Chris Will
Research Scientist at National Center for Ontological Research
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
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Top SchoolChris Will is a research scientist and retired technology executive with a multi-decade track record building manufacturing software and R&D organizations, most notably as co-founder and CTO of Apriso and later CTO of DELMIA at Dassault Systèmes. He led Apriso from startup to sustained profitability and global leadership—creating the FlexNet product that remains a core DELMIA asset—and has experience raising venture funding and scaling engineering teams. Now focused on industrial ontologies, he chairs a working group at the Industrial Ontologies Foundry and conducts research at the National Center for Ontological Research, blending practical manufacturing systems expertise with formal knowledge representation. Trained in computer science, chemical engineering, and manufacturing engineering (UW–Madison, UCLA), he brings a rare combination of shop-floor domain knowledge, enterprise software architecture, and ontology-driven research to bridge operational technology and semantic modeling.
9 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science & Chemical Engineering, BS, Computer Science & Chemical Engineering at University of Wisconsin-MadisonUniversity of California, Los Angeles
English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (10)
typescript7
iframe6
authentication6
javascript6
electron6
jquery6
github6
jquery-mobile6
git5
github-desktop2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
iofoundry/Core
Jun 2021 - Apr 2022
Contributions:33 commits in 10 months
NCOR-US/IOF-BFO
Apr 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:6 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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