Our Team

Dr. Charles Linville is the President of Ploughman Analytics. During his 20 years of work in the computer industry, he saw a growing need for more advanced methods of retrieving and analyzing business data. He founded Ploughman Analytics to offer intelligence tools and services that will help clients make better business decisions.

Dr. Linville has held positions with International Business Machines, the Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network, American University and Archer Daniels Midland. He has taught in university departments of computer science and information systems, environmental studies and public administration, and has presented at the National Academy of Sciences, Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Rodney Barnett, Senior Computer Scientist, earned a B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics and an M.S. in Computer Science from Oklahoma State University. He has over 20 years of programming experience, including a recent period with the Research Division of Archer Daniels Midland. His areas of expertise include the acquisition and integration of data from disparate sources, combinatorial optimization in location analysis, applications for process control and configuration, applications for managing and accessing competitive intelligence, distributed full-text retrieval systems, expertise systems, and applications for processing and managing various scientific data in areas such as molecular biology and fermentation.