Howard Mall
VP of Engineering
ECS, Inc.

Mr. Howard Mall started work in the Simulation and Training field while completing his Master's Degree in Computer Science from the University of Central Florida. He took a position as one of the first members of SAIC's research team where he eventually lead Internal Research and Development project as well as working on programs such as WARSIM. He leveraged work there for his Master's thesis entitled “Dynamic Replanning in Battlefield Domains”. At Engineering and Computer Simulations, Inc. since late 2004, he has built various kinds of training systems using game technologies. He lead efforts for the Navy to develop training solutions deployed on cell phones and handheld computers. For the Army, he delivered the Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TC3) Simulation used by combat medics to learn triage and medical decision-making in a virtual tactical environment. He began the Emergency Management Nexus, a next-generation synchronous training platform for the National Guard Bureau within virtual worlds. He currently serves as VP of Engineering overseeing all software development at ECS, Inc.