Employee Bios

For nearly 25 years Mr. Wolsey has been involved in the development and deployment of advanced expert systems and other automation software. He has been engaged in small business management for the last 11 years and has performed many duties including executive management, project management, principal investigator on DoD research projects, software product development, business analysis, marketing, and direct product and services sales.

As president and founder of Knowledge Systems Solutions, Mr. Wolsey has led the company from startup to successful product launch. Mr. Wolsey is the project manager, chief architect and domain expert behind episTree.

Mr. Wolsey has a strong industrial background having worked domestically and internationally with Bechtel Power Corporation, General Electric, Ahlstrom Pyropower, General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman, SAIC, US Air Force, US Navy, Foster Wheeler International, A.O. Smith, Monsanto EnviroChem, CH2M Hill, and Alcoa.

Previous to working in the small business sector, Mr. Wolsey held the position of Director of Global Automation Technology for Ahlstrom Pyropower, Inc. Projects architected and managed by Mr. Wolsey reduced engineering and design man-hours by 90%, project schedules by 40%, and construction rework costs by 95% on large-scale boiler design and construction projects throughout the US, Europe, and Japan. These results were instrumental in increasing Ahlstrom’s global market share from 25% to 60% of the CFB Boiler Industry within an 18-month period.

Mr. Wolsey graduated with a BS degree in Design Engineering Technology from Brigham Young University in 1981. He subsequently received an MBA from the Anderson School of Management at UCLA, and has received certification in International Management from the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Mr. Wolsey has been active in many professional organizations including Project Management Institute (PMI), Corporate Affiliates Program (CAP) at the University of California San Diego (UCSD), Knowledge Systems Laboratory at Stanford University, and the National Shipbuilding Research Program. He is the past national president of the Calma Users Group and the Computervision Users Group in the CAD industry. He currently serves as a small business CAP Board Member at UCSD, and as the Vice President of Finance for the San Diego chapter of PMI.