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The Open Group's Government Programs team offers an extensive
experience and long track record of providing strategy, management,
standard and certification services, and bringing innovative
solutions to the problems of high availability networks.
If you are looking for help in developing highly-reliable,
trusted distributed systems, or need strategic advice and
assistance with optimizing your IT architecture, we will
work with you and help you achieve your goals.
David
Lounsbury, Vice President of the Government Programs,
leads the core team consisting of Douglas
Wells, Jim
Carroll, John
Spaulding, Sally Long, Deborah May Schoonover, and James
Andrews.
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David
Lounsbury
Vice President of Government Programs
Mr. Lounsbury leads the Government Programs division, sets
the overall strategy, and oversees
government research, particularly in respect to developing
adaptive and real-time system software.
His previous executive assignments at The Open Group include
Vice President, Open Group Program Management. In this role,
David was in charge of coordinating corporate activity for
major programs among the development, membership, and specification/test/branding
business activities. He also served as Vice President of
the Collaborative Development Group, which fosters availability
and proliferation of open systems technology through collaborative
funding and development. Major programs in the group include
LDAP, ActiveX Core Technology, DCE 1.2, CDE-Next, and Complex
Text Layout PST's, as well as support and consulting activities.
Prior to that David was a Director of the Distributed Environment
Engineering group at OSF. There he managed OSF’s DCE
efforts, which resulted in the DCE 1.1 and DME 1.1/Network
Management Option technologies. David managed DCE efforts
since the RTF announcement in 1990.
Prior to coming to OSF, Mr. Lounsbury worked for Prime
Computer and managed the Multiprocessor Operating Systems
group that worked on systems incorporating CMU Mach and Unix
System V release 4 technology. Earlier, he led the Open Systems
technology group, which developed a variety of networking
products including SNA, TCP/IP, and OSI Ethernet.
Mr. Lounsbury holds a degree in Electrical Engineering
from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and is holder of three
U.S. patents.
James R. Carroll
Senior Research
Engineer
Mr. Carroll is currently a member of the QUITE project
integration team for the DARPA Quorum program. His primary
research foci are adaptive resource management, the interaction
among hierarchical and peer resource managers, and the integration
of resource management with security, group communications
and distributed object systems. He has also been deeply involved
with the transfer of Quorum technologies to the HiPer-D project
at the Naval Surface Warfare Center's Destroyer Division in
Dahlgren, Virginia.
Prior to joining the Research Institute and the QUITE project
in 1998, Mr. Carroll worked for five years with the Open
Software Foundation's Distributed Computing Environment as
a member of OSF's Systems Engineering team. As Senior Software
Engineer and later Manager of DCE Systems Engineering, Mr.
Carroll worked extensively with complex software systems
which integrated security, directory services, time synchronization
and distributed file systems over an RPC-based infrastructure.
Before joining OSF in 1992, Mr. Carroll worked primarily
as an independent contractor specializing in database integration
projects; his clients included Arthur D. Little, ATEX Electronic
Pre-Press Systems, Andersen Consulting and ISI Systems. Mr.
Carroll also spent a year working with a subsidiary of Times-Mirror
to develop and test a Smalltalk-based search engine interface.
Prior to entering the computer industry in 1988, Mr. Carroll
worked as a research librarian for Morgan Stanley, Dreyfus & Co.
and the New York Public Library, and as a concert music broadcaster
for WFMR, Milwaukee.
Mr. Carroll's academic background includes graduate studies
in Information Technology Management at MIT's Sloan School
and Library and Information Science at the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His undergraduate degree from Columbia
University is in music history and theory.
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Douglas Wells
Director of Systems
Technology
Mr. Wells is currently working with the DARPA Quorum
community to integrate resource and fault management components
into a QoS toolkit. He is also a core member of the Expert
Group that is developing a Specification for Real-Time Distributed
Java. Earlier, he led the Real-Time and Adaptivity groups
in developing commercial-grade QoS-aware components and in
applying those components within real-world applications,
including the Navy's AEGIS and the Air Force's AWACS weapons
systems. He also managed the microkernel development group,
which created trusted and real-time versions of Mach, under
the sponsorship of ARPA, OSF, and several major industrial
companies. Mr. Wells joined The Open Group (then the Open
Software Foundation) in March, 1992.
Previously, Mr. Wells was Manager of the Operating System
Research Group at Concurrent Computer Corporation, where
he developed the Alpha Operating System, a distributed operating
system designed for mission-critical, real-time applications.
During this period Mr. Wells was also a consultant to SRI
International on two projects: the Multilevel Secure Real-Time
DOS Study, which investigated the special requirements of
supporting B3-level security in real-time systems; and the
Adaptive Fault Resistance System Study, which investigated
the characteristics of resilience to faults in real-time
distributed operating systems.
Before joining Concurrent, Mr. Wells served in both engineering
and managerial positions at Stratus Computer. He was the
lead engineer and architect for a prototype of a UNIX-based,
real-time, fault-tolerant system. Prior to joining Stratus,
Mr. Wells was Director of Communication Systems at Auragen
Systems, a manufacturer of UNIX-based fault-tolerant OLTP
systems and Systems Architect for an OLTP system at Prime
Computers. Earlier he worked at Data General on "next
generation" computer systems.
Early in his career, Mr. Wells served on the research staff
at MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science for several years.
His major accomplishments there include: development of the
Multics component of NSW, a fault-tolerant, geographically
distributed system; developing communications protocols and
user-interface software for the ARPA Network; and development
of MADAM, an early relational database management system.
He was also a part of the effort that led to the certification
of Multics as the first machine to offer a B-2 security classification.
Mr. Wells has over 30 years of experience in the computer
field. He has served in industry, professional research and
teaching capacities. He has managed UNIX-related product
development for 8 years. He has been granted 10 patents including
several involving security considerations in multi-domain,
object-based systems. Mr. Wells holds a B.S. in Electrical
Engineering from MIT.
John F. Spaulding,
Senior Software Engineer
As a Senior Research Engineer
at the Open Group U.S. Research Institute and later the Government
Programs division, John
has been involved in numerous projects including:
- DARPA SBIR 99.2-42 "Interactive Construction of
Mobile Agents"
- DARPA QUORUM Project QUITE integration team.
- Scaleable Highly Available Web Server (SHAWS)
- AD2 and AD3 - Advance Development single image distributed
system.
Previously, John was the Product Coordinator at Sequoia
System and was responsible for all releases and QA functions
for their fault-tolerate operating system.
At Stratus Computer, John was a member and project leader
within their VOS operating system group. John's key contributions
were in developing their fault detection and recovery, and
the software development of numerous support boards. Stratus
produced a fault tolerate system.
At Data General John was a member of their Real Time Disk
Operating Systems group and the project leader of their DOS
operating group.
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