Accomplishments

My significant accomplishments as an IEEE  volunteer and industry senior executive are listed below.  I am most proud of these accomplishments because they created positive change for our IEEE volunteers and my industry customers.  I am indebted to all the IEEE volunteers, IEEE staff and industry colleagues who contributed to these accomplishments.

1.  Adoption of IEEE Financial Transparency Actions and Implementation of an Efficient IEEE Organization Structure – Shared Service Center Model

As chair of the Financial Transparency Group, I got two motions approved by the IEEE TAB Board of Directors (in full cooperation from 2018 TAB Vice President, Kathy Land) and endorsed by the IEEE Board of Directors to have the IEEE Finance Committee identify the IEEE detailed indirect costs being charged for internal IEEE services to societies/councils and secondly to identify the indirect costs allocation algorithms for charging IEEE infrastructure costs to society products.

First, with these financial charge disclosures, each society can develop an accurate business assessment of their products in order for the society to make wise management decisions.  In addition, the disclosure of all indirect and infrastructure costs will allow IEEE and TAB to manage/reduce these costs in order to increase profits returned to each society.  The financial reports now contain more detailed disclosure of indirect and infrastructure costs with still more detailed reports in progress.

Secondly, I chaired the TAB Shared Service Center Model subcommittee reporting to 2016 TAB Vice President (Jose’ Moura), we demonstrated that moving major IEEE service functions to a Shared Service Center Model in which each society pays for only those services that they need (rather than having allocated cost charge to all societies) would result in better cost control and foster operating efficiency within each IEEE service function.  Adoption of this new organizational model is in process beginning in 2019 and should lead to greater management transparency and operational effectiveness.

Thirdly, working as part of the IEEE Finance Committee 30% Allocation Algorithm subcommittee, we developed a fair and equitable algorithm based on revenue generation, transferring specific indirect/infrastructure costs to direct charges to those societies products using the service and resulting in a lower allocation algorithm of approximately 17%.  Implementation of this more equitable algorithm is planned for the 2021 budget cycle.

2.  Formation of the IEEE Wiley Book Program

While serving as the Computer Society’s Press Operations Chair, I worked with Computer Society staff to establish a financial arrangement with Wiley Press to partner in the promotion and publication of Computer Society books.  The alliance resulted in $200K annual royalties to the Computer Society and increased the publication of Computer Society book program over 100 books per year. The Wiley Press Book Program is now the IEEE Wiley Book Program after being transferred from the Computer Society to the IEEE Publications Organization.

3.  Adoption of IEEE Standards by International Standards Organization and US Government Agencies

As United States chairman and head of delegation for International Software Engineering Standards, I coordinated the introduction of IEEE standards as a joint project with ISO/IEC standards.  The first ISO/IEC standard sponsored by IEEE was ISO/IEC/IEEE Std 12207 (Software Engineering Life Cycle Processes) based upon the framework of IEEE Std 1074.  Several other IEEE sponsored standards are now part of the ISO/IEC standards portfolio most notably the new ISO/IEC/IEEE Std 15288 (Systems Life Cycle Processes).

Following the adoption of IEEE Computer Society and ISO/IEC standards, I was able to develop an alliance with United States government agencies to adopt both IEEE and ISO/IEC standards for common government use in contracts and systems development.  This approach allowed US governmental agencies to use both domestic and international suppliers as sources for their contracting efforts.

4.  Expansion of Industry Engagement via the IEEE Corporate Affiliate Program

Working with Computer Society staff, I helped to establish the IEEE Corporate Affiliate Program with Northrop Grumman Corporation to introduce IEEE products and services to all Northrop Grumman sector employees.  All employees were given controlled access to selected IEEE products and services to expose them to the potential of IEEE.  The ultimate goal was to allow practicing engineers to obtain access to IEEE research content and thereby encourage them to join as individual IEEE members.

5.  Creation of Smart Grid Computing Technology Vision Document

I chaired the Computer Society’s future direction initiative program to develop the Smart Grid Vision document for Smart Grid computing technology.  We recruited over 30 academic, industry and government experts to describe the computing technology needs for a Smart Grid system of 2030.  This document is serving as a launching point for investigations into future computing technologies needed to support the next generation Smart Grid architectures.

6.  Development of High Integrity System, Software and Hardware Standard

As chairperson of IEEE Std 1012 working group, I led the effort to develop the software engineering standard that is used to certify critical system, software and hardware high integrity systems.

      • Successful developed and balloted IEEE Std 1012 -System, Software and Hardware Verification and Validation Process
      • Promoted the wide use of IEEE Std 1012 worldwide to certify critical software systems such as nuclear weapon systems (DoD), manned space flight systems (NASA), radiation therapy devices (Federal Drug Administration), nuclear power plant systems (Nuclear Regulatory Agency and other international country regulatory body), and large-scale local government systems.
      • Created new concepts in multi-level system and software integrity levels, certification criteria for performance and safety, V&V testing processes, and coupling of hazard, risk, and security analysis with critical V&V processes.