Author's Biographies

Chapter Authors

Allison Fritz is an Organization Development and Facilitation professional with over 20 years' experience in a variety of industries. Presently working as a Sr. Organization Development and Training Consultant with the Johns Hopkins Health System, she has also worked within higher education, the petroleum industry, and independent consulting, serving both Fortune 100 and small business, designing and facilitating processes. Allison's expertise is in team development, change management, leader development, strategic visioning, and coaching. With 14 years in management roles, she applies her experience to her work. Allison has a doctoral degree in Organization and Staff Development from the University of Maryland College Park, a Master's degree in Counseling and Student Personnel, and a Bachelor's degree in Communications and Psychology from the University of Delaware; as well as holds several certifications including, Emotional Intelligence (EQ2.0, 360), Crucial Conversations, Strong Interest Inventory, and MBTI. Allison focuses her work on encouraging leaders, teams and organizations to realize positive change.

Michael F. (Mike) Gard, received his BSEE from Kansas State University, MSEE (Interdepartmental Program in Biomedical Engineering) from Washington University in St. Louis, and PhDEE (Geophysics minor) from Southern Methodist University. He has over 40 years of industrial experience in aircraft, medical equipment, clinical engineering, petroleum, and construction industries. He is presently Sr. Product Design Engineer at The Charles Machine Works, Perry, OK. An adjunct professor, he occasionally teaches at Oklahoma State University. He is a registered professional engineer, patent agent, inventor (34 US patents), author, member of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society's Administrative Committee, and editor-in-chief of IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Magazine. His technical interests include real-time data acquisition and precision analog and analog/digital systems for low power and hostile environments.

Robert Oshana has 30 years of experience in the software industry, primarily focused on embedded and real-time systems for the defense and semiconductor industries. He has BSEE, MSEE, MSCS, and MBA degrees and is a senior member of IEEE. He is a member of several Advisory Boards including the Embedded Systems group, where he is also an international speaker. He has over 200 presentations and publications in various technology fields and has written several books on Embedded software technology including "Software Engineering for Embedded Systems." He is an adjunct professor at Southern Methodist University where he teaches graduate software engineering courses. He is a distinguished member of Technical Staff and Director of Global Software R&D for Digital Networking at Freescale Semiconductor.

Geoff Patch has over 30 years experience as a software engineer. He has worked for the Australian government, in academia, and for a number of engineering companies. Since 1987, he has specialized in embedded systems, primarily in the areas of radar target tracking, radar signal processing, and command and control systems. He is also keenly interested in software process improvement, technical team leadership, and technical management. He has developed software for numerous commercially successful radar systems ranging from conventional maritime surveillance, through specialized applications such as submarine periscope detection and up to large air defense systems. He is currently the manager of a team of nearly 30 software engineers involved in the development of new radar systems at CEA Technologies in Canberra, Australia.

Eugene Vasserman received his PhD and master's degrees in Computer Science in 2010 and 2008, respectively, from the University of Minnesota. His BS, in Biochemistry and Neuroscience with a Computer Science minor, is also from the University of Minnesota (2003). In 2013, he received the NSF CAREER award for work on secure next generation medical systems.

Tim Wescott has 25 years of real-world experience in embedded systems design, with roles ranging from software designer to circuit designer to systems architect. Tim has worked on small, inexpensive hand-held instruments, on large airborne imaging systems, and on nearly everything in between. He has experience in all phases of system life cycles, ranging from designing new systems from a clean sheet of paper to extending the useful lives of systems that are on the verge of obsolescence. Tim is author of "Applied Control Theory for Embedded Systems", aimed at engineers who slept through control theory class in University, and who now need to design a system that must successfully implement a feedback control loop. Tim is the owner of Wescott Design Services, which provides analysis, design, and troubleshooting of embedded control systems, with a particular emphasis on control of dynamic systems, low-level communications systems, and metrology. Wescott Design Systems has helped customers of all sorts of problems ranging from drives for 1/2-inch diameter brushless motors to implementing communications systems for deep-well drilling platforms.

Steve Zeise is a mechanical engineer and designer with 30 years' experience in all things mechanical. He received a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and immediately went to work for Westinghouse Defense and Electronics Systems Center designing mechanisms, structures, and cooling systems supporting embedded systems in night vision cameras. With positions at Northrop-Grumman and Lockheed Martin, he gained experience in structural analysis and environmental testing. He is currently with FLIR Systems where he helped to setup a small R&D facility in Orlando, FL and for the past 15 years has worked to help FLIR Systems solve complex vibration problems.

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David von Oheimb received his PhD in computer science in 2001 from the Munich University of Technology, where he focused on machine-assisted formal modeling and verification of the programming language Java. He joined Siemens Corporate Technology, where he became a senior researcher, developer, and key expert consultant on IT security. His specific areas of expertise are security architecture, formal analysis, and IT security certification according to the Common Criteria. He has been involved as participant and leader of various Siemens-internal and EU-funded R&D projects on security protocol and information flow analysis using model checkers and theorem provers and of various industrial projects dealing for instance with Infineon smart cards, software update mechanisms for Boeing and Continental Automotive, and German and Austrian smart metering systems.

Kenneth W. Tobin is the Director of the Electrical and Electronics Systems Research (EESR) Division at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA, where he has been working in various R&D and leadership capacities since 1987. The EESR Division is composed of 150 staff who perform R&D in electronics, sensors, communications, and controls for energy efficiency, resiliency, and security. His personal research areas encompass photonics, neutronics, x-ray, SEM, electronic imaging and microscopy coupled with signal processing and machine learning. Science and technology specialty in computational imaging, image metrology, object segmentation, and feature generation from multi-spectral, multi-source imagery for inverse imaging, robust human-level classifiers, image archival and retrieval applications, and image-based informatics. Dr. Tobin was named an ORNL Corporate Research Fellow in 2003 for his contributions to the field of applied computer vision research. He has authored and co-authored over 164 publications and he currently holds fourteen U.S. Patents in areas of computer vision, photonics, radiography, and microscopy. Dr. Tobin is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a Fellow of the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE), where he is currently an Associate Editor for the Journal of Electronic Imaging. Dr. Tobin has a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Virginia, an M.S. in Nuclear Engineering from Virginia Tech, and a B.S. in Physics also from Virginia Tech.

Dwight A. Clayton is the group leader of the Electronic and Embedded Systems group at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN. The mission of the Electronic and Embedded Systems (EESG) group is to apply modern electronic methods to provide solutions to challenges that are important to the ORNL, the Department of Energy, other federal agencies, and private industry. He joined ORNL in 1983 as a development staff member in the Instrumentation and Controls Division. In 1994, he was named leader of the Electronic and Embedded Systems Group. Since 2000, the innovative efforts of the Electronic and Embedded Systems group have resulted in the receipt of four R&D 100 awards. He has an MS and BS in electrical engineering from Tennessee Technological University.

Bogdan Vacaliuc is a research and development staff member in the Electronic and Embedded Systems Group of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Measurement Science and Systems Engineering Division....