Currently I am working building and scaling a global back-end for Telenor Digital. This will be the identification, payment and service infrastructure for other Telenor businesses, globally.

I am very interested in team dynamics and productivity. I have been working on introducing agile software development and improved development process within my teams. I think that there are three key behaviors that really help with building quality systems: code reviews, unit tests and consistent style.

My primary focus is on architectures, tools and techniques for enabling intelligent distributed interaction within and between teams of robots and humans. For my Master's degree, I created a distributed field robot architecture that built on standard hybrid reactive-deliberative robot design practices, but incorporated aspects of distributed computing by integrating a distributed middleware. We validated the architecture while completing a demonstration for the Office of Naval Research simulating a mine detection scenario with outdoor ground and aerial vehicles wirelessly connected to an operator control station.

For my PhD I investigated several areas related to naturalistic taskability of teams of robots. We took inspiration from human society and the social constructs that allow us to operate in a wide variety of different situations throughout a given day. I drew from the use of social roles and extending this role concept to artificial robot social systems.

While my PhD work was heavily geared towards robotics, this same concept could be applied to software agents and virtual internet societies.

Specialties: robotics, artificial intelligence, java, jini, software engineering, agile development, robot-assisted urban search and rescue, machine learning, data mining, research, marine safety, oil-spill detection