
software entrepreneur
Greater Pittsburgh Area

software entrepreneur
Greater Pittsburgh Area
Veteran software technologist and business developer specializing in Artificial Intelligence with decades of experience selling, developing and applying advanced technology in securities, banking, insurance, healthcare, telecommunications, and government applications.
- Technology Strategy and Business Development
- Founder, CTO, CFO, CEO, IPO, LBO, VC, M&A experience
- Complex Consultative Sales, Licensing and Contracts
- Artifical Intelligence, Reasoning / Learning / Language
- BI / BPM / CEP / BRMS / Rule Technologies
- Knowledge Elicitation / Harvesting / Management / Automation
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
November 2007 — Present (9 months)
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
July 2004 — Present (4 years 1 month)
Rebranding of Haley Enterprise, Inc. after securing the largest OEM license in the BPM/BRMS industry and accepting venture capital.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
August 1989 — July 2004 (15 years)
Self-funding artificial intelligence software vendor recognized by Gartner as the visionary technology leader in business rules and by IDC and Forrester as the most accessible business rules management system for non-programmers and general purpose BPM.
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
March 1987 — August 1989 (2 years 6 months)
LBO funded development of software that discovered reliable portfolios of program trading strategies using natural language processing to extract qualitative variables from newswires and expert systems technology to hypothesize models combining qualitative and quantitative time series data and evaluate results obtained using commercial statistical software..
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
March 1984 — February 1987 (3 years)
Led the design and implementation of the first commercial rule engine to combine forward and backward chaining using the Rete Algorithm, i.e., the Automated Reasoning Tool from which NASA derived CLIPS from which Sandia Natl Labs derived JESS. ART was also the first rule engine to support taxonomic, logical, and hypothetical reasoning.
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
January 1984 — February 1984 (2 months)
business plan contributor and 1st employee
(Educational Institution; Computer Software industry)
March 1981 — December 1983 (2 years 10 months)
Led a dozen staff and industry apprentices in the development of several of the first commercially successful expert systems and contributed to the early commercialization of OPS5 and the formation of Carnegie Group, Inc.
(Research industry)
June 1979 — January 1981 (1 year 8 months)
(Research industry)
May 1978 — September 1978 (5 months)
(Research industry)
September 1976 — May 1978 (1 year 9 months)
Artificial Intelligence 1981 — 1983
post graduate courses while on staff
MS, Computer Science, 1979 — 1981
Neural Systems
Cognitive Science
Aritifical Intelligence
BS, Physics, 1975 — 1979
Awarded PhD fellowship in Nuclear Physics