Dr. James V. Blowers
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US Army Combined Arms Support Command (CASCOM)
Ft Lee, Virginia 23801-1809
Developed database applications to enable others in my branch to obtain information more easily and from a single source rather than a collection of scattered sources. Am developing a Windows-based program to enable personnel to compute supply needs. Used Access, Visual Basic, and Borland Delphi to develop these tools. Develop and run models and simulations of Army logistics. Serve as web author for the Multi-Functional Force Structure Integration and Planning Data web pages and other places on the CASCOM Web Page. Assist others with computer-related problems.
US Army Combined Arms Support Command (CASCOM)
Ft Lee, Virginia 23801-1809
Developed database applications in Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) for Access to assist in providing input data for a simulation model of combat service support operations. Some of their applications required obtaining data from text files and constructing a database out of them. Helped develop the simulation model, which uses Gensym Corporation's G2 system which exhibits simulation exhibits as objects in a graphical user interface (GUI). Applied another object-oriented model to a problem in combat service support. Briefed or assisted in briefing four generals. Served as web author for the Multi-functional Doctrine, Simulation, and Force Development subpages of the CASCOM Web Page. Used C++ to upgrade a program to handle many different input formats.
US Army Combined Arms Support Command
Ft Lee, Virginia 23801-1809
Applied discrete-event simulation methods to problems in military logistics, especially maintenance. Wrote a model in the Simulation Language for Alternative Modeling (SLAM) of wheeled vehicle maintenance in a wartime environment, and a model in SLAM of warehousing operations in a wartime environment that assessed the tradeoff between warehousing specialists and forklift trucks.
Operations Research Program
Florida Institute of Technology
Extension at Army Logistics Management Center/College
Fort Lee, Virginia 23801
Instructed students in linear and nonlinear programming and operations research case studies in every year from 1982 to present in which the program was open. In the case studies course, assigned operations research projects to students, monitored their progress with these techniques, and evaluated them. These projects require linear and nonlinear optimization, decision theory, queuing theory, discrete-event simulation, probability theory, financial analysis, and electrical engineering and applied to academic, industrial, and governmental situations.
Management and Economic Analysis Division
Comptroller, US Army 7th Signal Command
Ft Ritchie, Maryland 21719
Performed economic and cost-price analyses of telephone systems such as dial central offices and electronic switching systems, mainframe computers, power generators, cable, and local items such as base housing kitchen appliances.
Comptroller
Letterkenny Army Depot
Chambersburg, Pennsylvania
Performed management analyses of depot functions using indicator theory, regression analysis, and probability theory.
Wrote nonlinear optimization algorithms first with linear constraints and then with nonlinear ones, both without explicit derivatives, in support of Armament Laboratory programs. Applied a linear programming package to a tactical warfare scenario.
Sun System Administrator, 1994 July 19.
NACSE Certified Webmaster, 1999 December 17.
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