Principal Scientist for Knowledge Management at The Aerospace Corporation
Orange County, California Area
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- Principal Scientist Knowledge Management. at The Aerospace Corporation
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- Senior Manager at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young
- Senior Manager at Ernst & Young, LLP
- Senior Manager at Ernst & Young, LLP
- CTO at Magellan Software / Gauss Interprise AG
- CTO at Exist
- Regional Manager at Data Dimensions eBusiness Services
- Regional Manager at SAIC Center for Information Security Technology
- Director of Technology at Intercare
- Manager at The Aerospace Corporation
- R&D Manager at Ford Aerospace
- Education
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- University of Houston-Clear Lake
- University of North Texas
- University of Houston-Clear Lake
- University of Houston
- Clear Creek High School
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Stewart Sutton’s Summary
Stewart Sutton leads the enterprise-wide Knowledge Management program for The Aerospace Corporation. He is accountable for both technology validation and process changes that are directed toward improving collaboration and stewardship within the enterprise. The Aerospace Corporation was recently recognized as one of five best practice organizations in the world for knowledge retention and transfer by an independent benchmarking study lead by the APQC . Stew has also co-founded the Southern California Knowledge Management Exchange - a cross-organization collaborative of industry and academic practitioners who are shaping the knowledge management discipline.
Stewart Sutton’s Specialties:
Research and development, professional publishing, teaching, staff mentorship, leading cross-organizational teams, integrating the collective wisdom of diverse groups, refining and adapting technology for cultural fit, coordinating and evolving collaboration and stewardship solutions within a highly technical workforce.
Stewart Sutton’s Experience
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Principal Scientist Knowledge Management.
The Aerospace Corporation
(Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Defense & Space industry)
September 2002 — Present (7 years 3 months)
Knowledge Management leader for the corporation. Director of the Knowledge Management Office, Lead for the Knowledge Management Subcouncil, and Knowledge Management Community of Practice. Overseeing technology and process evolution supporting improvements to knowledge retention and transfer among corporate staff.
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Senior Manager
Cap Gemini Ernst & Young
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2000 — September 2002 (2 years 3 months)
Ernst & Young Accelerated Development Center in Irvine, CA
Principal author of enterprise access architecture for a major managed care provider. This definition included formulation of business patterns / use cases to articulate architecture priorities within the enterprise, templates for ongoing business patterns formulation, a detailed technology / standards roadmap, and a structured process for enterprise technology standards refinement.
Led the R&D effort to prove out a fully automated solution to enhance speed of service and order accuracy for TRICON's fast-serve food industry operations by integrating a combination of adaptive technologies including Linux-based appliances, voice synthesis, speaker-independent voice recognition, and 2-way wireless audio.
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Senior Manager
Ernst & Young, LLP
(Think Tanks industry)
2000 — 2002 (2 years )
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Senior Manager
Ernst & Young, LLP
(Think Tanks industry)
2000 — 2002 (2 years )
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CTO
Magellan Software / Gauss Interprise AG
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 2000 — August 2000 (8 months)
As CTO for Magellan Software prior to its acquisition by Gauss Interprise AG of Germany (and eventually OpenText). Product development modernization efforts included: massive adjustments to accommodate multi-platform (Win NT/2000, Solaris, HP-UX, Linux, etc.) quality assurance (addressing unit and integration testing modes spanning performance, usability, compatibility, functional, and regression), UML-based training for staff and design process standardization, application server compatibility planning and migration planning, and standardizing the software development environment including source code control, defect tracking, and developer information exchange. Duties included setting and managing project development schedules, selection of standard UML design environments, formulation of a common Java and EJB development environment linking in-house and external development staff.
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CTO
Exist
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
December 1999 — July 2000 (8 months)
As CTO of a B2B exchange was responsible for overall technology planning and management. Coordinated rapid staffing and team integration A(from 1 to 20 FTE) of high-demand technology professionals in less than one quarter. Specified and managed deployment of a massively scaleable and richly appointed B-B information architecture. Oversaw a east-to-west coast data center migration. Specification and deployment of a scaleable unitized testing architecture within a high-bandwidth data center for integration and performance testing. Development of a 30+ server scaleable 24/7 operations architecture to host multiple database, app server, and EJB components. Management of multiple offshore development resources working in conjunction with in-house development staff to meet an aggressive quarterly development, test, and integration schedule. Directed an outsourced QA program for independent testing and certification of functionality, compatibility, regression and performance-based testing.
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Regional Manager
Data Dimensions eBusiness Services
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)
July 1998 — December 1999 (1 year 6 months)
Senior Technologist for software testing services and eBusiness infrastructure development.
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Regional Manager
SAIC Center for Information Security Technology
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer & Network Security industry)
September 1996 — August 1998 (2 years )
Regional manager for information security-based managed service offerings addressing healthcare, financial services, and high technology market segments; Project Manager for multiple information security and enterprise risk assessments; ISO-9000 Coordinator.
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Director of Technology
Intercare
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)
July 1995 — September 1996 (1 year 3 months)
Chief architect for a distance education system serving the healthcare industry -- responsibilities as Information Technology Operations Manager included overseeing manufacturing of custom multimedia hardware; specification and design of product interface to medical devices; coordinating production of interactive programs for multiple clients; and architecture of corporate web and Internet-based information exchange services and electronic messaging services
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Manager
The Aerospace Corporation
(Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Aviation & Aerospace industry)
July 1985 — July 1995 (10 years 1 month)
In support of a Federally Funded Research and Development Center, multiple roles included: Founder and Mgr of a corporate media lab providing multimedia and content production services; Manager of corporate Internet-hosted computer based training and education applications; Industrial Facilitator for education network linking multiple California universities; Principal Investigator of neural networks, expert systems, and multimedia and Internet/Web; Director of multiple research programs building automated decision support systems; Project Manager for expert system based trend processor for satellite maintenance environment; Senior staff architect for computing infrastructure modernization projects serving multiple satellite data communications systems
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R&D Manager
Ford Aerospace
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Aviation & Aerospace industry)
January 1982 — July 1985 (3 years 7 months)
Research and development engineer of client-server test software for control center data network; Design architect for high-performance, redundant computer network for workstation-based data processing; Lead hardware testing and inspection engineer for custom-built telemetry data processing systems; Systems engineer for design architectures developed in support of new business.
Stewart Sutton’s Education
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University of Houston-Clear Lake
MS , Computer Science and Engineering , 1982 — 1985
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University of North Texas
1981 — 1982
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University of Houston-Clear Lake
BS , B.S. Electro Optical Science & Physics , 1978 — 1982
Graduate with honors: Magna Cum Laude
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University of Houston
Electrical Engineering 1978 — 1980
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Clear Creek High School
1974 — 1978
Additional Information
Stewart Sutton’s Websites:
Stewart Sutton’s Interests:
Theology and bible study, helping my kids, snow skiing, jet-skiing, water skiing (all forms of skiing), hiking in the mountains and sleeping under the stars, guitar, sax, and golf.
Stewart Sutton’s Groups:
Southern California Knowledge Management Exchange Co-founder,
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Christian Professionals Worldwide -
The University of Houston Alumni Association -
Apple Professionals -
SAIC Alumni -
Capgemini Alumni Network (+9000) -
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CKO (Chief Knowledge Officers) Forum -
KM-Forum -
iRise Users Group -
iPhone Dev Team -
Apple iPhone Enthusiasts -
KM Edge -
CGEY Alumni USA -
University of Houston Clear-Lake -
WWDC 2009 -
The Aerospace Corporation -
SoCal KM Exchange -
QUALITY ASSURANCE- AEROSPACE/DEFENSE INDUSTRY
Stewart Sutton’s Honors:
Publications Presentations
• 1984 Conference Paper: NASA JSC Technology Conference, Houston, TX – Multi-Net - A High-speed Telemetry Data Network Built From Multiple Ethernet Trunks
• 1986 Conference Paper: International Neural Network Conference, San Diego, CA – A Hybrid Expert System and Neural Method for Real-time Control Applications
• 1987 Conference Paper: International Neural Network Conference – A Multi-Algorithm Neural Network Simulator
• 1988 Conference Paper: International Telemetry Conference – An Integrated Decision Support Environment for Satellite Control
• 1989 Conference Paper: International Telemetry Conference – A Telemetry-driven Interactive Instructional Guide for Satellite Control
• 1995 K-6 Education Publication: Zoobooks Interactive – A Hybrid CD-ROM learning series for K-6
• 1999 White paper: 5 Steps to e-Business Readiness
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