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Cris Kobryn is the CEO and Founder of
PivotPoint
Technology Corporation, a company that specializes
in Model-Driven Engineering Solutions™ for tough
business and technical problems. Cris is a technology
leader, system architect and entrepreneur who excels
in advanced software and systems development. He has
successfully applied innovative technologies to solve
tough business and technical problems at Fortune 500,
midsize and startup companies. Cris is passionate about
advanced technology and is an internationally recognized
expert in visual modeling languages and Model-Driven
Development (MDD) technologies
He has global experience leading high-performance
software development teams, and has architected custom
applications and commercial products.
Cris is the former Chief Technologist for
Telelogic,
where he was responsible for industry standards leadership,
strategic planning and technology evangelism. Prior to
working at Telelogic, Cris was a Chief Technologist for
the E.solutions unit of EDS, a $2+ billion, 20,000
person global business unit. Before working at EDS, Cris
was a Chief Architect at MCI Systemhouse, where he
received the MCI Masters award for “Outstanding
Performance” and the MCI Systemhouse award for “Thought
Leadership.” In addition, Cris has also held senior
technical positions at InLine Software, Inference, Harlequin,
SAIC
and VERAC.
Cris has consulted for Fortune 500 clients in a wide
range of industries that include aerospace, telecom,
financial services, commodity trading, computer
integrated manufacturing, healthcare and
pharmaceuticals. In addition, he has consulted for
various government agencies in domains that include
C4ISR, seismic monitoring, explosive ordnance disposal, radar
event detection, data fusion and aircraft loading.
Cris is an internationally recognized expert in visual
modeling languages and model-driven development
technologies. He chaired large international teams of
vendors and users to specify the Unified Modeling
Language (UML) 1.1 and 2.0 standards for software
engineering, and the Systems Modeling Language (SysML)
for systems engineering. In recognition of Cris's
contributions to UML and the Analysis & Design Task
Force, the Object Managment Group (OMG) presented him
with its Distinguished Service Award in 2000. In
recognition of Cris's contributions to SysML, the
International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE)
presented him with its Outstanding Service Award in
2006.
Before Cris became a software professional he served as
a commissioned officer in both the U.S. Marine Corps and
the U.S. Army, and was infantry, armor, airborne and
Special Forces qualified.
Cris received a BA degree from Colgate
University and a BSCS degree from San Diego State
University. His multi-disciplinary graduate studies at
SDSU and UCLA explored the synergies among
linguistics, computer science and artificial
intelligence.
Cris is a frequent presenter and panelist at industry
conferences and workshops that are concerned with
software architecture, UML, and SysML. He is a former computer
science instructor at the University of California, San
Diego Extension and is a member of the
ACM,
IEEE,
INCOSE
and AAAI.
Selected
Committees
- Chair of the Systems Modeling Language (SysML)
open source project, 2003 to present.
- Chair of the U2 Partners UML 2.0 Submission
Team, 2000-2003. Chair of the Rational Partners UML
1.1 Semantic Task Force, 1997.
- Co-Chair of the OMG UML Revision Task Force, Object
Management Group, 1997 to 2002.
- Co-Chair of the OMG Analysis & Design Task Force, Object
Management Group, 1999 to 2006.
- Member of the Program/Steering Committee, 1st -
10th International Conference on Model Driven
Engineering Languages and Systems, MODELS 1998-2007. (General Chair, 2001)
- Member of the Program Committee, 1st - 7th
International Enterprise Distributed Object
Computing Conference, EDOC 1997-2003. (Program Chair
1997; General Chair, 1998)
- Member of Java Community Process expert group
for the UML/EJB Mapping Specification, 1999-2000.
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