Phillip Merritt

Phillip Merritt is a Senior Biometric Software Engineer at Lakota Software Solutions, Inc., with a career spanning from 2002 to the present in software engineering and systems development. At Lakota, Phillip supports the development of a large-scale biometric identification system and leads the creation of a Java WSQ fingerprint encoding/decoding algorithm. Prior to this role, Phillip served as Vice President and Senior Systems Engineer at Northrop Grumman, where technical leadership in large-scale systems led to enhanced availability and scalability. Phillip's experience also includes a Senior Software Engineer position at Lockheed Martin, developing facial recognition systems, and a Computer Engineer role at NASA, focusing on landing and docking simulators. Academic credentials include a Master of Science in Software Engineering from West Virginia University and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Mathematics from Fairmont State University.