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About My Work
As a Knowledge Engineer for the Joint Staff Office of the Chief Information Officer, I team with some of the greatest technical, consulting, and management talent available. Together, we assist the Joint Staff in identifying and meeting enterprise requirements, automating processes, and developing content management solutions.

Quotes
"The peculiar character of the problem of a rational economic order is determined precisely by the fact that the knowledge of the circumstances of which we must make use never exists in concentrated or integrated form but solely as the dispersed bits of incomplete and frequently contradictory knowledge which all the separate individuals possess. The economic problem of society is thus not merely a problem of how to allocate "given" resources--if "given" is taken to mean given to a single mind which deliberately solves the problem set by these "data." It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only these individuals know. Or, to put it briefly, it is a problem of the utilization of knowledge which is not given to anyone in its totality."
 * --  Friedrich August von Hayek, (May 8, 1899 - March 23, 1992), Austrian-British economist and political philosopher

"In a business like this the people with the power are the ones that have the understanding of what's going on, not necessarily the ones on top. And it's very important that those people that have the knowledge are the ones that make the decisions. So we set up something where everyone who had the knowledge had an equal say in what was going on."
 * --  Gordon Earle Moore, (born January 3, 1929), cofounder of Intel Corporation and the author of  Moore's Law; (published in an article April 19, 1965 in Electronics Magazine).

"There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance."
 * --  Ali bin Abu-Talib, (c. 600 - 661), First Imam(Caliph) of Islam on Shi'a beliefs and the fourth Sunni caliph, religious leader, orator, poet, cousin and son-in-law of Islam's Muhammad; revered by Shia Muslims as first Imam

"I think a nerd is a person who uses the telephone to talk to other people about telephones. And a computer nerd therefore is somebody who uses a computer in order to use a computer."
 * --  Douglas Noel Adams, (March 11, 1952 - May 11, 2001), British author and satirist, most famous for his  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series of radio plays and books.

"In our age... men seem more than ever prone to confuse wisdom with knowledge, and knowledge with information, and to try to solve problems of life in terms of engineering."
 * --  Thomas Stearns (T.S.) Eliot, (September 26, 1888 – January 04, 1965), American-born English poet, dramatist, and literary critic

"Is the glass half empty or half full? [ ... ] a common expression, used rhetorically to indicate that a particular situation could be a cause for optimism (half full) or pessimism (half empty); or as a general litmus test to simply determine if an individual is an optimist or a pessimist. The purpose of the question is to demonstrate that the situation may be seen in different ways depending on one's point of view and that there may be opportunity in the situation as well as trouble. In engineering lore, the corollary to this rhetoric question is that, for an Engineer, the glass is neither half empty nor half full, it is just exactly twice as big as necessary." Is the glass half empty or half full?