Management Development

Steve Carson

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R&D

Professional

New Business Capture /

R&D / Systems & Software Engineering / Product Development / Technical

Consulting / Strategic Planning / Modeling & Simulation / DoD /

Intelligence Community / Project Management

I developed and

managed partnerships and customer relationships that led to long-term business

opportunities and improvement to bottom line results. With well-developed

leadership skills aligning strategic initiatives with overall business

strategies, I consistently transform ideas into profitable products and

services in B2B and B2G environments.

Throughout my career,

I have served as President, Consultant or as interim senior level management

for small and large companies including Intel, Mitsubishi, Northrop Grumman

(previously TRW and Aerojet Electro Systems), Hughes (now Raytheon and Boeing),

and many others. Some qualifications include:Serving

customers with the highest level of quality and integrityEffectively

maximizing top and bottom lines as well as shareholder valueDeveloping

competitive and successful business solutions, driving rapid and

profitable growthProviding clear strategic

technical direction, guidance and leadership

My education is

solid. I earned a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of California

and a BS in Mathematics from the University of Tennessee. I also served

as Chairman of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC24 (Computer Graphics, Image Processing, and

Environmental Representation).

Selected Accomplishments

Founded And Grew

Company, Generating Unprecedented Revenue. Serving as CEO of GSC Associates,

seized opportunities to capture large R&D contracts with small and large

companies. Created line of electronic publishing commercial products. Developed

intelligence collection systems. Won multi-year contracts ranging from $5M to

$700M.

Developed New

Product, Generating Millions In Revenue. For software company, developed

technology product to optimize opportunity with DARPA s Integrated Battle

Command Program. Created technology to analyze communications using linguistic

techniques combined with social network analysis. Demonstrated product,

generating millions in revenue.

Turned Around Major

Internal Technology Product. For Intel, developed system concepts and

realistic requirements for their worldwide fly the business semiconductor

manufacturing management system. Interviewed stake holders, ran trade studies

and built prototypes. Created and deployed system successfully. Saved Intel

millions in production costs.

Created Web

Technology, Re-Opening Naval Ports For Military Use. Ports were overrun

for commercial use, crippling strategic military deployments. Conceptualized,

designed and developed web portal interfaces, establishing communication

between stakeholders and allowing for strategic use of ports.

Created Major, Cost

Saving System for US Government. For United States DoD reduced risks and costs

of shipping hazardous cargo. Created new requirements document, software and

operational procedures, minimizing transportation risk while selecting shorter,

multi-stop routes. Ultimately saving the government $3M year over year.

Career History

President, GSC Associates,

1981 to Present. Started and grew this consulting company focusing on

intelligence, defense, logistics, automation, R&D. Fulfilled consulting

assignments for industry leaders and defense contractors: (Intel,

Mitsubishi, Northrop Grumman, Hughes, and many others); and government (DISA,

Army, Navy, Air Force, NIST).

Often served as

client s interim R&D Director or part of senior management team providing

overall general, technical and project management as well as new business

development on difficult assignments.

Consultant, WPL, Inc., 1980 to

1981. A $1M aerospace and intelligence defense contractor. Provided technical,

research and management services for company s key client TRW. Developed

innovative models and simulations of spacecraft and ground systems. Managed

three employees.

Earlier: Senior Associate

Principle Engineer, Harris Corporation; MTS, GTE and Rockwell International.

Additional: I have authored

numerous publications and am involved in many professional groups including

IEEE, INFORMS, IEEE Computer Society, ACM, AMS, and AAAS. In my spare time, I

enjoy genealogy, hiking, snowshoeing, cooking, gardening, auto repair, and

woodworking.

Technical Skills: Conceptualizing,

engineering, designing, and developing complex real-time systems, including

hardware, software, and operational procedures; hardware experience includes

analog and digital circuits, military aircraft and spacecraft, control systems,

digital signal processing, and modems; software experience includes

architecture, requirements engineering (including UML), design, development

(including Java, C#, C++; agile), and integration and test; operational

procedures include business processes and HCI; mathematics, statistics, and

operations research; intelligence, computer graphics, virtual reality,

geomatics, knowledge acquisition and management, and collaboration.

STEVE CARSON

Detailed Resume

Education

Ph.D., Mathematics; University of California, Riverside; 1975

B.S., Mathematics; University of Tennessee, Knoxville; 1970

Experience

President, GSC Associates Inc., Redondo Beach, CA and Owner, GSC

Associates, Las Cruces, NM and Denver, COConsulting with John Goyak

& Associates to assist their clients with capture strategy and

proposal development. Served as the Technical Volume lead and resume

writer on the successful capture of the Everest IT consolidation contract

(538 people a year for 10 years) for a major intelligence agency. Served

as the Technical Volume lead on the Defense Cyber Crime Center (DC3)

capture effort, a Cyber Analysis and Digital Forensics contract initially staffing

221 people a year growing to over 500 staff over 5 years). Took over and

managed the client s on-going R&D efforts in support of the capture

strategy including development of the technical baseline, a Virtual

Forensics Laboratory (virtual computing supporting forensic analysis),

Cloud Computing (digital forensics in a cloud environment), and Laboratory

Information Management System (STARLIMS) Forensic Tool (EnCase and FTK) integration.

Developed capture strategies, derived approaches, and defined proposal

themes. Managed Modeling and Simulation efforts to support the development

of staffing and cost baselines, to prove the effectiveness of innovations,

and to establish that our team s proposed solutions met requirements. Established

technical baselines based on interviews with subject matter experts. Initially

managed both the management and transition volumes and developed the

staffing baseline.Conceptualizing and developing requirements for new

products to improve drayage operations at US Ports and at military

trans-shipment location overseas. Product benefits include better

utilization of marine terminals, reduced wait time at truck gates, faster

turn times for drayage trips, reduced idling time for trucks, and reduced

delivery time for time-critical cargo.Conducting research and development in knowledge

acquisition and knowledge management, specifically in the use of web

technologies and collaboration platforms like SharePoint to acquire and

manage the capture of knowledge from human experts. This research includes

work in Controlled Natural Language (CNL), Computational Linguistics (CL),

and ontology development. Specifically, I am exploiting my company s 15

years of experience in developing complex ontologies expressed in CNL and

acquired from both published corpora and human experts. An example of my

past work can be seen in the following International Standard: International

Standard 18025, the Environmental Data Coding Specification (EDCS). My

current work focuses on formally defining and validating CNLs; automated

validation and review of ontologies expressed in CNLs; automated

acquisition of new concepts and words or phrases for those concepts from

CNLs or from free-form corpora, and the addition of those words and

phrases into dictionaries used by CL tools; and "editors" that

support the acquisition of correctly formed concept definitions from human

experts as well as the review of concepts automatically acquired from

published corpora. Another focus is the analysis of qualitative

geo-spatially related data and its use in traditional quantitative GIS

systems.Ongoing work in partnership with several teams of

companies in new business capture endeavors. My contributions include

capture strategy development, proposal strategy development, writing and

reviewing technical and management proposals, and interfacing with

potential customers. Teams that I contributed to have recently won several

large multi-year IDIQ awards from government organizations including the

$500M Fort Leavenworth Combined Arms Center Technical Support Services

contract.Serving as key contributor to several start-up companies

in the area of Information Technology and systems development. Our

contributions focus on management consulting, interactions with potential

clients and partners, recruiting, and technical support. These startups

include a new services company that recruits service-disabled veterans for

high technology jobs in government and industry. Conceptualization, design, and development of an

open-source 2D and 3D interactive graphics analysis tool for the

visualization and analysis of social networks. This tool integrates

geo-spatial visualization based on open standards with network

visualization and aims to replace expensive and ineffective tools such as

Analyst s Notebook in intelligence applications.Supported the litigation and intellectual property

practices at in a

complex intellectual property case where I used my background and

experience in Computer Science -- especially computer networks in this

instance -- to search for prior art in a patent infringement case. Reviewing

patents for major corporations to identify ones where there are infringing

products. I have also supported other law firms including by applying mathematics,

statistics, and operations research to analyze and model personnel systems

to investigate various types of employment discrimination. I also support

intellectual property litigation in a variety of areas including computer

graphics and interactive techniques, systems development, and networks by

reviewing patents for potential infringement and assessing the value of

patents.Served as the Systems Engineer and System Architect for

the Strategic Mobility 21 (SM 21) program, funded by the Office of Naval

Research and managed by the Center for the Commercial Deployment of

Transportation Technologies (CCDOTT). SM 21 is developing a regional

planning capability for the Southern California region focused on

logistics and transportation. One goal is to enable re-opening the San

Pedro Bay (SPB) ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles for use in surge

deployment and sustainment by the US military. A second goal is to plan an

Inland Port facility near Victorville, California that will work in

conjunction with the SPB ports to at least double the throughput of the

ports by implementing advanced agile and efficient port concepts. Our

duties have included interacting with stakeholders, developing system

concepts and requirements and documenting them in UML, directing study

efforts in modeling and simulation and optimization, and working with

associated contractors in planning and conducting advance technology

demonstrations. Conceptualized, designed, and developed the web portal

interfaces for the SM 21 research program conducted for the Office of

Naval Research. We implemented these interfaces using SharePoint 2007

along with standard Microsoft Office file formats such as Excel in a cloud

computing environment. The web portal provides a collection of web based

interfaces for human users and operators of a transportation and logistics

management system for Southern California. The functionality includes: a

collaborative interface that allows military transportation planners and

ship stowage planners to cooperate in optimizing the transportation of

unit equipment to ports and the loading of that equipment on board ships;

a logistics common operating picture that analyzes information for many

different sources including EDI messages, RFID tag reads, and rail

tracking data to present actionable information to the operators of coastal

and inland ports; and a regional planning interface that includes a Wikipedia

and database of regional logistics and transportation information,

geo-spatial visualizations, and modeling, simulation, and analysis tools

organized around set of common data files based on a formal ontology. A

paper about this work was presented at the 12th ICCRTS: Collaboration

in Regional Civilian and Military Transportation Planning.Served as the systems architect for the Consolidation

Processor (CONPRO) and the Depot Consolidation Processor (DCP) subsystems

of the Strategic Munitions Distribution Network (SMDN) operated by the Joint

Munitions Command (JMC). These subsystems enable the planning of

munitions shipments to reduce the risk inherent in shipping hazardous and

sensitive munitions by consolidating cargo onto the fewest possible

shipments over the shortest possible distances, thereby reducing

transportation risk. Developed the system concepts, wrote the requirements

documents for both of these subsystems, designed and proved the concepts

for the mathematical algorithms used in each system, designed the software

and managed its development, accomplished the test planning and managed the

integration and test work. The technologies involved include: setup and

solution of very large mixed integer and linear programming (MILP)

problems, algorithms to determine optimal routes for multi-stop shipments,

optimal segregation of cargo based on the rules in US and international

shipping regulations, and "container packing" algorithms that

determine how best to arrange loads on conveyances.Participated in the Rolling Start for DARPA's Integrated Battle

Command program. Designed and developed a Coalition Collaboration Aid

groupware product to support planning at a Joint Forces headquarters. This

groupware tool was implemented using cloud computing and instrumented

electronic exchanges using chat, e-mail, and web-based (wiki) interactions

among members of ad-hoc and other groups involved in planning and

collected all interchanges in a common format in a database. The Coalition

Collaboration Aid analyzed the progress of collaborative interchanges in

real-time using a variety of measures of effectiveness based both on

message externals and internals (linguistic content) and alerted leaders

to groups whose members were not interacting effectively. Participated in

a demonstration of this technology at USJFCOM in November 2004. A paper

about this work presented at the 10th ICCRTS: A

Measurement and Monitoring System for Tracking and Visualizing

Collaboration Metrics in Real-time and for Later Analysis.Participated in the "Seedling" for DARPA's

Integrated Battle Command program. Conducted the base research and

development needed to identify technologies that DARPA needed to fund

under a future Collaboration part to the Integrated Battle Command

program. The end result was the definition of a Universal Collaboration

Environment that consisted of present technologies supplemented by future

ones to address multi-organizational and multi-cultural collaborative

efforts, especially those addressing the class of problems known as wicked

problems.Investigated the use of UML to support the specification

of information needed in human performance modeling. Developed an

innovative methodology for using UML to design task organizations and

capture information needed by Army Research Labs's IMPRINT human

performance modeling tool.Editor of two International Standards: Environmental Data

Coding Specification (EDCS - ISO 18026) and the Spatial Reference Model

(SRM - ISO 18025). Conducted research and development in spatial

information processing and integrated concepts from a diverse set of

information communities including the US DoD, International Hydrographic

Organization (IHO), World Meteorological Organization (WMO), International

Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), OpenGIS Consortium (OGC), ISO TC 211

(Geographic Information - Geomatics), the SEDRIS Organization, and the

Simulation Interoperability Standard Organization (SISO) into a cohesive

framework. Participated in the ISO Joint Steering Group on Spatial

Standard and Related Interoperability and conducted liaison with many

standards organizations worldwide. Also was a key contributor to

data representation model and transmittal format standards for spatial

information.Served as Manager of Integration and Test for the

certification tracking system at Intel. Wrote test plans and

documentation; performed integration and test of a distributed application

involving many databases, web-based elements, client server elements;

managed the work of others. This system was implemented using cloud

computing technology.System Engineer for several development projects at Intel.

Developed concepts and prototypes and wrote the specification for a web

based system provided consolidated world-wide access to operational

indicators of the performance of manufacturing operations throughout the

world to upper management. Developed concepts and wrote the specification

for information systems to support a new model for semiconductor

manufacturing. This system was implemented using cloud computing.As a consultant to Mitsubishi, developed concepts,

specifications and prototype hardware and software for location-based

services, including interfaces with GPS and automotive data buses as well

as image understanding applied to transportation system monitoring.As a consultant to Mitsubishi, developed product concepts

for wireless Internet appliances, wrote Product Specifications, designed

and developed hardware and software. Conducted studies of markets and developed

advanced product concepts related to future digital television products.

This included research and development work in data broadcasting.

Conducted research and development, including hardware, software and

firmware development for product prototypes in home networks and home

gateways, including ones that conform to the UPnP (Universal Plug and

Play) specification. Conducted research and developed advanced product

concepts and prototypes for Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) and

Automotive Telematics products.Developed concepts, specifications and prototype hardware

and software for a line of home networking products, including integration

of home management, media and home computers. The concept included

several versions of an Information Portal that provided interconnection of

network media within a home and shared connections to outside

services. Prepared competitive market studies and technology

forecasts.Served as Director of Research and Development for a line

of home automation products developed for a Fortune 50 Corporation in the

US market. This product line includes various controllers (security, HVAC,

appliance and general home products) and a System Manager that provides a

homeowner with automated control of home automation components through IR

and CEBus protocols. Developed product concepts, requirements, and

functional specifications; planned the company's next generation of

products; participated in strategic planning. Managed HW, SW, HF and FW

development teams and took the initial product line from concept to

initial release in controlled introduction. This system was implemented

using cloud computing.As Chairman of Subcommittee 24 (Computer Graphics and

Image Processing) of Joint Technical Committee 1 (JTC 1) of the International

Organization for Standardization (ISO) and of the International

Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), responsible for many innovations in the

development and processing of International Standards. Among these was the

concept of processing International Standards under written Cooperative

Agreements between specification owners (such as Consortia) and ISO and

IEC. This strategy minimized processing time and unnecessary change while

still adding value to the original specifications. Managed the work that finalized

and republished the CGM, PHIGS and GKS standards. Initiated ISO work on

Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML - ISO 14772-1), Portable Network

Graphics (PNG), the Basic Image Interchange Format (BIIF - ISO 12087-5),

Synthetic Environment Data Representation and Interchange Specification

(SEDRIS - ISO 18023, Environmental Data Coding Specification (EDCS - ISO

18026) and the Spatial Reference Model (SRM - ISO 18025) standards and

managed the development of these International Standards. Under contract to the National Institute of Standards and

Technology (NIST), developed techniques for formally specifying the

Virtual Reality Modeling Language Version 2.0 specification. Developed

automated techniques for generating test cases from the formal specifications.

Selected by the US DoD to organize and moderate a

Symposium to bring together international renowned experts to address the

US Government's requirements for distribution of information in electronic

formats. Government participation included the DoD, Library of Congress,

the National Archives and Records Administration and the US Courts. The

Symposium produced a set of scenarios defining government requirements, a

set of properties of potential solutions and made recommendations about

the best solutions for particular applications. Developed techniques for transition and interoperation

among network management strategies, including SNMP, CMIP and CORBA-based

strategies for the NASA EoSDIS program. Defined reusable managed object

definition strategies and identified needed object definitions. Developed a strategy for transitioning to the use of

object technology (object request brokers, object services, interface

definition languages, etc.) in the NASA EoSDIS program. Wrote the project

standards document for the same program. Reviewed and critiqued design

specifications and systems concepts. Successfully completed many assignments as a consultant to

the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Center for Standards

including: organized and led a symposium to define DoD requirements for

document interchange standards; prepared DoD comments on the ISO Forms

Interface Management Standard (FIMS); developed FIMS multimedia

extensions; studied DoD wide requirements for graphics interchange in the

office and publishing environments and planned DoD activities to develop

enabling standards, profiles and testing/certification activities. Developed the testing and certification procedures and the

test cases for validating implementations of the Computer Graphics

Metafile (CGM) standard (ISO 8632:1992) as a consultant to the National

Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). These tests are used both in

the US and internationally for conformance testing of CGM products. Designed and managed the development of an Apple Macintosh

product that provides a low-cost solution for small firms that must

deliver documents in CALS-standard (MIL-STD 1840) format on 9-track tape

to the government. Did the programming in C++, including developing the

user interface, and integration and test of the entire product. Prepared the proposal for and won a Phase I SBIR for FY90.

It was based on topic N90-297 entitled Voice Messaging and Response for Naval

Ashore and Afloat Traffic . Analyzed and categorized uses of voice communications

in tactical naval operations. Described voice processing technologies and

products and selected a representative set of applications into which

voice processing technology could be injected. Developed several

innovative new voice processing application ideas, including a Voice

Processing Workstation to enable an individual to utilize more

simultaneous channels of voice information. Submitted a Phase II proposal

to continue this work. Prepared the proposal for and won a Phase I SBIR for FY90.

It was based on topic N90-079 entitled Automation of Digital Data Review

and Verification . Analyzed how the government accepts and verifies

contractor data in current repositories and developed process and data

flows. Extrapolated these processes to the digital CALS environment and,

using the results of a technology survey of verification technologies that

we prepared, defined a digital review, verification and acceptance process

for each class of CALS data deliverable. Prepared the proposal for and won a Phase I SBIR for FY89.

It was based on topic N89-037 entitled Addressing Techniques for Naval

Traffic in a Multi-Media Environment. Performed systems engineering

analysis to study data traffic on Navy RF links and proposed ways of

solving various technical problems that arise when attempting to use

standard communication protocols based on the ISO/OSI model in these

circumstances. Submitted a Phase II proposal to continue this work. Studied and evaluated the PDES/STEP standard draft of

November 1988 for NIST. Focused on improving the compatibility among

PDES/STEP and standards in the areas of Codes and Character Sets, Office

Systems, and Computer Graphics. Drafted a revision of the Presentation

Entities that became a formal US position. Prepared recommended changes to

PDES/STEP for NIST and attended IGES/PDES/STEP meetings to present my

results. Developed text and raster extensions to computer graphics

standards to support Department of Defense Computer Aided Logistic Support

(CALS) requirements. Prepared registration proposals and sponsored them

for approval through the ANSI and ISO standards process. Investigated DoD requirements in the areas of automated

technical and office publishing and engineering documentation and

determined requirements for data exchange in the CALS program. Developed

recommended extensions to standards for graphics, office systems, and

product data exchange to meet CALS requirements. Defined extensions to

computer graphics standards in the form of additional registered items

(line styles, marker symbols, generalized drawing primitives - such as

splines, etc.). Prepared registration proposals and sponsored them for

approval through the ANSI and ISO standards process. Designed and

developed a software system for maintaining the International Register of

Graphical Items. This work was done under contract to National Bureau of

Standards to support the DoD CALS program. Evaluated the graphics validation tests developed by the

European Community to determine their suitability for use by the DoD in

verifying the suitability of graphics systems implementations that claim

conformance to various international graphics standards. Executed the

tests on two commercial implementations of the GKS standard and determined

the source of problems that were encountered. This work was done under

contract to National Bureau of Standards (now NIST) to support the DoD

CALS program. Evaluated the graphics validation tests developed by the

European Community to determine their suitability for use by the DoD in

verifying the suitability of graphics systems implementations that claim

conformance to various international graphics standards. Executed the

tests on two commercial implementations of the GKS standard and determined

the source of problems that were encountered. This work was done under

contract to National Bureau of Standards (now NIST) to support the DoD

CALS program. Conceptualized, designed and managed the development of

three computer graphics products for the Apple Macintosh computer. These

products are sold commercially by GSC Associates today and OEM versions

are licensed to firms including Apple Computer, Symantec, and Microsoft. Reviewed specifications and design of an all-source

intelligence analysis system (ASAS) for the US Army and suggested

improvements to correct deficiencies and make it more usable. Solved a

number of statistics and operations research problems related to the

fusion of information from multiple sources to produce the best

intelligence estimates. Key contributor to studies that defined space-borne sensor

data processing requirements for the 1995-2005 timeframe. This involved

understanding the capabilities and limitations of a variety of current

collection systems, identifying key technologies for R&D funding, and

developing alternative candidate architectures to satisfy projected

requirements. My involvement focused on digital signal processing

algorithms definition, conceptualization of digital hardware and computer

architectures, and performance evaluation of alternative architectural

concepts. Participated in systems engineering and acquisition

planning for a distributed system to support tactical intelligence

collection and analysis for an Army division. Developed system functional

specifications and a baseline system architecture. Conducted research and

development in intelligence data processing, including the correlation

techniques for sensor reports from diverse sources; investigated the

processing of ELINT systems; developed generic ELINT sensor model to allow

comparison of alternative processing strategies. Responsible for developing the protocol architecture,

security and management concepts for a large system (110 hosts and over

1200 workstations) that produces geo-spatial products. Participated in

other aspects of network design including architecture selection,

operational concept definition, and multi-level security concepts.

Responsible for major portions of Design Specifications, ICDs and

performance allocation and modeling. Defined the communication architecture for a distributed,

fault-tolerant process control system for Lawrence Livermore National

Laboratory. Responsible for the definition and specification of the

nodal operating system for a local network using a token passing global

bus. This network was used in an air defense system.Responsible for the specification of system software for

nodes in the above system including tape servers, line printer servers,

communications, adapters, and gateways to other networks. Responsible for integrating a SEL 32/77 minicomputer and a

CSPI MAP 6400 array processor to create a system to support the simulation

and analysis of spacecraft control and sensor systems. Provided systems

and applications programming support; analyzed numerical algorithms and

designed array processor routines to accelerate their execution. Responsible for the design and implementation of a large

(35,000 lines of FORTRAN) simulation program which verified control and

sensor subsystem performance requirements for a spacecraft system. Wrote specifications

and managed the work package for this project, including having cost and

schedule responsibility and managing the work of other engineers and

programmers. Key participant in the implementation of a multiprocessor

real-time spacecraft tracking; command and control; simulation; training;

and mission planning/mission management system using a network of VAX's

and interactive graphical displays. Performed integration and test; wrote

System Acceptance Test procedures, served for 2 years as the ground

segment systems engineer. Participated in installation of this system at

the operational site and sell-off to the government. Responsible for studies relating to space borne processing

of IR sensor data. Conducted trade studies of alternative architectures

and implementation strategies. Developed concepts for distributed, fault-tolerant

operating systems. This assignment studied the feasibility of migrating

signal processing (threat identification and classification) from ground

stations to the spacecraft to increase survivability.

Harris Corporation, Electronic Systems Division, Melbourne, Florida

As a member of the Systems Software Section, duties included the following: Group leader (supervisor) of the Microprocessor Group, a

ten person group involved in the design and implementation of

microprocessor and small mini-computer based systems. Chairman of the Division Microprocessor Technology

committee which was responsible for planning microprocessor development

facilities and the selection of personnel to staff microprocessor jobs. Principle investigator for the two Internal Research and

Development programs; the first (Digital Signal Processing Computer

Architecture) involved investigating real-time digital processing

techniques applicable to SIGINT collection systems, and developing a high

level language and designing computer architectures for their

implementation. The second (Distributed Processing) involved the

investigation of high level languages and operating systems to support the

multi-processor multi-LSI peripheral environment. Duties included total

responsibility for these programs including conceptualization, planning,

budgets and schedules. Key contributor to pre-proposal, proposal and study

efforts. Responsible for the computer subsystem portions of several

proposal efforts in the 30-40 million dollar range. Key contributor to many design and implementation efforts

in the areas of SIGINT collection systems, COMSEC systems and spacecraft

systems. Some contributions included the design of a data base and

flexible digital demodulator (V.26, V.27, V.29, etc.); computer

architecture and algorithm development for celestial navigation and

optical control electronics of the Space Telescope. Established a microprocessor development facility which

integrated a mini-computer, a microprocessor development system, and a

collection of single board computers into a comprehensive software

development facility. This facility supports the development, debug,

integration and test of software/firmware in both assembly language and

high level languages for the 8086, 69000, 2900, and Z8000 microcomputers.

GTE Automatic Electric Labs, Northlake, Illinois

As a member of the Circuit Analysis and Simulation Group, duties included: Studies of the circuit design process at AE Labs, leading

to the writing of specifications for a mini-computer based circuit entry

and analysis system using interactive graphics. Evaluation and study of digital logic simulators

(including CC-TEGAS, LOGCAP, and FANSIM) and digital test pattern

generation techniques. Evaluation of computer graphics terminals and graphics

software packages. Participated in the design and implementation of an

interactive graphics interface for the SPICE circuit analysis program. Design of a data management system (including an IDMS data

base) to support circuit analysis programs. Research and development in various areas of analog

circuit design, including tolerance optimization, design centering, and

statistical circuit analysis.

Rockwell International, B-1 Division, Los Angeles, California

As a member of the Computing Technology Group, duties included: 'Open-Shop' consulting in mathematics, statistics,

operations research, and computer science. Solved several operations research problems relating to

the design of subsystems of the B-1 bomber. Teaching programming languages (PL/I. FORTRAN) and holding

advanced seminars in programming techniques for engineering programmers. Consulting with Rockwell's corporate attorneys regarding

the Equal Opportunity Affirmative Action program at Rockwell's aerospace

divisions. This work included modeling the aerospace personnel system,

doing numerous statistical analyses for comparisons with the model,

designing a salary prediction model, designing and producing reports for

management. Acted as principal investigator for all data processing

requirements for a minicomputer based system to support conceptual design

of military aircraft. This work included doing project planning (budgets

and schedules); writing a System Concepts and Requirements Document;

collecting, modifying and integrating computer programs that became part

of the system. Supervised the work of computer programmers.

California State College, San Bernardino, California

As a lecturer in the mathematics department, taught courses in calculus,

probability and statistics, operations research, algebra and mathematics

education.

United States Army Infantry School, Fort Benning, Georgia

Attended Infantry Officer Basic Course.

University of California, Riverside, California

During graduate school, served as a teaching assistant and a teaching

fellow.

Professional

Activities

Senior Member of IEEE, member of INFORMS, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE

Communications Society, ACM, AMS, MAA, AAAS, Sigma XI, AFCEA; Member of ANSI

X3H3 Computer Graphics and Image Processing committee and chair of Open

Graphical Environments Subcommittee; member of X3T5 Open Systems

Interconnection Standards Committees; reviewer of the IEEE Standards including

802 Local Networks Standards; US delegate to JTC1/SC24 Computer Graphics and

Imaging committee, Rapporteur for Formal Description; Editor of International Standard 11072, Information Processing -

Computer Graphics - Computer Graphics Reference Model, International

Standard 18026, the Spatial Reference Model (SRM), and International

Standard 18025, the Environmental Data Coding Specification (EDCS);

principal contributor to a new generation of computer graphics standards,

including advanced graphical metafiles and object-oriented multimedia systems.

Author of many in digital

signal processing, programming language design, computer graphics, user

interfaces, and formal specification methodology.

Associate Editor of IEEE Micro, 1985 - 1988

Member of ACM Technical Standard

Committee, 1992 - present

Member of,

Computer Graphics and Virtual Worlds

Member of the Editorial Board of the ACM SIGGRAPH Book

Series

Technical consultant to the Interactive Multimedia Association (IMA) and

editor of the Recommended Practice in Multimedia System Services (MSS)

Chair of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 24 (Computer

Graphics and Image Processing), 1994 - 2000

Member of ANSI ISSB (Information Systems Standards Board)

Editor of Computing Reviews for Computer Graphics (2009 - present)

Computer

Experience Summary

Systems, languages, and technologies: mainframes, minicomputers, and

microprocessors; PCs running Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows Server, Vista,

Linux; Macintosh; UNIX workstations including Sun, HP and IBM; VxWorks.

Languages - PL/I; FORTRAN; Pascal, Concurrent Pascal; Modula, C, C++; C#, J#,

Java, Visual Basic; Smalltalk, Modula-2; Algol; COBOL; many assembly languages;

microcode; SQL; SGML; XML; HTML; VRML and Web3D; UML, CORBA; CEBus; X-10, UPnP;

SharePoint 2007; .NET.; SOA, SaaS, Cloud Computing; agile specification and agile

development.

Miscellaneous

Extensive teaching experience at the college level and in industrial short

courses. Have taught courses in human-computer interaction, distributed

processing, local computer networks, object technology, human-computer interaction,

and computer graphics for UCLA Extension and various professional education

organizations. Adjunct faculty member in the Mathematics departments at the

University of Colorado, Denver and Colorado Mountain College, Breckenridge, teaching

Statistics, Calculus, and College Algebra.

Former Army Reserve Officer (Strategic Intelligence, SIGINT Operations,

Tactical EW/Crypto Operations).

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