Theresa Tamash / Selected Staff

Software Engineer

Therea Tamash’s career includes developing software components for both military and homeland defense modeling and simulation systems. Her education includes a B.S. in Computer Science from Rollins College in 2000. She continued to go to school at the University of Central Florida where she obtained a Masters degree in Computer Science in 2004.

Key Experiences:

  • UKCATT: Corrected defects in the existing baseline
  • CCTT: Designed and developed behaviors for Dismounted Infantry
  • OneSAF: Worked on the composer tools and user interfaces for tasking units.
  • Rapid Response Planning Process (R2P2) Scheduler: Designed and developed a prototype for scheduling Marine Expeditionary Units.
  • CTC-OIS Area Weapon Effects Simulation (AWES): Developed minefield and indirect fire models.
  • Model Analysis and Verification Environment (MAVEN): Led design and development of a scenario-based, event-driven simulation system for analyzing a high fidelity model responding to chem/bio incidents at OCONUS bases.
  • DARPA’s Deep Green: Led definition and development of a test harness for evaluating multiple Deep Green systems.
  • SE Core: Developing and integrating AVCATT and CCTT behaviors into the OneSAF baseline.

Publications

  • “A Capabilities-Based Architecture for Simulating WMD Emergency Response,” Mary Ann Pigora and Theresa Tamash, IITSEC 2003 Conference Proceedings.
  • “Incorporating National Preparedness Guidelines into the Automated Exercise and Assessment System (AEAS),” Mary Ann Pigora and Theresa Tamash, Proceedings of the Public Safety Modeling & Simulation Conference 2005.
  • “Military and Civilian Terrorism Response: The Other Joint Training”, Theresa Tamash, Mary Ann Pigora, and Matt Kraus, to be published in IITSEC 2005 Conference Proceedings.
  • “Using Simulation to Exercise Emergency Management Skills”, Theresa Tamash and Roger Huder, IAEM Bulletin, July 2006.
  • “Training Novices and Experts:  A Common Assessment Mechanism for Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities,” Mary Ann Pigora, Theresa Tamash, and Holly Baxter, IITSEC 2006 Conference Proceedings.
  • “Using Simulation to Develop Effective Emergency Response Leaders”, Theresa Tamash and Mary Ann Pigora, Proceedings of Homeland Security: The Ripple Effect, the American Military University Symposium 2007.
  • “MAVEN: An Analysis and Verification Environment for Chemical/Biological Incident Response”, Shane Lewis and Theresa Tamash, Proceedings of the Chemical and Biological Defense Physical Science and Technology Conference, 2008.
  • “Extending the Military Simulation Description Language (MSDL) to Represent Deep Green Course of Action Descriptions”, Theresa Tamash and Lee Lacy, Submitted to the Proceedings of the Simulation Interoperability Workshop, 2009.