1/2010

 

 

 

Dr. Eric Burger                                                                      E-Mail: eburger@standardstrack.com

 


 

 

 

Index

Commercial Experience..................................................................................................................................... 2

Boards, Industry Forums, and Research Management.............................................................................. 5

Academics.............................................................................................................................................................. 6

Published Patents................................................................................................................................................ 6

Representative Trade Presentations............................................................................................................. 7

Representative Technical Publications and Monographs........................................................................ 8

Representative Standards Publications....................................................................................................... 9

Professional Affiliations and Service......................................................................................................... 10

Community Service............................................................................................................................................ 11

Visas...................................................................................................................................................................... 11

Random Interests.............................................................................................................................................. 11

 

Commercial Experience

CTO and SVP

6/09 – present

NeuStar, Inc.

CTO of a ~1,000 employee publically traded (NYSE:NSR), ~$500MM telecommunications clearinghouse, addressing data base, and mobile services company, responsible for setting NeuStar's forward-looking technology and service strategy; devising the architecture to help strengthen the company's market positioning; overseeing the early stages of new technology development; and driving the successful launch and commercialization of IP services. Run a team of scientists, standards experts, and developers creating technologies in the 3-5 year time horizon. Drive and manage corporate strategic growth programs for 1-3 year horizons. Report to the Chairman and CEO.

Independent Consultant

5/08 – 6/09

 

FAA Certificated Private Pilot

Projects include:

á      Expert patent advice for SIP/VoIP litigation

á      Patent strategy for startup and mid-size companies

á      Strategic research planning for large network equipment manufacturer

á      Due diligence on a privately funded telecommunications service provider for a late-stage VC investment

á      Technical due diligence on a hosted services provider for late-stage VC investment

á      Architecture consulting on Application Servers and Media Servers, including vendor selection and contract negotiation strategy for a large private equity equipment manufacturer

á      Architecture and telco-grade high-availability implementation consulting for a hosted voice services application provider

á      Advising investment bankers on the telecommunications enabling technology market

á      Advising investment bankers on M&A targets

Acting General Manager, Communications Products Division

2/08 to 5/08

 

Deputy CTO and
VP Engineering

1/07 to 5/08

BEA Systems

Lead team of 260+ individuals addressing the real-time network software market. Worked on business plan for telecom business unit and did internal evangelization. Created integrated service provider / enterprise technology and market strategy. Turn around group from being at 50% of plan to achieving 150% of plan, growing revenues over 5x in a year, including a strong plan for growth over the next three years.

Deputy CTO of a publically traded (NASD:BEAS) 4200+ employee, $1.5B middleware software company, responsible for technology vision, market evangelization, intellectual property generation, organization change, and research with a focus on the telecommunication vertical market, which represented 28% - 40% of revenues, depending on accounting practice. Briefings with CxO level executives in the telecom and financial industries, resulting directly in multiple sales ranging from a $2MM sale to a 3.5 year, $72M contract. Worked with university researchers to identify and acquire technology and personnel. Did diligence on over 15 companies. I am the public face of the company, with numerous keynote addresses at technical and marketing conferences, as well as interviews with the press and analysts. Reported to the Corporate CTO (EVP).

Oracle completed the change in control with BEA in May 2008.

CTO, Cantata

10/06 to 1/07

CTO, Brooktrout

4/04 to 10/06

Cantata Technology, Salem, NH

CTO of a 360+ employee private equity (Oak Investment Partners, TowerBrook Capital Partners, Greenview Associates, and Anschutz Investment Company) enabling technology company, responsible for technology vision, market evangelization, and corporate technology positioning. Established ÒVirtual Office of the CTO,Ó drawing experts from R&D and marketing to create a cohesive vision for current products, identifying new technology directions and potential acquisition targets, and covering major standards and industry organizations without imposing undue overhead on the organization. Established and ran Advanced Development, separate from Engineering, to build proofs of concept, quick customer demos, and direct research projects internally and at universities. Worked with customer and end-user CxOÕs at both carriers and large enterprises. Lead CantataÕs IMS and Video strategies, as well as how to transition the company to address the migration of our customers from TDM to IP. Worked closely with strategic partners such as Vodafone, Verizon, AT&T, Comcast, Nokia, Lucent, Motorola, BEA, Oracle, IBM, as well as major research institutions worldwide. Successful experience dealing with internal inward-focused, legacy CTOÕs and Chief Architects. Created and administered patent program that tripled BrooktroutÕs 20 year-old portfolio in the span of 18 months. Participated in ISO 9000 audit. Participated on earnings calls and educational seminars for the financial community, as well as technical presentations, papers, conferences, speaking, and so on. Split time between CantataÕs major development centers in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and California, as well as supporting global offices, customers, and partners. CantataÕs focus is on building enabling technology for telecommunications applications, spanning TDM, hybrid, and IP networks. Successfully drove the Brooktrout Technology (NASD:BRKT) merger with Excel Switching, in a private equity transaction that created Cantata Technology, for a $120MM increase (2x) in market cap. Reported to the CEO.

3rd and 4th successful transformation of a company from hardware to software revenues.

Founder and Chief Technology Officer

9/00 to 4/04

SnowShore Networks, Inc., Chelmsford, MA

Externally focused CTO, building a venture-backed (Charles River Ventures, Matrix Partners, Vesbridge) company from 3 co-founders to a high of 72 employees. Defined the architecture, created the vision, lead the technology, and evangelized the reality for IP enhanced communications infrastructure products for service providers. Created buzz, industry credibility, and good will toward SnowShore in the technical and service provider community. Generated leads and help close multi-million dollar financing and business deals. Inventor of the SIP-controlled Media Server and the Applications and Services Infrastructure concept, which is the dominant enhanced-services development and deployment model for the Next-Generation Network. Realized these concepts and standardized them in international bodies such as the IETF and W3C. Regular speaker at industry and technical fora. Created and administered patent program that generated over 12 applications (6 have issued to date). SnowShoreÕs focus is on building highly scalable, IP- and Web-oriented, carrier-class, SIP-based voice and video media processing servers. Reported to the CEO.

Brooktrout Technology acquired SnowShore in April 2004. Recognized as a top-25% outcome for the venture class of 2000.

Second successful transformation of a company from hardware to software revenues.

Chief Scientist

06/98 to 9/00

Centigram Communications Corporation, Maryland Technology Center, Rockville, MD

Lead the Maryland Technology Center of a 375+ employee public company (NASD:CGRM). Determined and promoted strategic technical direction for the entire company. Responsible for technology assessment for the corporation by identifying and pursuing promising avenues of research and technology acquisition strategy. Represented Centigram on international and domestic standards bodies. Created and administered patent program that doubled CentigramÕs 15-year-old portfolio, including successful defense of a $30M IPR infringement suit, resulting in excellent terms for the company. Principal contributor for design of real-time Web-based interactive multi-media products. Developed Unified, Internet-based Messaging strategy, including wireless technologies. Technical lead for VoIP and IN/AIN efforts. Responsible for technical and commercial negotiations with strategic partners.

Directly involved with sale of company to ADC, which resulted in a nearly 10x increase in market cap. Reported to the Exec. VP Engineering.

ADC purchased Centigram in June 2000.

Vice President
of Engineering
05/93–06/98

 

The Telephone Connection, Inc., Rockville, MD

Managed all aspects of telecommunications product design, development, deployment, feature pricing, feature definition, launch planning, and partner relations. Responsible for demonstrating to prospective customers how our solutions meet or exceed their requirements. Typical VP-Level P&L and personnel responsibilities, restarting company at six employees and growing it to 32 employees. Established strategic relations with vendors and customers, resulting in the award of a $150M contract. Shared VP Marketing role with VP Product Development, including RFP response, pricing and positioning. Reported to the CEO.

Centigram purchased The Telephone Connection in June 1998 (see above).

Manager,
Software
Development
10/91 -05/93

Cable & Wireless Communications, Inc., Vienna, VA

Manager and principal engineer for a broadcast and high volume broadcast facsimile switch service. Managed technology transfer of 500,000 lines of C code running in a distributed TCP/IP environment to my in-house engineering organization. Reduced engineer turnover from an average tenure of 9 months to 18 months. Work with other divisions of Cable & Wireless, primarily in the United Kingdom and Hong Kong. Managed group of 18 people. Reported to the Director of Software Development and the VP Engineering.

Consultant
10/90-09/91

 

MCI Telecommunications Corporation, McLean, VA

Directed a staff of engineers for high volume real-time on-line transaction processing for MCIÕs Intelligent Network, creating the first effective architecture that today is known as a SoftSwitch. Directed and participated in research and development of transaction-oriented applications design for massively parallel supercomputer platform (nCube). This was a technical and commercial success. We were able to demonstrate call processing capacity that could process more than all of the global inter-exchange and international traffic for enhanced services. This resulted in a dramatic reduction in MCIÕs network equipment costs.

Engineering
and Sales
Management
06/84 - 09/90

 

Valid Logic Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA

Sales Executive, Eindhoven, The Netherlands (8/89-9/90). Responsible for a large, strategic account (largest electronics firm in Europe); landed largest order for Valid in 1989. Confounded #1 competitor (Valid at that time was #2) – stopped all sales from their largest account for three quarters.

Member Of The Technical Staff, Diest, Belgium (9/86-7/89). Established European Corporate Research Center. Delivered 500,000 lines of C code.

Engineering Program Manager, San Jose, CA (7/85-9/86). Responsible for PC-based products; became 40% of shipments in first year.

Engineering Project Manager, San Jose, CA (11/84-6/85). Responsible for largest release in the companyÕs history, restoring quality to a product that was known for bugs.

Sr. Software Engineer, San Jose, CA (6/84-11/84). Created MOS Simulation tools. Considerable customer interaction.

First successful transformation of a company from hardware to software revenues. This company is now one of the top ten software companies in the world (Cadence Design).

Research Engineer
01/80 – 06/84

Texas Instruments, Inc., Central Research Laboratory, Dallas, TX
Sub-Micron Structures; Device Modeling and Simulation; Full-Custom VLSI Design; my research group invented the Single-Chip DSP.


 

Boards and Industry Forums

Chairman Emeritus, Director

2003 - present

SIP Forum

The SIP Forum is dedicated to promoting the use of the SIP protocol, by working with industry, academia, and the IETF.

Board member since 2003. Elected Chair 2007. Emeritus 2010.

Board of Trustees
2009 – present

Internet Society

The Internet Society (ISOC) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1992 to provide leadership in Internet related standards, education, and policy.

Board of Directors

and VP Asia

2002 - 2007

IMS Forum

The IMS Forum is the premier organization dedicated to advancing the state of the art in packet telephony technology and implementation. This is the successor organization to the International Packet Communications Consortium (IPCC) and the International Softswitch Consortium (ISC).

Advisory Board
2004 - 2007

Voice Over IP Forum of Japan, Tokyo, Japan

The VFJ is dedicated to the promotion of VoIP in the Japanese market.

Advisor
2008 - present

PC-NG, Cambridge, MA
PC-NG is a stealth startup in the communications application space.

Board of Advisors
2008 - present

Dexrex LLC, Amherst, MA

Dexrex is a startup in the compliance, instant messaging, and social networking space.

Lead Mentor
2008 - present

MIT Venture Mentor Service, Cambridge, MA
Locale (winner of Google Apps contest); 3D user interface devices

Others: Using mobile phone to collect user behavior; high-quality image processing for mobile phones; HVAC optimization (PSU, not MIT)

Board of Advisors
2008 - present

Sigma Systems, Toronto, Canada

Sigma Systems is a leader in Operations Support Systems (OSS) for the communications industry.

Board of Advisors
2007 - present

AGNITY, Freemont, CA
AGNITY provides consulting services for telecommunications service providers who are making the transition to IMS and SDPs. AGNITY recently purchased the BayPackets group from GENBAND.

Board of Advisors

2000 - present

Mobera Systems, Milpitas, CA

Mobera is a core product development corporation with facilities in Chandigarh, India focused on the telecom, life sciences, and logistics industries, as well as assisting venture capital firms with identifying promising technologies and teams.

Board of Directors

2000 - 2004

Information Appliances International, Falls Church, VA

IIA manufactured equipment and systems for the PDAÕs and wireless devices.

Board of Advisors

1999 - 2000

Vivexchange.com, Milpitas, CA

A B2B e-commerce company; sold to Commerce One. Recouped 100% of equity, a major feat at the end of 2000.

 

Academics and Research Management

Adjunct Professor Computer Science
2000

George Mason University, Fairfax, VA (Computer Science Department)
Data Base and Object Oriented Concepts (CS 450)

Lecturer Information Systems
1993 – 2000

The George Washington University, Washington, DC (Fac. CCEW)
Software Quality Assurance (CWIS 704), Relational Data Base Theory (CWIS 702), Software Engineering (IS 703), Cooperative Application Development, Programming (C)

Lecturer
1998

Association for Computing Machinery Professional Development Seminars, Washington, DC
Distributed, Scalable Application Architectures and Future Technologies

Research Mgt.
1995-1997

George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
Directed research on High-Performance Data Base Computing Systems; Fault-Tolerant Computing; and Multi-Media Servers.

Ph.D.
Computer Science
2003 - 2006

Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL
Graduated with Highest Honors (4.0 GPA). Recipient IIT Exemplary Research Award. Research topics: high-performance, real-time network protocols, high-performance Internet infrastructure, distributed systems, advanced full-text search.
Thesis: Ubiquitous Remote Control of Household Devices.
Advisor: Ophir Frieder

Doctorate in Education
(no degree)

George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
Recipient Fellowship from the Commonwealth of Virginia. 4.0/4.0 GPA. Research topics: Web-Based Distance Learning, Success Factors in Web-Based Collaborative Projects, next generation HTTP, XML, and e-commerce.

M.B.A.
1990

International Business Management, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Graduated with Honors. Dual Minor: Economics and Marketing.
Thesis: Multi-National Transfer Pricing Policy
Advisor: Sylvain R. F. Plasschaert

S.B.
1984

Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Minor: Music. Concentration: Semiconductor Physics. Recipient Graduate Research Assistantship as an Undergraduate (worked in Sub-Micron Structures Laboratory).
Thesis: MOS Simulation Techniques
Advisor: Chris Terman

(no degree)
1978 - 1979

Music Performance, The Juilliard School PCD, New York, NY
Oboe and English Horn.

 

 

 

Invited Lectures, Colloquia, and Symposia

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan Business School Lecture

Massachusetts Institute of Technology CIO Symposium

Northwestern University Computer Science Colloquium

University of New Hampshire Lecture

Southern New Hampshire University Lecture

George Mason University Lecture

City University of Hong Kong Computer Science Colloquium

Published Patents

¥   Burger, E. and Frieder, O.: System and Method for Providing User Input Information to Multiple Independent, Concurrent Applications, US 7,406,696

¥   Burger, E., Hughes, J., and Penny, D.: Low Latency Packet Processor, US 7,330,900

¥   Burger, E. and Van Dyke, J.: Universal Voice Browser Framework, US 7,149,287

¥   Burger, E.: System and Method for Performing Signaling-Plan-Specific Call Progress Analysis, US 7,139,380

¥   Burger, E. and Womer, M.: Cache for Large-Object Real-Time Latency Elimination, US 6,988,169

¥   Burger, E., OÕConnor, W., Spitzer, A., and Wessler, B.: Network-Based Disc Redundancy Storage System and Method, US 6,779,082

¥   Burger, E., Kimball, J., O'Connor, W., Taylor, N., Parikh, S., Pax, C.: System And Method For Locating Subscribers Using A Best Guess Location Algorithm With Enhanced Location Determination, US 6,678,366

¥   Burger, E. and Spitzer, A.: Distributed Telephony Resource Management Method, US 6,477,172

¥   Parikh, S., and Burger, E.: System And Method For Call Management With Voice Channel Conservation, US 6,408,177

¥   Nestoriak III, J. and Burger, E.: Enhanced Telephone Service System with Secure System and Method for E-Mail Address Registration, US 6,353,852

¥   Burger, E. and Kimball, J.: Voice Call Processing Methods, US 6,353,660

¥   Shankarappa, V., Burger, E., and Nestoriak, J.: Service Platform With Secure System And Method For Subscriber Profile Customization, US 6,266,690

¥   Burger, E. and Frieder, O.: Remote Control of Device by Telephone or Other Communication Devices, US20060039389

¥   Robbins, K. and Burger, E.: Controlling an Output While Receiving a User Input, US20060247927

¥   Filreis, J. and Burger, E.: Facsimile Transmission Authentication, US20080016356

¥   Filreis, J. and Burger, E.: System and Method For Authentication of Transformed Documents, US20080016358

¥   Burger, E. and Frieder, O.: System and Method for Providing User Input Information to Multiple Independent, Concurrent Applications, US20080107246

Other patents pending (not yet published by the USPTO). Other patents issued world-wide.

 

Representative Trade Presentations

¥   Regular Presentations to Voice on the Net, China Softswitch Forum, SIP Summit, Connectivity Forum.

¥   Invited Keynotes at China SIP Summit, China VoIP Forum, CommunicAsia, International SIP.

¥   Invited Keynotes at ACM MNCNA (Middleware), IEEE NGMAST.

¥   Regular Presentations to IEC IN/IP World Forum and SuperComm; Multiple IEC TecForum Chair.

¥   Invited Member, ITU Workshop on the Future of Voice

Representative Technical Publications and Monographs

¥   Burger, E., Ubiquitous Reach and Remote Control Of Devices: Introducing KPML - A Protocol for Efficient Interaction with Devices, VDM Verlag, ISBN 978-3836486460, October 2008. [Monograph]

¥   Burger, E., Frieder, O., Efficient Residential Consumer Device Interaction With Network Services, IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, (53) 1, February 2007, pp. 100-107. [Journal]

¥   Burger, E., Frieder, O., A Novel System for Remote Control of Household Devices Using Digital IP Phones, IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, (52) 2, May 2006, pp. 575-582. [Journal]

¥   Chowdhury, A., Frieder, O., Burger, E., Grossman, D., and Makki, K., ÒDynamic Routing System (DRS): Fault tolerance in network routingÓ, Computer Networks and ISDN Systems (31) 1-2, 1999, pp. 87-97. [Journal]

¥   Burger, E.,   A New Interprovider Interconnect Technology for Multimedia Networks, IEEE Communications Magazine, (43) 6, June 2005, pp. 147-151.

¥   Burger, E., Frieder, O., Efficient Residential Consumer Device Interaction With Network Services, 2007 International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE 2007), January 2007, pp. 50-51.

¥   Burger, E., Frieder, O., A Novel System for Remote Control of Household Devices Using Digital IP Phones, 2006 International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE 2006), January 2006, pp. 183-184.

¥   Burger, E., Frieder, O., Network Traffic Reduction for Transport of User Signaling Information, IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC 2006), January 2006, pp. 1057-1062.

¥   Chowdhury, A., Burger, E., Grossman, D., and Frieder, O.: DRS: A Fault Tolerant Network Routing System for Mission Critical Distributed Applications, Proceedings 6th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, August 1997, pp. 106-113. [Nominated for Best Paper]

¥   Burger, E.: Multinational Issues in R&D Management, Technology Management: the New International Language, October 1991.

¥   Burger, E.: The Use of Unix Software Tools for Automatic Program Generation, Proc. 1st Sun Expo, March 1990.

¥   Burger, E. and Dedene, G.: Economics of Point Acceleration, Proceedings 1st European Design Automation Conference, February 1990, pp. 424-428.

¥   Orhtman, Jr., F.: Softswitch: Architecture for VoIP, McGraw-Hill, 2003. [Monograph; Technical Editor]

¥   Burger, E.: Program Construction in the UNIX Environment, The George Washington University, 1994. [Textbook]

¥   Burger, E.: UNIX System Calls and Inter–Process Communication, The George Washington University, 1994. [Textbook]

 

My Erdšs number is 3 (Ophir FriederÞFrank HararyÞPaul Erdšs)

Representative Standards Publications

¥   Seedorf, J. and Burger, E., Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO) Problem Statement, RFC 5693, IETF, October 2009.

¥   Burger, E. and Parsons, G., LEMONADE Architecture - Supporting Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) Mobile Email (MEM) Using Internet Mail, RFC 5442, IETF, March 2009.

¥   Burger, E. and Khartabil, H., Instant Message Disposition Notification (IMDN), RFC 5438, IETF, February 2009.

¥   Burger, E., WITHIN Search Extension to the IMAP Protocol, RFC 5032, IETF, September 2007.

¥   Burger, E. (Ed.), Van Dyke, J., and Spitzer, A., Media Server Control Markup Language (MSCML) and Protocol, RFC 5022, IETF, September 2007.

¥   Burger, E. and Dolly, M., A Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Event Package for Key Press Stimulus (KPML), RFC 4730, IETF, November 2006.

¥   Burger, E. (Ed.), Van Dyke, J., and Spitzer, A., Media Server Control Markup Language (MSCML) and Protocol, RFC 4722, IETF, October 2006.

¥   Burger, E., A Mechanism for Content Indirection in SIP Messages, RFC 4483, IETF, April 2006.

¥   Burger, E. (Ed.), Van Dyke, J., and Spitzer, A., Basic Network Media Services with SIP, RFC 4240, IETF, December 2005.

¥   Camarillo, G., Burger, E., Schulzrinne, H., and van Wijk, A., Transcoding Services Invocation in the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Using Third Party Call Control (3pcc), RFC 4117, IETF, June 2005.

¥   Barbir, A., Burger, E., Chen, R., McHenry, S., Orman, H., and Penno, R., Open Pluggable Edge Services (OPES) Use Cases and Deployment Scenarios, RFC 3752, IETF, April 2004.

¥   Burger, E., Critical Content Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Parameter, RFC 3459, IETF, January 2003.

¥   Burger, E., Candell, E., Eliot, C., and Klyne, G., Message Context for Internet Mail, RFC 3458, IETF, January 2003.

¥   D. Burnett et al., Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) Version 2.0, W3C, March 2004.

¥   RJ Auburn et al., Call Control Markup Language (CCXML) Version 1.0, W3C, June 2005.

 

Representative Policy Papers

 

Lead author, Next Generation Internet: IPv4 Address Exhaustion, Mitigation Strategies and Implications for the U.S., IEEE-USA 2009,
     http://www.ieeeusa.org/volunteers/committees/ccp/documents/IPv6FinalwhitepaperFinalAugust2009.pdf

Lead author, Encryption Policy, IEEE-USA, 2008, http://www.ieeeusa.org/policy/positions/encryptionpolicy.pdf

Contributor, Why Broadband Matters, IEEE-USA statement to US Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, 9/16/2008

 

Professional Affiliations and Service

Member (1984), Senior Member (2000), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

á      Vice Chair (2009), Chair (2010), IEEE-USA Committee on Communications Policy

á      Member, IEEE-USA Committee on Communications and Information Policy (2005-2008)

á      Vice Chair, New Hampshire Section of IEEE (2009)

á      Executive Committee Member, New Hampshire Section of IEEE (2008-2009)

á      Steering Committee Member, IEEE International Conference on Next Generation Mobile Applications, Services And Technologies (NGMAST) (2007-2009)

á      Steering Committee Member, Boston Section IEEE/CS (2001-2004)

á      Executive Committee Member and Chapter Liaison, Northern Virginia Section of IEEE (2000).

á      Participant in the SET/IEEE Congressional Visits Day, 2000, 2005, 2007, 2008.

á      Invited speaker for Northern Virginia Communications Society and Joint Greater Boston Area IEEE Computer Society / Greater Boston Chapter ACM.

á      IEEE Mentor

Member (1976), Senior Member (2006), Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

á      Program Committee Member, ACM Middleware for Next-generation Converged Networks and Applications (MNCNA) 2007

á      Program Committee Member, ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) 2008

á      ACM Mentor

Member and Patron (2006 - present), American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Advisory Committee Member and Benefactor (2000 - present), The Internet Society (ISOC).

Advisory Committee Representative (2000-2006), The World-Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

Academic Member (2003-2006), Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).

Member (1999), Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE).

Charter Member (2005) Teksia

Technical Committees:

á      Chair, IETF SPEECHSC Work Group (Speech Services Control)

á      Chair, IETF LEMONADE Work Group (Mobile and Unified Messaging)

á      Chair, IETF MEDIACTRL Work Group (Media Server Control)

á      Director, IETF Applications Area Review Committee

á      IETF sipping, sip, simple, opes, midcom, megaco, vpim, ifax work group participant

á      W3C Voice Browser Work Group (VoiceXML, CCXML), Multimodal Interaction Work Group (MMI)

á      IEEE POSIX Standards Group (P1003)

á      ITU-T SG-D

Reviewer for:

á      International Journal of Technology Management

á      IEEE Software

Invited Keynotes:

á      ACM MNCNA 2007

á      IEEE NGMAST 2007

á      Invited Presentations at IEEE Globecom

á      Invited Presentations and panel chair at IEEE CQR

 

Lead Mentor, MIT Venture Mentoring Service http://web.mit.edu/vms/

Advisor, MIT Institute Career Assistance Network http://alum.mit.edu/cs/ican/

 

Finalist, CTO of the Year (2006), Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council.

 

Ingineur Degree conferred by the Belgian Ministry of Education (Equivalent to P.E. License in U.S.).

GAP International Executive Challenge Course (2000).

 

Community Service

Executive Board, Congregation Betenu (2006 – 2008): Took organization from chronic deficits (the board was considering mortgaging the building to raise operating cash) to running a surplus.

Technology Advisor, Brooksfield School

 

Visas

Native-born, natural United States citizen with full right-to-work

Belgian work permit of unlimited duration (Equivalent to Green Card in U.S.)

Multiple-entry business visa (L) for PeopleÕs Republic of China (expires 2010)

Multiple-entry business visa (C-2) for South Korea (expires 2012)

 

Random Interests

FAA Private Pilot Single Engine Land Certificate (Current)

FCC GMRS License (Expires 2013)

USSF National Youth Coaching License and USSF Grade 8 Referee (Current)

McLean Youth Soccer Coach of the Year

Discovered distance running twenty years after I thought I was a sprinter.

Sometime manage to find time to go skiing and play some soccer.

EA, FC, MM Sharon #327 VA.

Like to take astrophotos with my sons.