Author Bio

Kevin Brett is a Certified Enterprise Architect (CEA Blackbelt) through the FEAC Institute, a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Architect. He is an IT professional with over forty years in government, defense and commercial IT project and portfolio management, space shuttle mission experience, and enterprise architecture. He has developed and taught a comprehensive, practicum-based, Black Belt Enterprise Architecture Certification course.

Kevin has managed and led enterprise architecture programs, digital acquisition and engineering eco-system development, software, and systems engineering efforts, process automation and re-engineering for forty years. He has developed software and system engineering and enterprise architecture methodologies and training programs. His background includes development of AI rule-based systems in the fields of medical diagnosis for the U.S. Air Force. He developed an AI air traffic flow management adviser system, Smartflo, for the FAA utilizing an architecture of cooperating rule-based software agents to make recommendations for traffic flow management.

Kevin also led the development of a space shuttle data communications rule-based AI system. The system diagnosed communications down link issues from the Spacelab module during space shuttle missions.

Kevin has developed object-oriented modeling and agent-based architecture methodologies and agent-based systems with embedded AI-agents. He spent the first half of his career as computer programmer, software engineer and mission analyst on a variety of projects including supporting numerous space shuttle missions as a member of the Space Shuttle Spacelab Team. He also developed communications and scheduling software for the NASA Communications (NASCOM) Network Control Center (NCC).

Kevin implemented a software engineering methodology he developed, Gecko Lite, at NASA Ames Research Center on the NASA Grid Computing program to lend systems and software engineering rigor to the development efforts of the program. In support of this effort, he developed an extensive program of instruction to train contractor and NASA engineers and developers on all aspects and phases of software and systems engineering.

Kevin has directly implemented and led development efforts for implementation of process re-engineering efforts using process automation tools to automate more than a dozen internal corporate processes and several customer business processes. These re-engineering efforts resulted in dramatic reductions in cycle-times and increased throughput and for process requests through automated tracking and notification of process events.

 Kevin has led enterprise architecture teams for organizations in private industry and government including the Federal Aviation Administration (ATO), Environmental Protection Agency, the United States Marine Corps Enterprise Architecture, and the United States Marine Corps Enterprise Network Architecture. His focus and interest are on creative strategies for organizational and digital transformation supported by enterprise architecture and emerging technologies.

Kevin is concerned especially with strategic planning based on understanding the current and future desired states of aspects of enterprise maturity as it pertains to digital transformation and construction of digital eco-systems. He has a keen interest in helping executives, architects, and engineers develop the tools to understand and overcome transformation challenges and how paradigm shifts in operations, technology, culture, and marketplace can affect organizational direction, structure, and operations. He has developed analytical methods to help enterprises detect, understand, or even initiate their own paradigm shifts to achieve and maintain leadership positions within their domain.

Kevin holds a B.S. in Computer and Information Science from the University of Maryland, University College.