Andrea Westerinen
Senior Technical Expert, SAIC
Senior Technical Expert, SAIC
Andrea Westerinen is a senior technical expert at SAIC, focused on ontology development and alignment, natural language processing, and policy-based management. Westerinen has worked in the area of policy-based management for more than 10 years, giving the keynote address at the IEEE 2003 Policy Conference and having written several technical articles and IETF Internet-Drafts on the subject. Westerinen has a B.S. in physics and mathematics from Marquette University and an M.S. in computer science from Nova Southeastern University. Before joining SAIC, she was a Distinguished Engineer at CA Technologies, a principal architect at Microsoft Corporation, and a senior architect and manager of Information Modeling at Cisco Systems.