Open Source Visionary and Computer Scientist
Washington D.C. Metro Area
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- 2LT/S6 at U.S.Army Reserve
- Computer Scientist at U.S. Army Research Laboratory
- Fellow and Board Member at Open Business Foundation
- Board Member at UppDev, LLC.
- Board Member at RavenSong Open Technologies, Inc.
- Past
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- CTO at Uppdev, LLC.
- Executive Director at The Open Business Foundation
- Board Member at FlightLinux, Inc.
- Founder, CEO at RavenSong Open Technologies, Inc.
- CEO and Founder at FlightLinux, Inc.
- Adjunct Professor - Computer Science at Frederick Community College
- NCOIC S-2(Security) & S-6(Automation) at US ARMY RESERVE
- Founder, CEO at The Raven Group, Inc.
- Education
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- University of Maryland Baltimore County
- Hood College
- Strayer University
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Robert Whetsel’s Summary
Robert Whetsel is a decorated war veteran, Open Source Visionary, and a Computer Scientist who has worked with technology since 1989. He is one of founders of the Open Business Foundation where he functioned as a Fellow for the Executive Guidance Team; a trusted advisor and mentor for senior management. Additionally, Robert served on the Steering Committee for the Governor's Workforce Investment Board Information Technology Cluster Initiative for the State of Maryland, and was one of the authors that crafted "Maryland’s Information Technology Industry Workforce Report and Recommendations", white paper http://www.gwib.maryland.gov/it/itrec.pdf. When he’s not pondering difficult, unmanageable problems, preferably those involving the philosophical debate of the Singularity, he’s pursuing a Doctoral degree in Artificial Intelligence; attempting to contribute to the creation of a conscious machine.
Robert Whetsel’s Specialties:
strategic planning advising/mentoring for executives, creating strategies for analytic problem solving, applied project/portfolio management, open source planning and implementation in an enterprise architecture environment, developing and maintaining an enterprise information assurance program, artificial intelligent (AI) research involving natural language interfaces, information architecture and presenting data analytics
Robert Whetsel’s Experience
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2LT/S6
U.S.Army Reserve
(Military industry)
November 2009 — Present (1 month)
I serve as the S6 for the Brigade.
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Computer Scientist
U.S. Army Research Laboratory
(Government Agency; Military industry)
March 2009 — Present (9 months)
Develop and maintain a formal IS security program. Serve as a member and chair of the Configuration Control Board (CCB) at ARL-APG MD. Develop procedures for responding to security incidents, and for investigating and reporting (through proper channels to local management and the DAA) security violations and incidents, as appropriate for information systems within the boundaries. Act as liaison on matters concerning IS and network security to the Program Security Officer (PSO) and to the appropriate service component’s Information Assurance (IA) provider. Develop and oversee operational IS security implementation policy and guidelines. Implement and enforce IS security policies. Provide guidance and policy to all other IA providers within assigned area of responsibility. Maintain as required by the Designated Approval Authority (DAA), a repository for all system accreditation/certification documentation and modifications. Evaluate the applicability of countermeasures identified within weekly bulletins and advisories that impact security of IS under their purview to include: Air Force Computer Emergency Response Team (AFCERT), Army CERT (ACERT), Navy Computer Incident Response Team (NAVCIRT), U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT), Information Assurance Vulnerability Alert (IAVA), and Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Automated Systems Security Incident Support Team (ASSIST) bulletins. And, ensure development and implementation of an effective IS security education, training, and awareness program.
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Fellow and Board Member
Open Business Foundation
(Management Consulting industry)
March 2009 — Present (9 months)
A Fellow and Member of the Board of Directors
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Board Member
UppDev, LLC.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2009 — Present (11 months)
Member of the Board of Advisors
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Board Member
RavenSong Open Technologies, Inc.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2009 — Present (11 months)
Member of the Board
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CTO
Uppdev, LLC.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2008 — March 2009 (5 months)
Acted as CTO and advisor to the senor management, defined and transformed intellectual property into production ready technology services to further the company's objectives. Design and build systems architecture for Uppdev's SAAS offerings. Responsible for scientific and technical issues; perform research and development, and feasibility into application design and data translation models. Mentor and direct the technical staff in best practices for the production of Uppdev's SAAS offerings.
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Executive Director
The Open Business Foundation
(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
January 2005 — March 2009 (4 years 3 months)
The Open Business Foundation is based on open source philosophies and consists of companies seeking to collaborate in a dynamic environment, freely exchange business processes for mutual benefit, and pursue joint opportunities with a trusted community. Served as the Chairman of the Board and acted as the program manager. Grew and managed membership relations, recruited, trained, and mentored members; and cultivated new business and generated opportunities for foundation members. Managed business relationships between companies and oversaw multiple-domain projects across multiple companies.
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Board Member
FlightLinux, Inc.
(Computer Software industry)
August 2008 — December 2008 (5 months)
Member of the Board.
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Founder, CEO
RavenSong Open Technologies, Inc.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2004 — December 2008 (4 years 5 months)
Advising/Mentoring for Executives - coaching and mentoring executives to enhance knowledge and skills in Information Technology and Business Processes.
Defining IT Strategies – work with senior management of companies to successfully align their technology and business objectives. Responsible for overall IT policies and procedures, and IT resources management for client companies.
Creating Strategies for Analytic Problem Solving - Work with organizations to solve complex IT problems.
Enterprise Architecture and Program/Project Management - Apply skills in information architecture, sustainable design, and knowledge representation to design and manage complex information systems. Determine requirements specific to subject matter environments and designed appropriate architecture for sharing and structuring data and information... -
CEO and Founder
FlightLinux, Inc.
(Computer Software industry)
March 2006 — August 2008 (2 years 6 months)
Functioned as a Trusted Advisor for FlighLinux's executive personnel by lending an outside perspective on business practices. Offering key support to executive personnel to enhance leadership judgment, illuminates blind spots, and directs executive personnel to explore new ideas to discover critical business solutions. Works as a member of the chief policy-making body by helping define an overall business road map by aligning business policies and processes, best practices, and metrics.
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Adjunct Professor - Computer Science
Frederick Community College
(Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Higher Education industry)
January 2007 — December 2007 (1 year )
Responsibilities include teaching computer science courses to majors and non-majors.
Operating Systems and Computer Architecture
CIS111M Personal Computer Operating Systems Concepts and CIS212 Personal Computer Repair and Diagnostics. -
NCOIC S-2(Security) & S-6(Automation)
US ARMY RESERVE
(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; USA; Military industry)
March 2001 — August 2004 (3 years 6 months)
Security Manager and Information Assurance Manager (OPSEC, COMSEC and IFOSEC) to support areas of intelligence, managing secure training and briefing events, security clearances and computer security directives. Classified Document Custodian for the Brigade (maintained Classified Container).
Conducted security training and anti-terrorism briefings for the mobilizing units. Assisted Brigade Commander with interpretation of DoD IO policy, wrote Standard Operating Procedures and security policies, and implemented the policies for OPSEC, INFOSEC and COMSEC for 300 units affecting 20,000 soldiers. Advised commanders, directors, and staff on all aspects of security as applied to the mission. Developed and conducted user training for novice users and updated systems for IAVA security compliance. Conducted security related computer processes such as controlling access to classified information and maintaining all computer systems... -
Founder, CEO
The Raven Group, Inc.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
March 1992 — January 2002 (9 years 11 months)
Founder and driving force of successful web design firm. Responsible for defining client’s web-based strategies and objectives, met short and long term objectives. Directed overall client’s web operations to achieve objectives within established parameters, and implemented web solutions using strategies. Designed, developed, and implemented architectures; validating site performance. Developed web architecture by preparing development architectural specifications; identified and evaluated tools; developing management procedures; collaborated with technical analysts. Accomplished client’s goals by accepting ownership, and exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.
Robert Whetsel’s Education
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University of Maryland Baltimore County
Ph.D. , Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence , 2008 — 2012 (expected)
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Hood College
MSCS , Artificial Intelligence , 2005 — 2009
Defending Master's Thesis at Hood College: A Comparison of Natural Language Between Human to Human Communication and Human to Avatar Communication.
Study of Open Cyc System for Knowledge Representation: Explored the feasibility of extracting CYC, OpenCyc and ResearchCyc's ontology from its current architecture and porting the knowledge base to an embedded environment for future use in creating embedded expert systems for distributive satellite computing.- Activities and Societies:
- ACM and Hood's AI Working Group
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Strayer University
BSCS , Computer Information Systems , 2002 — 2004
- Activities and Societies:
- Summa Cum Laude
Additional Information
Robert Whetsel’s Websites:
Robert Whetsel’s Interests:
Intelligent work flow research into Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques to develop an intelligent knowledge management system to continuously acquire, filter, organize and reuse and learn from knowledge. Using natural language processing, machine learning, intelligent agents, intelligent multi-agents, text mining, data mining, information extraction, and Web-based learning.
Robert Whetsel’s Groups:
Veteran of the Army, Army Reserve and Air Force, VFW, American Legion, Open Business Foundation, Free Software Foundation, Ubuntu Community, Open FlightLinux Project, Fedora Community, Open SuSE Community, Slackware Community, Hood's AI Working Group, ACM, IEEE, UMBC, Hood College, Strayer, New River Community College, Frederick Community College, Phi Theta Kappa
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270inc Magazine & Radio
Robert Whetsel’s Honors:
Educational Awards:
Magna Cum Laude
Summa Cum Laude
Military Awards:
The Army Commendation Medal
The Army Achievement Medal
National Defense Service Medal
Global War on Terrorism Service Medal
Armed Forces Reserve Medal with M Device
Air Force Outstanding Unit Award (2nd award)
Air Force Good Conduct Medal
Air Force Longevity Service Award
Army Service Ribbon
Air Force Training Ribbon
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