"Knowing is not enough, we must apply.
Willing is not enough, we must do" .:Bruce Lee
Chief Technologist, Doctor of Technology Student, Solution Architect, Product Manager, and Lean Agilist.
Success lives at the intersection of opportunity and preparation.
Current Research
Doctor of Technology, Technology, Polytechnic Institute & Daniels School of Business, Purdue University - West Lafayette, IN. In Progress.
​​
​​The Doctor of Technology is an advanced technology leadership program focused on solving complex technology-related problems. I tailored my curriculum to give me advanced tools and techniques to think critically about technology strategy from the lens of organizational alignment, implementation, and adoption.
Dissertation Topic: Leadership Strategies for fostering trust and adoption of AI-Powered decision support systems.
​
Research Focus: Digital Transformation, Technology Leadership, and Human AI Interface
​
Technology Leadership Coursework (Polytechnic Institute): Global Perspectives of Emerging Technologies; Emerging World-Class Leadership Strategies; Digital Leadership; Demographic Leadership; Agile Strategy for Leadership; Leadership of Cyber Security and Cyber Forensics; Leadership Organizational Change; Global Supply Chain Management; Internet of Things and Cybersecurity; Technology Research and Use of Data Analytics.
​
Business Leadership Coursework (Daniels School of Business): Negotiations in Organizations, Technology Strategy, Frontiers in C-Suite; Frontiers in AI; Financing New Ventures; Strategic HR, Mergers, Acquisitions, and Corporate Control; Managerial Economics.
Master of Science, Computer Science, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology - Atlanta, GA. In Progress.
​
The Interactive Intelligence specialization acknowledges that a key component of human-level intelligence is the drive to be interactive. That is, intelligent agents, to include humans, seek out opportunities to interact and communicate with other intelligent agents. This drive supports intelligence and encourages learning. Research in this specialization seeks to understand how to build autonomous agents that must live and interact with large number of other intelligent agents, to include humans. Focus is on intelligent systems that are immersive, expressive, socially-aware, knowledge-driven, grounded, adaptive, robust, and interactive. Central technical issues are adaptive modeling, especially activity discovery (as distinct from activity recognition); and scalable interaction, including coordination and influence.
​
Research Topics: Human AI Interface, Cognitive AI, and Ethical AI
​Coursework: Introduction to Cognitive Science; Human-Computer Interaction; AI, Ethics, and Society; Knowledge-based AI - Cognitive Systems.
Mini-STEM MBA
Successful Technology Strategies must include organizational change management that accounts for culture (i.e., people) and processes. In my experience, I often found culture to be the biggest challenge in successfully implementing new technologies. If you don't have the business acumen to align culture to your technology vision then you will never achieve technology adoption.​​
​
A Master of Business Administration (MBA), with a focus on IT Management, has always been an interest but, while accepted into a few programs, time and priorities have never allowed me to matriculate. Instead, I have been intentional in taking business courses throughout my academic career to give me the tools and techniques that I would have received in an MBA program, tailored specifically for STEM business leadership roles and strengthened through my professional experience as a Technology Business Leader. These courses were accrued through my time at the Daniels School of Business at Purdue University, Rady School of Business at University of California - San Diego, and Mason School of Business at The College of William and Mary.
Mini STEM MBA Curriculum (Graduate): Technology Strategy; Financing New Ventures; Negotiations in Organizations; HR Strategy; Life in the C-Suite; Essentials for Business Practice; Leadership Skills, Values, and Teamwork in Technology Firms; Decision and Risk Analysis; Managing Stakeholder Relationships; Capstone
​
Business Foundations (Undergrad): Principles of Accounting; Principles of Microeconomics; Principles of Macroeconomics.​
Academic Background
Master of Advanced Studies, Architecture-based Enterprise Systems Engineering, Jacobs School of Engineering & Rady School of Management, University of California - San Diego, CA. Graduated 2015.​
The Architecture-based Enterprise Systems Engineering (AESE) program, led by faculty from UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering and Rady School of Management, provided engineering and leadership tools and techniques to discover, define, acquire funding, implement, and launch new innovative solutions. Centered around disruption, we took a big, hairy, audacious goal (BHAG) of On-Demand Healthcare and generated a capstone report that covered stakeholder communities, market analysis, strategic alignment, financial analysis, architectural framework, solution approach, solution implementation, and a capability phasing plan.
​
Capstone: On-Demand Healthcare is a differentiated software solution that provides unparalleled convenience and quality health care services at the touch of your fingertip through the digitally enabled house call. Provisioned on a secure cloud platform to globally scale services to meet demand, a comprehensive Business Intelligence solution to optimize operations and capitalize on market opportunities, and a premier network of health care practitioners, On-Demand Healthcare is positioned to transform the health care experience.
​
Engineering Coursework: Complexity and Large-Scale Systems; Enterprise Architecting; Modeling, Simulation, Analysis; Engineering Essentials for Open, Distributed Systems; Patterns for Enterprise Architecting.
Business / Leadership Coursework: Essentials for Business Practices; Leadership, Ethics, and Team Management; Decision and Risk Analysis; Managing Stakeholder Relationships.
Master of Science, Computer Science, College of Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute - NCR Campus, VA. Incomplete.​
Research Topics: Software Engineering; Domain Engineering; Software Safety in Reuse.
​
In Progress Thesis: Contracts for Safety, 2009. By nature, compositional software reuse takes a software component out of its intended environment and plugs it into a foreign environment. This change in context can often end in catastrophe as seen in the Therac-25 and Arian 5 accidents. To make transitions in environments safer, I propose that a complete specification be defined for the reuse component using a Design by Contract paradigm. By developing a complete set of specifications and using a design by contract wrapper to enforce these specifications, a user can easily identify the concept and context of a reuse component mitigating any risk of its use in a foreign environment, increasing the software safety of the component..
Computer Science Coursework: Software Engineering; Domain Engineering; Network Architecture and Protocols; Information Storage and Retrieval; Operating Systems.
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science and Bachelor of Science, Mathematics. Arts & Sciences, College of William & Mary, VA. Graduated 2003.​
Computer Science Coursework: Introduction to Computer Science; Data Structures; Discrete Structures in Computer Science; Algorithms; Program Language Design; Computer Organization; Finite Automata; Simulation; Computer Graphics; Systems Programming; Software Engineering; Artificial Intelligence; Web Programming.
​
Mathematics Coursework: Calculus; Linear Algebra; Multivariable Calculus for Science and Mathematics; Foundations of Mathematics; Applied Statistics; Elementary Analysis; Introduction Operations Research; Probability; Operations Research II.
Business Coursework: Principles of Accounting, Principles of Microeconomics, Principles of Macroeconomics.
Professional Experience
-
2011 - Present: Booz Allen Hamilton, Chief Technologist.
-
2004 - 2011: Raytheon IIS, Senior Software Engineer, with Honors and Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer.
-
2003 - 2004: Progeny Systems Corporation, Software Developer.
-
2002 (Summer): Lockheed Martin, Intern.
-
2001 (Summer): Lockheed Martin, Intern.