Software Development and Information Management Consultant: Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems (1349)
Expertise
Enterprise Software: Software standards, information processing, knowledge management, business process management, enterprise application integration, and business-to-business integration.
Artificial Intelligence: Software, software standards, intelligent agents, multi-agent systems, probabilistic reasoning, planning, optimization, semantic web and expert systems.
Human-Computer Interaction: Advanced user interface technologies and computer-supported cooperative work.
Mobile computing: End-user devices and smart clients.
Network languages and applications: Web services, composeable applications, and related internet-protocols.
Application areas: Defense, homeland security, emergency management, information management, web search, transport telematics, travel and traffic management, work flow management. Telecommunications, supply chain management, distributed control, scheduling, groupware and office automation.
Software: Product and solution architecture design and development, especially using web services, Java, and agile programming.
Languages: Fluent in written and spoken German and English. Conversant in French and Spanish
Experience
Quantum Leap Innovations, Newark, De, CTO Vice President of ResearcH 2004-2007
Quantum Leap develops and applies innovative software technologies to solve complex dynamic problems for government (defense, homeland security) and industry (manufacturing, health sciences).
Created core technology vision and roadmap for QLI R&D and structured R&D Organization to execute roadmap.
Grew R&D staff from under 10 to over 25 directors, software engineers, scientists, and developers in 3 locations (DE, CA, HI).
Managed development of software technology products and solutions including AutoNet Express%u2122 probabilistic reasoning toolkit and the MADE Multi-Agent Development Environment.
Proposed, acquired, and managed over $10 million in competitive and non-competitive government software contracts for emergency planning and decision making.
WebV2, Palo Alto, CA Co-Founder & Chief Scientist 2000-2003
WebV2 provides a lightweight loosely-coupled decentralized enterprise software solution for deploying business processes across applications and human users. WebV2 spun out of Siemens, where the underlying technology was developed under this leadership.
Acquired and completed pilot programs with three customers (Siemens, Intel, Colabranet).
Developed product specifications and roadmap with CTO and engineering.
Produced in-depth market/technical analysis of the leading EAI and BPM vendor solutions and Web Services startup solutions.
Wrote conceptual and technical white papers and four patent applications.
Managed customer pilot programs, from conception through delivery.
Siemens AG, Munich, Germany, Innovation Team Leader 1989-2000
Won internal Siemens competition to commercialize technology developed under this leadership, with the goal of spinning off a company (WebV2). Initially focused on solutions for distributed Web search, information management, and %u201Ctotal personalization without loss of privacy%u201D
Developed initial WebV2 business plan and WebV2 product.
Project Manager at Siemens Corporate Technology
Siemens Corporate Technology provides advanced R&D for all of Siemens. Led the Intelligent Agent team within the Intelligent Autonomous Systems department.
Developed three generations of the software Multi-Agent Environment for Constructing Cooperative Applications (MECCA)
Developed numerous advanced R&D prototypes for Siemens Groups spanning a wide range of product ideas based on MECCA.
Developed core specifications of the Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents, an international standards initiative, based in part on the MECCA solution.
Wrote technical papers and competitive analysis in the area of agent technology and traffic telematics.
Research Scientist at Siemens Corporate Technology
Project Leader of cooperative projects with German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) in Kaiserslautern and Saarbr%uFFFDcken, Germany.
Technical Coordinator and Workpackage Leader of the European Union (EU) Esprit Project, IMAGINE, involving 7 organizations across Europe.
Microelectronics & Computer Technology Corp., Austin, TX Member of Technical Staff 1984-1989
MCC was the first US high-tech research consortium funded by private industry. Founding member of MCC%u2019s Artificial Intelligence Lab, integrating advanced reasoning techniques into a hybrid expert system toolkit called Proteus. This resulted in the first software deliverable from MCC to its member companies. Also one of the first members of Doug Lenat%u2019s CYC project.
Developed prototype applications on Proteus.
Developed the graphical user interface of Proteus.
Performed technology transfer of Proteus to member companies.
Co-Developed 10 year MCC vision for Advanced Computer Technology.
Honors & Publications
Patents
5 applied for at Quantum Leap Innovations.
2 applied for at WebV2.
3 applied for at Siemens AG, 1 German patent granted (worldwide extensions in progress).
Many publications and scientific papers
Education
Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Ph.D. Pure Mathematics, elected to Sigma Xi honors society
M.S. Applied Mathematics
B.A. German, with distinction
B.S. Mathematics, elected to Phi Beta Kappa honors society