Engineer Electrical

Wayne A. Lea, Ph.D. *** Jonathan Drive, Apple Valley, MN

Interface (Human Factors) Engineer 55124

Home: 952-***-****; Office: 952

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http://*********@********.***/walea.

Distinguished Contributions to User Interface Designs:

Director of VUI Design Leader in Speech & Practical Training in

Teams Usability Voice I/O

Designed healthcare Author of over 100 Taught Speech

self-service telephony usability & voice I/O Recognition, Voice

interfaces, reducing call articles, and book Interfaces, Usability,

duration 26 seconds, Developing at Honeywell, Eaton

saving $2 million/yr. User-Satisfying Voice Corp., UPS, IBM,

Introduced quick access to Interfaces. Editor of Microsoft, Navy, NASA,

agent, simplified voice Trends in Speech Conference Tutorials. 15

menus, tested and tuned Recognition. years university &

recognizers. Award-winning corporate lecturing.

author/speaker.

Designed user interfaces Developed prosodic, Teaching Developing

for trucks, autos, phonetic, dynamic Voice Interfaces, at U.

aircraft, factory, programming, and St. Thomas. Also, Speech

training, military linguistic algorithms Recognition and Voice

systems, cellular, TV, for AI-based speech Interfacing; and Voice

web, keyboards, health recognition. Web.

systems, etc.

Design of Designed advisory Taught device usability,

'Super-microphone' software for guiding acoustics, phonetics,

concept, with audio and developers of advanced speech perception,

radar voice interfaces. prosodics, at 5

signals from vibrating universities.

surfaces.

Corporate Research and Project Management:

President, Speech Science Senior VP of Research, Manager, NYNEX AI speech

Institute Inc. Over 30 Voice Control Systems, recognition group.

years leadership in the VP of other Designed first

first-ever voice I/O corporations, successful automated

consulting firm. including new voice interface, cut

International ventures. Director, operational costs.

contributions. Uniprise.

Coordinated human factors Principle Strategic leader of over

projects with consulting Investigator, NASA, 20 interface projects,

clients, designed and contracted research as consultant.

assessed client and projects. Editor of books, voice

corporate interfaces, Business requirements, journals.

product uses, etc. user needs, project Patent searches,

management. forensic studies.

Education:

Ph.D., Three Departments: Purdue University, Taught speech

Audiology and Speech Lafayette, IN. communications,

Science; Intonational cues to circuits, automata.

Electrical Engineering linguistic structures Purdue Research

(EE); and phonemics. Assistant and

and English Instructor.

President, Linguistics

Club.

Electrical Engineer Degree Massachusetts NSF Fellow; Research

Institute Laboratory of

plus of Technology, Electronics, Mechanical

Master of Science, Cambridge, MA. Translation and AI

Linguistics Groups.

Master of Science, E.E., Montana State Communications theory,

and B.S.E.E. (top University, Bozeman, systems, cybernetics,

engineer) MT antennas, speech I/O.

Current Employment:

Adjunct Professor University of St. Teach "Speech

(Part-time, evenings) Thomas, Graduate Recognition

Programs in Software, and Voice Interfacing";

St. Paul, MN; plus "Developing

1999-Present User-Satisfying Voice

Interfaces," each year.

Also, IT mini-master

tutorials.

President; VUI Usability Speech Science Consulting on voice

Engineer Institute, Inc. interactive systems,

(Part-time) Burnsville, MN, interfacing, usability,

personas, dialog

1980-Present. structures, recog-nition

algorithms, design

tools.

Previous Employment:

Director of Voice User United Healthcare. Led team of VUI

Interface Design United Voice Interface Designers, on over 100

Also: Lead VUI Architect Business Team, design projects. Analytic

for UHG Corporate Plymouth, MN. measures of interface

2006-2008. adequacy, user cognitive

load, recognition

adequacy, and user

satisfaction.

Adjunct Professor Argosy University, MN, Taught Research in Info

Business and IS, 2006. Systems, Seminar in Info

Systems.

President, and Speech Recognition Founder and one of the

Technical Director Services; Also, Principles in two new

Medical Information ventures, research and

Network, Eden Prairie, development of voice

MN. interfaces and solutions

for health care.

Acting Manager, NYNEX Artificial Managed technical staff;

AI Speech Group Intelligence Lab., designed projects;

White Plains, NY. supervised successful

tests, telecom

deployments.

Senior Vice President Voice Control Systems. Managed research staff;

Director of Speech analyzed user needs,

Research and Education Headquartered Dallas, designed new software

Center. ran Santa Barbara Ctr. algorithms, taught

developer staff.

Adjunct Associate University of Southern Taught Speech

Professor California. New Recognition; Phonetics,

program in Speech Speech Perception and

Science and Prosodics; Linguistics

Technology; and Nat. Language.

Linguistics, E/CE. Processing..

Research Linguist, Speech Communications Directed million-dollar

Research Engineer Research Laboratory. projects on NSF, defense,

Los Angeles, CA. and corporate VUI

research and development.

Principal Systems Design Sperry Univac Defense Directed basic research

Engineer Communications Ctr. on spoken sentence

Eagan, MN. understanding, word

spotting, speaker ID,

etc.

Graduate Instructor in Purdue Research Dissertation on new

Research Foundation. method of prosodically

W. Lafayette, IN. guided speech

recognition; taught EE

courses.

Mathematician, Project NASA Electronics Supervised projects in

Leader Research Center. speech recognition,

Cambridge, MA. linguistics, usability

tests, computational

complexity.

NSF Fellow MIT Research Lab. of Dissertation on AI

Electronics, approach to speech

Cambridge, MA. recognition, measures of

structural simplicity of

dialogs.

Research Associate Electronics Research Project leader, antennas,

Lab., Montana State U. propagation, VLF

lightning direction

Bozeman, MT. finding, taught IE.

Awards and Affiliations:

Who's Who in the West; Who's Who Worldwide; American Men & Women of

Science; Men of Achievement; Directory of Distinguished Americans; Oxford

Who's Who; Who's Who in Executives and Professionals; Acoustical Society

America; IEEE (Sr. Member); Tau Beta Pi; Sigma Xi Scientific Res.

Society; American Academy of Forensic Sciences, American Voice

Input/Output Society, Society of Automotive Engineers. Chaired

conferences, scientific and industry conference/expo sessions, presented

tutorials at AVIOS, Speech Tech, Voice Expos, ASAT Conferences, IIR

Speech Recognition, SpeechTEK, Telephony Voice User Conference, Stanford

University, etc. Winner, Gary Poock Award for "Best Paper of Show",

American Voice Input/Output Society, 1997. EDN magazine: award-winning

author. Other technical-author awards were earned. Consultant to AT&T,

HP, IBM, Lawrence Livermore National Labs, Microsoft, Honeywell, Eaton

Corp., NYNEX (now Verizon), US Army and Navy, NASA, etc.

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