Michael Fotta

Michael Fotta has over 30 years of work experience in various roles and industries. Michael started their career as an Experimental Psychologist at Xerox Corporation, where they designed and managed research on human evaluation of images. Michael then worked as a Research Development Consultant at the Center for Visual Science, University of Rochester, providing consultation on experimental design and statistical analysis.

Fotta then joined AT&T, where they held multiple positions including Project Manager, Software Specialist, and Human Factors Engineer. Michael contributed to the development of user interface modeling methods and Knowledge Base Systems (KBS) models for telecommunication systems. Michael also managed a team and provided technical expertise on advanced interface and AI projects.

After leaving AT&T, Fotta worked at West Virginia University as a Member Of Technical Staff, where they coordinated the transitioning of concurrent engineering technology to industrial sites and investigated the feasibility of expert system applications.

Michael then joined Electronic Warfare Associates, Inc. as a Principal Software Designer, managing software development personnel and analyzing requirement specifications for reuse technology in the Command and Control domain.

Fotta later worked at Innovative Management and Technology Services (IMTS) as a Principal Investigator. There, they secured funding and acted as PI on research and development grants, conducted information architecture for websites, and served as a liaison between academic engineering researchers and IMTS.

Most recently, Fotta worked at Global Science & Technology, Inc as a Senior System Engineer. Their responsibilities included capacity planning modeling, assessing technologies, and managing technology upgrades for the CLASS program.

Overall, Fotta has a diverse background in research, project management, system analysis, and user interface design, with significant experience in the field of telecommunication systems and information technology.

Michael Fotta earned their Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in Psychology from Carnegie Mellon University, where they studied from 1967 to 1971. Michael then went on to pursue a Master of Science (MS) degree in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Furthermore, they obtained a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in Cognitive Psychology from the same institution. The specific years of their graduate studies were not provided.