Curriculum Vitae

Megan Ann Eskey

EDUCATION:

1986-1987 University of Southern California M.S.C.S. Los Angeles, California 1979-1983 University of Southern California B.S.M.E. Los Angeles, California

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: NASA Ames Research Center

January 2013 - Present: Independent Consultant for Open Government, Worldwide. Blogger: http://dad-memorial.blogspot.com/ (initiated in 2009) – international following. Digital influencer effecting change on a global level, while simultaneously influencing national, state and local OpenGov priorities in the United States. Participant in the nation’s first wiki-bill, an effort to reform California’s outdated probate laws via citizen input. My Vizify bio captures the span of my impact and my most recent interactions via social media: https://www.vizify.com/megan-eskey My whohub interview provides a broad overview of my priorities and goals, and some background information about my blog: http://www.whohub.com/meganesque

2010 – 2012: OpenGov Lead for ARC. ARC Enterprise Architecture. Federal Intranet Content Managers, Steering Committee Representative for NASA. Design of a conceptual enterprise architecture for the federal community cloud. The user interface design was adopted by the NASA Spacebook team. The open stack module was developed by the NASA Nebula team, and released as open source in concert with Rackspace. The Open Stack Foundation provides oversight to hundreds of industry partners who have committed to Open Stack. Organized a booth at the Bay Area Maker Faire, to bring the “maker” movement to NASA Ames.

2000 – 2010: ARC Web ManagerWeb Services Manager for ARC. Responsible for oversight and management of ARC’s web presence, including over 500 web sites and 100 webmasters. Budget, Policy and Planning, Design and Development, Hosting, Curating, Registration, Marketing and Outreach.

1999 – 2000: Web Curator

Chief Information Officer Webmaster: curating and design for three high-visibility NASA web sites: Y2K, Outsourcing Desktop Initiative for NASA (ODIN), CIO.

ARC Rep for NASA CIO’s IT Workforce Team. Produced and Directed “The Human Element”, an internet video.

1995 - 1999 Focus Manager for Marketing and CommunicationsImplemented a marketing focus area for the Applied Information Technology Division at NASA ARC. Provided training for staff. Created a corporate image, logo, web pages, videos, and other collateral portfolio elements. Organized workshops and other events. Member of a self-directed team that assessed the viability of network computers and Java for NASA. Member of the NASA CIO’s communications team.

1994 - 1995 Group Leader, Intelligent Interactive SystemsThe group consisted of a variety of investigators with expertise in: intelligent hypertext systems; collaborative agents; remote advisory systems for scientists and engineers; intelligent infrastructure support tools; design knowledge capture tools; formal methods in software engineering.

1993 - 1994 Co-InvestigatorVisiting Scholar at Apple Computer’s Advanced Technology Group; design of an adaptive information retrieval tool; design of a tutorial system for an integrated on-line documentation tool; investigation of performance support systems and technologies.

1991-1992 Co-InvestigatorDesign of a system that used Bayesian statistical methods to reconstruct paths of evolution from molecular sequence data. The project was in collaboration with the Life Science Division and the Planetary Biology Branch at NASA Ames.

1988-1991 Co-InvestigatorDesign and implementation of a general purpose constraint-based scheduling system written in an object-oriented, interpreted language. The GPSS system has been applied to various domains including space shuttle maintenance operations and scheduling electrical power consumption. The application of machine learning techniques to the GPSS scheduling system. Search control rules were automatically generated by an explanation-based learning system.

1983-1986 Co-InvestigatorVarious tasks related to V/STOL aircraft design: mission analysis using a FORTRAN-based system; flight simulation of the Grumman Twin Tilt Nacelle Aircraft; investigation of various Artificial Intelligence techniques for aircraft design.

Mid-Peninsula Access Corporation (Television and Video Production):

1999-2000 Producer, Editor, Director: “After the Apocalypse:Burning Man”,Director of several episodes of “Regular People” and “Arts and Minds”. Production Assistant, Talent: “The ToeKnee Show: Season #2, Episode #9”, Camera: “Regular People: Fun with Math”, “Regular People: Boys Talk”, Technical Director: “Regular People: Masquerade”, Audio/Guest Star: “Regular People: Burning Man”

ME Mervich Productions (Independent Film Production):

20011nd Assistant Director: “Last Millennium”

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Paluzzi, P.; Miller, R.; Kurihara, W.; Eskey, M., “ Network Computer Technology Phase I: Viability and Promise within NASA’s Desktop Computing Environment”, NASA Technical Memorandum - 1988-112219, January 1998. Zweben, M.; Davis, E.; Daun, B.; Drascher, E.; Deale, M.; Eskey, M., "Learning to Improve Constraint-based Scheduling", Artificial Intelligence Journal, Special Issue on Constraint Satisfaction, 58, December 1992.

Eskey, M.; Zweben, M., "Learning Search Control for Constraint-based Scheduling", Proceedings of the Eighth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, (AAAI), July 1990.

Zweben, M.; Eskey, M., "Constraint Satisfaction with Delayed Evaluation", Proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, (IJCAI), August 1989.

Kidwell, G.H.; Eskey, M.A., "Expert Systems and Their Use in Augmenting Design Optimization", Proceedings of the Aircraft Design Systems and Operations Meeting, (AIAA, AHS and ASEE), October 1985.

Eskey, M.A.; Wilson, S.B., III; Valckanaere, W.; La Reau, J.P., "Twin Tilt Nacelle V/STOL Aircraft", Proceedings of the Aerospace Congress and Exposition, (SAE), October 1984.

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS:

IMAGE (Independent Media Artists Group) Federally Employed Women, First Vice President of the South Bay Chapter, 1998- 2001 ARC Equal Opportunity Board, 1998 – 2001 Multicultural Leadership Council, 1997 - 1999

HONORS AND AWARDS:

Top 10% Kred Influencer (2013) Top 3% Slideshare Views (2013) Fed 100 Award Nominee (2011, 2012) NY International Independent Film and Video Festival: “After the Apocalypse” (2000) Earthnoise “Best Documentaries”: “After the Apocalypse” (2000) Flambé Lounge “Video Best Fest”: “After the Apocalypse” (2000) FilmFilm.com “Top 5 Documentaries”: “After the Apocalypse” (2000) Group Achievement Award, Y2K Team (2000) 40th International Cinema in Industry (CINDY) Award: “The Human Element” (1999) Spotlight Award, Network Computer Technology Evaluation (1997) Group Achievement Award, Workgroup/Workflow Workshop (1996) Group Achievement Award, Multicultural Leadership Council (1995) Group Achievement Award, Continuous Improvement Team for Ames Affirmative Employment and Diversity Plan (1995) Recipient of Director's Discretionary Fund research grant, "Scheduling Electrical Power for Ames Research Center" (1990)"Twin Tilt Nacelle V/STOL Aircraft" winner of NASA Tech Briefs Award (1988)