Mitesh Patel is a software engineer with extensive experience in building knowledge management systems utilizing software development methodologies such as agile and RUP.  He worked for a government contracting firm to design and build operational ontologies using open source technologies such as Protégé and Hibernate.  Using these technologies his team created a system to transform domain specific ontologies into relational databases.  Mitesh continues to work with information systems and is currently is leading development efforts at a financial regulations authority, where the demand for knowledge discovery platforms is at an all time high.