Ronald W. Morrison

Dr. Ronald W. Morrison

Education
B.S. - Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Purdue University
M.B.A. - Management Science, Southern Illinois University
Ph.D. - Information Technology, George Mason University

Recent Career Accomplishments

Served as a senior advisor on software development and software acquisition for several major Defense Department weapons systems and C2 programs.
Created a genetic algorithm-based decision-support system for private commodity traders.
Developed a new method for integrating quantitative and qualitative information for a U.S. government customer.
Created initial concept and framework designs for a commercial software based intelligent agent for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
Authored the architecture assessment and selection chapter of a guidebook on computer system modernization for a consortium of state governments.

Recent an Upcoming Industry and Conference Engagements

Member of the Program Committee for the upcoming Evolutionary Algorithms for Dynamic Optimiztion Problems (EvoDOP 2003) workshop, part of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO).
Presented paper at the 5^ème Conférence Internationale sur l'Evolution Artificielle in October, 2001.
Presented paper at the Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC2000) in July, 2000.
Co-chair of the Special Session on Dynamic Environments for the Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC99) in July, 1999
Member of the Airlie Software Council
Member of the Software Program Manager's Network
Invited speaker at the initial meeting of the National Software Alliance in 1998.
Invited speaker at the AIE-sponsored, 3rd Annual Conference on Software Metrics in 1997

Previous Career Experience
Director of Software Engineering for a major U.S. aerospace firm. Directed over 100 software engineers in the development of high-fidelity, real-time flight simulation products for U.S. and foreign military customers, involving a wide range of technologies including computer system integration and networking, image generation and visualization systems, avionics simulation and stimulation, graphical-user interface development, high-speed networking, and software development environments.

Program Manager/Senior Program Manager of a $150 million military flight simulator program for a major U.S. aerospace firm during prototype development and the transition to production. The resulting innovative flight simulator was featured on the cover of Aviation Week.