Leadership

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Kenneth J Hughes
Founder and President

Kenneth J Hughes leads Entelechy and defines the company’s business and technical strategies. He enjoys playing an active role in all phases of consulting engagements — from sales to planning, implementation, delivery, and testing.

Ken received a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering & Mathematics from Carnegie Mellon in 1985 and a Master of Science degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon in 1988.

For more details on his background, see his resume or LinkedIn profile.

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Contact Information

Email:
Voice: 330-310-1057
Address:
Entelechy Corporation
544 Lois Drive
Akron, OH 44333, USA

Our Name

In the philosophy of Aristotle, ‘entelechy’ (en TEL i KEY) is the realization of a potential.

Sites

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www.entel.com (this website)
www.howtodecide.com (HowToDecideTM)

News and Events

2014 Oct Entelechy delivered to the USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office) Forms Layout Template XML of 50 of their forms along with XSLT transformation to faithful rendering of those forms in HTML/CSS.
2014 Jun Entelechy delivered to the USPTO a Schematron-based automated validator for WIPO ST.96 XML Design Rules and Conventions.
2013 Apr Entelechy delivered to the USPTO a system for transforming spreadsheet-based data definitions of forms into complete XSD definitions of those forms.
2012 Oct Entelechy delivered to the USPTO XSLT transformations (OOXML to XML4IP) which may enable patent applications to be submitted as Microsoft Word files.
2011 Feb Entelechy published the first round of interactive HowToDecide Decision Guides™.
2010 Nov Entelechy redesigned its corporate website to highlight upcoming HowToDecide Decision Guide development and published preliminary samples of static Decision Guides.
2010 Jul Entelechy migrated corporate email system to Gmail; converted 14 years of email archives to Gmail.
2008 Dec Entelechy began new cloud-based computing project using Google App Engine.
2008 Jun Entelechy developed prototype AJAX application.
2007 May Entelechy and partners adapted full evaluation underwriting web service for compliance with federal Interagency Guidance on Nontraditional Mortgage Product Risks (aka FIG regulations) for Aurora Loan Services (now Aurora Bank FSB).
2007 Jan Entelechy developed an Automated Underwriting Integration Guide and an Integration Development Kit for Aurora Loan Services’ (now Aurora Bank FSB) suite of web services.
2006 Nov Entelechy developed testing utility for the conversion of underwriting worksheets in Excel into tests for regression suites for Aurora Loan Services (now Aurora Bank FSB).
2006 Jul Entelechy delivered a module that styles XML mortgage underwriting Findings Report to PDF for Aurora Loan Services (now Aurora Bank FSB).
2006 Jan Entelechy and partners delivered a mortgage underwriting full evaluation web service to Aurora Loan Services (now Aurora Bank FSB).
2005 Jun Entelechy and partners delivered credit retrieval and management web services to Aurora Loan Services (now Aurora Bank FSB).
2005 Jan Entelechy and partners delivered Phase 1 underwriting web services (mortgage loan product finder and pricing engine) and began work on Phase 2 services (credit retrieval, credit analysis, and full evaluation) to Aurora Loan Services (now Aurora Bank FSB).
2004 Jul Entelechy lead the XML development needed to deliver a mortgage loan product finder and pricing engine to Aurora Loan Services (now Aurora Bank FSB).
2004 May Entelechy assisted with the business analysis and requirements creation for a mortgage loan product finder and pricing engine for Aurora Loan Services (now Aurora Bank FSB), a Lehman Brothers company.
2003 Dec Entelechy provided XML expertise to Washington Mutual (now JPMorgan Chase) and helped them develop a rule-based underwriting system using
2003 Mar Entelechy reviewed business requirements and recommended an XML-driven system design to meet needs of Washington Mutual (now JPMorgan Chase).
2002 Oct Entelechy used ACORD XML to enable American Modern Insurance Group to respond to B2B requests for insurance quotes from Harley-Davidson Financial Services.
2002 Sep See our XML and Personalized Financial Plans article in the 2002, September issue of XML Journal to learn how an XML-based system can create unique and elaborate content according to the needs of the individual reader.
2002 Jun See our Document XSLT Automatically article in the June, 2002 issue of XML Journal to learn how business users can view complex XSLT programs in simple, business-oriented terms.
2001 Jul Entelechy redesigned its corporate website to highlight XML-based systems consulting focus.