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John D. Litke
645 Park Avenue
(212)
456-4207 (O)
Huntingon,
New York
(516)
421-4369 (H)
Summary:
Technology strategist in corporate technology planning, evaluation and administration. (18 years experience)
Excellent communicator with proven effectiveness in proposals, technical reports, and oral presentations. Many refereed publications.
Technology management of development and engineering departments. Broad knowledge of theory and principles of all major computer technologies, including operating systems, languages, databases, communications, distributed (client/server) systems, fault tolerating systems, and GUI-based applications.
Project manager, coordinator, planner. Experienced in a wide variety of writing, planning, and budgeting methods. Good people skills to motivate, coach, and teach technical staff.
Process architect for software process engineering and software methods.
System architect for distributed (client/server) systems and databases, high reliability/fault tolerance, image & technical analysis systems, software engineering systems, engineering and CAD/CAM systems, LAN/WAN systems, programming languages, and office systems.
Experience:
1996-Present Director, Future Technologies, ABC Inc.
Responsible for strategic technology assessment for transition to digital broadcasting and production. ABC/Disney representative on ATSC (national) and DAVIC (international) standards committees. Co-author of draft ATSC standard for Interactive Protocols. Numerous ABC study documents and internal seminars.
1993-Present: Coordinator, Lutheran Theological Center in New York.
Responsible for selection of courses, teachers, publicity and facilities of a continuing education facility for the Metropolitan New York Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
1984-1996 Project Manager, Northrop Grumman
Established, performed, and directed applied technology development in Software Engineering and Software Technology, including technology development programs in Ada, Fault Tolerant and Distributed Systems, Database Management Systems, and Reusable Software Systems. Directed applied technology development in Artificial Intelligence, Sensor Simulations, Structural Dynamics, and Control Systems including smart structures and systems engineering methods.
Corporate strategic planning consultant for software technology. Chaired Software Process Improvement Coordinating Committee for Grumman. Technical advisor to venture capital subsidiary. Senior proposal leader for many advanced development technical proposals. Software Engineering Institute liaison for corporation.
Lead technologist for information system security team. Lead architect for programming environment improvement technology for $750M federal procurement. Chief designer and team leader for an innovative distributed medical image analysis system. Designed a highly reliable, distributed cartographic client/server system for the Intelligence Analysis community. Designed an automated cartographic client/server source update system to support tactical planning systems. Principal investigator of project to develop software analysis methods for high reliability software, applied successfully to Air Force and Navy software systems. Developed new methods for specifying and designing fault tolerating software. Principal Investigator of project that developed a distributed Ada compiler for fault tolerant applications. Program manager for Task Ordering Agreements with Rome Air Development Center. Principal member of federal STARS Applications group that developed a Reusable Software Handbook. Designed a unique database architecture for a software library facility. Principal member of Ada Runtime Working Group of SigAda. Management responsibility for 25 technical staff.
1994-1996 Senior Systems Consultant, Grumman Data Systems
1989-1994 Director, Computing and Controls Sciences, Grumman Corporate Research Center: (Concurrent with Data Systems Deputy Director assignment)
1984-1994 Deputy Director, Software Technology, Grumman Data Systems
1982 - Present Independent Consultant:
Developed NC programming system in Pascal for Macintosh. Developed, installed, and maintained fault-tolerant office automation system for non-profit agency on networked PCs. Consulted for San Diego Supercomputer Center on technology for DARPA-USPTO document management system. Advised manufacturing company on BPR project. Assignments also include small business and non-profits with document management problems.
1980-1984 Principal Scientist, Photocircuits:
Designed and directed development of graphic CAE system for manufacturing engineering. Designed and developed a new HOL that improved productivity of existing Fortran language staff manyfold. TQM principal for corporation. Developed an innovative approximate solution to the Traveling Salesman Problem that was an order of magnitude improvement on previous work and saved about $1M per year in manufacturing cost. Responsible for mechanical engineering, electrical engineering and quality control groups. Numerous innovations in process control, scheduling, and manufacturing engineering. Developed an expert system approach to product engineering for printed circuit board fabrication. Management responsibility for 20 engineers. Numerous inventions and industry association affiliations.
1976-1980 Member of Technical Staff, Bell Telephone Laboratories:
Developed and extended software engineering tools to provide a complete Fortran development environment. Designed and developed an operating system for a multi-threaded communications system. Designed and developed a distributed database system for inter-toll testing and diagnosis that made extensive reuse of existing software. Resident in over 200 computers deployed nationwide.
1965-1976 Instructor and Research Staff, Johns Hopkins University:
Taught graduate and undergraduate physics courses. Research specialty in plasmas and quantum electronics. Developed innovative algorithms for delicate line shape analysis in the presence of noise. Designed and developed computerized data acquisition equipment that pioneered sub-microsecond detailed measurement and analysis of spontaneously emitted line shapes.
Education:
Ph.D., Physics, The Johns Hopkins University 1976
B.Sc., Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1965
Selected Publications:
“Adapting Technology to Support Multi-Media Composition”, presented at the IEEE Community Networking 4 Conference, Atlanta Ga, 15-16 Sept, 1997
“Content Production Technology”, ABC Internal Report, Aug 1997
“Set Top Box Technology; Implications for Broadcast Television”, ABC internal report Dec 1996.
"Characterizing the Structure of Software Systems", with P. Brennan and U. Fu, Proc. of Software Engineering Research Forum, Orlando, Florida, Nov., 1993, pp. 17-23
"Evaluating the Maintainability of Software Systems", presented at the Joint Service Guidance & Control Committee Software Initiative Workshop, Vail CO, 1-4 Dec., 1992
"A Method for the Assessment of System Designs”, presented to the 1992 Complex Systems Engineering Synthesis and Assessment Technology Workshop, White Oak, Maryland, July 1992
"The Role of Process in Producing High-Reliability Software", Grumman Corporate Research Center Technical Note RM-901, April 1992
"Toward a New Technique to Assess the Software Implementation Process", with P. Brennan and U. Fu, presented at the 13th Int'l Conf. on Software Engineering, Austin, Texas, May 1991.
"A Systematic Approach for Implementing Fault Tolerant Software Designs in Ada", presented to Tri-Ada 90, Baltimore Md., pp. 403-408
"A Reusable Ada Library", Defense Computing Sept./Oct. 1988; "A Reusable Ada Library -- Part II", Defense Computing Nov./Dec. 1988.
"A Distributed Programming Environment for High Reliability Software", Grumman Data Systems Technical Report RP-88-004, December 1988.
"Development Methods for Ultra Reliable Software", ACM SigAda, Nov. 18-21, 1986, Charleston W. Va., McFarland, Gregory et. al.
"A Tool Set for Distributed Ada Programming", presented to the 3rd International IEEE Conference on Ada Applications and Environments, May 1988, pp. 71-79 Brennan et. al.
"A Distributed Programming Environment for Ada", presented at the First International Conference on Ada Programming Language Applications for the NASA Space Station, June 1986.
"Human Factors in CAD System Design", Kollmorgan QTI Conference, 1981, Glen Cove, New York.
"A Practical Solution to the Traveling Salesman Problem with Thousands of Nodes", CACM 27, no 12, pp. 1227-1236 (1984).
"A New CTMS Database System", Bell Laboratories Report 38649-16, 1979.
"Results of a TFMS Automated Database Field Experiment", Bell Laboratories Report 38649-23, 1979.
Affiliations Security Clearance
American Physical Society Top Secret (lapsed 1996)
Association for Computing Machinery
IEEE
New York Academy of Sciences
Sigma Xi
SMPTE
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