Bio -- 2011 Resume as PDF file below

Currently retired - which is to say, no longer getting paid for my work

Professional Activities

Industry (30 years)

  • Digital Equipment  - Director of Information Infrastructure Standards and prior to that Director of POSIX Standards
  • Charles River Data Systems - Director, Strategic Planning, Director Marketing
  • Data General Corp  - various roles: Product Manager, District manager of Systems Engineering, Systems  Engineer
  • Intel - supervisor in test automation group
  • CALMA - operating systems development, CAD/CAM applications
  • IBM - operating systems development, laboratory automation (Palo Alto Scientific Center)

Academia (6 years)

  • Teaching Information Technology at Southern New Hampshire University (full time)
  • Part time teaching at Daniel Webster College, Nashua Community College

Awards

  • 1994 Recipient of the IEEE Computer Society "Hans Karlsson Award" for "Outstanding Leadership and achievement though cooperation"
  • 2000 Recipient of IEEE Third Millennium Medal
  • IEEE Computer Society "Golden Core" recipient, 1997
  • Outstanding Contribution Award; IEEE Computer Society,
  • July 1989. "For outstanding technical achievement in the development of the POSIX Standard (P1003)"
  • IEEE CS Technical Committee on Operating Systems, POSIX Pioneer recognition (1988), "For contribution to the formation, growth, and adoption, of the IEEE P1003.1 Standard."
  • Stanford Computing Pioneer, 1987

Other

  • Graduate of Leadership New Hampshire class of 2002
  • MSEE-Computer Engineering and BS-Computer Studies, Stanford University (a while ago)
  • US Patent: "Method for certifying the authenticity of digital objects"
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Jim Isaak,
Feb 23, 2012 6:23 PM