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Biography:

Mr. Wolf is an Assistant Vice President at SAIC and is the Deputy Division Manager of SAIC’s Intelware Solutions Division. Mr. Wolf is an experienced IT professional and manager and has been involved with all aspects of the software development life cycle. Mr. Wolf has provided IT consulting and management for a variety of government clients including defense and intelligence agencies.

Mr. Wolf is currently responsible for business development and is a consulting member of the architecture design team for project Trailblazer. Mr. Wolf is responsible for a significant portion of the design and implementation of the full text/content management/text retrieval portion of the Trailblazer “build 2” data warehouse.

Mr. Wolf’s recent and current projects include:

Technology lead in an information technology modernization effort at the FBI. In addition to system design & architecture Mr. Wolf has been working on document management, use of natural language processing technology to do automated information extraction from text, link analysis and data visualization.

Responsible for design and implementation of specialized databases to support the efficient storage and retrieval of more than 1.5 billion XML documents of various types. As part of this same effort Mr. Wolf contributed to many related application development and data flow processing activities. Many of these documents are transformed using feature extraction and other natural language processing technology to enhance the usability of the information before storage. These specialized text retrieval databases are one portion of a large data warehouse. Mr. Wolf was a principal designer of the overall system which uses a message oriented middleware broker and many small specialized components (“agents”) to make data across the entire warehouse seamlessly available to client applications and end users.

Principal investigator of an effort to educate other software engineers about a new enterprise data model defined using a formal XML document type definition (DTD) and a companion data element dictionary.

Principal investigator of a project tasked to convert legacy data in many different proprietary formats (including binary formats) to a single standard XML representation. Mr. Wolf built a high performance system to convert legacy data to XML using state-of-the-art XSLT technology. He wrapped existing legacy parsers with a Simple API for XML (SAX) layer to make them compatible with other XML enabled COTS products.

Mr. Wolf has a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from the Johns Hopkins University, a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Seattle University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics from Seattle University.