Ronald "Skip" Cole

Ronald Cole joined USIP’s Professional Training program early in 2006 as an instructional technologist. He helps deliver instructional content developed at the Institute to the world via technology. Cole has extensive experience in the field of simulation, both in content and technology. He has developed simulations of molecular dynamics, businesses and business decision-making processes. He is a Sun-certified enterprise architect, programmer and developer. Cole is also an Oracle-certified database associate. He was a nuclear reactor operator in the U.S. Navy, has worked for a number of private-sector firms (including Arthur Andersen) and has teaching experience.

He has a B.S. in biophysics from the University of Connecticut, a master’s in biophysics and computational biology from the University of Illinois and a master’s in global management from the University of Phoenix.

Publications:

• "Introducing the Open Simulation Platform," The Cornwallis Group XIII: Analysis in Support of Policy, 2008.
• "The Need to Play Together: The Case for an Open-Source Simulation for Interagency Coordination," The Cornwallis Group XII: Analysis for Multi-Agency Support, 2007.
• Crawford, Teresa and Cole, R. "Building Peace Through Information and Communications Technologies," Idealware , June 2007.
• "Modeling Opinion Flow in Humans Using Boids Algorithm & Social Network Analysis," Gamasutra.com, September 26, 2006.
• Panchenko, A.R., Lutheyschulten, Z., Cole, R., and Wolynes, P.G. "The Foldon Universe," Journal of Molecular Biology, September 12, 1997.