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.

• Member of the Program Committee for the upcoming Workshop on Evolutionary Optimization in Stochastic and Dynamic Environments (Budapest, 2006). 
• Local Arrangements Chair for the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2005).
• Member of the Program Committee for the Evolutionary Algorithms for Dynamic Optimiztion Problems (EvoDOP 2003) workshop.
• 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

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.