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Lloyd Spencer
President & CEO
Lloyd has over 23 years of experience in the computer and networking industries
in engineering, product marketing, business development, and sales management. His
expertise spans a spectrum of service provider industries and technologies, including
distributed network computing and embedded systems development. Previously, Lloyd
served as Vice President of Marketing and Sales at eQuest Technologies; Solutions
Unit Manager at Microsoft; Assistant Vice President and Business Unit Manager at
Newbridge Networks; and Product Line Manager at Sun Microsystems.
Lloyd received his Bachelors degree from Cornell University with a major in Biology
and Animal Science and with an emphasis in Immunogenetics.
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Jon Mandrell
Vice President, Director of Robotics & Automation
Jon Mandrell has 23 years of embedded systems design and development experience.
15 of those years have been spent specializing in both graphical and text based
user interface design.
Previously, Jon was senior firmware architect for Vixel and Emulex Corporation,
a producer of Fibre-Channel switches and hubs, where he was responsible for specifying
processes and tools to be used on development projects, as well as managing requirements
and high-level software architecture issues for products.
Prior to Vixel and Emulex, Jon was project engineer and team lead at Medtronic Physio-Control
Corporation. Designing the user interface and printer drivers on Physio's LifePak-12
product line, as well as many internal portions of the system, required Jon to become
familiar with FDA-level requirements specifications and validation/verification
activities.
Before joining Medtronic Physio-Control Corporation, Jon worked as a consultant
for Cyber Safe Corporation and as a software engineer for Performance Dynamics,
Applied Microsystems Corporation, and Peripheral Technology Inc.
Jon has also been involved with the Seattle Robotics Society where he focused his
attention on developing software for mobile robotics.
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Dave Hyams
Chief Technology Officer
David Hyams has more than 25 years' experience in the computer and networking industries.
His engineering and engineering management expertise ranges across a spectrum of
embedded system and communications technologies, including automotive telematics,
navigation and positioning systems, instrumentation and process control, and mobile-wireless
personal communications.
Previously, David was a senior development manager at AT&T Wireless. He and his
development teams architected, prototyped and developed innovative services such
as Project Angel, a fixed wireless networking service that was acquired and is now
marketed by SR Telecom, and AT&T Packet Data Service for Airborne Systems that was
acquired and is now marketed by Sky Way Communications.
Prior to AT&T, David was a software developer on numerous projects at Microsoft
Corporation, including Project Taj Mahal and the Microsoft Digital Home group, where
he was responsible for architecting, prototyping and developing home control user
interfaces and a component switching framework.
At Applied Microsystems, he held systems engineering and product management positions,
including the development of diagnostic systems for monitoring
system performance and automated control panels for use with microprocessor development
instrumentation.
David is an avid radio controlled airplane enthusiast and an active contributor
to the robotics community in Seattle area through his participation in the Seattle
Robotics Society since 1985.
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Kevin McCarthy
CoroWare Advisory Board Member
Principal, MoonRaker Associates
Kevin McCarthy is a proven executive on Homeland and National Security issues, serving
in numerous advisory and consultancy roles to both the public and private sector
on the utilization and development of unmanned systems, geospatial intelligence
gathering, and aviation security.
Mr. McCarthy is an accredited consultant to the Department of Homeland Security
(DHS), Homeland Security Institute. He serves as a member of the Aviation Safety
& Security Working Group sponsored by The World Bank and is a member of the DOD’s,
Directed Energy Task Force’s Laser Eye Protection Group. In a policy forum sponsored
by The White House Homeland Security Council, Mr. McCarthy advised the Center for
Technology and National Security Policy on developing airliner missile defense and
response plans. Additionally, Mr. McCarthy has advised the Staff Director of the
House Select Committee on Homeland Security, and the Director of the Systems Engineering
& Development within the DHS Science &Technology Directorate, on the utilization
of unmanned systems and geospatial technologies for airliner missile defense.
As an aviation security advisor for Booz Allen Hamilton, McCarthy worked on the
establishment of leading edge security policies and practices for developing nations
in Eastern Europe. Mr. McCarthy founded and directed the National Center for Aviation
Security and concurrently directed the first Office of Intelligence & Emerging Threats
for a major international trade association. In this role, he represented the interests
of its 65,000 members to the US government and National Intelligence Community.
McCarthy holds a BS degree in Earth & Space Science, has received advanced Counterintelligence
education at the CI Centre, Alexandria, VA and carries a US government security
clearance.
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John Long, Ph.D.
CoroWare Advisory Board Member
Dr. John Long is a member of the cognitive science faculty at Vassar College. His
academic focus combines biological and engineering approaches to analyze and synthesize
the behavior, mechanics, and evolution of swimming animals. His current research
seeks to build biomimetic swimming robots to test biological theories of neural
control, perception-action coupling, and the mechanical origins of vertebral columns.
In another on-going collaboration, Dr. Long is working with Nekton Research LLC
of Durham, North Carolina, to design and build a four-finned underwater robot to
test biological theory about the hydromechanical interaction and neural control
of multiple fins. As of the fall of 2004, the robot has been launched as a remotely
operated vehicle for initial trials and breaking in. With on-board sensors (sonar,
video, depth, altimeter, accelerometer), the robot is currently being upgraded to
partial autonomous operation this fall using a hybrid subsumption architecture.
In his role as advisor to CoroWare, Dr. Long will help analyze emerging technologies
and identify those companies whose work and focus aligns with that of CoroWare.
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