Ron

Hi! I'm Ron van Hoof.

A little bit about myself. I studied computer science for four years at the Hogeschool West-Brabant and graduated in September 1993. During that period I did a number of internships which varied from doing a requirements study for a production planning system to integrating databases for a cable registration system. After receiving my B.S. degree I studied Knowledge Engineering at the Centre of Excellence, CIBIT. I graduated in December 1994 and received my Masters degree. During that period I did an internship at NYNEX, now Verizon, where I was responsible for designing and implementing a CASE tool with automatic code generation for domain modeling.

Since then I've worked at Verizon for 3 years and for a variety of contracting firms (Caelum Research Corporation, QSS Group, Inc., Perot Systems, and Dell) doing work for NASA for 15 years, and now work for the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC). My work involved the development of a multi-agent modeling language, simulation environment for simulating work practice, and agent-based work flow automation system (BRAHMS). Brahms is a data driven (forward chaining) discrete event simulation environment with extensions for the real-time execution of intelligent agents. One of my more recent accomplishments was the development and deployment of a multi-agent system in NASA's mission control center to automate 90% of a flight controller position responsible for managing the coordination and distribution of a wide variety of files between science teams and the International Space Station (ISS). The system is called OCAMS (Orbital Communications Adapter Management System). My responsibilities have been development lead, system architect, and software engineer responsible for all aspects of the development cycle, from requirements analysis, to planning, design, implementation of numerous components, testing, packaging, deployment, and support. All development was done in Java. Check out my resume for more of the work that I've done.