Principals

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.

• Local Co-Chair for the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) in 2005
• Co-chair of the Special Session on Dynamic Environments for the Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) in 1999

• 6^th European Workshop on Evolutionary Algorithms in Stochastic and Dynamic Environments, 2009 
• IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2008 
• IEEE World Conference on Computational Intelligence, Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments, 2008 
• 5^th European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Stochastic and Dynamic Environments, 2008 
• IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2007 
• 4^th European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Stochastic and Dynamic Environments, 2007 
• IEEE World Conference on Computational Intelligence, Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments, 2006 
• IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2006
• 3^rd European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Stochastic and Dynamic Environments, 2006
• Workshop on Evolutionary Computing for Dynamic Optimization Problems (EvoDOP), 2003 

• Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
• Reviewer for the special issue of the European Journal of Operations Research dedicated to the Adaptation of Discrete Metaheuristics for Continuous Optimization, 2006 
• Reviewer for a Special Issue of the Genetic programming and Evolvable Machines Journal, 2006

• Invited lecturer at the Fourth International Conference of Applied Mathematics and Computing, 2007.
• Invited speaker at the initial meeting of the National Software Alliance  
• Invited speaker at the AIE-sponsored, 3^rd Annual Conference on Software Metrics

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.