Benjamin Willett, Ph. D. Email & Phone Number

Rosamond, Ca, Us

Rosamond, Ca, Us

Providing Artificial Intelligence and innovation management to healthcare, education, and real estate partners.https://www.antelope.works

Birmingham, Al, Us

Sugar Land , Texas, Us

Sugar Land , Texas, Us

Montgomery, Alabama, Us

Led all ICS engineering efforts, providing technical guidance and support to engineering personnel across all contracts. Supported ICS business pursuits, technical competencies, and outreach.Major Deliveries:Constructed ICS’s continuous integration / continuous delivery (CI/CD) SecDevOps platform using GitLab and Amazon Web Services (AWS).Designed, developed and implemented the Agile Risk Reduction Methodology (ARRM), which aligns a client’s appetite for risk with a product feature’s complexity to ensure the exact amount of development testing is implemented to match the client’s risk appetite thresholds. Noteworthy Events:Collaborating with the Chief Digital & Innovation Officer (CDIO): designed, architected, and developed ICS’s Agile Innovation framework.Co-Authored book with CDIO, entitled “Implementing an Agile Innovation Management System.”Developed state-of-the-art innovation project selection algorithms to dynamically and objectively align Innovation Portfolios to the Strategic Goals and Objectives of Management.Developed Convolutional Neural Network technology for the protection of sensitive information assets, briefed to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)Constructed ICS’s Microservices Mesh architecture that allows for rapid prototyping of innovation conceptsSupported proposals to help ICS win:-- DISA Encore III Small Business - one of 20 companies on a $17.5B IDIQ-- DISA SETI Small Business - one of 25 companies on a $7.5B IDIQ-- DIA SITE III - a 10 year, $12.6B IDIQ

Montgomery, Alabama, Us

Served as Acting Project Manager for the Forge.mil program, leading a team of 17 people to deliver Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) capability to over 1,200 projects and 40,000 users throughout the US Government. Interfaced directly with Government Program Managers and ensured timely delivery of accurate contract deliverables.Led GitLab+ICS partnership effort to implement GitLab on milCloud 2.0 to replace DISA Forge.mil.Led Forge.mil team to achieve 2 EXCEPTIONAL annual CPARS.

Montgomery, Alabama, Us

Lead contractor technical representative for the Forge.mil family of services – led a team of 8 technical personnel to deliver Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) capability to over 1,200 projects and 40,000 users throughout the US Government.Led Forge.mil technical team to achieve 5 EXCEPTIONAL customer satisfaction ratings.Oversaw all technical aspects of Forge.mil: ranging from team formation, initial concept and Agile development, through testing, integration, and finally to production deployment.Served as the SCRUM Master for the Forge.mil program: responsible for ensuring compliance with all software engineering and information assurance policies and procedures.Responsible for daily and weekly briefings to Government and customer officials regarding the status, development, and future of Forge.mil capabilities and technologies.Worked with corporate executive officers, external consultants, and Forge.mil program manager to obtain and retain CMMI Maturity Level 3 for Development for ICS.Major Deliveries:Directed technical team to achieve multiple major cloud migrations of Forge.mil’s ALM platform, resulting in >$4M of Government savings.Pioneered an Amazon Web Services (AWS) development framework for the Forge.mil program: reduced deployment time of Forge.mil enhancements by 90%.Designed and implemented the Agile Risk Management Framework (RMF) methodology to transition Forge.mil’s complex accreditation package from DIACAP to RMF in an unprecedented 61-day timeframe.Successfully aligned multiple stakeholders to migrate Forge.mil to milCloud2, the first production DISA application to do so.-- Operated under the direct visibility of DISA senior leadership to assist in the agency’s efforts to implement and align around the DoD CIO’s strategic goals for cloud technology superiority. -- Contributed to DISA’s public relations campaign by participating in a post-migration public interview and press release.

Chantilly, Va, Us

Co-developed the Modular Analysis and Test Support System (MAnTSS) software suite to support operational test of a large acquisition program.Designed and developed the MAnTSS Summary Analysis tool, a C# application based upon SQL Reporting Services. Will be used by operational test analysts to design, create, and publish reports and analysis products.Developed an innovative content analysis tool to isolate and flag questionable content on government networks. The detection of such content ensures non-corrupted network assets, the corruption of which would result in months of lost man-hours to the operational test program.

Northridge, Ca, Us

Developed OpenGL/CUDA GPU software tools to conduct real-time registration of sparsely overlapping imagery from airborne platforms.Developed production-grade OpenGL/CUDA GPU software tools to perform: mover indication on real-time streaming imagery, and real-time spectral fusion of multi-band imagery.Served as Testing Lead on a production-grade implementation of spectral fusion algorithms. Responsible for verifying customer requirements and ensuring quality consistency between prototype and production implementations.Assisted in developing prototype Qt graphical software tools and registration implementations for river current extraction software. Integrated and tested a NITF image merge utility, and developed a graphical user interface to this utility to ensure maximum ease of use.Worked as part of a six person team to submit a proposal to the 2013 NOAA SBIR Program. The project was detection, tracking, and classification of underwater fish species in fisheries environments, with the ultimate goal of monitoring fish species populations.Member – 2012 Areté Associates PAS-West Summer Picnic Planning CommitteeRecipient – 2012 Vice President's Discretionary Award for Image Fusion technical contributions

Troy, Ny, Us

Conducted research in modeling combined light and dark matter N-body simulations of the Orphan Stream progenitor utilizing the MilkyWay@home project.Conducted research in fitting simultaneous orbits to tidal stream debris in the Milky Way to determine parameters of the dark matter halo.Mentored research group students on the utilization of orbit and N-body simulation software tools.

Troy, Ny, Us

Co-developed the MilkyWay@home project, which utilizes volunteer computing resources of 20,000 users from 146 countries to conduct N-body modeling of dwarf galaxies. Conducted computationally intensive research in fitting orbits to tidal stream debris in the Milky Way. Conducted eight nights of supervised spectroscopic observing on the 3.5 meter Apache Point Observatory telescope.

Troy, Ny, Us

Assisted student instruction, evaluation and laboratory setup in introductory physics courses.

Golden, Co, Us

Assisted Unix administrator with system maintenance tasks. Developed a centralized system to record, track, and analyze usage statistics for high- performance computing clusters.

Ph. D, Physics

B.S, Engineering Physics

Diploma