Brian Lawler

I am an Principal Engineer with a not-for-profit Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) operated by MITRE.

Education

Experience

Principal Engineer, Center for Enterprise Modernization, MITRE
- Most of my work is devoted to enterprise modernization efforts in the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Senior Analyst, Fidelity Investments
- This was in the privately funded venture capital business
Officer, United States Marine Corps
- Primarily operating in the 1st Marine Infantry Division

SFI/CSSS Interests

The courses on non-linear dynamics, modeling (including agent-based), computational complexity, finance, economics, pattern recognition, and markets
Really interested in SFI's work on complexity economics.

Goals for SFI/CSSS Program

Hear about lots of interesting ideas and meet lots of interesting people
Acquire some new ways of thinking about problems (esp. related to my work)
Correct my appalling ignorance of complexity theory, complexity science, complexity economics, etc.

Candidate Project/Paper Ideas

Potentially Useful Skills

Very strong, expert-level, at UML and using the dominant UML tools (e.g. Rational Rose(tm)) for modeling technical and non-technical systems.
Basic skills at using Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) including using ExpertChoice.
Current reading material includes Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach but mostly for the chapters on constraints.
Fairly good technical and business audience writer.
Decent programmer in C++, Java, XML, etc. and using a variety of info-worker tools (Project, Excel, MindMap, etc.)

Hobbies

Video games. Most genres. Pretty much anything that comes with a toolkit so I can create my own stuff - e.g. Unreal engine.
Puzzles. Mostly things that are metaphors for my work. I spend more time than I ought to on Sudoku and Bejeweled.

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