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Dr. Kelvin Nilsen is
Chief Technology Officer at Aonix and is a key expert group participant in
JSR-302, the Java Community Process effort to develop a standardized approach to
safety critical Java. Prior to joining Aonix, Kelvin's seminal research on the
topic of real-time Java led to the founding of NewMonics which was acquired by
Aonix In 2003. Previously, Kelvin pioneered research in real-time programming at
the Computer Science faculty at Iowa State University that resulted in five
commercial patents including key VM technologies such as real-time garbage
collection. Kelvin earned his degree in physics from Brigham Young University
and his MSCS and PhD from the University of Arizona.
Chip Downing joined Wind
River as the Senior Industry Marketing Manager for Aerospace and Defense in
2005. Prior to joining Wind River, Chip was VP of Sales for Esterel
Technologies, a company delivering SCADE, a design and development environment
for safety-critical control systems. Prior to Esterel, Mr. Downing lead sales,
marketing and consulting organizations at Validated Software, OnCore Systems,
Mentor Graphics, Qualix Group and Ready Systems.
Rhoda Quate has specialized
in software development tool support for the past 17 years. She received her
Bachelor's of Science in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science from
University of Colorado at Boulder and completed her master's degree in Software
Engineering at National University in San Diego. Rhoda joined TeleSoft in the
early 90's to provide Ada training and consultation to TeleSoft clients. She
soon expanded into training and consulting for Motif/X Windows based software
development. She currently works as an Application Field Engineer at Aonix
North America, supporting their software development tools in the areas of Ada,
Java, X/Motif based GUI tools, and software modeling.
George Romanski has
specialized in the production of software development environments for the past
35 years. His work has focused on compilers, cross compilers, run-time systems,
and tools for embedded real-time applications. Mr. Romanski was Vice President
of Technology at EDS/Scicon (XD-Ada), Vice President of Engineering at Alsys
(Alsys-Ada), and Director of Safety Critical Software at Aonix (C-SMART, Raven).
Since 1992, he has concentrated on software for safety critical applications. In
1999, he cofounded Verocel, Inc., a company that specializes in safety critical
software certification, for systems programmed in Ada and other
languages.
Gordon M. Uchenick is a
frequent presenter and lecturer on Multiple Independent Levels of Security
(MILS) as well as an author on the subject. Mr. Uchenick also participates in
the MILS community standards bodies such as The Open Group. Prior to joining
Objective Interface, he was an engineering specialist with Wind River Systems,
concentrating on the company's security technologies.
Chris Constantinides is
a Senior Aerospace and Defense Systems Specialist focusing on Security for Wind
River Systems. He has been in or serviced the Military and Aerospace Industry
for over 20 years. Chris is a contributor in the MILS community standards and a
member of the Real Time Embedded Systems Forum in The Open Group. Prior to
joining Wind River, Chris has worked for McDonnell Douglas Corporation and
Boeing Corporation on numerous programs that span from fighter aircraft to
commercial jets to missiles. Chris has also been a part of advanced research and
development for both of these companies doing system and sub-system hardware and
software design.
Jack Carden joined Aonix
as Senior Application Engineer in 2004 to focus on the PERC product line. Prior
to joining Aonix, Jack has many years of experience in developing real-time,
embedded software systems, primarily in the telecommunications field. Jack
earned his Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from the University of Louisville
and his MBA at the University of Dallas. John Alexander is the
Senior Product Manager for Aerospace & Defense Platforms at Wind River, and
works primarily in the areas of safety and security certification, as well as
ARINC 653 and MILS related technologies. Prior to joining Wind River John as
Sr. Product Manager for Insignia Solutions in the embedded Java virtual machine
market. Prior to Insignia Mr. Alexander held product management positions at
Omnis Software (cross platform development tools), Red Hat (development tools
for Linux), Cygnus Solutions (open source development tools), and Philips
Semiconductor (multimedia). John earned his B.S. in Computer Engineering from
U.C. Santa Cruz, and his MBA from U.C. Davis. |
