Jeff Allen

Shelby Anderson, Systems Engineering Manager, Sun Microsystems, Boston, MA
Shelby manages a staff of systems engineers that provide technical support for systems sold to the Federal Government. Frequently, this means reworking mathematical algorithms to optimize code run times. Posted March 1997

William L. Anderson, President, Elements Research, Charlotte, NC
As president and owner of Elements Research, Bill develops software for engineering, medical, and scientific applications. His work on a wide range of problems convinces him mathematically trained persons can successfully model complex problems. Posted April 1997

David A. Archer , Chief Operating Officer, Petrotechnical Open Software Corporation, Houston, TX
David is a member the management team of POSC, a not-for-profit organization that develops technical computing and data standards for the oil industry. His responsibilities include leading the organization's technical staff and representing the corporation to its membership. Posted May 1996

Christine L. Baker, Cost Estimator, Naval Sea System Command, Crystal City, VA
As a member of the Cost Estimating and Analysis Division, Christina is part of a team that prepares cost estimates for Navy shipbuilding construction. She develops the rates for labor and overhead used to derive the total cost of construction. Posted May 1996

Dennis J. Beal, Statistician, Lockheed Martin Energy Systems, Oak Ridge, TN
Dennis provides statistical support for environmental restoration projects at a Department of Energy site in Oak Ridge, where wastes, such as nuclear material, are stored. Posted December 1995

Isabel Beichl, Mathematician, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
Isabel is a member of the Information Technology Laboratory at NIST and regularly works with an interdisciplinary team of scientists and engineers, designing algorithms for simulations of physical systems. Posted July 1996

Craig J. Benham, Professor and Acting Chairman,Department of Biomathematical Sciences Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
Working on problems related to DNA structure, Craig finds the solutions involve an intricate interplay among topology, geometry and mechanics. Posted October 1996

Paul T. Boggs, Chief, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
Paul is the Chief of the Applied and Computational Mathematics Division, whose 25 members assist scientists at NIST in the development of mathematical simulations and models. Posted January 1996

Kathryn E. Brenan, Engineering Specialist, The Aerospace Corporation, Herndon, VA
Most of her career Kathy worked on the development of numerical methods for space vehicle trajectory simulation tools. However, a recent career move will require her to take a more stochastic approach to problems in determining launch schedules. Posted September 1996

Mary E. Brewster , Senior Research Scientist, and Applied Math Technical Group Leader, Battelle Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA
Mary ia a member of the Energy and Environmental Sciences Division of Battelle, where she does probabilistic modeling for waste tank safety analysis and develops numerical wavelet methods for computational chemistry . Posted October 1996

David L. Brown, Team Leader, Numerical Analysis and Parallel Processing, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM
David's research is focused on the development of computational tools for the solution of partial differential equations. The problems he works on result from physical models of relevance to scientist at the Laboratory doing research in areas such as fluid dynamics and combustion. Posted April 1997

William J. Browning, President, Applied Mathematics, Inc., Gales Ferry, CT
As president of a technical consulting firm, Bill works on a broad range of mathematical and computing problems primarily in the area of operations research. Much of the custom software his company develops is for real time decision systems. Posted April 1996

Duncan A. Buell , Research Staff Member, Institute for Defense Analyses, Bowie, MD
As a member of the research staff at the Center for Computing Sciences, Duncan works on mathematics and computation problems in support of the National Security Agency. Posted December 1996

Patricia A. Caldwell, Partner, Gordian Group, L.P., New York, NY
As a partner and founder of a financial advisory firm, Patricia works with troubled companies by helping them develop and implement financial plans that allow them to continue in business. Posted May 1996

Juan D. Cardenas, Financial Engineer, Summit Systems Inc., New York, NY
Juan applies his knowledge of mathematics to the development and implementation of an office risk-management system used primarily by investment banks. One thing he likes about working in finance is seeing his work being applied and of use to others. Posted September 1996

Peter E. Castro , Modeler and Academic Liaison, Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY
Peter recently became Kodak's academic liaison for the Leaders in Manufacturing program at MIT. In this capacity he works with engineers, scientists, managers, and shop floor operators to improve manufacturing processes. Posted February 1997

Mimi Celis, Member of Technical Staff, Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA
Mimi is part of a group in the Advance System Division that designs and implements algorithms, providing high performance software for the high end multiple processor computers produced by SGI. Posted December 1996

Rosemary E. Chang, Member of the Technical Staff, Silicon Graphics, Mountain View, CA
As a staff member in Corporate Research and Development, Rosemary works in the area of Computer Aided Geometric Design, developing algorithms to effectively represent geometric objects. Posted January 1996

Alessandra O. P. Chiareli, Senior Research Engineer, 3M Company, St. Paul, MN
Alessandra's internships with 3M helped her make the decision to go into industry and, in particular, to join the staff at 3M. She enjoys working on teams with people from various technical backgrounds and working on a wide range of problems. Posted September 1997

Jerry K. Cline, Retired Department Manager, McDonnell Douglas Corporation, St. Louis, MO
Jerry originally started his career at McDonnell Douglas working on interplanetary mission analysis problems with the Viking Mars Lander program. He recently retired as manager of the Operations Analysis department, whose 120 members have degrees in engineering, mathematics and computer science. Posted September 1996

Douglas K. Cooper, Mathematician, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC
As a member of the Advanced Information Technology Branch, Doug is part of a team developing methods to schedule computer applications on a network of distributed processors. Posted March 1996

Judith G. Cottingham, Assistant Professor (Research), Clemson Apparel Research, Pendleton, SC
Developing software and performing general research for the textile industry, Judith works with researchers and academicians whose backgrounds include mathematical sciences, computer engineering and textiles. Posted December 1995

Cary E. Crawford, Project Scientist, Mason & Hanger - Silas Mason Company Inc., Amarillo, TX
Cary performs statistical analysis and administrative support for programs providing safeguards for the assembly and dismantling of nuclear weapons. Posted November 1995

Jane K. Cullum, Member, Research Staff, IBM, Yorktown Heights, NY
Based out of the T.J.Watson Research Center, Jane applies her knowledge of mathematics and computer science to design, analyze, and implement numerical algorithms on superscalar and parallel IBM computers. Posted May 1997

Joel E. Dendy, Jr., Deputy Group Leader, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM
As deputy leader of Mathematical Modeling and Analysis group, Joel develops new algorithms for the efficient numerical solution of partial differential equations. Posted July 1997

June M. Donato, Staff Researcher, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN
June works with research scientists from a wide range of disciplines designing numerical simulators for physical experiments. Posted July 1997

Leslie F. Donnelly, Media Specialist, DeMasi Middle School, Marlton,NJ
As media specialist at the DeMasi Middle School Library, Leslie helps support the curriculum, and provides resources and instruction in information processing skills. Her background in mathematics helps her solve problems associated with managing the media center. Posted April 1997

David Fruchey,Senior Technical Specialist, Northrop Grumman, Pico Rivera, CA
David is a program manager with the Advanced Technology and Development Center, leading a group of engineers and scientists on the design and analysis of systems produced by the company. Posted July 1996

Marc A. Fusaro, Research Assistant, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Washington, DC
Working in the Economic Activity Section, Marc is on the front lines of monetary policy. His position is designed to attract new graduates who intend to move on to graduate school or Wall Street in two to three years. Posted April 1997

Stewart Gleason, Consulting Actuary, Ernst & Young LLP, Chicago, IL
The majority of Stewart's clients have been from the areas of reinsurance and medical malpractice. He is currently building a model that will be used to price medical malpractice business for doctor groups. Posted October 1996

R. Dale Hall, Investment Actuary, Westfield Companies, Westfield Center, OH
Dale finds the actuarial field to be an interesting blend of mathematics and business. As a member of the Investment Department he oversees the company's asset/liability management processes. Posted September 1997

John F. Hamilton, Jr. , Research Associate, Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY
As a member of the Computational Science Lab, John is part of a group that provides in-house consulting on problems that require expertise in mathematical modeling and computation. Posted November 1996

William D. Hammers, President, Optimal Solutions, Inc., Wichita, KS
Recently, Bill left Cessna Aircraft Company to work full time at a company he formed to provide consulting services for business and education. Posted July 1997

Fern Y. Hunt, Mathematician, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
Fern is a research mathematician in the Applied and Computational Mathematics Division, which provides mathematical and computational support to the more than 1500 physicists and engineers at NIST. Posted March 1996

Burton S. Kaliski, Jr., Chief Scientist, RSA Data Security, Inc., Bedford, MA
Although Burt is responsible for the direction and management of RSA Laboratories, he is also involved in the company's technical activities in the area of cryptography and information security. Posted May 1997

Julia S. Kimbell, Applied Mathematician, Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology, Research Triangle Park, NC
Working for the Non-Cancer Program at CIIT, Julia develops mathematical models to simulate flow of air in the respiratory tract. Posted March 1996

Jeff Kidder, Senior Software Engineer, Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, OR
Jeff is leading a project that is implementing and optimizing speech compression algorithms for use in products such as Intel's ProShare^TM video conferencing system. Posted October 1996

Patrick M. Knupp, Vice President, Ecodynamics Research Associates, Inc., Albuquerque, NM
Pat is currently working on an Air Force project producing computer models and simulations to help address the environmental clean-up of sites around the world contaminated with spilled jet fuel. Posted November 1996

Mei Kobayashi, Researcher, IBM Japan, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
Mei works on mathematical problems with several groups within IBM Japan and is currently assigned in the Exploratory Network Group to develop data hiding methods. She also regularly contributes articles on the mathematics community in Japan and on working and living in Japan to SIAM News. An article by Mei about a Japanese text-to-speech system appears in the May 1996 issue. Posted April 1996

Pawel Lewicki , Associate, J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., New York, NY
Working in the area of interest rate derivatives, Pawel finds his background in mathematics to be very valuable. He enjoys investigating problems in an area of finance that is highly mathematical and immediately applicable. Posted July 1996

David I. Lieberman, Research Staff Member, Institute for Defense Analyses, Princeton, NJ
As a member of the staff at the Center for Communications Research, David works on problems that arise in the areas of cryptography and signals processing. Posted December 1995

Ina Lindemann, Senior Editor, Mathematics, Springer-Verlag New York, NY
As the mathematical acquisitions editor, Ina finds that her background in mathematics gives her the ability to talk to mathematicians in all fields. Posted July 1997

R. Bruce Loatman, Chief Scientist, PRC Inc., a Subsidiary of Litton Industries, McLean, VA
As chief scientist at the Center for Applied Technology, Bruce defines and leads research and development efforts in the areas of computational linguistics, information science, and artificial intelligence. Posted December 1996

John J. J. Matulis , Senior Scientific Analyst/Programmer, SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals, Swedeland, PA
As a member of Scientific Computing Consulting, John applies mathematics and computation to various problems in pharmaceutical research. Recently, much of his effort has been in support of the analysis of human genome data. Posted May 1997

Andrew J. Mayer, Research Staff Member, Center for Communications Research, La Jolla, San Diego, CA
Working in support of the cryptologists at the National Security Agency, Andrew finds he applies many interesting areas of mathematics to the design and analysis of algorithms for enciphering vulnerable communications. Posted February 1997

Bernard McCabe, Vice President, Daniel H. Wagner Associates, Malvern, PA
Working for a mathematical consulting firm gives Bernie the opportunity to work on mathematical applications in a number of areas, including financial and military applications. Posted March 1997

Stephen J. Mildenhall, Director, CNA Insurance Companies, Chicago, IL
A director in the Statistical Research Area, Stephen helps provide statistical and actuarial consulting to groups within the company using statistical models to determine insurance risk. Posted January 1996

Donna D. Ohnmeiss, Associate Director of Clinical Research, Institute for Spine and Biomedical Research, Plano, TX
The projects Donna coordinates give her the opportunity to collaborate with medical personnel in area hospitals, as well as with companies developing new health care products. She is also pursuing a Doctorate of Medical Science at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. Posted April 1996

Patrick Olivier, Applied Mathematician, Park Medical Systems Inc., Lachine, Quebec, Canada
Patrick performs analysis and modeling in the area of nuclear medicine. Many of the problems he sees are over a range of scientific fields including robotic, control, network, and image visualization, to name just a few. Posted November 1996

Richard J. Petti, President and CEO, Macsyma Inc., Arlington, MA
In addition to being responsible for the product and marketing strategies at Macsysma, Richard also helps implement the company's mathematical software products, including Macsysma, one of the earliest computer algebra systems. Posted March 1997

James L. Phillips, Manager, Boeing Information and Support Services, Seattle, WA
Manager of Mathematics and Engineering Analysis, Jim heads a group engaged in applied research and high level mathematical support within Boeing. Posted November 1995

Curtis Reutner, Air Pollution Meteorologist, Texas Natural Resources Conservation Commission, Austin, TX
Curt is in the Data Management and Analysis Division where he is currently working on a project to incorporate data from a new weather satellite earth station into models used to forecast atmospheric conditions. Posted March 1996

David S. Ross, Senior Research Scientist, Eastman Kodak Research Labs, Rochester, NY
David works with other scientists to build models for researching new manufacturing techniques and products at Eastman Kodak. Posted November 1995

Karl H. Rudnick, Senior Scientist, Science Applications International, Corp. (SAIC), San Diego, CA
Karl is a member of the Technology Research Group, working in the area of signal processing and image processing on defense-related and commercial projects. Posted May 1997

William J. Satzer, Jr., Senior Research Specialist, 3M, St. Paul, MN
Working in the New Products Department, Bill currently leads a small group developing products that exploit new 3M material technology. He enjoys working with the variety of scientists and engineers at 3M on real and tangible products. Posted May 1996

Rina Schneur, Operations Research Specialist, PTCG Inc., Burlington, MA
By contributing to the development of optimization and decision support software, Rina helps large truck, air and railroad shippers solve their transportation logistic problems. Posted November 1996

Harry S. (Bud) Simrin, Manager, System Requirements Analysis, Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems, Fort Worth, TX
As a manager in the Product Engineering department, Bud oversees people with degrees in mathematics, computer science, operations research, physics, and engineering. Their responsibility is to perform modeling and analysis to evaluate competing fighter aircraft designs. Posted February 1997

Candace K. Sleeman, Numerical Methods Programmer/Analyst, GORCA Systems, Inc., Cherry Hill, NJ
Candace provides engineering analyses and simulation studies in support of problems arising in satellite telecommunications. Currently she is working as a contractor to Motorola, who seeks to place 66 satellites into low earth orbit in order to provide remote telecommunications access for cellular telephone subscribers. Posted February 1997

Mark S. Stamp, Cryptologic Mathematician, National Security Agency, Fort Meade, MD
Mark is in the Crypto-Mathematician Program, a three-year program where participants take a series of six-month tours in various offices around the agency before selecting a permanent office at NSA. Posted December 1995

Stanly Steinberg, Senior Researcher, SciComp, Inc, Austin, TX
While on leave from the University of New Mexico, Stanly is working on the development of a problem solving environment for numerically solving partial differential equations. Posted July 1996

Lawrence D. Stone, Chief Operating Officer, Metron, Inc., Reston, VA
Although Larry is responsible for developing new business and monitoring the financial operations of the company, he also takes an active part in the scientific contracts Metron has with government and industry. Posted December 1996

Timothy G. Trucano, Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM
In addition to developing algorithms to solve large problems on massively parallel computers, Tim and other staff members are always looking for problems which allow them to apply methods and codes developed at Sandia. One such project involved tracking a comet which hit Jupiter. Posted April 1996

Alton S. Wallace, Member of the Research Staff, Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA), Alexandria, VA
As a member of the Operational Evaluation Division, Alton supports Defense Department programs as part of a team that monitors the development and testing of new weapon systems. Industry gives him the opportunity to work with top quality people on many projects, but has also resulted in a move away from technical areas and into management. Posted September 1997

Eric Wepsic, Vice President, D. E. Shaw & Co., New York, NY
Eric develops new trading models that are part of the automated trading strategies used by D. E. Shaw & Co. He enjoys the fast-paced atmosphere and the applicability of his work. Posted September 1997

David H. Wheeler, Systems Analyst, Ford Motor Company, Ypsilanti, MI
David is a member of Plant Floor Systems, which is responsible for collecting data and performing analysis that will result in the improvement of the production process at the Rawsonville Plant of the Electrical and Fuel Handling Division. Posted January 1996

Margaret H. Wright, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ
As a member of the Scientific Computing Department, Margaret splits her time between basic research in optimization and the solution of real-world optimization problems. Posted November 1995

Robert Young , Vice President, Salomon Brothers, New York, NY
Working in the area of mortgage research, Robert is currently developing and coding a mortgage prepayment model. He finds that working on Wall Street is fast paced and at times stressful, but as a result, projects get done. Posted September 1996

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