2015 IEEE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE SLATE OF OFFICERS
Chair: Fausto Molinet
Fausto Molinet is a Life Senior Member of the IEEE and holds a Master’s Degree in Electronic Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology. He is a graduate of the National Defense University and has completed advanced studies in business management and information systems at the Wharton School of Business.
During his service with the United States Air Force, he was responsible for technology development and acquisition. He was Deputy Director of the Rome Laboratory basic research division for electromagnetic science and manager of computer systems acquisition for the USAF and NATO Airborne Warning and Control System. He retired as a Lieutenant Colonel. He was twice awarded the Meritorious Service Medal and the Air Force Commendation Medal as well as the National Defense Service Medal.
At Litton Itek Optical Systems, he managed the development and marketing of imaging systems and served as the Deputy for TQM. Fausto founded Matrix Internationale, his current company, to assist others in strategic planning and business development.
Fausto has held numerous positions in the Boston Section and Region One, including Section Chair, 2000-2001, Membership Co-chair, PACE chair and co-founder of the IEEE Boston Entrepreneurs Network. He has served on the Region One Strategic Planning Committee.
Fausto currently chairs the Section Entrepreneurship Committee, the Professional Education Committee and is currently Deputy Chair of the Homeland Security Conference.
He has been awarded the IEEE-USA Citation of Honor, the IEEE Third Millennium Medal and the Boston Section Contributions Award.
The Boston Section is unique in its level and breadth of activity. I have over 20 years of experience with Section activities and management. I understand what makes the section work and how we obtain the resources to conduct our activities.
As Section Chair I would continue to help expand the Professional Education and Development program as a major member benefit. I would work to enhance the Section’s financial strength to continue its outstanding activity level. I will work to expand member outreach and develop ways of determining member needs and methods of meeting them.
Vice-Chair: Kevin Flavin
Kevin Flavin graduated Sawyer School of Management at Suffolk University, Boston and was an IEEE student member while at the University of Maine.
Kevin began his career modeling investments in emerging markets while at Brown Brothers Harriman as a Valuation Analyst. Kevin joined Pioneering Investments, a firm specializing in emerging and developing market investments, in 1995. He led the development of valuation policies and procedures for investment Fair Value, and reported risk exposures based on his models to the Board of Trustees on a monthly basis.
Kevin was recruited to a software development company to help develop the product positioning and delivery of new systems for Investment Pools. Over the next ten years, Kevin joined a series of startup software companies in the financial services industry, helping each to market saturation and, in some cases, sale to larger companies. His latest effort was as Vice President, Global Sales and Marketing, for GCom2 Solutions; culminating with the purchase of GCom2 Solutions by Bowne in 2008, which was subsequently purchased by RR Donnelly.
In 2008, Kevin started a Carlisle Group, a boutique marketing and product engineering company with global clients in financial services, bio-medical services, mortgage banking, software development, and venture capital. Since 2010, Kevin has led the creation of the Public Relations role for the IEEE Boston Section. Kevin served as Vice Chair, Alliances for the IEEE Boston affinity group, IEEE Entrepreneurs’ Network, and is active in other chapters and affinity groups.
Secretary: Lennart 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. 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.
Treasurer: Greg Walson
Mr. Walson has been an IEEE member for over 10 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.
Members at Large: (2015 – 2016)
Member-at-Large: Paul Zorfass
Paul Zorfass PhotoPaul is currently on the IEEE Boston Section Executive Committee. He is chapter chair coordinator. He has previously initiated the first section Job Forum and been active on program committees to recruit speakers for section conferences and other events. Prior to this he had been Chapter Chair for the Communications Society, Boston and CNET chapters, for six years; and also the Region 1 representative to the North American Board for the Communications Society.
He also volunteers in several other Greater Boston activities. This includes as a member of the Board of Assessors in his local town that values real estate; and member of the Cable Advisory Committee. He is also Treasurer of the board for his own homeowners’ community.
His professional interests and background include software and hardware technology development and market evaluation, especially as it adds value to final product performance. His work activities have included consulting with multinationals such as IBM, Intel, Philips and Microsoft as well as numerous start-ups. This has evolved from engineering and software development for real time and embedded systems for both DoD and wide-ranging industry and commercial use. He has also been an active participant in start-up company founder teams.
With non-industrial clients Paul has focused on technology planning and market assessments for large US agencies such as DARPA, NSA, and World Bank; and non-U.S. governmental agencies from: UK, The Netherlands, European Commission, and South Korea. Client agendas were usually focused on country economic issues. It was always important to encourage and sustain economic development in regard to each country’s specific metrics and requirements for advanced electronics technologies.
From the family side of his life he has been married to his wife Judy for 48 years. Their two daughters are themselves parents and each has three children. Paul loves to take his grandkids kayaking. He also likes to walk, especially on beaches on Cape Cod. He and Judy attend regularly concerts and theater at Boston schools and orchestras. They also enjoy traveling as much as possible.
Member-at-Large: 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.