Hays W. "Skip" McCormick (Born April 18, 1964) is a software architect and co-author of AntiPatterns books with William Brown, Raphael Malvaux, Tom Mowbray and Scott Thomas.

Prior to stepping out on his own as a consultant to companies including Litton/PRC, Northrop Grumman, The Harris Corporation, The Discovery Channel, Satellite Services of America, The US Patent and Trademark Office, SAIC, DARPA, The Office of the Secretary of Defense, The Interoperability Clearinghouse, and the Objective Technology Group, Skip worked at the MITRE Corporation as chief software architect and development lead for secure, web-based distributed collaboration systems. He also ran MITRE Corporation's National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)'s Interoperable Technology Reification with Objects (NITRO) project and the Data Integration and Synergistic Collateral Usage Study (DISCUS) project.

As webmaster and coordinator for the AntiPatterns Group, Skip interfaces constantly with fellow AntiPatterns discoverers.

Skip holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, and resides in Manassas, Virginia.

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  • AntiPatterns: Refactoring Software, Architectures and Projects in Crisis. John Wiley and Sons, New York 1998. ISBN 0-471-19713-0.
  • Anti-Patterns and Patterns in Software Configuration Management. John Wiley and Sons, New York 1999. ISBN 0-471-32929-0.
  • AntiPatterns in Project Management. John Wiley and Sons, New York 2000. ISBN 0-471-36366-9.