Summary
Lonnie Vanzandt is a seasoned enterprise architect and systems/software engineer with over 13 years of professional experience and a multi-decade technical background spanning kernel and real-time systems to model-driven engineering and semantic technologies. As Chief Solutions Officer at Intercax and founder of Predictable Response Consulting, he combines hands-on engineering, customer success for the U.S. defense industrial base, and leadership of application engineering, QA, DevSecOps, and cybersecurity teams. He specializes in enterprise architecture, SysML/UPDM modeling, ontology and semantic engineering, and integrating lifecycle tools to improve collaborative engineering productivity. Lonnie’s work blends deep technical skills (C/C++, real-time OS, network protocols) with program and proposal management, and he actively researches collaborative ontology engineering, provenance, and argumentation in engineering artifacts. A persistent communicator and technical evangelist, he has long represented product and standards interests in forums like OMG and INCOSE, bringing both tactical engineering insight and strategic product vision.
13 years of coding experience
34 years of employment as a software developer
College Prep, Mathematics, College Prep, Mathematics at Purdue University
MS, Computer Engineering, MS, Computer Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
French