2017 IEEE Executive Committee Elected Officers
Nominations Committee Report to IEEE Boston Section Executive Committee.
Accepted by the Executive Committee at the March 16, 2016 meeting.
2017 IEEE Executive Committee Elected Officers
Chair: Len Long
Lennart E. Long is a Transportation Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Engineer with over 30 years of experience with railroad, subway, trolley and bus EMC studies. He has a Bachelor’s and Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University and graduate studies at the University of New Hampshire and Johns Hopkins University. He has taught security technology at UMASS Lowell (teaching security risk management, overview of homeland security, and cyber security), Boston University, Suffolk University, the University of New Hampshire, Northeastern University, the Federal Law Enforcement and Training Center in Georgia, John Jay College in New York City and for the City of New York.
He has lectured on and participated in security projects for the Internal Revenue Service, Houses of Worship, and Gdansk University of Technology in Poland. He and his consulting team has worked successfully for the British Home Office, Federal Protective Services, Social Security Administration, Instrumentation Society of America, President Clinton’s Security Policy Board evaluating risk assessment methodologies, Inter-agency Committee for Security Equipment, the U.S. Senate staff, White House Communications Agency, the Secretary of State’s security detail, the President’s situation room, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Department of the Treasury, White House, State Department (in Brussels, Helsinki, Paris, Frankfurt, and other posts and embassies around the world), Army Intelligence, Federal Aviation Administration, US Coast Guard, Central Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency, Federal Railroad Administration, St. Lawrence Seaway Administration, Pipeline Administration, Marine Administration, Office of Intelligence and Security, Federal Transit Administration, Federal Bureau of Investigation, U. S. Marshals Service, Customs Service, Federal Transportation Administration (security risk management and security policy), and the Research and Special Programs Administration.
His recent clients include the Niagara Frontier Transportation Agency, Buffalo Transit Agency, PATH, SEPTA, MBTA, Port Of New York and New Jersey, NYCTA, LIRR, MNR, NYCTA Hybrid Bus – (Oerlicon), DesignLine Bus of North Carolina, Baltimore MTA, Boston MBTA, BART, Houston, Portland, ALSTOM, BREDA, Siemens, Kawasaki, Mitsubishi, Westinghouse, Helsinki, Toronto, MARTA, Brown Boveri, Seattle Light Rail, LACMTA Heavy/Light Rail, New Jersey Transit, Dallas, WMATA, Kinki Sharyo, UTS, General Electric, Earth-Tech, Parsons, STV, Booz-Allen, SYSTRA, Turner Consulting, LTK, PATCO, SEPTA, U. S. Army, U.S. Navy, Hanscom Air Force Base, Cambridge Research Labs, ROME Air Force Base, General Service Administration, Social Security Administration, Internal Revenue Service, Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, Morgantown Personal Transit System, National Transportation Safety Board, Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Administration, Metropolitan Atlanta Regional Transportation Administration, Bay Area Transportation Administration, the Security Technology Division of the NDIA, and the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
He is the recipient of the, Research and Special Programs Bronze Medal and well as a U. S. Department of Transportation Bronze Medal as well as a special citation from the British Home Office and an award from the Secretary of State. On May 17, 2014 he will be presented with the Robert S. Walleigh Distinguished Contributions to Engineering Professionalism Award, the highest and most prestigious award issued by IEEE-USA. He has several patents and publications. He has given a keynote address at a NATO sponsored Conference at Gdansk University of Technology and has worked with The National CyberSecurity Coordinator and Advisor to the President, Howard Schmidt. He serves on the Boston Section Executive Committee as Treasurer and on the Outreach, Planning and Action Plan Committee and chairs the Life Members Affinity Group.
Vice-Chair: Greg Walson
Mr. Walson has been an IEEE member for over 11 years. He has previously served as the Boston Section GOLD Chair and Volunteer Coordinator. He currently serves as a Member-at-Large and PACE Chair for the section Executive Committee. Last year he helped found the section’s Employment Network
He has worked as an Electrical Engineer specializing in power utility substation design, engineering, and project management for Vanderweil Engineers since 2008. Previously, he worked as an electrical designer and lighting manufacturer’s representative. He has lectured at MIT on lighting control systems.
Secretary: Gil Cooke
Gil Cooke received the Bachelor of Engineering degree in electrical engineering from McGill University, Montreal in 1962. His first job after graduation was with E.I. Dupont as instrumentation and process controls engineer. He joined Bechtel’s Industrial and Power Divisions from 1964 to 1978. Responsibilities included engineering, construction, and startup services for electric utilities around the country. He then relocated to Framingham Massachusetts near Boston, where he continued working as project electrical engineer on large transportation, chemical, water, and manufacturing projects. Gil retired in 2001 after a successful career in electrical engineering.
He first volunteered for the Power Engineering Society (PES) while residing in Michigan during the 1970s. Gil was elected chair and director of the Detroit Chapter in 1976-78.His interests in the PES continued in the 1980s when he moved to Boston. He was soon appointed chair of the Industry Application Society’s History Committee. Gil participated in the publicity and early development of Boston’s highly successful Annual Conferences on Technologies for Homeland Security. In 2004, he was appointed to the IEEE Center of History Committee. This appointment was renewed in 2005 and 2006. As chair of the IEEE Boston Section History and Milestone Committee, Gil lead the research, nomination and helped organize IEEE Milestones awarded beginning in 2004. In 2011, he received the Boston Section’s Distinguished Service Award in recognition of his contributions to the Milestones program.
Gil believes that collaboration with local engineering institutions like ASME and ASCE, The Engineering Center, and public libraries is important to the well being of the Boston Section. Since his retirement, he has become increasingly interested in electrical engineering history. He has shared his historical research through numerous papers and articles for the IEEE and the Society for Industrial Archeology. He has also lectured to the Cape Code Community College, historical societies and the Boston Public Library.
Treasurer: Ramon de la Cruz
Ramon started volunteering with the IEEE during college at Iowa State University. He joined as the Student Chapter Publicity Chair, where he was editor of the IEEE monthly newsletter. The following year, he was elected IEEE Student Chapter Chair for two consecutive terms. With record number of activities and student participation, the student chapter co-sponsored joint technical and professional meetings with the IEEE Central Iowa Professional Chapter and the University of Northern Iowa IEEE Student Chapter.
Ramon joined Teradyne, Inc. Integra Test Division in 1999 at the start of the product introduction and ramp of the J750 Automatic Test Equipment (ATE). During his earlier years with Teradyne, Ramon co-developed test processes that enabled high volume manufacturing to support the unprecedented ramp of the J750 ATE Test Platform. The J750 market acceptance for testing the next generations of highly integrated, low cost microcontrollers expanded with the introduction of several new products like the Converter Test Option, Mixed Signal Option, RFID Test Option and Analog Parametric Measurement Unit Option.
In 2003, Ramon moved to the Teradyne New Product Introduction Group of the Semiconductor Test Division during the development and introduction of the UltraFlex Automatic Test Equipment (ATE) Platform. In this role, he has overseen the test process transfer from the pilot line to high volume manufacturing of the 1 GHz digital option and various new analog and digital ATE instrument products. Currently at Teradyne NPI Group, he participates in operations strategy workgroups to define processes and methods supporting next generation system and instrumentation development for current and future ATE Platforms.
Ramon joined the Boston Reliability Chapter in 2007 as a member-at-large and has served as the Joint Section Reliability Chapter Chair (2009-11) and Vice-Chair (2008, 2012-14). He’s a member of the Board of Directors of the Northeast Chapter of the Electrostatic Discharge Association (NE-ESDA, 2009-2014). At the ESDA, he serves on the ESDA Regional Tutorial Program Committee and has been hosting the annual NE-ESDA Regional Tutorial since 2010.
Other volunteer opportunities include serving as an industry advisor for the University of Massachusetts Lowell Assistive Technology Development Fair and participating in local high school job fairs.
He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Iowa State University. His background includes Design for Testability, Process FMEA, Systems and Circuit Analysis, Risk Assessment, and Highly Accelerated Stress Testing.
Ramon enjoys evaluating consumer electronics and designing, modifying and improving state-of-the-art audio equipment. Other interests include digital photography and staying current on the latest science and technology trends.
Members at Large: (2017 – 2018)
Paul Zorfass
Marie Tupaj
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 30 days after the announcement to membership (April 25, 2016).