Panel on Knowledge Management

Panel on Knowledge Management

Moderator: David Redmiles, UCI/ISR
Panelists:

    
Jeanne Holm
Chief Knowledge Architect,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Scott W. Shaffar
Director, Knowledge Management,
Northrop Grumman Integrated Systems

Kiho D. Sohn
Director, Site Lead for Knowledge Management,
Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne

Stew Sutton
Principal Engineer, Knowledge Management Engineering and Technology Group,
The Aerospace Corporation
Biography:
Scott Shaffar is currently the Director for Knowledge Management, Systems Support and Integration and the founding member of Northrop Grumman’s Corporate Knowledge Management Council. Dr. Shaffar has a B.S. in aerospace engineering from the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, and a M.S. and Ph.D. in mechanical and aerospace engineering from the University of California at Irvine. He is a member of Northrop Grumman's Corporate Knowledge Management Council, The Knowledge Leadership Forum, and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. His accomplishments in Knowledge Management have been recognized in the Wall Street Journal, Fortune Magazine, Aviation Week & Space Technology, Knowledge Management Magazine, PC Magazine, Information Week, Business 2.0, and CIO Magazine. Dr. Shaffar has also been featured on the Association of Knowledgework STAR series.
Biography:
As the site lead and a director for Knowledge Management at Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, Inc. (PWR), Mr. Sohn is responsible for developing strategic planning and implementation of KM processes and innovation methodologies for the company since 1999. PWR KM effort focuses on overall KM process, and provides well balanced enablers covering multiple aspects of tacit and explicit knowledge. When Rocketdyne was a part of Boeing, until August of 2005, Mr. Sohn has been providing leadership in these areas across Boeing enterprise, and was first one to be inducted into Boeing Technical Fellowship in the field of KM and Innovation. Prior to the current position, he had over 20 years of experience in leading various engineering disciplines such as thermal, stress, structural dynamics analyses, and systems engineering. He is well known speaker and an author, and has been invited to speak at various international forums, over 50 times, covering topics such as KM, innovation, and systems thinking.
Biography:
Stew Sutton is the Principal Engineer for Knowledge Management at The Aerospace Corporation. He is accountable for the corporate roadmaps and subordinate activities associated with KM. The Aerospace Corporation's KM activities include a major thrust toward cross-organizational stewardship and collaboration using Communities of Practice. Stew also facilitates the R&D efforts addressing organizational collaboration and stewardship around corporate knowledge. Some of the current concepts under development include virtual environments (similar to the public multi-user system Second Life), internal tagging and taxonomy builders (similar to the public del.icio.us), as well as a collection of social software portals, applications, and reference systems to validate the individual and organizational benefit of such systems. Stew also sponsors selective graduate research efforts at USC and UCI where the is synergy between the corporate objectives of Aerospace and the goals of the University faculty and graduate students.