Advisory Board
Stephanos Bacon, MS '89
VP Product Development,
IONA Technologies.
Mr. Bacon joined IONA as Vice President, Product Development in 2005. Prior to joining IONA, Mr. Bacon served as Vice President, Engineering for Avaki Corporation, a provider of Enterprise Information Integration products. While with Avaki, Mr. Bacon was most recently responsible for driving the product engineering, documentation and QA for the company's Avaki 6.0 product. Mr. Bacon has also held senior product engineering positions and managed distributed engineering teams with companies including Broadvision, Object Design and Bachman Information Systems.
James P. Baum '86
President and COO,
Netezza.
Mr. Baum graduated from WPI in 1986 with a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering and holds an M.S. from RPI. He is President and COO of Netezza in Marlboro, MA, a leading provider of high performance data warehousing and analytics solutions. Prior to Netezza, Jim Baum was president and CEO of Endeca where he led its rise from an innovative start-up to the leading provider of innovative information access and delivery software solutions. Previously, as executive vice president and general manager at Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC), Baum helped drive the Company's growth to more than $1 billion in revenues during his 11-year tenure.
Mark J. Freitas '78, MS '80
Member, Board of Directors,
Zone Labs, Inc.
Mr. Freitas has more than 17 years of experience in the data communications industry. Prior to founding Altiga, Mr. Freitas was Executive Vice President, Central Site Business Unit of Microcom, Inc. (acquired by Compaq Corporation in June 1997). Mark Freitas was most recently with Cisco Systems as general manager of the VPN Access Group. This team was created following the acquisition of Altiga Networks by Cisco in March 2000. As co-founder, president and CEO of Altiga Networks (c. 1998), he oversaw the successful growth of the company from its beginning to an acknowledged leader in Virtual Private Network (VPN) concentrator products. Mr. Freitas is a member of the Board of Directors for Zone Labs, Inc. (San Francisco, CA), a leading creator of Internet technologies, security and productivity solutions.
Maureen Sexton Horgan '83
Partner
Accenture
Maureen Horgan joined Accenture in July of 1983, and was promoted to Associate Partner in 1995 and Partner in 2001. She has worked in Accenture's Communications and High Tech, Government, and Products industry groups. Her work has focused on large Enterprise Application system implementations; clients include Boston Scientific, Sony, GE Capital, and Polaroid. She is currently responsible for sales and delivery of Application Management services in Accenture's Communications and High Tech industry group and is also responsible for Accenture's Diversity and Women's Mentoring programs in Boston.
Ms. Horgan received the Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1983. For her continuing contributions to WPI's alumni and class reunion activities, Ms. Horgan was awarded WPI's John Boynton Young Alumni Award in 1998 and the Ichabod Washburn Young Alumni Award for Professional Achievement in 2003.
Dr. Frederick (Fritz) Knabe
Director of Research
Endeca
Dr. Knabe leads Endeca's research in information retrieval and interactive data analysis. A member of Endeca's founding team, he has been deeply involved in the creation of Endeca's groundbreaking Guided Navigation technology, which transforms the experience of understanding and accessing complex data collections. Dr. Knabe came to Endeca from the University of Virginia, where he performed research on grid computing and wide-area distributed systems and was a partner in commercializing this work into a separate company, Avaki. During several years at the European Computer-Industry Research Centre in Munich, he focused on mobile agent technologies and advanced programming languages, and subsequently was an assistant professor at the Catholic University of Chile in Santiago. Dr. Knabe holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University and an A.B. in computer science from Princeton University.
Dr. Peter L. Levin
President, CEO and Founder
DAFCA, Inc.
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Peter L. Levin is the President and CEO of DAFCA, Inc., a venture-backed EDA software firm he co-founded in 2003. He was a tenured member of the WPI Electrical and Computer Engineering Department prior to his appointment as research dean in Boston University's College of Engineering. He is the author of more than forty technical articles on topics ranging from global positioning system and nondestructive testing to advanced simulations of electric power systems. His work in computer simulation was recognized by an NSF-PYI, a Humboldt Fellowship (Germany), and the Joseph Samuel Satin Award for excellence in teaching and research (WPI). Levin was a White House Fellow and presidential appointee during the Clinton Administration, and was a co-author of the President's Biennial Report to Congress on Science and Technology. He holds a bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees, all in Electrical and Computer Engineering, from Carnegie Mellon University.
Bob Mason '94
Vice President, Technology
Brightcove
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Bob Mason is a founder and Vice President of Technology at Brightcove. Brightcove is an on-demand Internet TV service that allows video publishers to realize the promise of building broadband media businesses. He is responsible for the technical design, architecture and drives the vision of Brightcove's online service. Prior to Brightcove, Mason was a founding member of the Art Technology Group (ATG) product development team. During his 10-year tenure at ATG, Bob provided technology leadership in formulating the company's growth and strategic positioning and as a Senior Software Architect was the technical leader for software architecture and development through over 6 major product release cycles. He was also the technical leader for ATG's pioneering services projects including MovieFone's initial online ticket system and Sony's online gaming and entertainment portal, The Station @ Sony. Bob holds a BS in Computer Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Dr. James S. Miller
Software Architect
Microsoft Corporation
Jim Miller holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT. He served on the faculty at Brandeis University as well as on the research staff at MIT (both the AI Lab and the Lab for Computer Science). He has been on the research staff at Digital Equipment Corporation and the Open Software Foundation. He was also on the senior management team of theWorld Wide Web Consortium, reporting to Tim Berners-Lee and in charge of work on security, electronic commerce, child protection, privacy protection, accessibility, and intellectual property protection. Jim joined Microsoft in 1998, leading the program management team for the kernel of the .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR) where his responsibility included garbage collection, metadata definition and file formats, intermediate language (IL) definition, IL-to-native code compilation, and remote objects. He also served as editor for ECMA TC39/TG3 and ISO/IEC 23271:2003, which are the international standards for a Common Language Infrastructure. His current work, as software architect for the CLR, involves designing an architecture to allow innovation in the core of the CLR and the managed Frameworks while preserving backward compatibility.
Professor Leon (Lee) J. Osterweil
Department of Computer Science
University of Massachusetts
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Prof. Osterweil has been the Chair of the Computer Science Department at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and of the Information and Computer Science Department of the University of California at Irvine. His research has centered on software analysis and testing, software tool integration, and software processes and process programming. He has been a Principal Investigator on a number of NSF and ARPA/DARPA projects over the past 25 years. He is a Fellow of the ACM, has been an ACM Lecturer, has served on the editorial board of IEEE Software and on the board of ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology since its inception.
Donald P. Zereski, Jr. '87, MS '89
Co-founder and Vice President, Products
Yokel, Inc.
Professional web site
Donald P. Zereski, Jr. is Terra Lycos's Vice President of Subscription Services. From 2001 through 2002, he served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Streetmail, an Internet direct marketing company. Before that Mr. Zereski was Vice President of Community and Communication Products at Terra Lycos, responsible for the ongoing operation of the company's host of community and communication Web sites. He joined Lycos through the acquisition of Tripod where he was VP of Technology and General Manager. Before joining Tripod, Mr. Zereski headed up the creation of Intellicast, one of the Web's first commercial weather sites, driving Intellicast to a Top 10 news and entertainment site.
Mr. Zereski received Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1987 and 1989, respectively. In 2002, Mr. Zereski was awarded WPI's Ichabod Washburn Young Alumni Award for Professional Achievement.
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