whoami?

• A Programmer - from Java to Python
• A Software Engineer - from Waterfall to Agile/DevOps
• A Project Manager - from Control to Culture
• A Data Scientist - from Small Samples to Big Data
• A Systems Thinker - from System to System of Systems (SoS)

Continuous transformation & continuous transcendence - The DevOps of Living.

wcj365?

• wcj = my initials
• 365 = 360 + 5
• 365 = days per year (steady)
• 360 = degrees per circle (systemic)
• 5 = fingers per hand (simple)

Simplicity defines me.

Education

• D.Sc. in IS and Comm., Robert Morris University, PA
• MBA in Finance, Loyola University Maryland, MD
• MS in Statistics, The University of Toledo, OH
• MA in Economics, The University of Toledo, OH
• BE in MIS, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
• No BS

Industry

• Principal Systems Engineer, The MITRE Corp. 2016 to Present
• Program Chief Engineer, Lockheed Martin Corp. 2006 to 2016
• Vice President of Prod. Dev., Regent Education, Inc. 2013 to 2016

Professional

• Int’l Assoc. for Computer Info. Systems (IACIS)
• Int’l Council of Systems Engineering (INCOSE)
• Project Management Institute (PMI)

Certifications

• SAFe Agilist, Scaled Agile, Inc.
• PMP, Project Management Institute
• Certified Java Programmer, Oracle
• Certified Weblogic Developer, Oracle

Teaching

• Adjunct Faculty, Data Science, UMBC
  • DATA 690 - Stats and Dataviz
  • DATA 606 - Data Science Capstone
• Corporate Faculty, Healthcare Informatics, Harrisburg Univ.
  • HCIN 541 - Healthcare Systems

To teach is to share.

Pedagogy

• I put Practice above PowerPoint and Philosophy over Physics.
• I show students how I learn - copy and paste, trials and errors.
• I offer neither fishes nor fishing gears.
• The Internet is the biggest pond and Google is the best gear ever.

How can you be serious without being curious?

Journal Roles

• Editor-in-Chief, Int’l Journal of Patient-Centered Healthcare (IJPCH), IGI Global
• Editorial Review Board, Issues in Information Systems (IIS), IACIS

Awards

• Best Paper Award, MakeLearn & TIIM Int’l Conf., Piran, Solvenia. 2019
• Best Paper Incentive Award, The MITRE Corp. 2018, 2019
• Deliverable of the Month Award, The MITRE Corp. 2019
• The Catalyst Award for Intellectual Excellence, The MITRE Corp. 2019
• The Honor Award, Lockheed Martin Corp. 2008

Running

• Full Marathon (5:10), 2011 Baltimore Running Festival
• Full Marathon (4:56), 2012 Marine Corps Marathon
• Co-founder, Patuxent Atheletic League of Striders (PALs), Maryland

Read, write, and run - therapies for a happy life.