Ms. Kendall founded Sandpiper Software in 1995 and has over 30 years professional experience in the design, development and deployment of enterprise-scale information management systems for communications, high technology, and aerospace applications.  Her background includes applied research in knowledge representation and ontology design, information architecture, complex event processing, and knowledge based systems development. She has been instrumental in bridging software engineering disciplines, such as the Object Management Group (OMG)’s Model Driven Architecture methodology, which provides a basis for automating metadata management, and knowledge representation and reasoning (Semantic Web) technologies. Ms. Kendall is principal architect of Sandpiper's UML-based ontology analysis, development and application deployment framework, and has developed rigorous methodologies for domain assessment supporting ontology development. 

Ms. Kendall supports key Sandpiper customers in large-scale, complex taxonomy, ontology and knowledge-based systems development. As a subcontractor to Sparta, she led the ontology and policy-based application efforts on the DARPA National Cyber Range (NCR) and SAPIENT/REFLEX programs.  She has been acting Information Architect for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Interplanetary Network Directorate (IND) for the last two years, supporting software modernization activities for the Deep Space Network and Advanced Multi-Mission Operations System programs .  She also provides ontology development and risk management support for commercial and government programs.  In the OMG community, she is co-editor of the Ontology Definition Metamodel (ODM), co-chair of the Ontology PSIG, and participates in related standards activities.  She is an active member of the W3C OWL working group as well as ISO metadata standards development through INCITS DM32. She holds an MA in Linguistics from Stanford University and a BS in Mathematics and Computer Science from UCLA.