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Senior Staff
| Koken Ozdogan |
Dr. Ozdogan is the cofounder and CEO
of Mindlore. As a practicing physician, she has vast exposure to IT
technologies that impact efficacy of the medical institutes. Her background
includes medical information and medical billing systems. |
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Kutluhan Erol |
Dr. Kutluhan Erol is the Vice President of Mindlore Inc. He has many
years of experience in developing advanced technologies, and bringing them to
commercial markets. Dr. Erol's research interests include artificial
intelligence, knowledge management and decision support systems. He holds a PhD
degree in Computer Science from University of Maryland at College Park, where
he did the pioneering work in formalization and analysis of HTN planning
systems, which has become an integral part of AI curriculum. During his tenure
at Intelligent Automation Inc., Dr. Erol won numerous research grants from
government agencies (including DARPA), and successfully led
such projects as a principal investigator, helping Intelligent
Automation quadruple in size in five years. Dr. Erol next
joined Brightware Inc., as the Director of Product
Development, focusing on commercialization of AI technologies
in the CRM market , and successfully launched the company's
Web product line. He played a key role in the acquisition of
Brightware by Firepond, a global vendor of CRM products. Prior
to founding Mindlore, Dr. Erol led the product and program
management department at Firepond, where he managed the global
product strategy and created new product offerings. He also
managed the localization of Firepond products for the global
market, including Europe, Japan, and Pacific Asia. Kutluhan
Erol has taught in universities as a part time faculty, has
published extensively, and contributed to conference and
workshop committees. Dr. Erol's expertise in developing and
commercializing new technologies, as well as his background in
decision support systems, rule-based reasoning, and expert
systems offers substantial expertise to a wide variety of
projects. |
Wanda Smith
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Wanda Smith is the usability
director of Mindlore Inc, and she has over 35 years experience in conducting
research on psychological, physiological, psychophysical, and cognitive
indicators of human performance. Her research has focused on collecting
real-time measures of human performance (e.g., learning rate, task time and
accuracy, navigation, error recovery strategies, and response time) and
physiological and psychophysical measures (e.g., electromyographic activity,
blink rate, pupil size, and galvanic skin response). She holds a B.A. in
Psychology from San Jose State University (1967) and an M.S. in Industrial
Engineering from Stanford University (1977) where she conducted her doctoral
research in vision physiology. Her research and knowledge resulted in being
appointed as a United States representative to the International Organization
of Standardization and in creating a computer user standard. She has also
created standards for industry and national agencies based on collecting
quantitative and qualitative human performance and psychophysical data. She was
successful in integrating the use of quantitative and qualitative measures into
standard's as well as a number of quality product assessment metrics for
several corporations. During her extensive career, Wanda introduced usability
practices to large corporations such as Hewlett Packard, Autodesk, and Charles
Schwab, and was the Director for usability for eCommerce products for global
companies Firepond and Brightware. Ms. Smith has held several board
appointments, received numerous accolades, including those for the rule
management user interfaces for the Brightware and Firepond suits. She she has
also published several books and numerous articles in the usability and user
interface. |
| Greg Gorsiski |
Our chief designer, Mr. Greg Gorsiski, is a world-class designer with twenty
years of experience in the design of interactive entertainment media and Web
and user interface design. His academic degrees in Management Information
Systems (B.A.) and Computer Graphics (M.S.) have allowed him to make nationally
recognized contributions to the development of new approaches to information
presentation in rule management applications, training interfaces, computer
games, and movies. In this regard, he was the primary creator of over 15
interactive commercial computer games, special effects for over 30 blockbuster
movies (including Jurassic Park, Backdraft, and Terminator 2), and over 50 Web
sites and interfaces including Homewarehouse.com and Brightware eService Suite.
Mr. Gorsiski held design and management positions in several reputable
companies such as Disney, Toonski Productions, Visual Concepts, Industrial
Light and Magic, The 3DO Company. Prior to joining Mindlore, Mr. Gorsiski was
the VP of production for Homewarehouse.com, an eCommerce company later acquired
by WallMart. Mr. Gorsiski has been responsible for designing and maintaining
many commercial Websites and has been a key player in the usability and
redesign work for Brightware and Firepond enterprise software products in
eCommerce knowledge management. |
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