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1983-1984 Rice University -- Completed one year of Graduate School in Engineering Psychology
1974-1978 Rice University -- B.A. in Biochemistry and Psychology
To continue to provide technical leadership in networking and distributed computing following the core ideals of the Internet. These ideals center on open collaboration to advance new ideas and technologies.
January 2006 to present: Vice President of Engineering
Operations, Global IP Network Group-US, NTT America:
Coordinate the product life cycle for all Global IP Network (GIN)
products in North America and work with counter parts in orchestrating product
life cycles for GIN products worldwide. This includes product management,
project management and product engineering. Coordinate the development and
implementation of marketing and lead generation activities for GIN in North
America. Review and refine provisioning and support processes for all products
provided by GIN in North America. Engage and manage vendor relationships for
any product that is primarily provided through such relationships. Develop
strategic partnerships where necessary to deliver the best possible suite of
product capabilities to be offered to GIN Customers and prospects by the GIN
Sales group, GIN Partners and where possible other NTT-related entities. Created and launched NTT America's first Federal GSA Contract program.
September 2001 to December 2005: Vice President of
Engineering Operations, Verio, Inc.
Continued development of the Verio NOC and the consolidated services environment. Coordinated the development of a new maintenance management process for Verio to insure minimal impact on customers while insuring maximum network stability. Managed field engineering resources coordinating hardware installation and repair, PoP creation, migration and closings. Directed the creating of product roadmaps for access-based products (those that would be sold along with Internet connectivity) and the engineering resources to implement those products. Coordinated capacity management task force to guide the addition of capacity where demand requires it to facilitate sales and continues customer satisfaction with Internet connectivity purchased from the company.
July 2000 to September 2001: Vice President of Technology
Services Operations, Verio, Inc.
Continued development of the Verio NOC and the consolidated services environment started during pervious assignment. Created Verio’s first Corporate Telecommunications group. Started the operation of the Verio Helpdesk (for internal IT assistance). Developed a team to start the rearchitecture and clean up of Verio’s corporate network. Directed a technology upgrade for all Verio corporate firewalls.
October 1998 to July 2000: Director of Technical Operations, Verio, Inc.
Coordinate the development of the Verio Network Operations Center and the development of Verio's Network Management platform. As part of a migration team constituted to consolidate the email, network news, DNS and dialup authentication services of Verio's acquisitions, created the centralized support team that provides the core support for these services and integrated that team into the processes developed for escalation management in the Verio NOC.
April 1998 to October 1998: Director of Technology, Verio, Inc.
This effort revolved around the effort involved in the creation of Verio's Houston POP facility and the consolidation of Verio's legacy customers from three legacy locations into one new location. In addition, assisted in national and regional network planning as Verio started to integrate and consolidate the holdings of its more than 50 acquisitions.
July 1997 to November 2002: Co-Chair of IETF Working Group on NNTP
This work resulted in the publication of RFC 2980. It has continued in my absence, as it should.
November 1997 to present: Chief Engineer, Southeast Texas GigaPOP (formerly known as The Texas GigaPOP)
The Southeast Texas GigaPOP is affiliated with the Internet2 Project. Participants include Rice University, Texas A&M University, Baylor College of Medicine, University of Houston, the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, and Stephen F. Austin State University. Through the Southeast Texas GigaPOP, these participants connect to commodity providers as well as research and education networks like the Abilene Project. The effort here involves the installation and maintenance of multicast services, IPv6 and IPv4 routing configurations and the evaluation of new equipment to support the services of the group.
August 1994 to April 1998: Independent Computer & Network Consultant
Client list included: Baylor College of Medicine, Rice University, the American Leadership Forum, the ForeFront Group, Inc., Lyondell Petrochemical, Sprint, Air Liquide America, Compaq Computer Corporation, and the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City.
Projects have included coordination and implementation of the transition of an NSF Regional Network from the NSFNET Backbone Service to an alternative provider, developing a transition plan for integrating ATM into an existing diverse networking architecture based on FDDI, Ethernet and Token Ring technology, assisting an organization in establishing a network security policy and implementing a firewall environment to reflect that policy, developing device drivers on Unix systems, and reviewing and commenting on the engineering plans for the implementation of a large institutional network serving business, research and other needs of the institution.
August 1984 to August 1994: Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
Baylor is a complex academic organization that offers undergraduate medical education and a variety of graduate, allied health, and continuing education programs. The full-time faculty number approximately 1,000 and the annual budget of the College approach $350 million.
January 1994 to August 1994: Executive Director,
Technical Architecture & Planning
January 1994 to June 1994: Acting Director, Systems Support Center.
Coordinate the creation and deployment of new technical strategies and network-based services for the College. Serve as a partner with the Vice President for Information Technology in development of the College Information Technology platform. Manage the engineering and deployment of the enterprise-wide data network. This network currently provides service to 13 buildings and around 6000 users in the Texas Medical Center. It is also connected to the Internet as well as local hospital networks and the University of Texas at Houston network. Also responsible for a network in the Woodlands, Texas serving two remote facilities for the College.
October 1989 to December 1993: Director, Networking and Systems Support.
Altered the structure of a core support organization from one optimized for large centralized mainframe environments to one capable of supporting client-server applications and distributed computing. This included creating a locus for LAN deployment and management for departmental networks and a hardware repair group for personal computers. The group also began to support a centralized clinic billing and registration system for 11 clinical departments at Baylor College of Medicine. Operated the central computing facility of the school. This includes operational and systems support for a Unisys 2200/400 class mainframe, two VAX 6000s, and a number of Unix machines from Sun, Solbourne, Unisys, Kubota Pacific, Silicon Graphics, DEC, and Sony. There were 32 people in the department directed with a budget in excess of $1 million.
July 1987-December 1989: Manager, Networking.
Assumed responsibility for the enterprise wide network at the College. The primary task was to reengineer the network from handing primarily terminal-to-host traffic to handling a wide variety of traffic (remote file systems, file transfers as well as terminal-to-host traffic). Converted the network from XNS protocols to TCP/IP protocols in anticipation of a connection to the Internet. Was one of the principals in helping establish SesquiNet (an NSF-sponsored regional network) as an operational network. Continue to work with SesquiNet as chairman of the technical subcommittee that is responsible for overseeing the engineering and operational aspects of the network. During this time, a Texas Medical Center committee was formed to discuss matters relating to networking and distributed computing that might affect multiple institutions or the medical center as a whole. This group, the Network Technical Advisory Group, elected me as its first and only chairman until I retired this year.
July 1986-July 1987: Senior Systems Analyst, Office of the Vice President for Information Technology.
First brought in to help with the distributed computing infrastructure of the Virtual Notebook System (VNS), a distributed hypermedia system now in use by the scientific community at the College. The VNS was Baylor's IAIMS (Integrated Academic Information Management System) project, a program sponsored by the National Library of Medicine. Started the process of creating the infrastructure of what eventually became the Unix Support function of the Systems Support Center.
August 1984-July 1986: Computer Systems Administrator, Cellular Neurophysiology Laboratory, Department of Neurology.
Scientific programming to simulate the synaptic activity of hippocampus cells. Helped introduce Unix and C language programming to the researchers in this lab. Helped to create one of the first laboratory networks (using TCP/IP and Ethernet) at the College.
Association for Computing Machinery, 1991 inductee to Who's Who in American Business, IETF
Stan Barber, Common NNTP Extensions, RFC 2980, Internet Engineering Task Force, October 2000.
Kevin Brook Long, Jerry Fowler and Stan Barber, VNS Retriever: Querying MEDLINE over the Internet, Proceedings of the Summer '92 USENIX Conference, San Antonio, Texas, 1992.
Jerry Fowler, Kevin Brook Long and Stan Barber, The MEDLINE Retriever, Proceedings of the 16th Annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care, Baltimore, Maryland, November 1992.
Dr. G. Anthony Gorry, Ph.D., Professor of Management, Jones Graduate School of Management, Rice University
Dr. Williams Weems, Ph.D., Director of Academic Computing, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston