Tony Sarris is the founder and principal of N2Semantics (n2semantics.com), an Orange County, California-based consultancy in the field of semantic technologies. He has a particular fondness for ‘intelligent software agents’ and other semantically-fueled applications, and feels the time is right to develop them.

Tony got his start in knowledge representation and semantics through challenges encountered at Northrop Grumman Corporation and Price Waterhouse Coopers designing, modeling and integrating enterprise databases and developing component-based software/web services. At Ontek (Ontological Technology) Corporation, he developed a number of architectures, processes and tools for building and managing conceptual schemas, metadata repositories and ontologies, and applied those to projects in product engineering, healthcare and intelligent transportation systems. At Unisys, he applied those to modernizing the database management systems of both Unisys (a Fortune 500 IT vendor) and its customers, primarily in the financial and transportation industries, and later headed the company’s open source engineering initiatives.

In 2010, Tony temporarily moved to Canada and took on the role of VP of Development and IT Operations for Primal.com, a Toronto-area start-up with an innovative approach to bringing semantic data to everyday use in applications that find, filter and consume content from the Web. He led the successful transition of Primal’s technology from R&D prototype to MVP/Alpha release and recently to commercial use. Agile software development practices, including Scrum, played a major role in achieving these product milestones. Late last year he returned to SoCal where he continues to work with Primal and other semantic start-ups. For example, he recently worked with Frost Venture Partners to help incubate Maana, a start-up doing semantic indexing and search over Big Data (in HDFS). His contributions included vetting their initial idea, developing a technical approach and architecture, and pitching to VCs for seed funding.

Tony’s knowledge of and experience with semantic technologies makes him highly skilled to contribute in this field. He also brings to his consulting projects the passion he has for semantic technologies. He applies both his skills and his passion to help companies put semantic technologies to work in adding new capabilities to their applications and creating new value for their users.

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