Mr. Lonnie VanZandt is Principal Solutions Architect for Intercax where he provides customer support for Syndeia and performs research, development, and proposal preparation. He publishes and presents materials that promote the use of Syndeia and collaborative engineering. Lonnie has over 30 years of experience in software and systems engineering, with over a decade at AT&T Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, and LGS Innovations; tours at Timesys Linux, QNX Software Systems, Artisan, and Esterel; innovative research, development, and business development at Northrop Grumman and CACI; Chief Architect at NoMagic. As Solutions Engineer at Sodius, he gained extensive expertise with OSLC, Jazz DNG and GCM, Windchill, and the exporting, transforming, and loading of information out of and into the industry’s major MBSE tools using HTTP, HTTPS, REST, XML, XMI, JSON, CSV, OWL, RDF, turtle, LDP, unstructured and structured data, and ... sorcery.  Lonnie is an OMG-certified Business Process Modeler and a Neo4j-certified Professional. He has been a contributing author to the OMG certification exams for UML and for BPMN. Lonnie was co-chair of the OMG’s Unified Profile for DoDAF and MODAF. Lonnie was co-chair of INCOSE’s Model Lifecycle Management Working Group and was Technical Program Director of the Colorado Front Range INCOSE chapter. Lonnie earned his Masters (1987) and Bachelors (1985) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.