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Federal CIO Organizational Study

admin — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:54:28 +0000

Developed benchmarking and produced the final report for the NASA Chief Information Officer (CIO) Organizational Study; worked with six federal CIOs and other executives to define federal CIO function and a supporting organization structure; for client Tech Vision Consulting, LLC under contract to NASA Headquarters (2005).

Wide Area Network (WAN) Architecture Transition Study

admin — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:50:29 +0000

I coordinated team logistics and assembled and edited the final report for the year-long NASA Network Architecture study; a team of NASA network engineers and consultants met over six months across the US to develop a network architecture upgrade and transition strategy for the NASA wide area network; for client Kelly, Anderson & Associates under contract to NASA Headquarters (2003).

Network IT Infrastructure Study

admin — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:51:29 +0000

The NASA CIO initiated this IT infrastructure study to support developing strategies for WAN, application, and desktop computer modernization. Tasks included analyzing agency-wide survey results and documenting business case options for the final report, for client Kelly, Anderson & Associates under contract to NASA Headquarters (2002).

ACM/IEEE Digital library conference paper

admin — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:16:25 +0000

This co-authored paper and poster, based on the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) digital library project, was accepted for the 2003 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, for subcontractor Aerospace Computing Inc. and prime contractor Raytheon Co. under contract to NASA Langley Research Center (2002).

Enterprise Architecture Benchmarks

admin — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:15:46 +0000

I produced public- and private-sector benchmarking reports for a LaRC enterprise architecture study, identifying best practices in successful private-sector enterprise architecture implementations for subcontractor AerospaceComputing Inc. and prime contractor Raytheon Co. under contract to NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) (2001).

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Search Engine Study

admin — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:52:27 +0000

I developed a comprehensive trade study of major commercial search engines and search services (including knowledge management tools) for NASA, in preparation for implementing internal and LaRC-wide search services. The study circulated among the NASA centers and was used in NASA HQ’s nasa.gov search engine upgrade decision.