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Scott Paul Overmyer
Scott Paul Overmyer is currently a Technical Program Facilitator for I.T. and Virtual Lab Engineer for Southern New Hampshire University. He earned a Ph.D. in Information Technology (Information and Software Systems Engineering), while appointed as Research Instructor in George Mason University's Center of Excellence in Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence.

He started his career in the software field in 1983 with TRW, Inc. as a user interface designer and requirements engineer on the Space Defense Operations Center project in Colorado's Cheyenne Mountain NORAD Complex. After completing several government projects with TRW, he was appointed manager of TRW's Research and Technology Center in Virginia.

Dr. Overmyer has nearly 10 years of industrial experience, followed by nearly 30 years of academic experience. During his academic career, he has been awarded 2 summer faculty fellowships at NASA's Johnson Space Center and a National Science Foundation research grant. While an Associate Professor at Drexel University, he was also the Founding Director of the Pennsylvania Governor's School for Information Technology, a 5-week summer residential program for talented high school students. Internationally, he served at Subject Coordinator for both Software Engineering and Information Systems while at Massey University in NZ, and a (founding) Professor of Computer Science at Nazarbayev University in Astana, Kazakhstan, as well as Acting Chair of the Physics Department there.

After a year as Assistant Executive Director for STEM at SNHU, he stepped back from management so that he could work remotely from his farm in South Dakota.

His current research interests include: artificial intelligence, auto-assessment and feedback on student programming and modeling submissions; and human-computer interface design.