About
Actionable Architecture to Enable the Enterprise
MDS has served in multiple capacities
- As a product company
- As an open-source developer
- As consultants to government and industry
- As standards authors
What unifies these offerings is models; creating them, leveraging them, tooling them, and defining them. Models are the vehicle to better define, unify and understand complex systems. Those systems may be physical, social, information, or application systems – bringing these together into a coherent and actionable architecture is made possible through executable models.
Management team
Cory Casanave
President and Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Casanave is an accomplished information technology senior executive with more than 40 years of experience at all levels of product and application development and management. He is seasoned in researching and developing solutions, products, standards, and methods with intimate, first-hand knowledge of technology evolution as a chief decision maker. As a key collaborator, Mr. Casanave is adept at communicating at all organizational levels, sharing and collecting insights for maximized, collective understanding of critical objectives and effective execution of plans. He is a visionary leader, adept at developing a compelling vision and sharing insights with key contributors to help organizations achieve their vision. Complementary expertise and track record in project management with hands-on development of cutting-edge products and applications. He is an excellent strategic planner with decisive ability to define processes that affect results positively. Technically Mr. Casanave focuses on making semantic models understandable and actionable as enterprise assets.
Ed Seidewitz
Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
Mr. Seidewitz has over 30 years of professional experience with the modeling, architecture, and development of systems spanning diverse domains including aerospace, finance, acquisition, and health care. His skills include business process analysis, system architecture and full implementation of enterprise-class information systems and tools, deployed in the data center or in the cloud. He has been involved in the development of many modeling standards, including the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and the Systems Modeling Language (SysML), most recently co-leading the developing of SysML version 2. He also led the efforts the created the open-source reference implementations for Foundational UML (fUML) and the Action Language for fUML (Alf), and he is now leading the work on the SysML v2 Reference Implementation. Mr. Seidewitz is a member of the Board of Directors of the OMG.