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2006 IEEE Boston Section Executive Committee Nominations
For Chairman: Steven Best
Steven R. Best received the B.Sc.Eng and the Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering in 1983 and 1988, respectively, from the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, NB, Canada. Dr. Best has over 17 years of experience in business management and antenna design engineering in both military and commercial markets. He is the author or co-author of over 80 papers in various journal, conference and industry publications. He also presents a three-day antenna design short course and is the author of a CD-ROM series on antenna theory and design. He is currently with the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL/SNHA) at Hanscom AFB, MA, where his areas of interest include electrically small antennas, wideband radiating elements, conformal antennas, antenna arrays and communications antennas. Dr Best is a Senior Member of the IEEE, a member of Sigma Xi and a member of ACES. He is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters and has served as a Member-at-Large, Treasurer, Secretary, and Vice Chairman for the IEEE Boston Section.
Prior to joining AFRL, he was President of Cushcraft Corporation in Manchester, NH from 1997 to 2002. Cushcraft is a recognized leader in the design and manufacture of amateur radio and wireless communication antennas. He was Director of Engineering at Cushcraft from 1996 to 1997. Prior to joining Cushcraft, he was co-founder and Vice President and General Manager of Parisi Antenna Systems from 1993 through 1996. Parisi specialized in the design, development and manufacture of both military and commercial communications antennas. He was Vice President and General Manager of D&M/Chu Technology, Inc (formerly Chu Associates) from 1990 – 1993. He joined Chu Associates as a Senior Electrical Engineer in 1987. Chu Associates was a recognized leader in the field of specialized communications and radar antennas for both military and commercial markets.
For Vice Chairman: William Carakatsane
Mr. Carakatsane is currently employed with Avid Technology Inc. in Tewksbury Ma as a Hardware Design Engineer in their Video Business Unit. Bill works on the companies Non Linear Video Edit systems used both in the movie and television industries to edit and finish feature presentations.
Bill previously worked at Force Computers Inc. in Westboro Ma in the Embedded Systems group. His responsibilities included the design of network interface cards and VME input/output interface cards. Prior to his Force Computers employment he worked at Digital Equipment Corp. in the Storage Subsystems Group in Shrewsbury Ma. At Digital he worked on RAID Array Storage Systems for Alpha and Intel platforms. Bill has also worked at Applicon Corp and Modicon Inc. in prior assignments.
Mr. Carakatsane received his B.S in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University in 1978.
Bill’s IEEE association began shortly after graduation with involvement in the North Shore Subsection of the Boston Section. There he progressed through the offices posts to become Chairman. Currently Bill is the Subsection Treasurer and representative to CNEC of which he has also been Chairman.
Bill has served at the national level of the IEEE as Secretary of the Region 1 Committee from 1992-1994 after which he served as Parliamentarian for a number of years. During this time Bill has also served on the Boston Section as an Elected Committee Member, Treasurer and is currently Secretary of the Section.
For Secretary: Lori Jeromin
Lori Jeromin is a native of Waldwick, New Jersey. She received the B.S. degree in mathematics in 1978 from Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA and the S.M. degree in electrical engineering from MIT in 1982. Since 1978, she has been with the MIT, Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington, MA. Her primary research interests include communications theory, information theory and their applications to RF and optical satellite and other wireless communications systems.
Ms. Jeromin has served as Vice Chair and Chair of the Boston Chapter of the IEEE Communications Society. She has served as member-at-large on the Boston Executive Committee, and is currently Treasurer.
For Treasurer: John Conrad
John Conrad is currently employed at Textron Systems in Wilmington, Ma, as a Program Manager in the Advanced Systems & Technology Department. Textron is a defense contractor that has developed a wide variety of products including smart weapons, surveillance systems and aircraft landing systems. John works on new business opportunities that will potentially move the company into new, growing, business areas.
John recently relocated back to Boston after working as an independent contractor for seven years, in Tampa, Florida. He originally worked for Marconi Radar Systems in Chelmsford, England, for ten years before moving to Buffalo, NY, in 1984 to work for Bell Aerospace.
John discovered the benefits of the IEEE when he moved to Tampa and quickly took on a variety of positions on the Florida West Coast Section, EXCOM ending up as Section Chair in 2003 and 2004. He has also gained experience organizing conferences as the FWCS regularly hosts small to medium sized conferences with around 150 attendees. (This year they are extending themselves and hosting Sections Congress which will have closer to 1,000 attendees!!) He is Treasurer of the 2005 Wireless & Microwave Conference and the 2005 Annual Meeting of the PES Substations Committee.
For At-Large Member (2006 -2007)
Gary Scalzi
Gary J. Scalzi received his BSEE and MSEE degrees in Electrical Engineering in 1985 and 1990, respectively, from Northeastern University, Boston, MA. Mr. Scalzi has over 15 years experience in various engineering positions in both military and commercial markets. He has authored or co-authored papers in various journal, conference and industry publications. He also teaches a graduate course in microwave system engineering at Tufts University, Medford, MA. He is currently with the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL/SNHA) at Hanscom AFB, MA, where his areas of interest include microwave receivers, receive and transmit digital beamforming and phased array antennas. Mr. Scalzi is a member of the IEEE and Sigma Xi.
Prior to joining AFRL, he worked as a senior engineer for a startup company, Global Communication Devices, which was developing single chip SiGe 802.11 radios. He also worked for IBM, Hittite Microwave Corp, Rome Air Development Center, and has worked as an industry consultant as well. His roles have included GaAs MMIC designer, RF board designer, product engineer, and microwave systems engineer.
Jeff Goldberg
Jeff Goldberg received his BS degree in Electrical Engineering from Tufts University in 1977. From that time, he has specialized in embedded systems hardware and software development for companies like HP, Aplitek, Chipcom and Shiva. He is both a founding member and past Chairman of the IEEE Boston Consultants’ Network.
Starting in 1994, Mr. Goldberg began teaching short technical courses for the Boston IEEE which led to his becoming the lead Unix instructor for Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s Technical Education Center in Waltham, Ma, along with teaching positions at Boston University and Northeastern University.
In early 2003, Mr. Goldberg founded Qualware Instructional Services, a public seminar and corporate training company, located in Burlington, Ma. As a long time innovative user of UNIX and Internet services, Mr. Goldberg currently develops and delivers customized corporate training classes, flexibly scheduled to avoid project disruption, in the fields of IT operations, operating systems, computer languages and computer/network security. Specialties include UNIX Fundamentals, Perl and Shell Scripting, Linux/UNIX System Administration and TCP/IP Networking, Web Technologies such as Visual Basic, Java Script, PHP, Apache, SQL, C, C++, Java and Delphi Pascal. Mr. Goldberg can be reached at JeffG@Qualware.com
"Additional nominations may be made by a petition signed by at least 25 voting members of the Section and submitted to the Section Secretary no later than May 12, 2005."
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