Mandrick Vita

William S. Mandrick, Ph.D.

Contact Details

900 Sergius Way

Rochester, NY 14612

(585) 720-6106 (home)

(585) 721-7599 (cellular)

william.mandrick@us.army.mil

Background

✤ Co-Creator of Command and Control (C2) Ontology

✤ Created UCore extensions for Global Force Management, COIN Operations, Army Data Yellow Pages, Position Reporting, STRIKE, Call For Fire, IED-Defeat, and Targeting

✤ Subject Matter Expertise in Civil Information Management (CIM)

✤ Twenty-three years of military leadership in both garrison and austere environments

✤ 4 Combat Deployments

✤ Assistant Professor of Military Science

✤ Taught, trained, and mentored Cadets for the U.S. Army

✤ Assistant Visiting Professor of Philosophy

✤ Taught courses in ethics, applied (professional) ethics, logic (critical thinking), aesthetics, and philosophy

Presentations and Briefings

Guide to a Repeatable Process for Ontology Creation

✤A Repeatable Process for Modeling Multinational Civil-Military Operations

16th International Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium Collective C2 in Multinational Civil-Military Operations Québec City, Canada 
June 21–23, 2011

✤Extending the Command and Control (C2) Ontology to Civil Information Management (CIM)

NATO Supreme Allied Commander Transformation (SACT) Concept Development and Experimentation (CD&E) Conference Norfolk, Virginia (USA), 6-9 December 2010

✤Extending the C2 Core Ontology to SIGACTS & Position Reports

Briefed to Tactical Edge Data Solutions (TEDS), 10 February 2010

✤Creating an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) Ontology

Briefed to the Joint IED Defeat Organization (JIEDDO), 21 January 2010

✤Universal Core Semantic Layer (UCore_SL)

Briefed to TRADOC Chief Knowledge Officer, TRADOC HQ, 09 November 2009

✤C2 Core Ontology and Global Force Management (GFM)

Briefed to Global Force Management (USMC), September 2009

✤The Ontology of Command and Control (C2)

14th Annual International Command and Control 14th International Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium June 15-17, 2009

The Ontology of Command and Control

✤Creating a C2 Ontology

Command and Control Ontology Exchange Meeting, NCOR COE, Buffalo, NY 15 January 2009

✤The Ontology of Counterinsurgency

Semantic Technology Forum, 17 September 2008, Atlantic City, NJ

The Ontology of Counterinsurgency

✤Categories of the Intentional World: Towards the Taxonomy of Artifacts

The 14th Annual meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Technology, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, July 2005.

✤Artifacts in Philosophy

Delft Technical University, The Netherlands, 3-4 October 2004.

✤Design Theory: the Systems Engineering Perspective

Proceedings of the Interdisciplinary Movements in Philosophy Conference, Buffalo, 2004.

✤The Ontology of War

Doctoral Dissertation, University at Buffalo, 2004

The Anatomy of Commands: A Phenomenological Analysis of Command Structure

Civilian Education

✤ Ph.D., Philosophy (Ontology), University at Buffalo, Amherst, NY, 2004

✤ M.A., Philosophy (Ontology), University at Buffalo, Amherst, NY, 2000

✤ B.A., Philosophy, State University of New York, College at Brockport, 1989

Military Education

✤ U.S. Army Airborne School

✤ Infantry Officer’s Basic Course

✤ Bradley Commander’s Course

✤ Mortar Platoon Leader’s Course

✤ Civil Affairs Officer’s Advanced Course

✤ Combined Arms Exercise

✤ Counterinsurgency Academy

✤ Commanding General’s Staff Course

Military Awards

✤ Combat Action Badge

✤ Bronze Star Medal

✤ Joint Meritorious Unit Award

✤ Meritorious Service Medal

✤ Joint Service Commendation Medal

✤ Army Commendation Medal (fourth award)

✤ Army Achievement Medal (third award)

✤ Good Conduct Medal

✤ Army Reserve Components Achievement Medal

✤ National Defense Service Medal (second award)

✤ Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (second award)

✤ Southwest Asia Service Medal

✤ Humanitarian Service Medal

✤ Armed Forces Reserve Medal

✤ Army Service Ribbon

✤ Kuwaiti Liberation Medal