Craig Miller, Ph.D.
Dr. Craig Miller joined Nobska Group as an advisor in 2005. He has extensive experience in the commercialization of new technologies both in startup organizations and in large corporations. He has extensive background in the physical sciences, information technology and systems engineering. He has developed new technology and cutting-edge systems for more than 30 years. His particular strength is the conceptualization, tuning, and positioning of new technology products. More than 2000 companies in the U.S. use systems he has architected or developed.
Before joining Nobska, Dr. Miller was the North American CTO and Global Chief Architect for Dimension Data. DiData is a $2.7bn global systems integrator, based in Africa. Dr. Miller came to Dimension Data from Proxicom, one the best known and successful of the e-business integrators of the 1990s. Dr. Miller was the CTO of Proxicom and moved with the company when it was acquired by DiData.
Prior to his tenure with Proxicom/DiData, Craig Miller was with Science Applications International Corporation. While at SAIC, Dr. Miller managed the Modeling and Analysis Division. He led or contributed to nearly $300 million in contract wins while at SAIC. After successful management of the Modeling and Analysis Division, he was promoted to the position of Chief Scientist, with concentration on electronic commerce.
Mr. Miller helped create CATEX™, the first and highly successful online reinsurance exchange, and GreenOnline™, an online market for products and services related to the environment. For his work on CATEX, Dr. Miller received a gold medal 1998 from the Smithsonian Institution for “Heroic Achievement in Information Technology”. He also received the 1999 SAIC award for outstanding technical performance for this work.
He holds a Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia, building on his education in physics. His concentration was in the areas of large-scale optimization, high speed heuristics, and simulation. He is a frequent lecturer and speaker in the areas of energy and environmental technology, software quality, application integration, information security, advanced IT architecture, and distributed systems. He has taught electronic commerce and IT technology at the McIntyre School of Commerce (at the University of Virginia) and the Darden Graduate School of Business, and applied mathematics and computer science at the University of Colorado.