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                       SAMUEL E. RIFFLE
856 Hope ST#3                            (401) 861-5219
Providence, RI 02906-3743                (401) 323-2091 cell
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           STRATEGIC TECHNOLOGY  ANALYSIS/PLANNING
           MARKET RESEARCH...STRATEGIES...R&D LIAISON


   A strategist who conceptualizes alternative responses to
   enterprise wide problems and opportunities, providing
   business leaders with a range of appropriate actions.   A
   visionary, utilizing a big picture approach to recognizing,
   leveraging or developing internal capabilities and external
   relationships to pro-actively address the changing external
   business environment.   A proven, innovative, technically
   competent, systems-level situation analyst able to quickly
   identify, prioritize and be specific about evolving
   technology impacts on business operations and   opportunity
   development.   A capable liaison/ leader of creative
   individuals, able to delegate and negotiate co-operation
   within and among business and technical hierarchies, while
   focusing on systems level conceptual analysis.

                  SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS

PROBLEM DEFINITION...ANALYSIS...ASSESSMENT

 * Analyzed total information flow among advanced prototyping,
   R&D, manufacturing, sales and marketing for manufacturing
   company. Advised how improved software, systems engineering,
   communication environments and  practices would result in
   production/maintenance cost reduction, increased quality and
   more efficient use of staff.

 * Provided comparative analysis on methodologies and tool-sets
   for real-time systems. Established selection/ integration
   criteria and assessed impact analysis on engineering
   operations for five multi-nationals on a NATO project.
   Advised real-time software vendors of beta products
   capabilities relative to market needs. Provided joint venture
   -alliance strategies to emerging technology companies, one of
   which grew to be the world leader.

 * Assessed, architected, defined implementation models, lead
   teams, designed and contributed to pioneering advanced
   technology efforts in: communications protocols; distributed
   network systems software; software and systems engineering
   environments; smart sensors, instrumentation subsystems, VLSI
   control computer interfaces; and chemical oceanography
   automation.  Assessed pioneering object oriented systems
   technologies for fault tolerant controls. Results lead to
   major management re-direction of multi-year, multi-million
   dollar R&D efforts.

 * Evaluated risk, cost, technology trade-offs, work refinement
   estimates; assessed sub-contractors and reviewed systems
   integration plans and requirements consistency checks;
   identified and resolved missing or ill-defined operational,
   logistics and fail-safe requirements; provided strategies for
   negotiations among multiple, multi-national, technical OEMs
   on several major software/systems projects in excess of 42M$.
   Recommendations reduced uncertainty, resulting in on time/on
   budget.

 * Researched and monitored microsystems/ nanotechnology advances
   at both scientific and technology levels with respect to 
   fabrication on mass scale and the integration of convergent
   multi-disciplinary emergent capabilities as they relate to 
   specific application domains. Determined technical barriers
   and approaches.

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT -TECHNICAL MARKET PLANNING

 * * Researched business potentials, planned scenarios, and
   advised ventures of technology risks and opportunities in
   entering or expansion into the following markets:   weather
   impacted information systems; international transportation
   logistics; geographical information systems; speech
   telephony; document assimilation/imaging; disk drive testing;
   cryptographics; high vacuum systems integrator; environmental
   analysis labs.  Several start-ups grew to 2M$ sales in two
   years.

 * Provided marketing liaison defining new systems capabilities
   and leading software teams designing distributed
   instrumentation subsytems, advanced graphics and rapid
   prototypes for marketing evaluation, resulting in innovative,
   extensible, new product lines, reducing cost by up to 5X, and
   opening new market segments.

 * Assisted, represented and advised client management in
   strategic  business meetings with cabinet level foreign
   ministers, chief technical  officers, and negotiations with
   the US Department of Energy.

 * Developed regional sales/marketing capabilities, screened
   senior sales  marketing candidates, and advised on business
   strategic direction.  Defined information tools, uses and
   strategy for field sales automation.

 * Evaluated market and technology barriers associated with 
   microsystems and nanotechnology.  Determined direction and 
   scope for advanced R&D and basic capabilities planning.
   Identified markets and value chain impact strategies.  
   Researched what could be done, with precedents and what likley
   advances would be and where and when they would occur. 
 


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PROFESSIONAL;  INVITED LECTURES

   Northeastern University,  Topic: "Software/Systems Design
          Considerations for 1) 'Analytical Instrumentation' and
                             2) 'Process Control Systems' "

   Invited as Section Chairman, "Automating Design of Control
   Software",  Control Expo'86

   Member: ACS, MRS, IEEE,  ...


PUBLICATIONS

   "Intelligent Agents: Applications in R&D" (1996), accepted
   for publication, TeamScience Press, R. Lysakowski, Ed.


PROFESSIONAL WORK HISTORY

   Strategic Systems Resource Group   Principal
   Providence, RI                                      1983-

   Foxboro Corporation                Senior Research Engineer
   Corporate Research & Development                    1981-83
   Foxborough, MA

   Jarrell-Ash Division               Senior Software Engineer
   Fisher Scientific                  Instruments     1980-81
   Waltham, MA

   Digital Equipment Corporation      Software Engineer
   Maynard, MA                        Networks         1978-80

   University of Rhode Island     Computer Research Specialist-5
   Graduate School of Oceanography   Chemistry         1976-78



FORMAL EDUCATION

   University of North Carolina  PhD Studies Analytical  1970-74
   Chapel Hill,NC                Chemistry/Instrumentation

   California State College      B.A. Chemistry          1965-68
   California, PA


CONTINUING EDUCATION (sample)

   Universities of Brown, Northeastern, Virginia PolyTech.
   Programming Languages, Artificial Intelligence, Digital
   Logic/Micro design.

   State-of-Art course work and consulting practice experience:
   business development, methodologies, databases, languages,
   analysis/ design tools, real-time systems, networks,
   telcommunications.

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SAMUEL E. RIFFLE   Strategic Technology Planner  KEYWORDS Page 3

            Knowledge, Experience, Research Areas

FUNCTIONAL ROLES

   Interim, project, program leader, individual technology
   contributor; R&D Marketing liaison (internal, external);
   Technical needs market research;  Technology impact analyst;
   Strategic direction analysis, setting and planning; Knowledge
   based value chain planning.


SCI/TECH AREAS

 * Advanced Technology

      Architectures, design, application of intelligent sensors,
      actuators, instruments and systems; Advanced analytical
      multi- sensory VLSI, specification, systems,
      architectures, applications;

      Scientific, engineering laboratory automation and
      instrumentation, especially radical integration of sensor
      technology into distributed intelligent adaptable systems;
      Aggregate systems

 * Software/Systems Engineering

      OO Modeling, OOA/OOD/OOP and next generation tools/
      environments; Complex systems architectures and
      engineering: Architecture,
      operating system and process optimization trade-off's;

      CORBA, Java, C++, oodb, dynamic distributed systems
      architectures, facilities and applications;  Solaris, VMS,
      scripting, real time OS, networked, multi-threaded
      application architectures;

 * Knowledge Based Systems

      Intelligent agent systems, mutable systems, knowledge
      capture and dynamic systems learning; Distributed Systems;
      Multi-paradigm tool fusion environments and systems
      generation via abstract specifications

      Ontologies, conceptual modeling/ capture (graphs) and
      communication, multi-agent aggregates and systems level
      modeling.  The CYC project,  HPKB, GENOA, HLA, DIS ...;
      Real-time, agent based JAVA applications and alternatives,
      KQML/KIF; Knowledge based sensor fusion; Research
      evolution in agents, knowledge representation, real-time
      systems applications, knowledge barriers.


APPLICATION AREAS

   Automated analytical chemistry applications, virtual
   laboratory; Design for high throughput analytical methods and
   systems;  Advanced applications in environment, agronomy,
   chemistry impacted areas;  Science/ engineering interface.
   Strong preference for interdisciplinary projects and
   multi-technology fusion;  Applications push state of art.


LEADERSHIP

   I have worked with, lead or inter-operated with scientists,
   engineers, business leaders, customers and entrepreneurs at
   all levels.  I have worked on government projects both
   domestic and foreign, on systems critical to national
   security or commerce.  I am independent, self motivated, and
   capable of leading or working among peers.  I am recognized
   for sharing knowledge and fostering innovative, unorthodox
   yet productive thinking.  Conceptual analysis and abstraction
   are key skills used to translate ideas into working systems.


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