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All internal contracting mechanics are usually handled by LuminaGroup or one of our consulting partners, so that our clients gain from access to multiple top-tier resources without having to juggle multiple contractual relationships or points of contact.

Mr. Olshansky has over 20 years of business and technology experience, in a variety of positions in the areas of technology strategy in support of business goals, telecommunications, Internet-based business applications development, large-scale website development, knowledge management systems, online communities and social networking, digital imaging, and online training and education.

He has focused his career on integrating and aligning technology with business processes — providing support to organizations large and small in both the public and private sectors, improving efficiency and productivity, and in particular improving and enhancing collaboration within and between organizations. He has successfully managed large IT consulting and software development projects, as well as high-visibility web development efforts, from initial design through deployment, for a wide range of clients.

He holds a B.A. Political Science from Colorado College, and a M.S. Telecommunications from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is a member of ACM and a Senior Member of IEEE.

Mr. Bruns has over 17 years of experience in business engineering, large-scale change management programs and management consulting for a variety of businesses including financial institutions, airlines, Internet companies and start-ups; for strategy, technology and business architecture. He has held senior positions with IT architecture and business strategy consulting firms such as KPMG, Nolan & Norton and Gartner Consulting. Currently he runs Amsterdam AtVenture Associates, a management consulting company focusing on business innovation..

Mr. Bruns has studied both Computer Science and Business Science at the Technical University Eindhoven (Master Degree 1984-1989). At the Erasmus University Rotterdam (1989-1991) he has completed the post doctoral degree in EDP Auditing. During his career he has kept up with professional education in the fields of consulting and communication skills, marketing, human resources, products (IT assessment, BPR, Business Transformation etc.) as well as workshops with international management gurus. In 2001 he completed a three year course Professional Communication (interpersonal and organizational psychology).

Dr. Carlson is an experienced researcher, developer, author, instructor, and eBusiness consultant. He is a frequent contributor to several technical journals, and has been a speaker at recent OOPSLA and XML conferences. In addition, he has taught graduate level courses in knowledge-based systems and computer architecture, and was a Sun-certified instructor for Java 1.0. During his 20-year career, Dr. Carlson's focus has been on creating practical applications of leading edge technology, including application modeling and XML vocabularies. He earned his Ph.D. in Information Systems from the University of Arizona and is the author of two books: Modeling XML Applications with UML: Practical e-Business Applications (Addison-Wesley, 2001) and Eclipse Distilled (Addison-Wesley, 2005).

Dr. Gates is a Professor Adjunct in the Department of Interdisciplinary Telecommunications, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University of Colorado at Boulder and has served in this position since 1981. Dr. Gates specializes in graduate-level data and computer communications. He teaches both in-class, as well as distance learning with the Center for Engineering and Computer Sciences (CATECS), and with the National Technological University (NTU). Dr. Gates is currently the Chair of the Department Technical Curriculum Committee. In addition, he is Co-principal of the newly established Research Center for Unmanned Vehicles in the College of Engineering and Applied Science. Prior to these career accomplishments, Dr. Gates served as Vice President and Senior Principal for DMW Worldwide, Inc., Co-founder and Vice President of Class Works, Inc., Senior Vice President for BDM International, Inc., and Associate Deputy Director for the Institute for Telecommunications Sciences under the U.S. Department of Commerce.

Dr. Gates is also the principal of his consulting practice in Boulder, Colorado established in 1999. He is currently working with both commercial and defense related telecommunication initiatives. Dr. Gates has focused his entire formal education and career in computer and communication sciences and applying his knowledge in these disciplines to various customer applications. He maintains his leading edge in technology by teaching graduate level university classes and routinely instructing for national technology and professional development seminars.

Dr. Gates has a Ph.D, a Master of Science, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and is a registered Professional Engineer (PE) in Electrical Engineering in the State of California since 1978. Dr. Gates is the co-author of two books and the sole author of numerous journal and conference publications. Additionally, he holds numerous Board of Advisors and Corporate Management Council positions for a myriad of organizations.

Mr. Keaton has over 20 years of experience in computer and telecommunications technology, business, and standards. He is accomplished at leading geographically dispersed multidiscipline teams
to deliver leading-edge products. He has developed parallel processor architectures that range from supercomputers to small embedded< systems; provided planning, analysis, and technical development of software, hardware, and network infrastructure; developed international standards; and provided training for diverse groups of technical and nontechnical people.

Mr. Keaton is currently working on an extension to the C programming
language to provide better mechanisms for preventing buffer overflows, a method typically used by hackers to exploit flaws in computer and router software. He has tested part of this work at Cisco with astonishingly good results. Soon, it is likely that all vendors will be required to certify their products to be free of buffer overflows, similar to the "Y2k-ready" campaign.

Another recent project involved creating a new scheme for selective encryption of MPEG-2 video at 10 times the efficiency of the Sony Passage system. This allows content producers to provide free distribution of videos that are either unusable or low quality until customers unlock them by purchasing a decryption key.

Mr. Keaton continues to expand his areas of expertise and is conducting ongoing research in computer architecture and studies in new telecommunications developments such as software radio. He holds a BS in Computer Science from New Mexico Tech and is currently pursuing graduate studies in Telecommunications and Computer Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He serves on the international standardization committee for the C programming language (ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG14) and on the Information Infrastructure Standards Panel (ANSI IISP).

Judy Margolis, M.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology, Duke University
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

Dr. Margolis has over 16 years of experience in a variety of positions in the areas of clinical medicine, research, and education. A board certified anesthesiologist, she is an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Duke University Medical Center. She has extensive experience in both private practice and the academic setting. Dr. Margolis has experience in improving operating room efficiency and productivity, teaching, and working in areas of medical ethics. In addition, Dr. Margolis has successfully managed large research projects from initial design through completion. She holds a BA in biology from Colorado College, an MD from the University of Colorado. Her interests in epidemiology study design, and health policy led her to complete an MPH from the University of North Carolina.

Douglas C. Sicker, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Telecommunications,
University of Colorado at Boulder
Boulder, Colorado, USA

Dr. Sicker has held various positions in academia, industry and government. Presently, he is an assistant professor in the Department of Interdisciplinary Telecommunications at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Before this he was Director of Global Architecture at Level 3 Communications, LLC. Prior to this, Dr. Sicker was Chief of the Network Technology Division at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). He has also held faculty positions in the field of medical sciences.

Dr. Sicker's general interests include IP applications, signaling protocols, and access technology. He is also interested in the interaction of policy and network technology. His efforts at Level 3 focused on optimizing future network service architectures, particularly in the areas of IP-based signaling, directories and security. His responsibilities at the FCC included all Internet related issues, advanced services, cable open access and communications merger proceedings. Dr. Sicker has also served as a consultant to several large clients on technology and regulatory issues. He also has experience as an expert witness on technology and policy related issues.

Dr. Sicker is a senior member of the IEEE, as well as a member of the ACM and the Internet Society. He served as the Chair of the Network Reliability and Interoperability Council steering committee, an FCC federal advisory committee that focuses on network reliability, wire line spectral integrity and Internet peering and interconnection. Dr. Sicker also serves on the Technical Advisory Council of the FCC. He is well published in the fields of telecommunications and medical science. Dr. Sicker holds a BS Biochemistry, MS and Ph.D. Telecommunications from the University of Pittsburgh.

Cathleen Wharton, Ph.D.
Superior, Colorado, USA

Dr. Wharton has over 20 years of experience in telecommunications, high-tech, and academia. Her career has spanned the Storage, Internet, and Telecommunications, and Healthcare industries – all with an emphasis on software. She is an experienced business leader and technical contributor who has successfully designed, delivered, and managed numerous customer-facing solutions, products, and services for the market. She has broad product development experience for the consumer and small business markets as well as significant consulting experience within the education and large business markets. Dr. Wharton also has experience with and knowledge of Fortune 500 companies' product development and operations teams, IT organizations, enterprise architectures, operational support systems, integration issues, process reengineering, and change management.

Dr. Wharton provides business and technical, executive management and hands-on, consulting services to businesses, governmental agencies, educational and non-profit institutions. Her consulting and industry experience is in business processes and business development, e-business and marketing solutions, educational and training solutions, new product development, program and project management, software engineering and application integration, user experience and human factors engineering, and technology strategies. To her clients’ engagements she brings outstanding client communications and management skills, proven end-to-end software solution delivery expertise, broad business development experience, continuous excellence as a top-of-the-line “bridge” person between business and IT organizations, and strategic negotiation and contractual skills with partners, vendors, and internal organizations.

During her career, Dr. Wharton has held a variety of positions. For example, she has extensive industry experience in key management and project delivery roles as a Senior Software Engineering Manager (Sun Microsystems), Assistant Vice President of Business Systems (Great-West Healthcare), Vice President (BoldTech Systems, Inc.), Chief Technology Officer (e-Trinsic, Inc.), Director of Content and Business Development (U S WEST !nterprise) and Member of Technical Staff (U S WEST Advanced Technologies). Dr. Wharton has also worked at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in Palo Alto, California, AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey; and taught at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and at the University of Pittsburgh.

Dr. Wharton holds a United States patent, has published extensively in the computer science and human factors communities, and has achieved worldwide recognition for her co-development of the Cognitive Walkthrough usability inspection method. Dr. Wharton holds a B.S. in Psychology, a Certificate in Cognitive Science, and a B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Computer Science. Her undergraduate degrees are from the University of Denver and her graduate degrees are from the University of Colorado at Boulder.