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IEEE Boston Section Executive Committee Nominations-2008
For Chair: Lori Jeromin
Lori Jeromin is a native of Waldwick, New Jersey. She received the B.S. degree in mathematics from Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA and the S.M. degree in electrical engineering from MIT. Since 1978, she has been with 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, Treasurer, and Secretary of the Boston Executive Committee, and is currently Vice Chair.
For Vice Chair: John Conrad
John Conrad works at Textron Systems in Wilmington, MA, as a Program Manager in the Advanced Solutions Center. Textron is a multi-billion dollar defense contractor that develops a wide variety of products including smart weapons, unattended ground sensors, surveillance systems and aircraft landing systems. John works on new business opportunities that will potentially move the company into new, growing, business areas.
He obtained a BSc in Electrical Engineering from Leeds University in England and an MBA from Canisius College in Buffalo. His first job was for Marconi Radar Systems in Chelmsford, England, before moving to Buffalo, NY, in 1984 to work for Bell Aerospace. He has been in the Boston area for two years, relocating back to the area after working as an independent contractor for seven years, in Tampa, Florida.
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 2004. He is currently the Boston Section Secretary.
For Secretary: 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. He is currently serving as an at-large member of the Executive committee of the Boston Section of the IEEE.
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.
For Treasurer: Karen Panetta
Karen Panetta is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Tufts University and Director of the Simulation Research Laboratory at Tufts University. She is also the founder and co-director of the Multimedia-Arts program at Tufts University. Dr. Panetta received the B.S. in Computer Engineering from Boston University, and the M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University.
Before joining the faculty at Tufts, Dr. Panetta was employed as a computer engineer at Digital Equipment Corporation. Her current research in Simulation and Modeling has won her research team five awards from NASA for “Outstanding Contributions to NASA Research” and “Excellence in Research”. She is a NASA Langley Research Scientist “JOVE” Fellow, is a recipient of the NSF Career Award and won the 2003 Madeline and Henry Fischer Best Engineering Teacher Award. Dr. Panetta was also awarded a Mass High Tech All-Star by Mass High Tech Magazine.
Karen is a Senior Member of both the IEEE and Society for Computer Simulation and is the Chair for the IEEE Educational Society, Central New England Section. She is also the Chair of the IEEE Women in Engineering Committee, which has over 12,000 members worldwide and 145 Affinity Groups. Karen currently serves as the Member-at-Large for the Boston Section Executive Board and is the Student Activities Chair for the Boston Section. She is also a member on the IEEE NATW steering committee.
She has been the advisor for the Tufts IEEE Student Chapter for 13 years. As the IEEE advisor, Karen has helped her students organize IEEE SPAC (Student Professional Awareness Conferences), participate in; interdisciplinary engineering competitions, IEEE student paper and design competitions and the IEEE Micromouse robotics competition. Her students have won awards in all categories, including a silver medal for their IEEE student chapter website. She also serves on the Boston University Engineering Alumni Board and is a board member for the Center for Balance by Design.
Dr. Panetta is dedicated to promoting women in engineering and has created the nationally acclaimed “Nerd Girls” program, where undergraduate engineers research renewable energy topics and serve as role models for younger students. Her program has been cited as the most innovative program in the United States for attracting and retaining women in engineering.
Believing that real world experience is critical for engineering education, Dr. Panetta maintains consulting positions in industry and brings her experience back to the classroom. She is a Design Consultant for Tycoelectronics, M/A-Com Inc. and consults for Massachusetts school systems and Science Museums cross the United States to inspire engineering and technology education.
For At-Large Member (2008 - 2009)
Gim Soon Wan
Soon Wan was born in Singapore. Before coming to United States of America in 1995, he served two and a half years of mandatory military service for Singapore Army. Upon the completion of his commander training, he was posted to the Battalion HQ Manpower. Soon has received the Battalion Best Officer Award for his outstanding leadership and performance.
Soon graduated from Ngee Ann Polytechnic (Singapore) as the top student with the highest merit diploma. Then, he pursued his Electrical Engineering degree at Merrimack College (North Andover, MA), and graduated with Summa Cum Laude, and again as the top graduate student in 2000.
Currently, Soon is a Senior Design Engineer in the Research and Development Engineering group at VICOR Corporation (Andover, MA). He works with a team to design and develop high power density DC/DC power converter with innovative technologies and patented topologies.
Soon was appointed as the 2007 Regional Activities Board (RAB) GOLD Chair. He felt this is a great opportunity for him to continue to serve the IEEE. This assignment will give him the chance to enhance his leadership abilities, and widen his network with RAB leaders from major boards as well as RAB committee members, and the leadership of IEEE as a whole. Soon is looking forward to build IEEE GOLD into the next decade to an entirely new level of visibility and growth.
Soon’s IEEE experience began when he became an IEEE Student Member in 1996. He was Merrimack College IEEE Student Branch President for 3 years, and his major accomplishment was to organize the Region 1 Student Conference in 1999. As an undergraduate student, he always wanted to introduce the high school students “What is Engineering?”, and to inspire them to become an engineer in their future. So, he has visited many high schools, and demonstrated his Micromouse (an autonomous robot with artificial intelligent to solve a 16x16 maze).
In 2000, Soon founded the IEEE Boston GOLD Affinity Group. He was determined to help the transition of student members to young professional members. He has led the Boston GOLD committee in many activities that were not typically part of IEEE meetings; however, he mixed the fun with the fundamentals to increase meeting attendance. He encouraged Boston GOLD to take very seriously its dual mission of inspiring young professionals to be involved with the IEEE while inviting them to widen their social and career network. To achieve this, he has created a distinctive array of monthly events. In 2001, Boston GOLD received the IEEE Regional Activities Award for Outstanding GOLD program by organizing successful technical and non-technical programs for young professionals.
Soon became the Region 1 GOLD Coordinator in 2005, and he set his mission to rebuild Region 1 GOLD activities, and improve the retention rate of young memberships. He also was a member of the Region 1 Strategic Planning Committee. He has created the GOLD Best Practice document that is widely used by all the GOLD Chairs in the entity world. Under Soon’s leadership, Region 1 GOLD won the Best Regional GOLD Award in 2006, with members voted as their most favorite Regional GOLD activities. All his efforts were recognized, and he received the 2006 RAB GOLD Achievement award for “outstanding leadership and dedication to improving the Region 1 GOLD program by establishing best practices”.
As an IEEE member, Soon has not only been able to enhance his technical skills (e.g. through technical literature and conferences) but have also actively participated in activities and events held by Sections, Chapters and Regions, which have given him the opportunity to interact with other members. Hence, it allowed him to enrich his knowledge by sharing experiences, ultimately creating links between professionals, universities and industries.
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. He has also served as an IT consultant in networking, storage and security for WPI, LSI Logic, and Harvard University.
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 Servlets and JSPs, Java Script, PHP, Apache, SQL, C, C++, Java and Delphi Pascal. Mr. Goldberg can be reached at JeffG@Qualware.com.
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