a BS degree in Computer Science and has worked on software development and engineering for over twelve years.