Anthony J. Giancola Chief Technology Officer Mr. Giancola is a co-founder of the firm. He is responsible for New Product Prototyping and for the IT infrastructure of the company. Mr. Giancola has over 30 years of experience in software development, specializing in high performance scientific computing technologies. He has consulted for the Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Air Force's Phillips Laboratory on parallel code development. He is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery, and has published several papers in various scientific journals. In 1995, Mr. Giancola joined the Center for Adaptive Systems Applications (CASA). While at CASA he developed forecasting and scheduling algorithms for Citibank's credit card customer service centers that improved response times and significantly reduced operating costs. He was the Project Leader of CASA's Advanced Crisis Simulator (ACS), a Java-based consumer bank 'flight simulator'. The ACS was used throughout Asia and Latin America to train over a dozen senior level management teams in the management of economic crises in emerging market economies. In 1999, he left CASA to co-found Strategic Analytics. Mr. Giancola received his BS and MS in Computer Science from the University of New Mexico. |