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Research And Consulting

Migration Systems Planning - Consulting with a state agency to migrate their legacy information systems (responsible for providing pay and personnel services to more than 100,000 state employees) to a client/server environment (1995 - present).

Data Reverse Engineering - Co-developed the first known set of data reverse engineering procedures and authored the first text on data reverse engineering - published by McGraw-Hill in 1996 - describing the process of extracting data assets from legacy information systems (1992 - present).

Information Engineering - Assigned to the Defense Information Systems Agency's Center for Information Management - Information Engineering Directorate to contribute to the production of a DoD-wide strategic level data model and data architecture aimed at assisting the Department of Defense in gaining efficiency from its MIS resource investment (1992 - 1997).

Government Expert - Functioned as a government expert to evaluate DoD educational grant proposals (1995 - present).

Public Radio/Distance Learning - Consulting with the Guam Public Radio Organization to overcome technical limitations associated with establishing a National Public Radio station on the island of Guam (1991 - present).

Multimedia-based Presentation System Development - Consulted with a large consulting firm to help develop specialized, unstructured, multimedia database applications for the Department of Defense (1990 - 1991).

Management Information Systems - Established a data bank to support research, planning, management, and evaluation functions for the University of Guam (1990 - present).

Hypermedia-based Software Testing Methodologies - Consulted with a large computer manufacturer to develop advanced software testing application methodologies and database structures (1989).

Automated Software Testing - Research team member for grant funded research project to develop software automating the process of creating software test plans from system requirements (1989 - 1990).

Advanced Man Machine Interfaces - Research team member for grant funded project to develop prototype architectures for advanced human-computer interface designs (1988 - 1989).

Hypermedia-based Software Requirements Engineering - Funded doctoral research exploring the effects of integrated hypermedia technologies on software requirements engineering processes (1987 - 1989).

Capacity Planning - Assisted with capacity planning for the upgrade of a large government agency's on-line telecommunications network and primary CPU (1986).

Competitive Analysis-based Strategic Planning - Developed a computer-based competitive analysis model to drive a state wide strategic planning process (1986 - 1987).

Strategic Computing Plan Development - Participated in the evaluation of the strategic computing plan for a high technology educational center (1985 - 1986).

Decision Analysis Package Implementation - Assisted with an implementation of ELECTRE, a multi-criterion decision analysis package used by a large government agency (1985 - 1986).

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