Experience

• 2003 - Present:  SSS Research, Inc., Naperville, IL, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
• 1995 - Present:  Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI, Business and Technology Team Leader
• 1992 - 1995:  UNI/Care Systems, Inc. Troy, MI, Systems Programmer

Education

• M.S. Computer Science and Engineering, 1995, Oakland University, Rochester, MI
• B.S. Computer Science, Philosophy, 1992, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo,MI

Awards

• Patent for Software Invention, "Server-based systems and methods for enabling interactive, collaborative thin- and no-client image based applications", November 2006
• IEEE Visual Analytics contest winner, "A tale of Alderwood", October 2006
• Patent for Software Invention, "Systems and methods for Interactive browser-based collaborative data visualization", April 2006
• Patent for Software Invention, "Systems and methods of Visualizing Arguments", March, 2005
• Trade Secret, Ford Motor Company, "Stanza Workflow Engine", April, 2004
• Vice President’s Select Project Award, “Warranty Reduction”, November 2003

Conferences and Select Publications

• Recent Publications: http://blog.andyeick.com/CategoryView,category,Publications.aspx
• LocationIntelligence, An AJAX Web 2.0 Presentation Layer for RFID Tracking, April 2007
• IEEE Aerospace Confernence, "An AJAX Web 2.0 Collaborative Geospatial Visualization Framework", April 2007
• IEEE Visualization, "DECIDE: A tale of Alderwood", October 2006
• IEEE, Information Visualization, "Hypothesis Mapping and Visualization", 2005
• IEEE, Information Visualization, "FUSION: Air Traffic Management Collection and Visualization", July 2005
• Presenter, Ford Global Summit “Information Collaboration”, June 2001

Tools

• Languages: C#, .NET, Javascript, C++, XSLT, Java, J2EE, JSP
• Structured Data (XML, SGML) / Database: XML / SVG / SGML, RSS / OPML / SSE, MS-SQL, Oracle 9i
• Technologies: AJAX, ASP.Net, .Net Compact Framework, MSMQ / MTS / COM(+), IIS, Apache, Eclipse, Windows XP, UNIX / Linux

Projects

DECIDE™

• 3 year project with a $3M budget
• Implented as a C# .Net v2.0 winforms application deployed using clickonce technogly
• Re-architected and re-implemented prototype JAVA application into C# and .NET application
• Led 4 person development and quality assurance team. Installed development workflow environment (including development workflow, bug tracking system, source control repository)
• Architected integration with customer content management system
• Wrote application to enable integration with MS-Office applications to integrate with intelligence analysts existing workflow. This integration provided an "Office Toolbar" to allow analysts to input evidence directly into the DECIDE system.
• Wrote client install and "click once" for Decide deployment.
• Designed "argument-template" structure to allow analysts to construct empty argument frameworks for analysts

GEOBOOST™

THINC Interface™ is the premier Web 2.0, AJAX enabled, thin client development platform. GEOBOOST™ takes AJAX to a new level with interactive components which allows application developers to create intuitive, feature rich browser based applications that perform as well or better than fat client/server applications. THINK Interface™ is a powerful toolkit for building sophisticated Web applications that run in a browser. The results are as rich as the best client applications and as easy to distribute as putting up a Web page.

• Geospatial, interactive charting
• Collaboration
• Multi-layer security
• Framework to allow developent of custom AJAX extensions

FUSION™

FUSION™: Architected and led the implementation team to develop an innovative system that assembles disparate Air Traffic Management data into a common XML schema and normalizes the information so that it can be published and consumed by other divisions in the Department of Defense as well as Civilian authorities (FAA and CAA) to ensure air space stewardship.

• 2 year project with a budget of $1.5M funded by United States Air Force SBIR program
• Co-wrote initial research proposal and application
• Led 4 person team in development of prototype and full implementation.
• The project has a performance period of 2 years with a budget of $900K.
• Created architecture for data ingest and publishing framework. This framework enables extensibility in that new sources of data can be added to FUSION by adding a simple component without causing a cascading effect of system changes.
• Developed and wrote XML schema for Air Traffic Management data.
• Architected a fault tolerant solution for maximum uptime written in C#.Net v2
• Designed abstract data ingest strategy for integration with existing stovepipe data providing systems
• Architected and programmed multi-level military grade cryptology strategy. An innovative feature of this framework was the ability to externalize the encryption to allow multi-level security.
• Developed innovative visualization strategy using SVG and AJAX to display Air Traffic metrics.
• Programmed Integration with exiting analysts office reporting solutions
• Developed code generation for database persistence and data ingest framework.

Ford Motor Company, GSI Publishing and Content Management System.

Architected and implemented an SGML/XML content development and distribution system used by Ford Motor Company to author and publish Ford owner’s manuals, technical automotive bulletins, and workshop repair manuals.

• Created, Architected, and led 15 person team in implementation of 7 year project which migrated the existing publishing system into an SGML/XML based publishing system
• Architected and Programmed Message Queue and Transaction framework to enable fault tolerant system availability.
• Wrote middleware schema to control service based design for multi-tier content management system.
• Initial system developed with C++ and COM and then re-written in C#.NET and Web Services with a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) design
• Developed multi lingual framework for both interface and published content. Installed languages are English, French, Spanish, European languages.
• Architected integration framework to enable linkage with language translation suppliers to streamline and lower content translation costs.
• Designed integration strategy to enable "direct to press" book printing.
• Invented extensible XML based collaboration and workflow system to automate communication between editors and engineers. The invention is a registered Trade Secret
• Currently in worldwide use producing
• Over 2 million PDF pages produced per year.
• Over 1 million graphic illustrations under management
• Internal content development system has over 3,000 users
• External content delivery website has 3 million hits per day.
• Produced system which analyzed existing warranty data and parts data to discern instances of ‘over-repair.’ This system resulted in $1 million monthly savings.
• Developed technologies to reformat existing content for delivery and consumption by a wireless handheld Pocket PC device. Written with XSL and C# .Net
• Wrote the schema and aggregation algorithms which extracted native data from the automotive engineering development systems (CAD) and translated that raw data into an XML format. This XML data is then translated (using XSL) into viewable SVG for display on the repair technician facing websites. This project allowed the repair technician to directly use the engineering developed data, rather than the manually ‘redrawn’ diagrams that had been in use.
• As part of team, programmed client based SGML reader to render repair content. This application was deployed to 5,000 installations in North America which was in production use for 8 years. Written in C++ on Windows 3.1 and O/S 2

UNI/Care Systems, Inc.

Developed and Maintained infrastructure communications technology for the UNIX environment in C, C++, and KSH script.