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We create on-demand teams that bring the appropriate expertise to your project. Why would you hire a cupcake decorator to train your emu? Carol is super-good at finding great people with all sorts of domain expertise, from cybersecurity to smart grids to high finance, who are available to work on your project. We love to unknot the knotty problems.
Carol L. Stimmel is an author, and founder and principal researcher at Interswarm, LLC (formerly Manifest Mind) in the greater Boston area. She has over 25 years in emerging technology markets with expertise in operations, data analytics and predictive modeling, complex technology projects, engineering, and product design. She is an instructor at Marlboro College Graduate School in Marlboro, Vermont.
Apart from researching, writing, and dabbling in street photography, Carol enjoys speaking internationally, is a professional interviewer, and subject matter expert for documentary and online media. She naturally creates an engaging environment with ease and technical depth. Her deep background allows her to motivate and inspire, drawing on her work as a professional penetration tester for critical infrastructure sites (good stories here), as software engineer for various high-value government and private projects, startup geek, and academic.
She has written 4 books (one with Don Sherwood Olson), 2 of which are standard industry texts, Big Data Analytics Strategies for the Smart Grid, and Building Smart Cities: Analytics, ICT, and Design Thinking. She recently released Evolving Innovation Ecosystems which applies bio-empathetic design principles to open development practices. That last book is unjustifiably overlooked (okay, it's possible only the neighbor read it), but it’s her best (says Carol). She holds several technology patents, publishes long-form pieces, and contributes to primary and secondary research topics regularly across the industry.
Carol earned a B.A. in Philosophy from Randolph College, an M.A. in International Development from Clark University, and is a Ph.D. candidate in Technology and Social Change (still at) Clark University, focusing on the social construction of predictive algorithms.
Apart from researching, writing, and dabbling in street photography, Carol enjoys speaking internationally, is a professional interviewer, and subject matter expert for documentary and online media. She naturally creates an engaging environment with ease and technical depth. Her deep background allows her to motivate and inspire, drawing on her work as a professional penetration tester for critical infrastructure sites (good stories here), as software engineer for various high-value government and private projects, startup geek, and academic.
She has written 4 books (one with Don Sherwood Olson), 2 of which are standard industry texts, Big Data Analytics Strategies for the Smart Grid, and Building Smart Cities: Analytics, ICT, and Design Thinking. She recently released Evolving Innovation Ecosystems which applies bio-empathetic design principles to open development practices. That last book is unjustifiably overlooked (okay, it's possible only the neighbor read it), but it’s her best (says Carol). She holds several technology patents, publishes long-form pieces, and contributes to primary and secondary research topics regularly across the industry.
Carol earned a B.A. in Philosophy from Randolph College, an M.A. in International Development from Clark University, and is a Ph.D. candidate in Technology and Social Change (still at) Clark University, focusing on the social construction of predictive algorithms.