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*** Retired -- January 2014*** Coordinator of Faculty Support Services for HU-LEARN2009 – 2014 Coordinate the services required by faculty participating in HU-LEARN, a comprehensive initiative based in the Office of the Provost of Howard University. At this time HU-LEARN has two components: HU-Teach and Howard Online (HU-OL). HU-Teach will use stipends and other incentives to encourages faculty in all of the university's schools and colleges to increase their use of blended and online formats in their courses for the university's on-campus students. Working with its strategic partner, Person LLC, HU-OL will develop a broad array of online degree & certificate programs for off-campus students.*** Program Manager, Information Technology & Distance Learning, HUCE2002 – 2009 Advised Howard University Continuing Education (HUCE) Director on all matters related to Information Technology (IT); managed a small IT team responsible for all workstations, servers, networks, firewalls, and printers; managed all office productivity software and academic courseware for all computer-based classes; personally wrote 99.9 percent of the pages on HUCE's interactive Web servers on the Internet, as well as the Web servers on HUCE's secure Intranet; published HUCE's official course catalogs and brochures; designed computer-based courses; and recruited instructors for computer-based courses.*** Principal Investigator, Digital Learning Lab 1994 – 2002 Principal investigator on an Internet demonstration project (1994 to 1996) then on a series of software development projects (1996 through January 2002) -- all projects sponsored by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Development Projects Agency (DARPA) ... total value of contracts exceeded $4 million.*** Computing Systems Manager1992 – 1994 Information Systems and Services (ISAS)*** Analyst, Office of Vice President for Academic Affairs1988 - 1991

As tenured member of the faculty of the Department of City & Regional Planning and twice Chairman of the department, I taught courses in planning theory, research methods, and information technology. I also developed the first "paperless classroom" in the country, a blended course that was supported by an email + file management system that I developed which ran on the university's mainframe and was accessible via dumb terminals located on campus or via dial-up connections

Conducted policy studies and managed short-term programs related to R&D, technology policy, productivity, and competitiveness. Clients included: • Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) -- June 1993 to June 1994 Served as Washington, DC representative of M.I.T.'s Digital Open High Resolution (DOHRS) Project, sponsored by DARPA. Attended Congressional hearings, technical seminars, and trade association meetings related to technology policy. • Economic Strategy Institute, Washington, D.C. -- November 1991 to February 1992Compiled a series of case studies documenting world-class technological innovations developed by U.S. automotive suppliers. • Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) -- "Status of U.S. High Definition Systems", November 1991) • Office of the Secretary of Defense -- "Critical Drivers of World Class Manufacturing", July 1991• Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA), Alexandria, VA -- June 1990 to October 1990Revised the final report of the High Definition Systems (HDS) Task Force of the Defense Science Board. • Defense Manufacturing Board/Defense Science Board, Office of the Secretary of Defense, U.S. Department of Defense -- December 1988 to June 1990Served as Executive Secretary for the Board's High Definition Systems (HDS) Task Force which was sponsored by DARPA. Identified and recruited potential nominees from industry and academia; recommended agendas; organized subcommittees; wrote background papers, technical summaries, and progress reports; drafted the final report. One of the Task Force's technical subcommittees convinced key members of the FCC to abandon the previous analog approach which was dominated by foreign technologists in favor of an all-digital approach which would give the U.S. computer industry a substantial competitive edge.

Conducted a series of sociometric network studies which identified the most productive people within professional organizations or within technical fields; obtained their opinions on key issues; and determined their principal sources of information. The clients for these unpublished proprietary studies included:• Home Box Office, Inc. (HBO) -- "HDTV Profile", May 1988• Potomac Electric and Power Company (PEPCO) -- "Productivity Profile -- II", December 1987• Office of the Secretary of Defense -- "Who's Who in U.S. Competitiveness", July 1987• Potomac Electric and Power Company (PEPCO) -- "Productivity Profile of Generating Engineering and Construction Departments", November 1982• U.S. Naval Material Command -- "Who's Who in U.S. Shipbuilding Productivity", February 1981 • NIST (a/k/a "U.S. National Bureau of Standards") -- "Who's Who in U.S. Powder Metallurgy", October 1980 • Chamber of Commerce of the U.S. -- "Who's Who in U.S. Productivity", March 1980

Conducted policy studies and managed short-term programs related to R&D, technology policy, productivity, and competitiveness. Clients included:• Circle Associates, Boston, MA -- 1971-1972Established coordinating committee (chaired by Mayor of New Bedford, MA) whose members included the heads of all New Bedford municipal agencies concerned with the town's physical development. • BFH Associates, Cambridge, MA -- 1972Organized coalition of Black businessmen, government officials and community leaders in Pittsburgh, PA, to support a proposed economic development corporation sponsored by the Pittsburgh Model Cities Agency. • Office of Justice Administration, Boston, MA -- 1971Analyzed communications networks amongst the agency's management, technical professionals, and support staff. • Urban Systems Research & Engineering, Cambridge, MA -- 1970Developed economic renewal plan for the Merchants Association of Roslindale Square, Boston, MA; recommended land use planning strategies to FAA which minimized noise pollution around Boston's Logan airport. • Action for Boston Community Development, Boston, MA -- 1969Developed and implemented a planning-programming-budgeting system (PPBS) for this large decentralized community action agency.

Staff Engineer -- April 1965 to March 1968Designed, tested, and debugged flight maneuver programs for Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) on the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM).

Maintained sections of the IBSYS/IBJOB operating system for all IBM 7090/7094 computers.