System-of-Systems Engineering
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Education R&D
Accepting the Most Challenging of Problems
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Creative Economic Development
Hands-on Community Leadership
The Future of Education 
Education remains a great unsolved puzzle in America.
This year, Ed is evangelizing Credit Flexibility for high-school students. He recently designed, coded, and is testing OhioCreditFlexibility.org.
He created and runs Ohio Credit Flexibility on Facebook, in support of Ohio's students who will learn via the opportunites offered by that innovative law.
Ed is hoping to get back to Rubyists4Education, and its child projects. He has long advocated for coordinated research in Open Education Resources, in particular through his OpenHistoryProject.org
As a front end game for history OER's, Ed recently built a gamelike platform to master who did what, and when: Whendidji.com. The roadmap is to generalize this software toward:
- An open-source assessment package for similar types of material
- Custom games creation by students and teachers themselves.
- Simplified versions for different audiences and platforms.
Ed served as Commissioner of the Carroll County Park District. This fledgling system is bootstrapping through private, volunteer, and grant resources. Sometimes we get our hands dirty.
Last year we commenced a set of public/private relationships unique to the state of Ohio. We opened the Bluebird Farm Restaurant, Toy Museum, and Amphitheatre. In a dry township we were able to get a license for 7/52 full-service beverages and this spring a winery. A full outdoor event schedule and expanded use of the 54 acre complex began this summer.
Along the way to this auspicious position, Ed helped craft a frame feedstore into an arts center; was Assistant Quartermaster for the annual Algonquin Mill Fall Festival, and yes, he has helped castrate pigs.
We can't, for legal reasons, admit association with the Carrollton Civic Club, but a cheap plug for the Coley's Reunion is in order: the money goes to scholarships.
Still in design phase for the park system is the Great Trail Heritage Corridor, for which Ed researched and wrote the Draft Trail, Greenway and Interpretive Plan for the Great Trail Heritage Corridor.
For more on our progress with bootstrapping a countywide park system, see our pics and progress on facebook ( Ed was editor til 2012).
With local unemployment hitting 16.8%, we created jobs.
2011
Open Winery at BBFP; Begin weekly concert series at BBFP Amphitheater. ADA projects at Restaurant and Winery�Office of Appalachia. BBFP drive upgrade�ODOT. CCP Pavilion upgrades�O.D.N.R, NatureWorks.
2010
Enter contract for operations at Bluebird Farm Park�190 Alamo Rd. LLC. Volleyball court at Community Park�Methodist Sunday School Group. Benches at CCP�Boy Scouts. Add Electrical service to Community Park�Carroll County Foundation, Ron Eick Electric.
2009
Begin operating Bluebird Farm park. Hire park manager for BBFP. Establish District office. Side and stabilize CCP utility barn�Carrollton Civic Club, Ashton foundation, Wheeler Construction. Park Entrance Sign at CCP�Ashton Fdn, Rick Hannon. Kiosk and picnic tables at CCO�Scouts.
2008
Construct CCP parking lot, drive, and circle�ODOT. Extend CCP hiking trails along stream; add trail signs with colorful characterizations�Summer Youth. Footbridge, Picnic Tables at CCP�Scouts. Accept Bluebird Farm life estate�Joyce Hannon.
2007
Walking Trail through wooded area�Summer Youth. Abandoned Well Capped�Speedy Drilling. Park Entrance Drive � ODOT.
Background--Very-Large-Scale Systems
At 23, Ed redesigned the architecture of the world's most complex electronics system, served as editor of the avionics requirements document, and signed off on the hardware/software baseline description. His design changes save well over $10 million of your tax dollars.
Finding that fun, he moved to Ft. Monmouth and tried his hand at avionics for three systems at once—one rotocraft and two fighters. As a software life-cycle manager, he addresses the challenges of getting nine systems integrator teams to collaborate.
Ed was prototyping hypertext systems for both education and requirements analysis, when Tim Berners-Lee introduced that World-Wide-Web thing.
He's done land surveying to support R&D.
For most things practical, Ed is an autodidact. But he did earn a degree; and yeah, dude, it was work of the hardest kind.
Ed loves to hike, and to be on the water in any way. Yes, thank you, he'd love to spend a day at your ski chalet.
Listening to your real customers is really, really important.
These systems architects didn't.
In 2007, Carnegie Mellon Racing won the DARPA Grand Urban Challenge. I'm proud to have interned at the Robotics Institute as an undergrad.
Today the same lab now hosts an MRI and the Cognitive Brain Scanning Institute, featured on 60 minutes. I'm proud, too, to have been a student of Riszard Michalski, a legendary founder of the science of Machine Learning.
Today I like to think she's "Army Strong".
Writings & Publications
Writing for publication is something I'd like to do. As mentioned above, I write a good bit. Most recently, I put together the Draft Trail, Greeeway and Interpretive Plan for the Great Trail Heritage Corridor.
The first significant piece of writing (and editing) I did was the Avionics Requirements Document for a $2 billion avionics suite. Following that, my Structuring Knowledge for Systems Engineering - Case Study: Fighter Development drew favorable attention from the Chief Engineer at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. This looked at a methodology for documenting requirements across the breadth and depth of a system-of-systems very-large-scale engineering management process.
I write frequently on education and education tools at Telling the Story, EdReformer, and Bridging Differences. Sometimes more thoughtfully than others. Awhile back, I put together a synopsis of the tradgedy of our urban and failing schools, and various proposals to move forward: Barack Obama'a (Education) Rebellion.
