Technology Architecture consulting services for distributed imaging systems. Clients included AlphaTech, Northrop Grumman, Wescam, U Mass Medical School, Tambora (an MIT startup), HJW Inc, and Stone Analytics. Consulting tasks include proposal participation, architecture development, systems engineering, and systems analysis.

Studion Inc., VP Systems Development . . . . . 1/02 - 11/00 - 6/02

Glen Speckert was the VP of Systems Development for a distributed imaging startup aimed at the multimedia messaging market. He wrote the technical section of the business plan, developed the architecture framework, developed the web prototype, and managed a product to market. He started as a consultant, and became full time upon funding.

Glen Speckert was the Technology Architect of the Integrated Exploitation Capability (IEC), a National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) program which will deliver 2153 workstations over an 8 year deployment plan at 63 NIMA and DoD sites worldwide. He helped structure the interactions between the IEC and other United States Imagery and Geospatial Systems (now NSGI) programs, especially the multi-Petabyte Library system, while he was the Interface Architect. His contributions to the Team IEC proposal, primed by Lockheed in Gaithersburg MD, were central to the architecture of the proposed design.

Mr. Speckert was the Lead Systems Engineer for TASC's Information Dissemination Manager, the central component of DARPA's Battlefield Awareness and Data Dissemination (BADD) program. He developed the major set of requirements that defined the terminology and structure of the TASC software deliverable, the Information Dissemination Manager (IDM).

Mr. Speckert also supported the NIMA Video Metadata Working Group, developing the Video Metadata Encoding standards which were proposed to SMPTE.

Mr. Speckert was the Project Engineer of the Image Management, Archive, and Communications Testbed (IMACTS), a 5 Terabyte image archive, with very large images browsable in seconds, and fully accessible in minutes. IMACTS prototyped community standards, integrated commercial exploitation products, and provided innovative access extensions to query / browse / navigate / view a large image and video database. This early 90's project prototyped the operating requirements for the NIMA Library System. Mr Speckert received a Certificate for Exceptional Performance from NPIC for his role in IMACTS. He also authored an earlier study and simulation of architectural alternatives for national image archives.

Mr. Speckert was an original member of the United States Imagery System (USIS) Image Handling Standards and Guidelines (IHS&G) core team. This evolved into the Image Access Working Group (IAWG), the Common Image Interoperability Working Group (CIIWG), and into the NIMA United States Imagery and GeoSpatial Systems(USIGS) Interoperability Working Group. This process established standards for the use of national image data by commercial workstations. This work included extending the National Image Transmission Format (NITF) for use with full frame imagery. Mr. Speckert was the principle author of the NITF Support Data Extensions for national imagery. Later efforts focused on establishing stream and tile based access standards to supplement file based interoperability.

Glen Speckert had management responsibility for all software in support of the Pixar Image Computer at the time of the sale of the Pixar Image Computer group to Vicom. This included Image Processing, Volume Visualization, Terrain Mapping, Electronic Darkroom, and Electronic Light Table products. He transferred the PIXAR image computing software group to new management shortly after the acquisition of the Image Computer hardware and software by Vicom Inc.

Mr. Speckert joined Pixar at the start of the Hurricane project, and was its software project manager. The Hurricane evolved into the Pixar Electronic Light Table (ELT) and integrated ELT / Image Processing windowed application systems. These systems could harness mulitple Chaps, had large memory for their time, could output to dual screens (including stereo and 2k x 2k displays), included early RAIDs, and were integrated as imaging extensions to the Network Extensible Windowing System (NeWS) in the PII-9.

The PII-9 and ELT software were developed as the core of the prototype Integrated System for Imagery Analysis (ISIA). Mr. Speckert further managed the ELT package into product development, including installation/training at NPIC's National Exploitation Laboratory in 1990.

Glen Speckert played major roles at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in three programs: Laser Isotope Separation Program, Beam Research Program, and the Magnetic Fusion Program.

Supervisory Control Systems for Laser Isotope Separation 7/83 - 6/88
Mr. Speckert prototyped, architected, and became the group leader for the Laser Control system for the Laser Demonstration Facility (LDF), a multi-node computer control system which included a large Vax Cluster and 70 distributed processors and 30 user access stations. The LDF is a large array of lasers which produces a stable high power tunable frequency for use in separating isotopes of Uranium or Plutonium. The control system team included eight people, plus a 24 hr/day operations staff. Mr. Speckert also designed the Laser Control system for the planned production plant at Idaho Falls.

Lead Software Engineer for the Advanced Test Accelerator 6/81 - 7/83
Mr. Speckert was responsible for the software control and monitoring system of DARPA's Advanced Test Accelerator, a 50 Mev, 10k amp induction accelerator. Responsibilities included system level architecture and planning, management of software team (12 people), and development of the control ICDs. Mr. Speckert was personally responsible for the software development of the 5 nanosecond beam diagnostics imaging system.

Team Leader within Supervisory Controls Group for the MFTF 9/78 - 6/81
Mr Speckert lead a three person team (8 man-year) which designed and implemented a touchpanel based graphical control room for the Mirror Fusion Test Facility (MFTF). The MFTF contained the world's largest superconducting magnets and was the principal alternative to Tokamaks for controlling Fusion. The "soft" control room contained 42 color displays and touchpanels, and interfaced to the control system which consisted of 9 minicomputers with shared memory, and 75 distributed LSI-11's.

Glen Speckert worked on several Machine Vision projects, and produced four papers while at the MIT AI Labs, working under the direction of Professor BKP Horn.

M.S. 1978, Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana
B.S. 1975, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Hobbies include Dog Frisbee, Sailing, and Juggling