John McDowall, Ph.D.

Personal Details

Bio

Enterprise architect, system engineer, and project / team leader with expertise in information integration and knowledge management. Significant experience in system integration and semantic integration of heterogeneous data sources. I was a CH-53E pilot in the Marine Corps for 11 years. I have been deployed to contingencies as both a pilot and a Forward Air Controller, giving me valuable insight into the real-world environment in which tactical information sharing and command and control systems must operate.

Specialties: Knowledge management, information integration, semantic markup, XML, SOA, OWL, RDF

Current position (1)

Enterprise Architect

BAE Systems, Inc.

Degrees (3)

General Engineering

US Naval Academy

1985 to 1989

Computer Information Systems

Boston University

1997 to 1999

Information Technology

George Mason University

2004 to 2015

Presentations

Presentations (4)

More Than IT: Extending SOA to the Entire Enterprise

Expanding the idea of service-oriented architecture beyond the narrow field of information technology to improve enterprise efficiency by embracing the full scope of cyber-physical systems thought well-defined, dynamically accessible interfaces.

Defense Intelligence Information Enterprise Plugfest

Overview of a successful demonstration of rapid COTS integration to solve real-world mission needs in the defense intelligence community.

Utility of the DI2E Reference Architecture

Overview of applications and lessons learned in developing and managing a reference architecture to govern all intelligence information systems in the US Department of Defense

Ontology Application to the Problem of Maritime Traffic Analysis and Understanding

Lessons learned in applying formal ontologies to the problem of maritime traffic situational awareness. Achievements included improved data integration, improvements in automated data analysis, and improved data sharing across systems.