Autonomy and AI development for deployable maritime robots. Prime responsibility for technical direction, team execution, and new business growth for AI and advanced research in autonomous vehicles. Responsible for developing and leading technological and solutions strategies with long-term outlooks, including business development, capture, and execution management for multi-million dollar contracts.

• Led unique and collaborative efforts in bio-inspired autonomous systems.• Spearheaded research into directed navigation strategies and other adaptively responsive, flexible, and intelligent behavioral algorithms.• Conceived, designed, implemented, and integrated software supporting complex, adaptive autonomous systems development, including sensory systems, cognitive control architectures, and virtual environments.• Led teams in evolutionary computation research testing (1) the role of competitive dynamics in the emergence of complex strategies and use of system cues in informing decisions, (2) theories governing the emergence of deception in competitive systems, (3) complex, informative, and non-deterministic tests of behavior of (and in) complex interactive networks.• Core developer of Avida, a major scientific research software package.• Authored scientific publications in computer science, robotics, artificial life, ecology and biology.• Significantly expanded the code-base, speed, and utility of scientific research software, enabling a valuable new array of applications in ecology, sensory systems, cognitive processes, and autonomous vehicle navigation.

• Established and led a high-profile team in studies of the conditions governing interactive dynamics in competitive systems with flexible interaction networks.• Science liaison to local and national government authorities.• Developed novel (eco)system monitoring methods integrating data streams from diverse sources.

• Invented a novel likelihood-based method of extracting hidden patterns from noisy and error-ridden genetic data that can save major supply costs and months of development time per application – implemented in the widely adopted software ML-Relate.• Led a groundbreaking study of complex dynamics in carnivore social groups.• Extensive data analyses, including application of GIS and non-parametric statistical approaches.