User:Jaycrossler
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Jay Crossler is a government adviser, game developer, university instructor, and internet professional with 15 years hands-on and leadership experience.
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[edit] Education
Jay A. Crossler received his BS in Information Decision Systems from Carnegie Mellon University and his MS in Information Security from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. He is pursuing a Ph.D. of Information Technology at George Mason University, and has taught advanced XML and Web Service Masters classes at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.
[edit] US Government Contributions
Jay started his technical career while still a high-school student. During school, he was the network administrator for Taegu American School in South Korea. He worked after school as a computer aided drafter at the US Army base that his parents were stationed at in Korea. He started building web pages when they were only text, and at age 14 wrote the official multi phone-bank modem dial-up script of the US Forces in Korea.
Jay joined the US Air Force as a communications officer, and wrote 9 unclassified and classified portals and command and control web tools for the military. While stationed within the Defense Information Systems Agency at the Pentagon in Washington, DC, he served as the Chief Web Architect for the Joint Staff and Donald Rumsfeld, the Secretary of Defense. As a Captain, Jay was awarded the 2002 Pentagon Officer of the Year.
After leaving the military, Jay is now a researcher for the MITRE Corporation, a non-profit group that advises the government on systems integration and how best to use technology. He is the Associate Technical Integrator for the Information and Computing Technologies Division, and organization of 420 people that is heavily involved in overseeing large systems engineering projects.
Jay received his BS in Information Decision Systems from Carnegie Mellon University and his MS in Information Security from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. He is pursuing a Ph.D. of Information Technology at George Mason University, and has taught advanced XML and Web Service Masters classes at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.
Jay currently focuses his research on Mobile Applications, Large Web Systems, Software Frameworks and Social Networking. His latest efforts and open-source projects are available on his blog at We Create Games.
Jay is writing a science fiction series called the World Weaver Chronicles.
[edit] Awards
- Member of team Recognized by President Obama for improving Dept of Veterans Affairs GI Bill website, 2009
- Recognized by Director of US Census for directly contributing to saving $400M taxpayer money, 2009
- 7 internal company awards, including the Directors award and Presidents award, 2007-2010
- Federation of Galaxy Explorers Volunteer of the Year award, 2008
- First Place, MIT Mashup Camp/Future Boston Mashup contest, 2007
- AFCEA International Emerging Leader Award, 2003
- Pentagon Company Grade Officer of the Year, 2002
- Joint Achievement Medal for supporting Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, 2002
- Air Force Commendation Medal for developing USAFE web portal, 2001
- Boy Scouts of America Eagle Scout; Boy Scouts of Korea Tiger Scout, 1995
[edit] Public Publications
- Social Media: From Cave Drawings to Twitter, MITRE Envision magazine, 2010
- Convergence of Social Media and Computer Science in the year 2020, 2008
- Using Web 2.0 technologies to reduce costs of Military Command and Control, 2007
- Defensive Strategies for Establishing a Secure Wireless Network, IEEE, December 2003
- Distributed ad-hoc micro-scale sensor networks, DARPA 2002
[edit] Other Projects
- Jay frequently briefs Government leadership (such as the US Courts, Department of State, and Health and Human Services) on Social Networking and Mobile computing.
- Jay helped design parts of the government social network/mashup TAGR project.
- Using Game technologies to visualize Cloud Computing.
- Jay Crossler is the lead programmer for the Federation of Galaxy Explorers MoonBaseOne video game released in June 2007.
- Jay developed and donated the TASKER web software program to the US Government
- Jay programmed the Virtual Boardroom web software and collaboration suite for AFCEA International
[edit] Current Research
Jay's main research is on how to securely, legally, and cheaply integrate open source and web 2.0 software and commercial products to help during disaster relief and homeland security. He is heavily involved with taking advantage of Serious Games to aid in training, education and Modeling and Simulation.
Jay Crossler
