2727 Xanthia Court, Denver, Colorado 80238,   720-453-8045,   carson@gscassociates.com,   www.gscassociates.com

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 integrity
• Effectively maximizing top and bottom lines as well as shareholder value
• Developing competitive and successful business solutions, driving rapid and profitable growth
• Providing 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).

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.

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.

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, CO

• Consulting 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 Simpson Thacher 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 Gibson Dunn 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 ½ 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 technical publications 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 IFIP WG 5.10, 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).