Dr. Mary Ann Malloy is a Lead Information Systems Engineer and Data Transparency Group Leader for MITRE, a federally-funded research and development corporation in the USA. Dr. Malloy is an internationally recognized expert in tactical messaging and operational constraints management. She has nearly 30 years of hands-on experience in information standards and processing, interoperability, legacy system migration, and operational software development for defense applications. Dr. Malloy’s areas of expertise include information/knowledge management, business process/rules management, XML technologies and net-centric operations.
Dr. Malloy completed her Ph.D. (1995) with a concentration in software reliability modeling at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia USA, where she remains an adjunct faculty member. During her career Dr. Malloy has conceived, developed and taught several courses at the MITRE Institute, MITRE’s corporate university. She is a sought-after speaker both within and outside MITRE on technology topics; recent engagements include panelist at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Information to Innovation Expo and five conference talks in 2007 alone. She has authored more than 40 technical papers. Recent publications include An Effects-based Metrics Framework, A Model for Successful Engineering Internship, “Wicked” Project Management and A Lightweight Approach to Building the Department of Defense’s Semantic Web.