 Beverly Gay McCarter, Principal
Beverly Gay McCarter is certified in the areas of Self Organizing Systems for Complex Environments and in Virtual Worlds (June 2011, University of Washington).
While working at the National Defense University in Washington, DC, she helped coordinate and execute the efforts of the Federal Consortium for Virtual Worlds’ to bring the Federal Government into virtual worlds. Ms. McCarter is an architect of virtual world environments focusing on the psychology of the avatar and virtual worlds, as well as the complexity and impact of the aesthetics of 3D immersive environments on complex human systems. She is a Solution Provider for Linden Labs’ Second Life virtual world.
Ms. McCarter also facilitates group discussions untangling the “wicked problems” of social interactions that overwhelm today’s organizational structures. Examples include the Managing and Engineering Complex Situations Forum’s 2 day workshop involving diverse complexity experts hosted by the MITRE Corporation in McLean, VA, as well as with the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC.
Many of the principles applied in those formats are discussed in McCarter and White’s “Leadership in a Decentralized World" (forthcoming by Taylor and Francis Publications, NY, NY), McCarter and White’s "Emergence of SoS, Socio-Cognitive Aspects" (Chapt 3, M. Jamshidi, "System of Systems Engineering- Principles and Applications", 2007 ). as well as B.G. McCarter, “2008 MECS Summit: A Workshop on Complex Situations”, (Chapt. 1 in “Managing and Engineering in Complex Situations”, edited by Kovacic and Sousa-Poza - forthcoming by Springer Publishers).
In addition, Ms. McCarter is an award winning artist focusing on human dynamics and the inherent effects of complexity and the edge of chaos on human consciousness. Her work emphasizes the ability to “see” multiple perspectives and complexity of who we are and our relationships with others.
 William D. Miller, WDM Systems
Mr. Miller has thirty-four years of experience in both the conceptualization and engineering application of communications technologies, products, and services. This experience has addressed both commercial and government sectors. These applications have fallen in the areas of resource allocation, R&D priorities, strategic planning, requirements definition, system modeling, system design, system acquisition, system development, system integration and system test.
Mr. Miller has managed projects funded by Bell Laboratories, AT&T, Army and Navy development commands, and the National Security Agency. He is a 40 year member of the IEEE and a 14 year member of the International Council on Systems Engineering and was elected secretary of the latter organization for three terms (1996-1997, 2003-2004 and 2005-2006).
 Dennis M. Buede, Innovative Decisions, Inc
Dr. Buede has over twenty-five years of experience in both the theoretical development and engineering application of decision support technologies. This experience has addressed military and business decision problems, as well as multisensor data fusion technology. These applications have fallen in the areas of resource allocation, R&D priorities, mission area analysis (or strategic planning), requirements definition, system design, system acquisition, and system development.
Dr. Buede has managed projects funded by the National Science Foundation, Army Research Institute, numerous Army and Navy development commands, and elements of the Intelligence Community. He has won several best paper awards. He is a Fellow of the International Council on Systems Engineering, 2001.
Dr. Buede was a manager of decision analysis at Decisions and Designs, Inc. and had his own consulting company for over fifteen years. He taught systems engineering and decision analysis at George Mason University for over ten years where he was also Associate Director of C3I Center. He was instrumental in starting the M.S. and Ph.D. programs in systems engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology between 2001 and 2003. He was one of the founders of IDI.
  Dave Levinson, Cranial Tap, Inc.
President and CEO of Cranial Tap, Dave's career in the computer graphics, gaming and virtual world fields span more than twenty years. His work with Lockheed, General Electric, Intel, AOL, Sega of Japan and Time Warner Cable allowed him to produce and manage more than one hundred applications, games and simulations. He has been known as an entrepreneur, inventor, author, photographer and speaker. He holds several filed patents relating to the virtual world field. Dave attended Seminole State College and the University of Central Florida.
Company background: Founded in 2006, Cranial Tap, Inc. is a leading virtual world developer located in the metro Washington, DC area. We support corporations, universities and organizations around the world in the development of 3D environments embedded with productive technology solutions. With a focus on virtual learning and training solutions, Cranial Tap designs and constructs highly interactive virtual spaces with proven and effective results. More than 500,000 people have been trained using our innovative solutions geared specifically to virtual world environments.
We offer decades of combined experience in the development of online consumer applications, video games, military simulation and virtual reality environments. Let us show you the future of productivity.
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