Twenty years of systems engineering, simulation development, and operations research experience. Brings analytical approaches to decision processes. A passion for building capabilties that allow decision makers to use analytics when and where it is needed.

Experience

• Led Systems Engineering Department at West Point
• Developed cloud-based systems
• Stood up Army Office of the Chief Systems Engineer
• Led Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization's Cloud Based Modeling and Simulation Study Group.
• Wrote engineering process for NATO Modeling and Simulation Group 136 - Modeling and Simulation as a Service.
• Gave IITSEC 2018 tutorial Road Map for Innovators in Cloud-Based Modeling and Simulation
• Developed the DEVS Distributed Modeling Framework for distributed simulation via microservices.

Skills

• Systems engineering and architecture development to include use of Systems Modeling Language
• Amazon Web Services certified Solutions Architect
• Distributed simulation architectures using DEVS Distributed Modeling Framework , High Level Architecture, and Distributed Interactive Simulation
• Data science using Apache Spark and R
• Discrete event simulation
• Operations research analysis
• Artificial intelligence using Genetic Algorithms, Neural Networks, Fuzzy Sets, and Agent-Based Models
• Software development in Scala, Java, and C++
• Reactive systems using Lightbend tools
• Web development using Semantic UI and Angular

Publications