History
Focused Ingenuity was established in 2009, when three friends who had worked together over the past 20 years decided to pool their talents and ideas to support a common vision. We have grown steadily since that time, aiming to attract people with a similar cross-functional, problem-solving mind-set. Our customer base has similarly grown, reflecting our desire to apply our blend of expertise and proficiency within our community.
We have been providing focused, detail-oriented solutions to our Department of Defense and commercial clients since with the right mix of small-firm attention and best-of-the-industry expertise.
president
Michael Amabile
Mr. Amabile has over 29 years of experience in supporting DoD and Industrial clients. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Princeton University, as part of the class of 1991, with a degree in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering. He initially worked for Andersen Consulting as part of the development of a major software system for a large telecommunications provider. Following that, he worked for both Sarnoff Corporation and CACI Technologies, initially as a staff engineer and then as a technical program manager, working projects of increasing complexity for DoD customers in the areas of scientific visualization, networked systems and field testing. In 2006, Mr. Amabile formed Amabile Consulting Group (ACG), supporting US Army CERDEC within the “C4ISR On-The-Move” special projects office, and, for the next three years led the design, execution and analysis of field exercises intended to vet the integration of developing and fielded systems within a relevant operational context. In 2009, the projects supported by ACG were transitioned to Focused Ingenuity. Since that time, Mr. Amabile has supported the WIN-T program office and Aberdeen Test Center, serving key technical roles in the field testing of the WIN-T Increment 2 network, as well as the SAI program office, serving as a subject matter expert for the testing of aerial sensor systems and in the architectural modernization of the Army’s sensor ground infrastructure.
Vice-president
Michael Bowen
Mr. Bowen has spent the last 20+ years developing, exploiting, integrating, and analyzing a blend of C5ISR technologies. While earning his Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering at Clemson University, he worked four semesters as a co-op student developing custom tools and capabilities for Adtran’s test, training, and design groups while also modernizing their co-op recruitment web portal. After graduating with honors in 2003, he started supporting the Intelligence Community as a member of ESD, Inc’s team of embedded software engineers, applying his telecommunications experience for specialized signal processing and analysis solutions. He completed his Master of Science in Electrical/Computer Engineering in 2008 through Johns Hopkins University, and accepted a new role with Praxis Engineering designing, testing, and fielding tailored access solutions for different commercial architectures. Mr. Bowen then began shifting into technical leadership as part of a new line of work aligned with AISR sensor data harvesting and mission support for the Army. He guided the Praxis Aberdeen team in tackling numerous middleware development and data architecture design activities that grew their presence from 2 to 30+ staff across a mix of contracts. Joining Focused Ingenuity in 2021, Mr. Bowen has served several lead roles for SIGINT sensor integration, performance analysis, and C2/data architecture development efforts in support to the Army’s PD SAI and PM EW&C offices. He is a Past Chapter President for AFCEA Aberdeen and AOC Susquehanna.
Vice-president
Matthew Webb
Mr. Webb has over 18 years as an Army acquisition profession with a focus on providing data solutions to decision makers. He started his career as a Government employee in the Army Test and Evaluation Command (ATEC) leading multiple test programs ranging from radio and network communication systems to aviator survival equipment. As an operations research analyst he applied statistical rigor to test designs ensuring that system evaluations could support Army decisions. Throughout his Government career, Mr. Webb followed a passion for statistics and data science education. He led multiple small group training sessions on specific technologies and started a large multi-agency forum bringing together data science expertise from across Aberdeen Proving Ground. After joining the Focused Ingenuity team in 2017, he continued enhancing the Army’s data infrastructure and analysis tools allowing quick decision making on C5ISR acquisition systems. He has supported multiple efforts and program offices including PM TN (formerly WIN-T), PD SAI, and PM TR as a data collection, reduction, and analysis expert.
Secretary/treasurer
Edward Canivan
Mr. Canivan has over 33 years of experience supporting DoD and commercial clients. He has designed and implemented systems ranging from real-time, embedded through enterprise-scale transaction oriented. He initially worked as a flight-qualifying software engineer using hardware simulators to write software to test satellite communication systems for Radio Corporation of America's Astro Space Division. He then worked for a small systems integration firm before transitioning to software consulting. He worked as a principal consultant for Cap Gemini (a French multi-national consultancy) in the NYC-metro area before starting his own consulting company. He has had large corporate clients (Prudential Insurance) and smaller research clients (Sarnoff Corporation). He has worked with DoD C4ISR systems since 2008, leveraging his experience with large-scale development and testing. He has supported PM TN - WIN-T Inc2 Limited User Testing through Full Rate Production decision, Aberdeen Test Center (ATC) and CERDEC working on complex system engineering and testing tasks. He has been the lead Data Collection, Reduction and Analysis (DCRA) engineer for all Network Modernization (NetModX) exercises.