Andrew Schain (2JTL)
NASA Headquarters' Chief Technology Officer (2JTP)
I joined NASA as a civil servant 14 years ago. For the last 7 years, I have had the responsibility for introducing new technologies into the NASA Headquarters computing environment and for integrating the Headquarters IT infrastructure and services with other NASA centers and partners. I serve as the lead for the Headquarters IT Strategic and Tactical plans which set goals and provide integrated planning for NASA Headquarters IT services. But most importantly, I am a service provider. (2JTB)
My NASA responsiblities include planning and coordination, budget formulation/management, integrated design assurance, policy compliance and chairmanship of the local Configuration Control Board. (2JTD)
In September of 2004 I began a one-year assigment at UMD's MINDSWAP (2JTN)
Where I am working on a data management strategy for NASA, specifically looking at RDF/OWL implementations, distributed ontology management, metadata harvesting through traditional mining, and affiliated searches based on logical propinquity. (2JTU)