856 Hope ST#3 (401) 861-5219 (401) 323-2091 cell
Providence, RI 02906-3743
sRiffle@cox.net
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.
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-off's, 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$. Recommendations reduced uncertainty,
resulting in on time/on budget.
Researched and monitored microsystems/ nanotechnology advances at both scientific and technology levels with respect to fabrication on mass scale and the integration of convergent multi-disciplinary emergent capabilities as they relate to specific application domains. Determined technical barriers and approaches. Determined systems engineering and enterprise requirements to maximally leverage potential of these emergent and converging developments. Developed implicit needs for specific client domain applications.
Researched business potentials, planned scenarios, and
advised ventures of technology risks and opportunities in entering or expansion
into the following markets: weather
impacted information systems; international transportation logistics;
geographical information systems; speech telephony; document
assimilation/imaging; disk drive testing; cryptographics; high vacuum systems
integrator; environmental analysis labs.
Several start-ups grew to 2M$ sales in two years.
Provided marketing liaison defining new systems
capabilities and leading software teams designing distributed instrumentation
subsystems, 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 implications and strategies. Researched what could be done, with precedents and what likely advances would and could be and where and when they would occur. Suggested academic/ industry/ government/ industry interaction strategy for each of those domains of activity. Presented impact analysis of basic paradigm shifts within those domains based on scientific and technical work, and how these would radically alter the way future R&D, academic and government and industrial strategic and operational planning would be impacted. Evaluated opportunities and players over local, regional and international scopes.
Invited
lecturer Northeastern University,
Topic theme: “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
Various Memberships: IEEE-CS, ACS, MRS ...
“Intelligent
Agents: Applications in R&D”
(1996), accepted for publication, TeamScience Press, R. Lysakowski, editor.
Detailed the impacts which embedded knowledge, convergent technology,
miniaturization trends, and advances in science at the manipulated chemical
entity level, would have on how science
and technology are done in the future, and the strategic impact on the business
enterprise and economy.
Strategic
Systems Resource Group Principal
Providence, RI 1983-
Foxboro
Corporation Senior
Research Engineer Corporate Research
& Development
Foxborough, MA
1981-83
Jarrell-Ash
Division Senior Software
Engineer Fisher Scientific
Waltham, MA
Instruments 1980-81
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
University of
North Carolina PhD Studies
Analytical 1970-74
Chapel Hill,NC
Chemistry/Instrumentation
California State
College BA Chemistry 1965-68
California, PA
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, and telecommunications.
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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Interim,
project, program leader, individual technology contributor; R&D Marketing
liaison (internal, external);
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Technical
needs market research; Technology impact
analyst;
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Strategic
direction analysis, setting and planning; Knowledge based value chain planning.
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Architectures,
design, application of intelligent sensors, actuators, instruments and systems;
Advanced analytical multi- sensory VLSI, specification, systems, applications;
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Scientific,
engineering laboratory automation and instrumentation, especially convergent
technology integration of sensors into
distributed intelligent adaptable systems.
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The
analytical chemistry and physics of microsystems. Structural energetics and molecular
properties engineering for advanced sensor/ actuator systems. Analysis of biological sensing concepts
toward massively parallel sensing and transduction of logarithmic environmental
parameters in hostile environments.
Tools and paradigm shifts which would elevate the level of abstraction
available to scientist in design, manipulation and control of experimental
phenomena, in the discovery process, and
in the interpretation of results and collaborative processes. System level design of autonomous sensing
networks
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OO Modeling,
OOA/OOD/OOP and next generation tools/ environments; Complex systems
architectures and engineering: Architecture, operating system and process
optimization and communications dialogues especially in sensing applications;
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CORBA, Java,
C++, oodb, dynamic distributed systems architectures, facilities and
applications; OpenSource operating environments, RTOS, integrated
analog/digital FPGA-like fabrics and advanced SOC.
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Intelligent
agent systems, mutable systems, knowledge capture and dynamic systems learning;
Distributed Systems;
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Multi-paradigm
tool fusion environments and systems generation via abstract specifications;
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Ontologies,
conceptual modeling/ capture (graphs) and communication, multi-agent aggregates
and systems level modeling. cf., The CYC
project, HPKB, GENOA, HLA, DIS ...;
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Real-time,
agent based JAVA applications and alternatives,
Knowledge based sensor fusion; Research evolution in agents, knowledge
representation, real-time systems applications.
Automated
analytical chemistry applications, virtual laboratory; Design for real-time 3D
sensing and 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 that define the
state of art.