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Todd Kersh, Senior Research Scientist, Battelle Memorial Institute
Education
University:
Master of Science in Computer Engineering, Naval Post Graduate School, Monterey, California, 1983
Bachelor of Science in General Engineering, United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, 1973
Special Training:
US Army certified level-3 Program Manager, Army Acquisition Corps, 1992-1995
Program Management Advanced Course Graduate,
Defense Systems Management College, Ft. Belvoir, Virginia, 1992
Graduate, US Army Command and General Staff College,
Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, 1989
Applications Software:
MS-Xp, WIN-2000, WIN95, Windows NT 4.0, MS DOS, Linux, MS Internet Information System (IIS), MS FrontPage, Hotdog, Netscape Navigator, MS Explorer, MS Word, WordPerfect, MS Excel, Lotus 1-2-3, Harvard Graphics, MS Power Point, MS Access, MS Project, dBASE III+, dBASE IV, MS Outlook, MS Exchange, MS Mail, cc:Mail, QMail, Various Modem Software. Apple Macintosh familiarity.
Ventana GroupSystems.
Programming Languages Experience:
XML, HTML, Perl, Visual Basic, Ada, Pascal, PLI-80, Assembly familiarity
Hardware Experience:
IBM PC's (286, 386, 486, Pentium), SUN 3/260, HP-9000 familiarity, PDP 11/70 familiarity, IBM-370 familiarity, DEC VAX familiarity.
Qualifications
Mr. Kersh has over twenty-seven years of information technology and management experience including: program/project management, business development, computer engineering, systems acquisition-development-integration, and test & evaluation expertise. Mr. Kersh retired from the US Army in 1995, after 22 years of service. He holds a SECRET security clearance.
Current Job:
Senior Research Scientist, Battelle, Crystal City Arlington, VA (5-02 to Present)
· Principal Crystal City Office IT Manager, for the "Technology Knowledge Analysis Center (T-KnAC). Manages all IT support to the BCCO programs and projects, as well as in-house "IT-enablement" projects to enhance BCCO management and marketing capabilities.
· Provided leadership and analysis to research available Knowledge Management (KM) and Portal Commercial off the Shelf (COTS) products, resulting in a successful proposal to Battelle SA&E and ISE management to conduct capital investment of $150K to start a business area around virtual Collaborative Services (S3 – Sunergos, Secure, Sharing) supporting existing CB/WMD consulting practices.
· Program Manager for Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) project that executes an open-source data collection strategy, maintains an XML based repository, and conducts analysis to support DTRA Threat Identification, Threat Tracking, and potentially Threat Predictions.