Twenty years of leadership participation in technical development, process definition and management of formal Standards Developing Organizations related to Information Technology and Telecommunications. Extensive technical experience in hard real-time hardware/software/systems design for military, industrial and commercial embedded computer systems; technical writing and graduate level instruction; Web site design and implementation; PC support of hardware, software and small local area networks.

• Use of Strategic Standards Management to control national and global standardization involvement.
• Real-time and embedded system programming and user-interface software design/implementation.
• PC System hardware/software/LAN installation and setup.
• Technical writing, Visual Basic and HTML training, Web Site design and installation.
• Operation Systems: Microsoft DOS and Windows, Windows 3.1, Windows 95/98, UNIX.
• Languages: A wide variety of assembly and embedded languages, HTML, Lisp, Javascript, Visual Basic, C, and FORTRAN.

CRC ENTERPRISES, Allen, TX
Specialized Consulting in Strategic Standards Management and Standards Development - 2002 - Present

Clients include
• The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
  Systems architect and specification author, systems engineer and program manager for the IEEE myBallot^tm, myProject^tm, OSS Database and Meeting Attendance programs from 2002-2008.
• The Department of Commerce
  Guest lecturer on Strategic Standards Management to the Ministry of Industry and Technological Development, Egyptian Organization for Standardization and Quality Control
• The InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS) Web design & implementation for NCITS and JTC1 TAG Policies and Procedures
• University of Texas in Dallas (UTD)
  Adjunct Professor, Business Collage graduate instruction in Java, Visual Basic and C++ (2002-2003)

INTERDIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION, King of Prussia, PA
Director, Information Technology Standards - 2000 - 2001

Responsibilities
• Promote and represent InterDigital on Information Technology and Telecommunication standards management committees
• Develop methodologies and strategies for raising InterDigital's visibility and influence within the Information Technology community
• Develop internal infrastructure to support InterDigital's Information Technology and Telecommunication external standards activities
Achievements
• Developed corporate participation database, intranet standards website
• Developed internal training sources on Strategic Standards Management, IPR and Antitrust issues
• Developed, with legal department, formal patent licensing policy with respect to standards

Responsibilities
• Managed initial stages of UCC’s Radio Frequency Identification Program initiative.
• Managed internal standards harmonization, conversion and infrastructure.
Achievements
• Implemented preliminary standards office and standards participation database.
• Designed and implemented pseudo-intranet for company-wide use.
• Raised level of standards involvement via active participation in domestic and international standards.

Responsibilities
• Guest instructor on the University of Texas, Dallas School of Management.
• Contract work with the American National Standards Institute, the National Committee on Information Technology Standards and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers.
Achievements
• Created management-level seminar on Strategic Standards Management.
• Created and taught first-ever courses in Web Design and Visual Basic for UTD School of Management.
• Implemented American National Standards Institute's JTC 1 policy web-site.
• Taught American National Standards Institute standards management courses.
• Conducted appeals and research for the National Committee of Information Technology Standards and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers.

Responsibilities
• Managed TI Corporate Standards Office ($500K annual budget).
• Monitored and guided TI’s standards activities from a corporate viewpoint.
• Leadership participation in national and international Information Technology management and technical committees

 
Achievements
• Created Corporate Standards Office and Director of Standards position.
• Developed and deployed Strategic Standards Management plan to track and coordinate more than 300 employees on over 700 standards organizations and consortia, including national and international committees on Quality, Product Safety, Semiconductor Manufacturing, Local Area Networking and Telecommunication.
• Developed standards participation training course for employees
• Reversed previous negative industry perception of TI in national and international standards arenas.

• Systems Engineer, lead H/W architect and documentation author for PC-based 68020 Lisp Accelerator and NCS Scheme language for a family of embedded and special purpose Lisp engines.
• Created and managed the Systems Engineering Office for TI’s Industrial Systems Division.
• System architect for the TI Series 510/520/530 industrial controller family.
• Designed and implemented division-wide configuration control process for embedded avionics firmware.
• Designed and implemented analog/digital interfaces for variety of avionics and test equipment.
• Real-time assembly language programming of commercial, test and special purpose embedded avionics computers.
• Lead engineer for the Mapping/Terrain Following Computer and Intelligent Power Supply for the Panavia Multi-Role Combat Aircraft.

• 30 year senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers.
• ANSI qualified trainer
• Licensed Professional Engineer, Texas #72391.

• "The Standards' Professional: The Employee You Didn't Know You Needed", ASTM International Business Link - The Standards Connection
• "Standards Management and Texas Instruments", ISO Bulletin, May, 1998
• "Standards Management and Texas Instruments", ASTM Standardization News, December, 1997
• "Strategic Standards Management", TI Technical Journal, November/December, 1993
• "Why TI Needs a Standards Strategy", Cover Article, TI Technical Journal, May/June, 1990
• Computer Bus Standards – Chapter 5, McGraw Hill, 1990

ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee I on Information Technology

• JTC 1 Rapporteur to ISO Information Technology Standards Implementation Group (1998 - 1999)
• Editor, ISO/IEC JTC 1 Web Policy Document (1996 - 1998)
• Member, US Delegation to JTC 1 International Plenary (1993 - 1997)
• Head of US Delegation, ISO/IEC JTC 1 SC26, Microprocessor Systems (1992 - 1996)
• Chair, US Technical Advisory Group for JTC 1 SC26, Microprocessor Systems (1992 – 1996)
• Implementer, JTC 1 Directives Web Site (1999)

• IEEE Standards Board (1991 – 1998)
• Chair, IEEE Standards Board Review Committee (1990 - 1992)
• Chair, IEEE Standards Board New Standards Committee (1993 - 1995)
• Chair, IEEE New Opportunities for Standards Committee (1996 - 1997)
• Initiator of "Paperless meetings by 2000" plan

• Member, ANSI Company Member Council Executive Committee (1992 - 1998)
• Chair, CMCEC Policies and Procedures Committee (1994 - 1998)
• Chair, CMCEC Web Policy Committee
• Member, US ANSI Delegation on Standards, Quality and Conformity Assessment to Czech Republic, Slovakia, China, The Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam
• ANSI Qualified Trainer for ANSI Standards Courses

• Member, Board of Governors (1984 - 1985)
• Chair, Microprocessor Standards Committee (1989 - 1991)
• Chair, IEEE 1396 serial Bus Working Group (1983)

• National Committee on Information Technology Standards (1990 - 1998)
• Host, Department of Commerce SABIT aerospace and telecom teams (1995)
• NIST US/Russian Intergovernmental Standards Working Group (1993 - 1997)