PROTEUS Technologies establishes Knowledge and Language Solutions Group

Mandy S. Pet named as Director to spearhead multilingual processing & language services

ANNAPOLIS JUNCTION , MD, February 25, 2008 - PROTEUS Technologies, a leader in providing innovative software and systems engineering solutions, primarily for the Intelligence Community, Government Health Services, and Commercial Industries, announced today that Mandy S. Pet has joined PROTEUS as their new Director of Knowledge & Language Solutions.  In this capacity, Ms. Pet will be responsible for building upon PROTEUS’ intellectual capital in human language and knowledge management technologies, multilingual database, application, and collaboration efforts.  Passionate about supporting Government initiatives in creating actionable intelligence from vast amounts of multilingual data, Ms. Pet will focus on strategic vision and planning for furthering the development of advanced tools and techniques in this arena.

In a statement from PROTEUS’ Executive Vice President, Dr. Charles Taylor, “We believe that Mandy’s distinctive career as a recognized industry expert in language services, combined with her experience as a seasoned business leader will guide corporate growth in Knowledge & Language Solutions – an area in national defense that we are proud to support.  We could not be more pleased to have Mandy come aboard.  With Mandy's leadership we will continue to innovate advanced techniques to process real time intelligence data, while at the same time delivering to our client’s cutting edge analysis tool features to ensure they readily have the data they need for critical decision making.”

With over 28 years of progressively challenging positions in the intelligence community, Ms. Pet is poised and ready to take the reins for PROTEUS to lead product development and delivery, and IR&D initiatives in multilingual processing, internationalization (I18N) and human language technology (HLT).  She previously held senior positions with MITRE, Oracle Consulting and Trados Corporation, where she held senior level positions, and her responsibilities encompassed running a multimillion dollar business sector, and providing technical vision and oversight in the areas of language technology, database design and implementation, data warehousing and advanced research in information extraction for less commonly taught languages (LCTL), and internationalized multilingual processing solutions.

Ms. Pet was awarded a U.S. patent for her innovative approach to multilingual language retrieval and storage mechanism.   Currently, she serves as an official U.S. delegate to the ISO Technical Subcommittee (TC) 37, Working Group 4, Language Resource Management and is a contributing author of draft standard ISO 26413, Lexical Markup Framework. She also served on the editorial board and is a contributing writer to Multilingual Communications and Technology Magazine.

Ms. Pet holds B.S. in Computer and Information Science with a minor in Technology Management from the University of Maryland, University College (UMUC) in 1987 and an M.S. in Computer Systems Management and Database Technologies in May 2008.


About PROTEUS Technologies
PROTEUS Technologies, headquartered in Annapolis Junction, MD, is a premier provider of leading-edge professional software and systems engineering solutions for the Intelligence Community, Government Health Services, and Commercial Industries. PROTEUS’ core services & solutions encompass Software Development Solutions, Database Solutions, Knowledge & Language Solutions and Network & Systems Engineering Solutions.

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