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The HumaniNet Project Team is a group of experienced and committed volunteers who give of their time, talents, and resources to further the HumaniNet vision. As you see from their profiles below, the Task Force represents a wide range of expertise and knowledge in many fields of technology. We acknowledge their contributions here with gratitude.
Project Team Members:
Jeff Oltmann, Synergy Professional Services
Jeff Oltmann has twenty years of engineering, program management and line management experience in the high technology industry with industry leaders such as Sequent, IBM, Prisma and Gould. He has done extensive program management of computer development projects, including program budgets over $100M and worldwide marketing, engineering, service, and manufacturing teams of over 100 members.
Vern Gillespie, Productivity for Handhelds, LLC
Vern's focus is on the enterprise use of mobility devices (Palm OS PDA's, Pocket PC PDA's, and Laptop/Tablet PCs) for both wired and wireless networks. His company's goal is to match a company's business needs to the right mobile applications and devices to make them more productive.
Jeff is a published author in the areas of computer design and product development processes.
Sue Gemmell, Senior Business Systems Analyst
Sue is an experienced information management professional, committed to
advancing the human aspects of information systems. She brings expertise in
identifying and embedding community values into systems through the
application of participatory, user-centered design. Sue has a passion for
researching the information behavior of diverse target audiences, and enjoys
business process analysis; writing and diagramming requirements,
specifications and presentations; and communication across functional
disciplines. She particularly loves maps, GIS and information design. She
has a bachelors degree in Visual Arts from Princeton and a masters degree in
Information Management from the University of Washington’s iSchool.
Sue served as a relief worker in the Khao-I-Dang Khmer refugee camp in 1980,
and has traveled through Southeast Asia, Nepal and Tibet.
Srini Penchikala, Flagstar Bank, Troy, Michigan
Srini is part of Flagstar Bank HumaniNet Volunteer group. His areas of focus are GIS/Mapping, Voice Over IP (VoIP) and Wireless. There have been very interesting and exciting developments in GIS/Mapping area in last few years and new technologies such as AJAX, SOA, Web Mashups etc are making the tasks of viewing and analyzing maps easier and more useful. These developments will help the field volunteers in organizations like Humaninet to be agile in getting required map information and other mapping details to help the communities.
Matt Blair, founder, Elsewise Media
Matt is devoted to empowering non-profit organizations and small businesses
through technology. Since 1997, he has evaluated and implemented a wide variety
of solutions, including custom database programs, tools to enhance organizational
data flow and information sharing capacity, and strategies to improve communications
between non-profits and their constituents and volunteers.
Matt has
helped to design and implement the HumaniNet Web Information
Service, an online resource that assists humanitarian organizations
with technology and communications information. He is now leading
efforts to design and deploy our next generation of information
and project collaboration services using Plone, an open source
content management system. In addition, he is currently implementing
a constituent relationship management (CRM) system for HumaniNet
based on donated services from SalesForce.com.
Larry Bentley, Senior Electrical Engineer, Verizon
Larry is (in his words) "a victim of 28+ years in the telecom industry." He manages to "only briefly make periodic escapes to try to get useful things done in the real world of a billion plus people without safe drinking water, and billions more living in chronic poverty. Working with projects from solar power systems, water wells, hand pump repairs, and electrical work, teaching people to use engineering to help improve their lives and the lives of their children is far more enjoyable. After all, if it doesn't work in the real world, it's not well engineered."
Larry is a Graduate of Georgia Tech in Aerospace Engineering. His hobbies are flight instructing, computer repair, amateur radio operator, and reading technology manuals.
Geoffrey W McCarthy, MD, MBA, founder of AvMedSafe, Team Lead of HumaniNet's new telemedicine research team
Geoff recently retired from the VA healthcare system, where he held senior leadership positions as Chief Medical Officer of large healthcare delivery networks. He has managed a private family medicine practice and and has served in the U.S. Air Force as pilot-physician and CEO of USAF hospital systems. Geoff's telemedicine experience includes the establishment of tele-health systems to transmit retinal photos around the network for reading by any ophthalmologist. He also augmented telemedicine capabilities, and was involved in managing the VA's first network-wide rediology picture archiving system (PACS). Geoff was also instrumental in setting up home tele-health for sick veterans, enabling nurse care managers to evaluate them daily and intervene before their chronic disease led them back to the hospital. Geoff hopes to help Humaninet establish remote medical care capabilities by tying together specialists and patients world-wide.
Gregg Lafayette, Director, Masimo Corporation
Gregg has worked in marketing and business development for both therapeutic and diagnostic medical devices and systems for the past 15+ years, including time in Europe and the Far East. He currently works as Director for OEM business with Masimo Corporation of Irvine, CA. His interest in Humaninet stems from his desire to facilitate technology adoption where it can make a practical difference.
Jeff Allen, Consulting Engineer
Jeff has worked ten years in the IT field before entering the humanitarian aid field by accepting a posting for 6 months in Liberia with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). For MSF, Jeff was responsible for the technical and administrative details for an 180-person medical facility in rural Liberia (a West African post-conflict context). There, his communications tools included VHF, HF, and satellite communications technologies. He has worked on wireless networks in Guatemala and was the project manager for Radio Response, an organization that created a community wireless network in Hancock County, Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina.
Keith Lee, Founder and CWD of the OneDog.com Network (Task Force Partner)
Keith founded OneDog to provide small businesses and non-profit organizations the means to successfully establish an identity on the Internet at an affordable price. One Dog provides website development and maintenance; website marketing and advertising; small business consulting services; secure, low cost online merchant options; and strong strategic partnerships within the business community for additional services.
Keith designed and maintains the Northwest Medical Teams website and the HumaniNet website. He has been involved in Web design for six years and founded OneDog in 1991. He is active in his church and coaches and supports youth sports in the North Marion school district area.
Doug May, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Doug served in the Air Force for 21 years and has extensive experience with spacecraft and launch systems. He managed the propulsion subsystem development for the Inertial Upper Stage, a vehicle designed to fly on the Space Shuttle and Titan launch vehicle. Doug's second career was with ATK Thiokol, Inc., supporting the boosters for the Space Shuttle. His satellite aiming program helps HumaniNet-supported teams to acquire satellites with communications systems. He enjoys applying his experience to help teams in the field and help Humaninet keep abreast of new satellite capabilities.
Sky Irving
Sky does an outstanding job of maintaining our database of field partners, donors, and supporters. The database is donated by the salesforce.com foundation.
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