Senior-Tier Expert-Level Ontologist
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Technically sophisticated Ontology professional with a solid history of designing, building and leading semantic modeling projects. Expert-level knowledge of Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) and tenets of Ontological Realism. History of designing, building and leading projects in the military and pharmaceutical domains. Consistently supply expertise in Ontology and various Resource Description Framework (RDF) based grammars to include RDF Schema (RDFS), Web Ontology
Language (OWL) and Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS). Quickly learn and adapt to changing requirements. Articulately present elegant solutions, organize multiple priorities, and collaborate with cross-functional resources to drive improvements, overcome issues, and complete project deliverables on or ahead of schedule.
Fresh Gravity: Senior Manager - Artificial Intelligence (2026 - present)
Senior-tier Ontologist currently supporting a large pharmaceutical client, creating ontologies and providing strategic guidance for ontology modeling best practices and for improving semantic interoperability. Regularly interact with generative AI engineers, business analysts & business stakeholders, working toward agentic solutions for health regulatory agency regulatory data submissions, presently supporting the development of IDMP- & FHIR-compliant ontologies. Years of Ontology experience with expert knowledge of W3C RDF-based grammars.
Amgen: Ontologist & Data Engineer (2021 - 2025)
Developed several ontologies across a variety of material domains, to include IDMP- & FHIR-compliant ontologies, with varying degrees of semantic precision to align with business data-centric & data-driven directives. Established data-centric practices that resulted in significant cost savings via reusable information assets and improved data quality. Applied prompt engineering skills across various generative AI platforms to include OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft’s CoPilot and Databricks’ Assistant, which resulted in a twenty-plus percent work productivity efficiency increase.
Lead a strategic, high-priority information modeling initiative to reduce pharmaceutical time-to-market by increasing regulatory filing velocity. This exceptionally large cross-functional effort was estimated to reduce regulatory filing costs by millions of dollars, targeting a regulatory filing capability well in advance of its competitors. Getting to market first secures a revenue stream in the billions due to market exclusivity.
Collaborated with lead architect to design an innovative information architecture.
Modeler I frequently teamed with business stakeholders, business analysts, research scientists, data scientists, and subject matter experts to develop enterprise-level reusable, extensible, syntactically/structurally interoperable, and semantically interoperable ontology models. Wrote guidance documentation that was regularly applied by new & existing information modelers. Led and supported both relational & RDF Graph modeling projects across a wide range of knowledge domains and cross-functional product teams.
Conducted over a dozen internal ‘train-the-trainer’ ontology modeling and TopBraid EDG sessions. Three-time Amgen Bravo Award recipient, with the latest recognition: “excellence, significant contributions to the automating regulatory filings project, relentlessly tackling the complex tasks, and for incredible teamwork and dedication.”
Various: Ontologist (2018 - 2021)
Ontology-based consultant work.
ReactiveCore: Ontologist & Data Lead (2018)
Developed ontologies to meet client data consolidation and integration needs for use within a cloud-based platform. Expert in Web Ontology Language (OWL) and eXtensible Markup Language (XML) with a solid data modeling and Unified Markup Language (UML) foundation.
United States Department of Defense, Communications-Electronics Research, Development & Engineering Center (CERDEC), Software Engineering Directorate (SED): Computer Scientist & Ontologist (2007 - 2018)
Act in multifaceted roles to ensure data/information structures and technologies align with strategic military goals and directives. Consult with multiple military and federal government stakeholders and consult with vendors to achieve project objectives. Review dozens of internally and externally proposed domain vocabularies, architectures, information exchange specifications, data/information models, and documents.
Ontology subject matter expert (SME) to assess military studies on semantics and data quality. Compile assessment, status, and performance reports.
Polytechnic Institute of New York University, MS in Computer Science (3.9 GPA)
York College of the City University of New York, BS in Music Composition & Orchestration (3.9 GPA)
System Planning, Research, Development & Engineering Systems Engineer Level III
IBM SOA Certification Mentoring Program
DoD Use of Service-Oriented Architecture Workshop
