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
