Instructor  ::  Kevin McCarty

Kevin is a SetFocus Instructor and Graduate of the SetFocus SharePoint Master’s Program with almost 30 years of experience as a developer, DBA and project manager for a wide range businesses and organizations.

Along with the SharePoint 2010 Master’s Course, he teaches classes in the .NET, SQL Server and SQL Server BI courses. He is a former US Army Officer with a Master’s Degree in Computer Science and Doctoral candidate with the University of Idaho. He is a Microsoft Certified Trainer and has authored a number of technical publications on data mining. Kevin resides in Idaho Falls and works remotely via The GRID®.

Certifications

  • MCT – Microsoft Certified Trainer
  • MCPD – Microsoft .NET 3.5 Enterprise Application Developer
  • MCITP – SQL Server 2008 Database Administration
  • MCITP – SQL Server 2008 Database Development
  • MCITP – SQL Server 2008 Business Intelligence Developer
  • MCTS – SharePoint 2007 Configuration
  • MCTS – Microsoft .NET 3.5 Windows Workflow Foundation
  • MCTS – Microsoft .NET 3.5 Windows Presentation Foundation Applications

Publications

  • Book Chapter: Contextual Data Rule Generation for Autonomous Vehicle Control, CISSE08, © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010.
  • An Adaptive Architecture for Hydroinformatics Design and Implementation, HEIC ‘09
  • Adaptive Behavioral Control of Collaborative Robots in Hazardous Environments, HSI 200
  • A Temporal-Spatial Data Fusion Architecture for Monitoring Complex Systems”, HSI 2010

Research publications
  • Line-of-Sight Tracking Based Upon Modern Heuristics Approach, IEEE ICIEA, June 2008.
  • Contextual Fuzzy Type-2 Hierarchies for Decision Trees (CoFuH-DT) – An Accelerated Data Mining Technique, IEEE HSI, May 2008
  • Descending Deviation Optimization Techniques For Scheduling Problems, 13th IEEE ETFA, Sep, 2008
  • Master's Thesis - Applications of Modern Heuristics and Advanced Data Mining Techniques, University of Idaho, 2008