Executive Summary
Summary of Qualifications:
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7 years experience managing Texas Instruments’ Corporate Standards Program
as Corporate Director of Standards
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15 years experience in the national and international Information Technology
standards industry
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15 years experience in hardware/software/systems design and technical writing
for military, industrial and commercial embedded computer systems and products
Experience In:
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Real-time system and user-interface programming
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Technical writing, Teaching and Training
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HTML, CGI, Web Site design and implementation, Javascript
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Microsoft DOS and Windows, Windows '95, Unix
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Basic, Visual Basic, MS Word, Excel, Access Application Development
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C, Lisp, Scheme, Fortran, a variety of Assembly and Machine Languages,
Relay Ladder Logic
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Graduate Instructor (Visual Basic and Web/HTML) at University of Texas,
Dallas
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Instructor, American National Standards Institute Strategies for Success
in Standards
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HTML and Standards consulting for:
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American National Standards Institute
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Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
1992
- mid-1998
Corporate Director Of Standards,
Corporate Standards Office
Leadership participation
in national and international standards related activities as both an individual
engineer and as the formal representative for Texas Instruments.
Responsible, as the first Director of Standards and as the principle advocate
within TI for Strategic Standardization, for creating and managing TI's
Corporate Standards Office; monitoring and coordinating 350+ TI employees
active on 700+ external standards committees; creating a recognized external
TI-presence in the global standards arena; developing a relational database
for tracking participation; organizing and chairing an interdivisional,
multi-national standards council; designing and implementing external and
internal WWW-based documentation to disseminate information on standards,
quality, P&P, ethics and safety; responsibility for review of all corporate
level memberships ($500K budget)
1984-1992
Lead Engineer/Senior Member Technical Staff,
Corporate Computer Science Center
Responsible for system engineering, design coordination and user-interface
software implementation for a family of RISC-based virtual machine architectures
including of TI PC Scheme, a Lisp dialect used as a teaching
tool at MIT. Systems Enfineer and coordinator for all activities (S/W,
H/W, marketing) for SCOREboard, a 68020 based Lisp Accelerator Board
and the NCS Scheme language system for personal computers.
Unofficially coordinated TI standards participation activities, designing
and implementing a comprehensive participation database and justifying
TI's eventual membership in the American National Standards Institute,
ASC X3, T1 and other standards developing organizations. Created and edited
the TI Technical Journal "Standards Talk" column.
1979-1984
Systems Engineering Manager,
TI Industrial Controls Division
Responsible for creating and implementing the first Industrial Systems
Engineering function at TI's Johnson City, Tennessee site. Managed 7-man
team chartered with defining, monitoring and enforcing the complete design
cycle from marketing requirements definition to final product manufacturing.
Also responsible for technology transfer between this site and other TI
organizations; converting the site manufacturing part numbering system
to the method used by the rest of the company; market research for fault
tolerant industrial controllers.
1969-1979
Individual Contributor, Defense Electronics Sector
Designed and implemented airborne avionics systems involving the gathering,
converting and processing of digital radar information. Increasing level
of responsibility from general design of analog and digital data processing
circuitry to design and implementation of inflight and self test hardware
and software for major radar systems (AN/APQ 122 V8, MRCA, RADPAC) as well
as the firmware configuration philosophy used widely throughout the division.
EDUCATION, AWARDS and PUBLICATIONS
EDUCATION
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Registered Professional Engineer, Texas #72391
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MS Computer Science - Southern Methodist University, Dec. 1975 (Emphasis
on computer architectures)
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BS Electrical Engineering - Virginia Polytechnic Institute, June 1969
AWARDS
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Computer Society Golden Core Award - 1996
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Computer Society Meritorious Service Award - 1995
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IEEE Certificate of Appreciation - 1995, 1996, 1997
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IEEE Standards Board Service Recognition Award - 1994
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
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Standards Management and Texas Instruments, ASTM Standardization News,
December, 1997 (reprinted in the May, 1998 ISO Bulletin)
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TI Internal Web Seminar & QuickGuide Reference, Nov, 1995
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"The JTC1 Standards Process", TI Technical Journal, Nov/Dec, 1994
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"Strategic Standards Management", TI Technical Journal, Mar/Apr,
1993
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"CENELEC and European Standards Harmonization", TI Technical Journal,
May/Jun, 1992
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"IEEE Relationships and Interfaces to International Standards Organizations",
TI Technical Journal, Sept/Oct, 1991
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"Why TI Needs a Standards Strategy", Cover Article, TI Technical Journal,
May/Jun, 1990
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Computer Bus Standards - Chapter 5, Mcgraw Hill, 1990