Robert Kerr Email & Phone Number

Mclean, Virginia, Us

Kansas City, Missouri, Us

Develop company technology and product strategy w/ C-Suite. Oversee R&D, Analytics, Product Development, Operations, and IT teams. Identify and evaluate new technologies, compose product offerings, perform advanced product implementations and oversee technical solutions implemented in Haystax Technology’s products. Work with clients and product engineers to conceive and implement product based solutions.Recent product and project work include:• Analytics Platform Product Management – Apply Lean Product Management principals to define and evaluate product market fit, define the product roadmap, validate product features with market experiments, and drive the technical team to implement the product.• Analytics Team Lead – Lead a team of Data Science, Knowledge Representation, and Bayesian Inference Network experts to design and implement analytics for the Haystax platform.• Streaming Analytics Platform Architect – Applied Apache Storm and MongoDB to design a system that ingests structured and unstructured data from Twitter, Facebook, RSS and GeoRSS feeds, applies NLP to enrich the content via named entity recognition, temporal and sentiment analysis, and other models to prioritize captured data for user action.• Complex Analytics Platform Architect – Used AllegroGraph, AllegroCL, HTML, and jQuery to create a system that extracts event data from structured and semi-structured sources, builds an event model from extracted data, and ingests data into a Bayesian Inference model to reason like a team of experts. The resulting system processed 750k people and over 2M events to evaluation clearance worthiness for DoD customers.• Manage IT & network security operations, including NIST 800-171 and 800-53 compliance for a 75+ Windows and Mac clients in a hybrid server environment. Manage Office365 applications.*Haystax acquired Digital Sandbox in April 2013*

Mclean, Va, Us

Founding member of Digital Sandbox. Oversaw all technical operations in the firm. Worked with the development team to conceive, design, implement, test, and deploy Digital Sandbox’s product. Provided design and implementation for technical projects that required deep customization.• Led the development team for Digital Sandbox’s core platform, Site Profiler, from corporate formation to version 4.0• Architect for the web-based Risk Analysis Center platform during transition from LAMP based 3.0 to ASP.Net (C#, MSSQL) based 4.0+• Primary developer of the C++ object database of the Site Profiler system.• Architect for the Insight Persons and Groups of Interest tracking system developed for the world’s largest grants making organization

Dublin 2, Ie

Team lead for the architecture team on an engagement with a national telecommunications provider. Lead a team to develop and deliver UI/UX for customer onboarding to the client.

Stamford, Connecticut, Us

Software engineering team lead in the modeling and simulation group. Led software development efforts of 5-8 analysts and software engineers for numerous projects to create man-in-the-loop and constructive simulations for chemical and biological weapons defense systems. Used C & C++ to develop distributed interactive simulations.

Great Mills, Maryland, Us

Software engineering team lead at the Manned Flight Simulator of the Patuxent River Naval Air Station. Developed solutions in C & C++ to support high-fidelity man-in-the-loop flight simulation at the Manned Flight Simulator.

Masters, Engineering Management

Bs, Electrical Engineering