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Joe Quigley is a researcher, educator and consultant, and has enjoyed a professional career of more than three decades in the field of international and multi-national organizational design, development and systems/network integration.

He is a pioneer in the Knowledge Engineering Industry, the originator of "Organic" organizational design, and an innovator in the creation and deployment of expert systems for sustainable human, environmental, and organizational development.

He is founder, chairman and executive director of the Knowledge Engineering Research Institute, as well as chairman and president of Knowledge Base Systems, and sits on the boards of several development organizations including the Sacred Mountain Healing Center.

He is the creator and author of an expert system for monitoring the environmental impact of nuclear power generation. This expert system was relied upon by the NRC during the Three Mile Island accident in March, 1979, and is currently the primary nuclear power environmental monitoring system used in the United States and Russia.

In the early part of 1996 Quigley teamed up with Mark Graham, founder of PeaceNet and the SovAm Teleport, in the organizational and network re-structuring of The WELL, hooked.net, and Whole Earth Networks.

His educational background includes electrical, software, and network engineering,as well as ontology, biology, linguistics, cultural anthropology, military history, strategy, and leadership.

Current Project:

Project Manager, Automated Y2K Remediation and Independent Verification and Validation Services
Responsible for managing and coordinating international Y2K remediation and IV&V projects. Clients included
Federal and State government agencies, US military services, and Fortune 500 financial services companies. Worked with a variety of tools and with remediation factories located in US, Israel, and South Africa. Languages included Assembler, COBOL, FORTRAN, ADA, JOVIAL, IDEAL, PL/1 and C.

Past and recent clients include:

Client / Server Specialist, Information Technology Services, Enterprise Information Systems
Responsible for resolving server and desktop integration issues involved with migration from Windows For Workgroups 3.11 to Windows 95. Responsible for developing deployment strategy and rollout of PeopleSoft FIS and HRMS, and Maximo, which are Oracle based client/server applications as well as the following standalone applications - Scheduler Plus, VISTA, Calendar Creator Plus, PC Gifts, Gifts For Windows and ArcList. Consulting Systems Engineer, Concord Technology Center, BASE (BofA Systems Engineering), LAN Platform Integration Team. The LAN Platform Integration Team is responsible for the certification of client/server applications prior to their deployment on the 1,700 File Server LAN/WAN. Certified and deployed two national rollouts of the Cash Management Automation FileNet application. Organizational Designer, reported to Chairman, President and CEO. Established the Field Support Center within the Information Services organization of this publicly-traded telemanagement industry leader. Designed and directed the setup and rollout of the Branch Automation Project (PC/LAN platforms in 20 branch offices throughout the country that included contact management, presentation graphics, word-processing, and remote support from a centralized headquarters facility). Consultant, IBM Corporation, Bethesda, MD Consulted to IBM's Education Industry Development Group. Co-founded and served as chairman and then as a director of the Education Industry's EPIC Users Group. Reference letter

Systems / Programmer Analyst, IBM Corporation, White Plains, NY Employed by the IBM Corporation as part of the Advanced Administrative Systems (AAS) team that was chartered to design and implement the computerization of the Data Processing Division's internal Management Information Systems. Started as a unit record machine operator, then computer operator and programmer and eventually promoted to being one of two system / programmer analysts at DPD headquarters responsible for the Accounts Receivable function. Received "IBM Means Service" Award in 1966.

Trained and coached executives, directors, managers and staff of several multinational business units, including Monsanto Agricultural Co., Monsanto Chemical Co., Fisher Controls International, G.D. Searle Co., and Nutrasweet Co. in the areas of organizational design, team building, productivity, effective communications and other "fast-track" development courses, including "Executive Excellence" (Participants in the Executive Succession Planning Program), "Mastery of Leadership" (Managers), and "Breakthrough Communications" (All levels of staff). Reference letter Environmental Sciences Division Creator and inventor of the REASER Enviromental Monitoring System, currently the primary expert system for the world-wide monitoring of nuclear power generation. UNDP's mission is to help countries in their efforts to achieve sustainable human development by assisting them to build their capacity to design and carry out development programmes in poverty eradication, employment creation and sustainable livelihoods, the empowerment of women and the protection and regeneration of the environment, giving first priority to poverty eradication. UNEP's mandate is to provide leadership and encourage partnership in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing and enabling nations and peoples to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations.