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| SPEAKERS' BIOS | | | | | |  | Claude Baudoin
Owner and Pincipal Consultant for cébé IT and Knowledge Management
Claude Baudoin is the owner and principal consultant for cébé IT and Knowledge Management, a strategy consulting firm based in Austin, Texas. He brings to his clients 40 years of international experience in software engineering management, IT management, enterprise architecture, knowledge management, and the professional use of social media - applied to industry sectors such as petroleum exploration and production, semiconductor manufacturing, and IT services. Claude's approach is to sort out the important guidance from masses of information and research, and align it with the goals of the enterprise in order to deliver actionable recommendations. Most recently, he has been advising several agencies of the federal government of Mexico. Claude holds an Engineer degree is from Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, and an M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University. He has published two books on software engineering and holds two patents related to networking and security. He has written numerous papers and conference presentations. His professional motto is "honesty, knowledge, connections." | | |  | Gary Duncanson
President and CEO, No Magic OMG Board Member
Gary Duncanson is a renowned thought leader in the software industry pushing for Standards Compliant software solution and interoperability. Mr. Duncanson is on the Board of Directors of the Object Management Group (OMG). He has held numerous positions within No Magic including Project Manager, Lead Architect, CTO, and Sr. Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing, growing the revenue and client base many fold over the last 14 years. He is currently Member of No Magic's Board of Directors. Mr. Duncanson holds a B.S.E.E. from Purdue University and has over 27 years of technical consulting experience developing object-oriented projects since the mid 1980s. He has over 25 years of technical project management experience for both the U.S. military and private industry. Companies and organizations such as NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (ASAS/Ence), Hughes Aircraft Company (Air Defense Systems), Texas Instruments (HARM MISSLE), Magnavox (AFATDS), Motorola, Eaton Corporation (USAF CATIS/SID 88), Contel Federal Systems (USAFE UTAIN/MAIS), Bridge Medical, Alcatel, and Naval Warfare Assessment Center/Division (Battle Force Tactical Trainer) have called upon Mr. Duncanson's talents to make their projects successful. These projects include Command Control Systems, Networking and Communication Systems, Air-Defense Consoles, Cellular Telephones, Medical Devices, Missile Systems, User Interfaces, 2-D and 3-D Computer Graphics, Systems Modeling, Architecture, Data Modeling, War Gaming, and (Air, Sea, and Land) Battle Simulations. | | |  | Ernie Ianace
Vice President, Global Sales
As Vice President Global Sales for No Magic, Ernie Ianace, brings to No Magic a successful 25-year track record as a veteran IT executive. Ernie has a wide range of IT experience from startups, to complex global matrixed organizations. He has extensive domestic and international relationships with tier one channels, large enterprises and government customers as well as leading service providers. Mr. Ianace has also been part of the executive team at two startups that grew from initial launch to global market leaders and were then acquired. His areas of expertise include global strategic alliances, global carrier sales, large multi-year sourcing contracts as well as new product and market launches. In his spare time Ernie enjoys boating, skiing and cooking. | | |  | Pete Ianace
Executive Vice President, No Magic
Mr. Ianace brings more than 35 years of experience building successful technology businesses to his role as Executive Vice President at No Magic. He has successfully started and launched four technology companies in the last fifteen years. Mr. Ianace has broad CEO/leadership experience with companies in aerospace, defense contracting, telecommunications, Web 2.0 and IP video communications. During his career, Pete secured more than $125 million in funding for start-ups as well as large contracts with U.S., European and Asian clients. His unique perspective in the areas of 3G, 4G, IP video and Big Data have appeared in a wide range of industry publications and blogs. Prior to joining No Magic, Mr. Ianace held President/CEO positions at ComCam International, Video Esperti, Vianet, Intelect Network Technologies and Pactel Maridian Systems. Pete was a Vice President at Nortel for more than seven years and began his career at IBM where he spent eleven years in both sales and development management roles. | | |  | Nerijus Jankevicius
MBSE Product Manager. No Magic Nerijus Jankevicius is the MBSE Product Manager at No Magic, with 10+ years of experience in software development and modeling. He has been a MagicDraw UML team member since the very beginning of tool development in 1997 and is responsible for system analysis, technical requirements, design and implementation, focusing on supporting UML standard and domain-specific extensions. Since 2006, Nerijus has been working on SysML implementation in MagicDraw and has the role of SysML Product Manager. Responsibilities include all phases of development – market analysis, requirements, guidance of DSL customizations for SysML language, technical mentoring and product representation in trade shows and seminars. Nerijus's responsibilities include visiting customers and solving model-related issues on site. In recent years he conducted UML and SysML related trainings and consulting in Europe.
Nerijus is an active and influential participant in OMG UML and OMG SysML Revision Task Forces (RTF) and has been the official No Magic representative for these OMG standards since 2004. Nerijus is one of the first OMG Certified Advanced UML 2.0 Professionals in Europe. Nerijus is author of a unique model-driven approach to DSL (Domain Specific Languages) customization that enables MagicDraw to adopt new specific domains and new modeling languages (like SysML, DoDAF, MoDAF, BPMN and others) without additional coding - by creating a customization model which extends UML profiling capabilities. Nerijus has successfully presented this DSL approach in OOP 2007 and OOP 2008 conferences. | | |  | Kent Laursen
Chief Technology Officer, No Magic Kent Laursen brings a breadth of experience in software engineering, product development, innovation, technological evangelism and standards development. Prior to becoming CTO for No Magic, Mr. Laursen was a Principal Engineer for Scientific Research Corporation, where he provided strategic, architectural, software development and systems engineering services to SRC’s DoD customers. Before his defense work, Mr. Laursen was involved in the Bio IT space, serving as Senior Software Architect for GenoLogics Life Science Software and Director of Product Development for Indigo BioSystems. Mr. Laursen began applying modeling in earnest as Senior North American Consultant for Select Business Solutions, where he provided architectural, modeling and training services to financial, energy, shipping and telecommunications clients. As Staff Engineer for WebGain, Inc., Mr. Laursen was a primary developer of an innovative application development environment based on Java component assembly without traditional coding. In the earlier part of his career Mr. Laursen provided his consulting customers with technical services ranging from Smalltalk development to the construction of commercially deployed frameworks and solutions for a wide variety of interests. A strong proponent for standards, Mr. Laursen continues to be active in the Object Management Group. | | |  | L. Drew Pihera
Research Scientist at the Georgia Tech Research Institute and Head of the System Engineering Software Applications Branch
L. Drew Pihera is a Research Scientist at the Georgia Tech Research Institute and is the Head of the System Engineering Software Applications Branch. His professional experience encompasses over thirteen years' of developing software and leading software efforts including in-flight training applications, decision support systems and systems engineering tools. Mr. Pihera's current focus is on web-based, collaborative applications for systems engineering purposes, decision support and education. In addition, he teaches in GTRI short courses and advises students during their capstone projects in the Professional Master's of Applied Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Mr. Pihera earned his B.S. in Computer Science from Georgia State University and his Professional Master's in Applied Systems Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. | | |  | Kyle Wippert
Senior Sales and Customer Support Engineer As a senior sales and customer support engineer at No Magic, Kyle Wippert works collaboratively with the company's sales and business development organizations to enhance customer relationships by providing a thorough understanding of the No Magic solution suite. He also assists customers with Cameo Suite technical support and modeling inquiries. Kyle is also responsible for enhancing No Magic user education by developing online training and by leading onsite customer training engagements in UML, SysML, MBSE, and BPMN. Kyle also works in a consulting role with major customers in the government, aerospace, defense, education and automotive industries. Kyle is well versed in UPDM, SoaML, TOGAF, and NEIM adding to his already extensive knowledge of UML, SysML, and BPMN. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Software Engineering from the University of Texas at Dallas and resides in Plano, Texas. | | |  | Dennis Wisnosky
Senior Advisor - Consultant, Enterprise Data Management Council Founder, Wizdom Systems, Inc.
CTO-CA (ret), DoD Business Mission Area Labeled a visionary early in his career, Wisnosky accepts that tag if it means clearly being able to see the confluence of technology and social trends before others – and most importantly being able to define a clear path to an achievable practical end goal. As a Director in a Fortune 500 company – built an Enterprise Architecture that served as the North Star for installation of more than 100 industrial robots in less than a year. As Group Vice President in a Mid Tier High Technology – integrated 3 dysfunctional business units and 2 startups into a new organization that became the 2nd largest Robotics company in the USA and the 5th largest in the world. In 2 separate tours with the US DoD – pioneered IDEF, the methodology most used for 3 decades to build Enterprise Architecture in industry, it became a NIST and an IEEE standard. Developed a plan to implement Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) in the DoD. Recognized the importance of Semantic Web Technology as the only hope to reduce runaway costs in managing Health Care and other DoD information. Among others, he received a Fed100 Award (2006) and an “Excellence in Government Leadership Award (2011) in recognition of his accomplishments. As the head of his own companies, he led the development and marketing of products ranging from industrial robots and factory controls to software for Project Management, Business Process Modeling/Analysis/Optimization. He is the author of 7 books on these topics, and an internationally acclaimed writer and speaker. He has received many awards and honors for his work in the private sector including being named a "Hero of US Manufacturing" by Fortune Magazine in 1997. Mr. Wisnosky earned Degrees from California University (PA) from which he received “the” W.S Jackson Medallion of Distinction in 1992 and “the” University Medallion of Distinction 2008, the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Dayton from which he received “the” Distinguished Alumni Award from the School of Engineering in 2006, Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering. He is a Certified Enterprise Architect, a Certified Manufacturing Engineer (Robotics), a PADI Certified Rescue Diver and an Instrument Rated Private Pilot in Multiengine Aircraft. He and his wife Rosemary, live in Naperville, Illinois. They have three daughters and nine grandchildren. Currently, Mr. Wisnosky is performing in multiple roles. Senior advisor and expert consultant to the Enterprise Data Management Council (EDMC), where he leads the standards implementation process for the Council’s Financial Industry Business Ontology (FIBO) suite of standards. The Technical Advisory Board of Cleversafe, Inc., the leading provider of dispersed data storage systems. Member of the Board of Directors of the Association for Enterprise Information (AFEI). The Chairman of the Board of Cyberavnet, a start up being formed to provide analytical services based upon UAV mounted sensors. Member of the technical advisory board of the Institute for Semantic Computing (Semantic Computing Consortium), an NSF I/UCRC (Industry-University Cooperative Research Center). | | |  Last updated on 11/09/2015 |