This is an alphabetical listing of all presenters
/ speakers who participated in STC 2002. Brief biographical information
is provided for each.
Berner, Paul
Paul is a SEDRIS Core Team member with over twenty-three
years of experience in systems analysis, operations research, modeling
and simulation ranging from mass action kinetics to undersea warfare. He
has worked in naval acoustic combat system tactics development, test and
evaluation, training systems R&D, and acquisition IV&V, and has
developed technology for acoustic signal synthesis and underwater acoustic
combat system trainers.
Campos, Jesse
Jesse is a Software Engineer with Science Applications
International Corporation (SAIC) in Orlando, FL. He has been working on
SEDRIS for the past four years, concentrating on the SEDRIS Transmittal
Format (STF). Jesse holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University
of Central Florida.
Carson, John
John is a Research Scientist with QinetiQ, Ltd.,
and is currently the Lead Developer on the HLA Interface to the IMPACT
chemical and biological dispersion system. John holds a First Class Honours
degree from Staffordshire Polytechnic (U.K.) and a Ph.D. in Parallel Programming
from the University of Essex.
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Carswell, John
John is a Simulation Engineer with Advanced Interactive
Systems (AIS), Inc. (formerly Reality by Design). Since 1988, he has been
actively engaged in the design, implementation and use of systems that
import, generate, transform, and export environment databases. John has
held positions in software engineering, systems engineering and research
with General Electric, Lockheed Martin, and SAIC, and joined AIS in January
of 2000. As a member of the SEDRIS core team since 1996, he has lead the
design and development of the SEDRIS Transmittal Format (STF), the Write
API, and the new Reference API Implementation Framework (RAIF). He has
also contributed to the general development of the SEDRIS DRM and API.
John holds a B.A. in Computer Science from Stetson University.
Conwell, Candance
Candance is a Computer Scientist at the Space and
Naval Warfare Systems Command. She has 25 years of C4ISR and M&S experience,
including design, development, testing, and integration of simulation and
C4I systems. Candance is currently the Chief Engineer for SPAWAR's Modeling
and Simulation Systems group, which is the Program Office for the new NBC
Defense programs, the Joint Effects Model (JEM) and the Joint Operational
Effects Federation (JOEF), both of which will involve extensive use of
environmental data. She is leading a data management team that is developing
the data schema for NBC Battle Management programs. Candance is a graduate
of the Naval Postgraduate School, and a former Naval Officer with subspecialties
in Joint C4I, communications, and computer systems management.
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Cox, Rob
Rob is a Senior/Chief Scientist with SAIC, and has
been the SEDRIS Principal Investigator (PI) for the SAIC core team and
the PI for two separate Defense Threat Reduction Agency contracts. After
a career in the U.S. Air Force, he has been leading the SAIC SEDRIS efforts
for the past three years, and is the SAIC lead for R&D efforts in the
Synthetic Natural Environments (SNE). While on active duty, Rob was a program
manager and researcher developing many techniques in numerical modeling,
and was involved in leading the initial efforts for the DoD in the Advanced
Distance Learning program. He has published over 30 articles in scientific
conferences and journals. Rob holds a Ph.D. in Meteorology from Texas A&M
University.
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Desai, Chetan
Chetan is a Lead GIS Developer for ProLogic, Inc.
since April, 1999. Chetan has 15 years of experience with Geographic Information
Systems (GIS) technology with tenures at small businesses and academia.
He has held positions with responsibilities for R&D coordination, project
management, software development, and product management. Chetan holds
an advanced degree in Industrial Engineering from Virginia Tech.
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Foley, Gary
Gary is the Director of the National Exposure Research
Laboratory in the Office of Research and Development at the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA). Gary is one of the leaders in EPA on modeling
and high performance computing, where he chairs the Agency's Council on
Environmental Regulatory Modeling and the High Performance Computing Executive
Council. Gary has also been active in monitoring and modeling of atmospheric
deposition of persistent toxics to the Great Lakes through his role of
U.S. Co-chair of the International Air Quality Advisory Board of the International
Joint Commission. He also is Chairman of the EPA PBT Monitoring Strategy
Steering Committee. Some years ago as Laboratory Director, and then Acting
Assistant Administrator for Research and Development, he lead EPA into
joining the Federal High Performance Computing and Communication program,
which eventually resulted in the development of the advanced atmospheric
pollutant transport model and analysis framework, the purchase of supercomputers
by EPA, and a broadened use of high performance computing techniques in
the Agency's regulatory and research programs. Gary is a Chemical Engineer,
and a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. He holds
a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Manhattan College, and a M.S. and Ph.D.
in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin.
Foley, Paul
Paul is an Information Systems Engineer with Quantum
Research International, and is currently the DMSO Environmental Representation
Lead. A retired Corps of Engineers Officer, he has over 30 years experience
in Army topographic and digital geospatial system operations. Paul
holds advanced degrees in Photogrammetry from Purdue University, and R&D
Systems Management from the the University of Southern California.
Paul is also a graduate of the Army War College.
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Gifford, Tim
Tim is a Senior Analyst with
Armed Forces Training Systems, Inc., and serves as the U.S. Army STRICOM
SEDRIS Project Coordinator and team lead for the SEDRIS Project Office.
As a member of the SEDRIS management team, he serves as a primary point
of contact for the day-to-day activities of SEDRIS. Tim has spent the past
nine years as a management analyst in support of STRICOM, and of that,
has been supporting the SEDRIS project for the last six years. Previous
to this, he worked in the area of training and education development in
both academia and industry. Tim holds a Bachelor degree in Music Education
from the University of Florida, and a M.S. in Instructional Systems from
Florida State University.
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Grady, Michael
Michael is the Vice President
for Technology, Engineering & Quality, and Chief Technology Officer
for Northrop Grumman Information Technology. In this position, he provides
policy and functional guidance to Northrop Grumman IT executives in a variety
of areas impacted by technical and programmatic issues. He also serves
on the Board of Directors of the Software Productivity Consortium. Michael
has over 30 years experience in computer systems engineering and management.
Earlier in his career, he held software engineering assignments on large-scale
surface warfare simulation programs, war gaming systems, a multi-million
dollar computer-controlled entertainment system, flight simulators, and
air traffic control trainers. Michael holds a M.S. in Physics from the
University of California, San Diego, is a graduate of the University of
California's Executive Program for Scientists and Engineers, and is currently
concluding his thesis work toward a M.A. in Liberal Studies at Georgetown
University.
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Gravitz, Peggy
Peggy is a Simulation Engineer with AEgis Technologies
Group, Inc. She has specialized in DoD Modeling and Simulation standards
with a focus in the areas of data and software quality. Peggy has over
18 years of IT experience in systems analysis, systems/database design
and implementation, data/process/enterprise modeling, software development,
software quality assurance, configuration management, systems administration
and project management. She currently serves as an EDCS Instructor as well
as the Steering Group Coordinator for the Navy Modeling and Simulation
Standards Project. Peggy holds a B.A. in Foreign Language, a Secondary
Education Certification, the DoD Programmer Analyst Internship, a M.B.A.,
and a M.S. in Systems Management.
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Green, Keith
Keith is a member of the U.S. Institute for Defense
Analyses (IDA). He has been working with distributed simulations for 12
years, beginning with the SIMNET program. Keith holds a M.S. in Engineering,
Math and Computer Science from the University of Louisville.
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Griffiths, Ian
Ian has worked as a Scientist in the Physical Sciences
Departmentat at the U.K. Defence Science and Technology Laboratory for
seven years. He leads the research teams that develops the Urban Dispersion
Model (UDM) and the Flow Across Complex Terrain Solver (FACTS) wind flow
model. Ian also heads the group that is developing the Integrated Modeling
Platform with Agent Controlled Tasking (IMPACT) as well as the team that
is integrating the UDM with the Defense Threat Reduction Agency's Hazard
Prediction Assessment Capability (HPAC). Other groups he heads are producing
operational hazard assessment systems, operational research tools for studying
the effects of airborne contaminants and also researching wind flow modeling
particularly, most recently, at the land-sea interface. Ian has a B.S.
in Mathematics and a M.S. in Defense Modeling and Simulation.
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Hembree, Louis
Louis is a Meteorologist in the Naval Research Laboratory,
Marine Meteorology Division. He supports the Air and Space Executive Agent
for M&S as a subject matter expert in the development of SEDRIS. Louis
is also a task leader for the Master Environmental Library (MEL) project
and is involved with making SEDRIS data sets available via MEL. He has
been participating in the DIS and SISO workshops, and served as Chair of
the Atmospheric Working Group and the Sensor Modeling Forum. Louis has
also been involved with several M&S projects.
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Hollis, Walter
Walt serves as the Deputy
Under Secretary of the Army for Operations Research in the Office of the
Under Secretary of the Army. He assumed his present
position in 1980. Walt establishes policy guidance,
monitors Army operations research activities, and is the senior Army test
and evaluation official. He initiates, conducts, reviews and monitors studies
and analytical reports basic to the justification of Army Requirements
and programs. Walt initiates studies of interest to the Secretariat, and
serves as the primary point of contact and liaison for similar activities
in the office, Secretary of Defense, and other military departments. He
has fifty-one years of government service during which he has earned meritorious
and distinguished awards too numerous to list from the President, DoD,
the Department of the Army, and the British, Canadian & Australian
Armies. Walt holds a B.A. from Northeastern University, a M.S. from GW
University, and has attended the National War College.
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Howington, Stacy
Stacy is a Research Hydraulic Engineer with the
U.S. Army's Engineer Research and Development Center in Vicksburg, Mississippi.
He works in the Groundwater Systems Group of the Hydrosystems Modeling
Branch. Stacy has been at the facility in Vicksburg for over 19 years,
working on water resources projects, ranging from stream temperature regulation
for fisheries management to simulation of groundwater flow and constituent
transport for design of remediation schemes. Stacy holds a B.S. and a M.S.
from Mississippi State University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Colorado,
all in Civil Engineering.
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Hughes, John
John is employed by the MITRE Corporation and supports
the Environmental Representation Technology Area (e.g. SEDRIS, MEL, and
ESG) at the Defense Modeling and Simulation Office (DMSO). He serves as
the Assistant Technology Area Lead and is responsible for the MEL and ESG
projects and for coordinating the activities of the Natural Environmental
DoD M&S Executive Agents and the DMSO enabling technology development
efforts. John has previously supported various DMSO natural environmental
representation activities and has provided support for the M&S S&T
portion of the DoD wide Reliance S&T planning process. He has over
30 years experience including a career as a Naval Officer providing meteorological
and oceanographic support to the warfighter and managing various related
research and development efforts and acquisition activities. John holds
advanced degrees in Oceanography from the Naval Postgraduate School, and
in Business Administration from Boston University.
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Hull, Greg
Greg is a Software Engineer with Science Applications
International Corporation (SAIC) in Orlando, FL. He has been working on
SEDRIS for the past eighteen months, concentrating on modification of the
SEDRIS Transmittal Format (STF) for Release 3.0. Greg holds a B.S. in Computer
Science and a B.S. in Math from the University of Central Florida.
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Janett, Annette
Annette is a Senior Software Engineer with Lockheed
Martin Information Systems Advanced Simulation Center. She has led development
teams in the development of the OpenScene visualization system, and DARPA
and USATEC projects Dynamic Terrain and Objects in a Virtual World and
Dynamic Virtual Worlds. More recently Annette has led development efforts
on the DMSO Dynamic Terrain in the Environment Federation project, and
has contributed to Modeling and Simulation activities in SEDRIS and SISO
where she represents terrain data modeling, visual systems and synthetic
natural environment interests. She has been a contributor to distributed
simulation and synthetic environments since 1986, and her experience includes
ground and air virtual simulation systems, constructive simulation systems,
distributed simulation networks, environmental capabilities in distributed
simulation, real-time image generator design and development, data modeling
for distributed simulation systems, and SEDRIS production and consumption.
Annette holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Washington State University.
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Layman, Gene
Gene is a Research Engineer at the Naval Research
Laboratory and directs a Command and Control Development Team that has
been active in GCCS and GCCS-Maritime developments since their conceptions.
Earlier he managed the Radar Branch and the Guidance Branch at the Naval
Surface Weapons Center. Before that, Gene was a Program Manager in the
Missile and Ordinance Division at Texas Instruments, Inc. and a Circuit
Designer at The Boeing Company on the Minuteman Program. He has led or
participated in the design of over two-dozen military systems with more
than half becoming fully operational.
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Lenczowski, Roberta
Roberta serves as the Technical Director of the
National Imagery and Mapping Agency, (NIMA), Bethesda, Md. She was selected
for her current position in September 2001. Roberta began her professional
career with the Defense Mapping Agency, now the National Imagery and Mapping
Agency, in 1977. During her NIMA career, she has held numerous postions
of increasing level of responsibility including: in the Control Generation
Division of the Geopositioning Department, in the Digital Products Department,
as Manager of the Systems Development Group, as Chief of the Digital Products
Department at the Aerospace Center, as Chief of the Data Services Department
at the Aerospace Center, as Chief of the Warrior Support Division at the
Systems Center, as Technical Advisor for Geographic Information Systems
for DMA, as NIMA's Director of Acquisition and Technology, as Associate
Deputy Director of Operations, and as Deputy Director of Operations for
NIMA. Roberta holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Creighton University, a M.A.
in Philosophy from St. Louis University, and a M.S. in Geodetic Science
from Washington University. In addition, she has fulfilled partial requirements
toward a M.S.in Computer Science from the University of Missouri.
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Liu, Jesse
Jesse is the President of AcuSoft, Inc. AcuSoft
is a simulation software company; specializing in DIS, HLA, real-time visual
software, and synthetic environment database development. AcuSoft is a
SEDRIS associate member specializing in database conversion, visualization,
and validation tools. Jesse holds a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from
the University of Florida. .
Lowe, Steve
Steve is the Principal Investigator for the Environmental
Scenario Generator (ESG) program and continues to support the Master Environmental
Library (MEL) program. Under the ESG program, he is responsible for the
overall design and development of a distributed Java application providing
real-time data mining and just-in-time scenario production capabilities
accessible from a customizable client application. Prior to leading the
ESG development effort, Steve supported the MEL program in the areas of:
development of software for the exchange and visualization of environmental
data; generation of physically consistent, integrated synthetic natural
environment scenario databases for distribution through MEL; and the development
of distributed computing within the MEL architecture. He has also provided
support to the Naval Research Laboratory over the past five years in the
areas of: development of regional environmental analysis and prediction
techniques, assimilation and analysis of remotely sensed data, improved
techniques for assessing the effect of atmospheric conditions on Navy systems,
development of weather data processing and visualization tools, and support
of atmospheric modeling and simulation. Steve holds both B.S. and M.S.
degrees in Aerospace Engineering from Virginia Tech.
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Macchi, Warren
Warren is a Software Engineer with Arteon Corporation
and AcuSoft, Inc. He has been working on computer graphics and simulation
research for over 7 years. His experience includes computer vision, 3D
rendering, real-time simulation systems, database modeling, networking,
and synthetic environment manipulation and analysis tools. Warren has been
a member of the SEDRIS team since 1997. He was the lead developer of the
Side-By-Side Viewer, the Java Browser, and the lead conversion expert for
CCTT databases. Warren has also worked with the SEDRIS core team in the
design and development of the Reference API Implementation Framework (RAIF),
Level 1 API, EDCS tools, and currently the SEDRIS Inter-Application Interface
API. Warren holds a M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Central
Florida.
Magusiak,
Dana
Dana is a member of the Research Staff in the Simulation
Center at the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA). He has over 15 years
experience in the fields of geographic data extraction, image analysis
and visual simulation. The last nine years Dana has been involved in the
refinement of the visual simulation terrain generation process starting
with SIMNET at the U.S. Army Topographic Engineering Center. He has participated
in the construction of many simulation terrain databases for both Army
and Joint simulation exercises. Dana holds a B.S. in Geography from Pennsylvania
State University.
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Mamaghani, Farid
Farid has worked in the field of interactive networked
simulation since 1984. He is one of the original designers of the Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Simulation Networking (SIMNET)
computer image generation system, and has worked as systems engineer and
project manager on a variety of networked simulation projects. Farid is
one of the people primarily responsible for the establishment of the SEDRIS
project. He is currently an independent consultant (with clients in both
the DoD and commercial sectors), serving as the SEDRIS Technical Director
and managing the day-to-day activites of the project.
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May, James
James is a Senior Research Geologist with the Army
Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), Waterways Experiment Station.
He initiated and was instrumental in the development of the Army's highly
successful Ground Water Modeling System (GMS). James has over 30 years
experience in sub-surface characterization at military installations such
as Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Aberdeen Proving Grounds, the Nevada Test Site,
and Crane Naval Surface Warfare Center. He has located ground water for
military exercises in Somalia, Honduras, and Egypt. James holds degrees
from Mississippi State University, the University of Southern Mississippi,
and a Ph.D. from Texas A&M.
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Moulton, Russ
Russ is the President of JRM Technologies, a firm
specializing in M&S products and services for physics-based sensor
simulation. His expertise includes EO/IR/RF signature and atmospheric phenomenology,
sensor effects modeling, computer graphics, and real-time sensor simulation
systems. Russ is the author of many technical publications on sensor simulation,
and has developed several simulation products, including the NVESD "Paint-the-Night"
real-time IR scene simulator, and JRM's SigSim and SenSim packages. He
is also a Commander in the U.S. Naval Reserves. Russ holds a B.S. in Physics
from the U.S. Naval Academy, and a M.S. in Electrical Engineering, specializing
in Digital Signal Processing, from the University of Pennsylvania Moore
School of Electrical Engineering.
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Pieper, Kenneth
Kenneth is a Colonel in the U.S. Army, and serves
as the Deputy Director of the Defense Modeling and Simulation Office (DMSO),
Alexandria, Va. He assumed his present position on September 19, 2001.
His Army primary specialties are Joint Specialty Officer, and Operations
Research Systems Analyst. Colonel Pieper has held many positions commensurate
with his rank and occupational specialties. Among many other assignments,
he served as a Field Artillery Officer in tactical units from the battery
through corps level in the U.S. and Europe, as a Senior Military Fellow
at the War Gaming and Simulation Center of the Institute for National Strategic
Studies at the National Defense University, and as a Land Forces Analyst
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon. Colonel Pieper holds a B.S.
from the United States Military Academy, West Point, and a M.S. in Operations
Research from the Naval Postgraduate School.
Schwarz, Rick
Rick is a Major in the U.S. Army and serves as the
Technical Manager Joint Virtual Battlespace, and Operations Officer for
Joint Precision Strike Demonstration Project Office. Rick has held
many positions commensurate with his rank and occupational specialty. Among
many other assignments, he served as a Tank Platoon
Leader, Headquarters Company Executive Officer, Tank Company Executive
Officer, Assistant S-3, Commander of a Transportation Company, Assistant
G-4, Army Acquisition Officer Project Director, and as Assistant Project
Manager Fielding & Production. Rick holds a M.S. from the Naval Postgraduate
School.
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Siquig, Richard
Richard is a physicist working for the Naval Research
Laboratory in Monterey, CA. He is the project lead for both the Master
Environmental Library (MEL) and the Environmental Scenario Generator (ESG).
Both of these projects will utilize SEDRIS for data delivery. Richard's
work experience of the last few years has been in incorporating the environment
in modeling and simulation and in geospatial information discovery and
retrieval.
Smith, Neil
Neil is the Knowledge Integrator for Simulation
and Synthetic Environments at the U.K. Defence Science & Technology
Laboratory. He provides advice on technology and standards to the U.K.
Ministry of Defence, relevant to the use of Simulation and Synthetic Environments
(SSEs) for defence applications. Neil has over 25 years experience in the
use of simulation technology mainly for real-time, human-in-the-loop flight
simulation applications. Since 1992, he has been involved with a range
of U.K. research projects that have provided a focus on the application
of processes and technologies to integrate real-time simulation systems
as part of larger-scale networked simulation environments, known in the
U.K. as Synthetic Environments (SEs). These studies have involved the application
of standards for Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) and a review
of SEDRIS, in addition to managing the implementation of distributed simulation
frameworks using the U.S. High Level Architecture (HLA). Neil currently
works closely with the U.K. Synthetic Environment Co-ordination Office
(SECO). Specific areas of activity include: technical management of U.K.
SE research projects; U.K. Chair of EUCLID RTP 11.13, a European collaborative
research programme to address the potential use of SEs within Europe, involving
13 Nations and 22 Industrial Entities (IEs); knowledge integration and
co-ordination of Simulation & SE (SSE) research; providing assistance
in developing SSE research strategy, requirements and statements of work;
and international research collaboration, including participation in NATO
Modelling & Simulation Groups (NMSG) and relevant NATO Standards meetings.
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Stark, Tom
Tom is the Senior Scientist for Cubic Defense Applications'
East Coast Engineering Division, with technical oversight over Cubic's
programs in support of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) and The
Dugway Proving Ground. He has extensive experience in the modeling of physical
phenomena, as well as distributed simulation standards and integration,
and Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). Tom holds a B.S., M.S. and Ph.D.
in Physics.
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Stone, Tim
Tim is a Research Programmer/Analyst at the Institute
for Defense Analyses (IDA). He is a co-developer of the Synthetic Environment
Evaluation - Inspection Tool (SEE-IT) Application, and has been working
in the Simulation Center at IDA for the past four years dealing with a
wide variety of topics relating to simulation. Tim's interests include
computational geometry, triangulated irregular networks (TINs), simulation,
algorithm design, and line of sight (LOS). Tim holds a B.S. in Mathematics
and Computer Science from Lewis & Clark College, and a M.S. in Computer
Science from New Mexico State University.
Toms, Ralph
Ralph has more than thirty years of experience with
real-time embedded systems and high performance simulation development.
He is a Senior Technical Advisor at SRI International. His formal training
is in applied mathematics and numerical analysis. He has leveraged this
experience and training to develop new efficient procedures for SEDRIS
coordinate transformation that retain high accuracy.
Tosh, Andrew
Andrew Tosh is the lead engineer for AcuSoft's SEDRIS
tool, the Side-by-Side Terrain Viewer. After graduating from the University
of Central Florida with a degree in Computer Science, Andrew has developed
real-time visual systems and validation tools for AcuSoft.
Trott, Kevin
Kevin is a Senior Member of the Technical Staff
of Northrop Grumman Information Technology in Rome, NY. His areas
of expertise include digital topographic data, modeling and simulation,
and object-oriented software engineering. He has led successful software
engineering and technology development projects for the U.S. Army Topographic
Engineering Center, U.S. Army STRICOM, NIMA, and the Air Force Research
Laboratory. Kevin was responsible for developing the mapping from
NIMA's Vector Product Format (VPF) to the SEDRIS data representation model,
and for the software that implements that mapping.
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Wertman, Kevin
Kevin is a Software Engineer with Science Applications
International Corporation (SAIC) in Orlando, FL. Since August of 2000,
he has been a member of the SEDRIS Core Team, involved with testing and
general development of the Application Programmer's Interface (API). In
March 2001, Kevin became the maintainer and developer of the SEDRIS to
Compact Terrain Data Base (CTDB) converter. Kevin holds a B.S. in Computer
Science from the University of Central Florida.
Worley, Michele
Michele is a Software Engineer at Science Applications
International Corporation (SAIC), Orlando. She focuses on maintenance of
the SEDRIS Data Representation Model, the Read Application Programmer's
Interface, and other SEDRIS core applications. Michele has been supporting
the SEDRIS project since early 1997.
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Zimmers, Walter
Walter is the Chief of the WMD Assessment and Analysis
Center, Counter Proliferation Support and Operations Directorate, Defense
Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), Department of Defense DoD). He is a nationally
and internationally recognized DoD analyst on the effects of Weapons of
Mass Destruction (WMD) across the spectrum of counter-proliferation and
counterterrorism issues. Under his leadership, DTRA's WMD Assessment and
Analysis Center provides direct support for high-profile events which have
included the Olympic Games in Atlanta, Presidential Inaugurations, State
of the Union Addresses, the G-8 Summit Conference in Denver and, most recently,
the NATO 50th Anniversary Summit. Walter has been responsible for the WMD
Assessment and Analysis Center's support of "real-world" operations
- from Desert Shield/Desert Storm to Operation Allied Force - including
direct support to tactical planners and weaponeers in order to maximize
mission effectiveness, minimize collateral effects and quickly estimate
battle damage after an attack. Prior to joining DTRA, Walter served twenty-three
years in the U.S. Army as a Senior Army Aviator for fixed and rotary wing
aircraft focused in R&D. Walter holds a B.S. in Business Management
from the College of William & Mary and is a graduate of the Advanced
Officer's Transportation School, Armed Forces Staff College and the Defense
Systems Management College.