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PivotPoint Technology
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Our Founder
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Corporate Bio - Cris Kobryn
Cris Kobryn is the CEO and Founder of PivotPoint
Technology Corporation, a software and systems
engineering services company that focuses on
Model-Based Solutions™
for tough business and technical problems. Cris is a
technologist, system architect, and entrepreneur who
specializes in advanced software and systems development
using Model-Based Engineering and Artificial Intelligence
(AI)
technologies. He has global experience leading
high-performance software development teams, and has
architected custom applications and commercial products.
Before founding PivotPoint, Cris held senior
technical positions at Telelogic, EDS, MCI Systemhouse,
Inference, Harlequin, and SAIC.
Cris is an internationally recognized expert in visual
modeling languages (UML, SysML), architecture frameworks
(DoDAF/UPDM), and Model-Based
Engineering technologies. He chaired large international teams of
vendors and users to specify the Unified Modeling
Language (UML) 1.x and 2.0 standards for software
engineering, and the Systems Modeling Language (SysML)
1.0 standard for systems engineering. In recognition of Cris's
contributions to the UML the Object Management Group (OMG)
presented him with its Distinguished Service Award in
2000, and
in acknowledgement of his contributions to the SysML the
International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE)
presented him with its Outstanding Service Award in 2006.
In 2007 Cris accepted the
SD Times 100/Modeling category
award on behalf of the
SysML
Partners open source specification project that he chaired.
Shortly after he launched his professional software
engineering career in the early 1980s,
Cris developed expertise in AI programming languages (Prolog,
Lisp, CLOS), and their applications (knowledge-based
expert systems, natural language processing). He has successfully implemented AI
technologies in both commercial and defense
applications. Cris's accomplishments with AI
technologies include leading the
applications group at Harlequin Limited that developed
the Watson™ investigative
analysis application, which was eventually acquired by
Xanalys Limited.
Before Cris became a software engineer he served as
a commissioned officer in both the U.S. Marine Corps and
the U.S. Army, and was infantry, armor, airborne and
Special Forces qualified.
Cris received a BA degree from Colgate University, and a
BSCS degree from San Diego State University. His
multi-disciplinary graduate studies at SDSU and UCLA
explored the synergies among linguistics, computer
science and artificial intelligence.
Cris is a frequent invited speaker at industry
conferences and workshops that are concerned with
Model-Based Engineering, UML and SysML. He is a former
computer science instructor at the University of
California, San Diego Extension and is a member of the
ACM, IEEE, INCOSE and AAAI.
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