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A Senior Technical Lead for General Dynamics' work on the Army's successor to the Command Post of the Future program.A Senior Technical Lead for the very successful innovative Command Post of the Future program. This program began as a DARPA program and evolved into a $20M+/yr Army program of record. CPOF has been in operational use as the Army's primary.

I managed the Lycos Search Research and Development Group. My group was responsible for development and maintenance of the Lycos Search Technology. In this role I directly managed as many as 15 software engineers and analysts. I also was a primary architect of a loosely-coupled distributed web indexing and search architecture which resulted in a greater.

• Engineering Design Research Center:
• I participated in the design and implementation of n-dim, an information management tool to support the engineering design process.
• I collaborated with industry partners (Alcoa, Bosch, and ABB) to transfer the n-dim technology to industry.
• I co-developed a case study method for analyzing information use and flow in large engineering organizations. I participated in the study and analysis of engineering practices at several large technology corporations..
• I was the sole implementer of a Common LISP-based black-board architecture for coordinating multiple agents in a mechanical design environment. I researched and implemented algorithms for agent negotiation, constraint.
• I performed literature surveys in the above mentioned areas.

I led a development group consisting of up to five engineers. In addition to being an individual contributor, my job responsibilities included scheduling of deliverables, bug tracking, and coordinating development with other project leaders.I was an original member of the development team implementing a rule-based expert system for automatically paginating.