Cris Kobryn

Education

San Diego State University. University of California, Los Los Angeles Colgate University.

Career

Kobryn began his software engineering career in the early 1980s specializing in Artificial Intelligence programming languages (Prolog, Lisp, CLOS) and applications (expert systems, natural language processing). He led the applications group at Harlequin Limited that developed the Watson investigative analysis application, which was eventually acquired by Xanalys Limited. Kobryn is best known as an expert in visual modeling languages and model-driven development technologies.

In 2003 he founded PivotPoint Technology, a software and systems engineering services company that focuses on model-driven development technologies.

Prior to founding PivotPoint Kobryn held senior technical positions at Telelogic, European Democrat Students, Microwave Communications Incorporated Systemhouse, Inference Corporation, Harlequin, and Science Applications International Corporation. Before Kobryn became a software engineer he served as a commissioned officer in both the United States. Marine Corps and the United States. Army, and was infantry, armor, airborne and Special Forces qualified. He chaired large international teams of vendors and users to specify the Unified Modeling Language (UML) 1.1 and UML 2.0 standards for software engineering, and the Systems Modeling Language (SysML) for systems engineering.

Kobryn received a Bachelor degree from Colgate University and a Biological Sciences Curriculum Study degree from San Diego State University (SDSU). His multi-disciplinary graduate studies at SDSU and University of California, Los Angeles explored the synergies between linguistics, computer science and Artificial Intelligence (Artificial Intelligence).

Achievements

• In recognition of Kobryn"s contributions to the UML, the Object Management Group presented him with its Distinguished Service Award in 2000. In recognition of his contributions to the SysML, the INCOSE presented him with its Outstanding Service Award in 2006. In 2007 Kobryn received the South Dakota Times 100 award for the Modeling category on behalf of the SysML Partners open source project that he chaired.

Membership

Kobryn is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, INCOSE and Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.