Mr. Dominic received his B.S. in Computer Science from Lamar University in 1984. Dominic has spent his entire career supporting Human Resource applications at JPMorganChase. JPMorganChase is a leading financial services company with operations in more than 50 countries. The firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers, small business and commercial banking, financial transaction processing, asset management, and private equity. Involvement with the IAB has allowed Dominic to better appreciate the commitment of faculty, administrators, and the students of Lamar University. He especially enjoys using his position on the board to have the opportunity to encourage current CS students.
Mr. Dennis E Carl
Giddings ISD
Email: decarl at giddings dot txed dot net
A native of Allentown, Pennsylvania, Mr. Carl is a High School Computer Science and Network Engineering teacher at Giddings ISD in Giddings, Texas. His responsibilities include developing networking, Java, and database educational programs to prepare secondary educational students for further studies at technical trade schools, universities, or entry-level careers in computer based applications.
Mr. Carl received his B.S. in Computer Science from Lamar University in 1996; additional credentials involve minor degrees in Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry. His professional experience includes tenures with the Texas Department of Public Safety, Johnson & Johnson, Wayport, Inc., and Time-Warner covering such computer science disciplines as C++ programmer, global Microsoft Exchange Analyst, HP Openview consultant, and network engineer. Areas of network engineering specializations involved data security and wireless communications. Industry certifications include MCSE, CCAI, and CCNA. State of Texas secondary educational certifications include computer science and composite science.
Mr.Michael Claunch
IBM Global Technology Services - BTE
Manager Application and Infrastructure Optimization,Certified IT Architect
Email: mclaunch at us dot ibm dot com
Michael Claunch is an experienced Information Technology Architect and Technical Manager with IBM corporation. He is recognized as a certified IT Architect within IBM and The Open Group Organization. Since starting his career in 1989 as a software engineer, he has worked for Ford Aerospace, Loral Aerospace, I-NET Corporation, United Space Alliance and IBM where his jobs included, Software Engineer, Systems Performance Engineer, Senior Network Architect, Enterprise Software Architect, Systems Security Architect, and IT Application and Infrastructure Optimization Manager. In his current role, Michael manages a worldwide team in IBM's Global Technology Services division designing and delivering various application and infrastructure business transformational solutions to a work-force of over 125,000 employees. He is recognized as a leader in IBM, providing creative solutions and optimizing business practices. Michael graduated from Lamar University in 1985 with a B.S in Education and in 1989 with an M.S. in Computer Science. He currently resides in La Porte, TX with his wife Kathy, who also graduated from Lamar in 1989 with an M.S. in Deaf Education, and their 7 year old son John Michael. When not working Michael likes to participate in activities at his church, golf, travel (especially to Disney World), spend time with his family and friends, and play popular computer games.
Mr. Robert Emanuel
Senior-IT Specialist
Dupoint
A native of Baytown, TX, Mr. Robert is a 1988 magna cum laude graduate of Lamar Universiyt with a B.S
in computer science. While at Lamar, he accpepted a co-op position with DuPoint, which led to his
employment after graduation. He is currently a senior IT specialist in the Packaginig and
Industrial Polymers business at the Orange, TX site, specializing in process monitoring and control,
laboratory systems support, and business application design and support.
Mr. Clint Harwood
SVP, IT -Conn's
Email: Clint.Harwood at conns dot com
Mr. Harwood's 28 year career has included petrochemical, university,
utility, and retail environments. As Vice President for the IT
organization at Conn's, he oversees computer operations, systems and
network administration, help desk, software development, user services,
document imaging, telecommunications, and business continuity
facilities. Mr. Harwood continues to enjoy the opportunity to
participate first hand in technical analyses and implementations and
often serves as a team member on such projects as well as attending to
IT management duties.
Mr. Monesh Jain
Sapien Corp
Email: mjain2 at sapient dot com
Mr. Monesh is a technology professional with expertise in Java, Open source
technologies and Technical Program Management. He is working with Sapient
Corp(NASD:SAPE), a business consulting and technology services company and recently
worked for Telecom and Healthcare clients Sprint Nextel, Cingular Wireless and
Kaiser Permanente. Prior to joining Sapient, Mr. Jain worked in engineering team at
SquareTrade Inc. for building online authentication and dispute resolution products
which were used at EBay, Yahoo and Google marketplaces. Mr. Jain received MS in
Computer Science from Lamar University and BE in Mechanical Engineering from GS
Institute of Technology & Science.
Dr. Paul L. Kendall
Senior Security Consultant
Accudata Systems, Inc.
Email: PKendall (at) AccudataSystems dot com
Paul Kendall has 30 years experience in the Computer and Information Security profession. He is currently a Senior Consultant in the Information Security Regulatory and Compliance fields with Accudata Systems in Dallas, Texas. He has formerly served as Senior Manager for Accenture, LLP's Global Security Practice, Chief Information Security Officer for AmeriCredit Corporation in Fort Worth, Texas, Chief Security Architect for Compaq Computer Corporation, and Global Security Director for Air Liquide S.A. in Paris, France. He has authored over 80 papers on computer and information security in the U.S., Canada, Germany, and France. Paul was a founding member of the South Texas Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) Chapter, and has served on the Board of Directors for both the South Texas ISSA and the North Texas ISSA chapters. He was a review and assessment committee member on the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Advanced Encryption Standard development effort, and was a committee member on the International Standards Organization task force developing the ISO 17799 security standard. Most recently, he served on the ISACA standards development committee for Physical and IT Security Convergence.
He is a Certified Information Security Manager, a Certified Information Systems Security Professional, and holds a Level III Certification in Homeland Security. He has a Ph.D./MBA in Information Systems, and B.S. degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics/Statistics.
Mr. Darren Lewis
CHRISTUS Health - Southeast Texas Region
Email: darren.lewis at christushealth dot org
Darren Lewis is a native of Southeast Texas. He graduated from Lamar
University in 2001 with a B.S. in Computer Information Science. Darren
is an Operations Manager for CHRISTUS Health, and is responsible for
Information Technology at CHRISTUS Hospital - St. Elizabeth, St Mary,
and Jasper Memorial Hospital.
Mr. Tim Magnuson
President & CEO Kashmoo, Inc.
Email: tmagnuson (at) kashmoo.com
Mr. Tim Magnuson is the President & CEO of Austin-based Kashmoo.com, a web-based scheduling system for small businesses. He was a founder, VP, and Director of Austin-based Pavilion Technologies in 1991, and played key roles in taking the company from startup to becoming a world leader in advanced process control. Over his 30 year career, Magnuson has served in roles ranging from Robot Research Engineer, at Milacron, to manager of the Neural Network Research Project at MCC in Austin. He has one patent in robotics, and is listed as an inventor on nine pending patents in software and Internet technology. His academic background includes a B.S. with honors in C.S., with E.E. minor, from Lamar University, and an M.S. C.S. with honors from the University of Texas at Tyler.
Roger Moye, BS
Linux Cluster Administrator, Research Computing Support Group
Division of Information Technology
Rice University
Mr. Moye graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science from Lamar University in 1993. He has been a member of the Division of Information Technology at Rice University for over 11 years. During his tenure at Rice he has performed a number of roles, including UNIX Systems Administrator, Team Leader, and most recently Linux Cluster Administrator. He is responsible for systems administration activities on the university's research computing clusters. He is also responsible for the design and development of all web-based applications, web sites, and online documentation associated with cluster operations. Prior to Rice, Mr. Moye was employed as a Systems Engineer at Lockheed Martin Space Information Systems at the Johnson Space Center where he was responsible for developing UNIX workstation performance analysis software used in the Mission Control Center.
Mr. Spears, Micah A
Southwest Research Institute(r) (SwRI(r))
Email: mspears at swri dot org
Mr. Spears joined Southwest Research Institute(r) (SwRI(r)) in May of
2003 as a Research Analyst in the Medical Systems Architecture Section.
Currently, he is serving in a task leadership role for the Veterans
Health Administration (VHA) Pharmacy Reengineering Project and managing
an Internal Research and Development (IR&D) project for prototyping a
clinical Decision Support System (DSS). Prior to joining SwRI, he worked
as an independent software consultant where he developed software for
mobile devices. Mr. Spears holds a M.S. in Software Engineering from
Texas State University and a B.S. in Computer Science from Lamar
University.
MS. SUSAN E. MAYFIELD
MAYFIELD CONSULTING
MANAGING DIRECTOR
Susan began her foray into the Computer Science Engineering arena at Lamar School of Engineering Technology in the fall of 1975. While studying for the degree, Susan joined the student chapter of the ACM and was an officer three of her four years of study. Susan participated in the ACM Programming Contests as a member of the "Lamar Loops". Susan was also one of the first Cooperative Education students from the Computer Science Department. She did her Co-op semester with Dow Chemical in Tulsa and Houston. Susan helped build the standards of pay, performance, and participation for the program. Susan successfully completed the degree program, with honors and nearly two years of ‘real’ work experience.
After graduating, Susan moved to San Antonio to be near her family. She accepted her first job at Southwestern Bell as a Manager of Real-Time Systems. After one year of having a job that required her to be on call twenty-four seven and carry around one of those "new fangled pagers" she moved on to Datapoint Corporation. Susan was the only female and person of color in the Datapoint’s Research and Development Department. She worked on one the first Laser Printer projects in the world, which was commissioned to develop a "printing mail station" for the US Government. Susan also worked on the Minx project which was the pre-cursor to the State Department’s secure teleconferencing system. After five years, Susan moved on the Martin-Marietta Corporation in Littleton, Colorado. There she worked on the telecommunications processes for Small Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles. In addition, she became a Subject Matter Expert on Weapon Control Systems, performance modeling and simulation, and feasibility analysis for the Joint Tactical Fusion Chiefs of Staff working out of the Jet Propulsion Laboratories at California Tech in Pasadena, California. After nearly twelve years, and non-stop travel between Colorado and California and other unnamed points on the globe, Susan moved on to being an Expert Contractor in Cryptology. Her skill sets landed her an Associate Partnership with Booz Allen & Hamilton’s Federal Contracting Division. There, Susan moved into Space and Warfare "secure" systems concepts of operations, design, development and deployment for the Navy’s Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Fleet. Susan was responsible for a unit of 140 employees and over $400 million in projects. This work was based out McLean, Virginia, a suburb of Washington D.C. She came back to San Antonio and began working for the familyrsquo;s firm, The Mayfield Group. Susan led the team that provided "technology infusion" for the City of San Antonio. The contract was to provide the Code Enforcement Department with complete mobile offices. Eighty vehicles were purchased and outfitted as mobile offices with all the bells and whistles, available at the time, including CDPD modems, the pre-cursor to aircards. When that project was completed Susan joined Hansen Information Technologies as a Project Director.
In past years, Susan helped organize the Lamar University San Antonio Alumni Chapter. In recent years, Susan was a member of the committee, along with Clint Harwood, Keith Mott, and Tim Magnuson that created the "Dr. William C. Nylin, Jr. Scholarship in Computer Science" in 2005, and has been a member of the Lamar Computer Science Advisory Board since 2006. Susan also has participated in the Mentor Program and the Girls WIRED Summer Camp 0f 2007. Susan served as the Chairperson of the department’s Alumni Reunion Committee. She has aided the department in their fundraising efforts, too.
From October of 1987 until now, Susan has supported or worked for the family’s company. As of February 2008, Susan is working fulltime with the arm of The Mayfield Group she solely owns, known as, Mayfield Consulting. She has a number of contracts with municipalities to automate their Asset Management, Utility Billing, and Permitting processes using Hansen software.
Ms. Brenda K. Williams
SYSCO Corporation
Project Manager
Brenda K. Williams, PMP is a highly accomplished technology professional who has led the full range from legacy to advanced technology. She is currently a project manager at SYSCO Corporation involved with Infrastructure projects to define the new business model for initiating, processing, tracking and reporting Sysco branded credit card transactions. As a result, SYSCO will become the 1st company in the food service industry to utilize a branded credit card.
Brenda is an International conference speaker, and mentor/career coach to students at Winona State University, Bethune Cookman College, Sam Houston State University and University of Texas in Austin. She was the 2004 keynote speaker at UT-Austin.
Active in the community, Brenda is a current board member of AWC (Association for Women in Computing), member of both MPA (Microsoft Project Association) & PMI (Project Management Institute) and four term Senior Partner of New Millennium Investment Club. She is currently coauthoring a book with her husband about "Life Goals" to help others visualize the life they want.
Brenda is a native of Cleveland, Ohio where she graduated from East Technical High School and holds a B.A. in Business from Winona State University in Minnesota. Brenda received PMP certification from PMI in 2005 and was honored at the FHPW (Federation of Houston Professional Women) Gala event in September as the 2007 AWC (Association for Women in Computing) Women of Excellence.
Mr. Chris Graham
ExxonMobil Chemical
Senior Systems Engineer
Email: chris.graham at exxonmobil dot com
A native of Beaumont, Mr. Graham is a 1990 summa cum laude graduate of Lamar University with a B.S. in Computer Science. While at Lamar, he was involved in many campus organizations including Sigma Nu Fraternity, Blue Key National Honor Society and the Student Government Association. Following graduation, he went to work for Mobil Oil Corporation at the Beaumont Refinery, and has remained there following the merger with Exxon. His job responsibilities during his career at ExxonMobil have been primarily in the area of process control databases and process control systems. He has received his MCSE: Security on Windows Server 2003.
Mr. Herbert J. Babineaux, Jr
NASA/Johnson Space Center
Information Resources Directorate
Email: herbert.j.babineaux at nasa dot gov
Mr. Babineaux graduated from Louisiana State University in 1986 with a
B.S. degree in Computer Science. He began his career with the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in March, 1987, as a
computer engineer in the Safety, Reliability, and Quality Assurance
(SR&QA) Directorate at the Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, Texas.
While working in the SR&QA directorate, his responsibilities included
space shuttle and space station software reliability, avionics systems
reliability, data analysis, and information technology (IT). He is
currently assigned to the Information Resources Directorate at JSC where
his duties primarily focus on implementing Government, Agency, and
Center policy for using IT. He is currently the Privacy Act Manager,
Information Technology Asset Manager, and Section 508 (IT Accessibility)
Coordinator for JSC.
Mr. James M. Sigler
DIBON SOLUTIONS, INC.
CONTRACTOR (Consultant to Siemens Entergy & Automation, Inc.)
Email: jmsigler2 at sbcglobal dot net
Mr. James M. Sigler, II graduated from Lamar University in 1985 with a B.S. degree in Mathematical Sciences and a minor in Civil Engineering. Mr. Sigler makes his home in Dallas, TX where he works as an Independent Contractor/Consultant. He is currently working as a consulting senior application architect/developer with Virtual Objects, Inc. in Dallas. His experience is broad and comprehensive with software engineering or architecture experience in many industries. It includes acting as a lead developer on object-oriented projects providing leadership and supervision over other developers in the design and development of desktop distributed n-tier client-server software systems. His experience includes work as a senior architect designing "Use Cases" and core metadata-based systems; it also includes the creation of object-modeling diagrams for the analysis and design of new applications and components with UML. His development experience includes a work history on user (GUI) services, business services, and data services.
Mr. Vivek Singh
Mr. Vivek Singh graduated from Lamar University in computer science. He completed his MBA at Duke University, North Carolina. He is currently employed by Schlumberger Information Solutions in Houston, TX, as a Product line Manager. He has over 13 years of professional work experience, a decade of experience with a leading international company, and 5 years of experience in a senior management role. He managed collocated and distributed IT and software teams in a fortune 500 company. He has experience at the helm of a self-owned company. He is recognized as a technical leaser (including leadership roles in the Eureka IT and software community. He is an expert in determining capabilities of technology to solve business problems and in creating new business opportunities, and has filled several patents. He has created cross -functional, cross-organizational teams, to identify and design solution to meet the market needs. Has over decade of experience with software development processes( including RUP, waterfall and agile methodologies) as well as quality monitoring/assurance systems ( such as CMM,ISO).Founding member of the Software Process Improvement Team.
