John W Beck, PhD

Honors

Several awards for outstanding technical achievements, prudently managing human and financial resources, and focusing on customer service, business acumen, and leadership.

AT&T Chief Security Office

○ Tivoli Identity Manager – Role Based Access Control, feature development and deployment.

○ Root Cause Analysis – Resolved technical issues for access to AT&T proprietary resources.

○ Identity Management – Developed IDM for AT&T enterprise and affiliates.

○ Process Engineering – Deployed identity management and compliance procedures.

USAC Companies - Aviation Certification, Operations, and Management

○ Air Carrier Certification – Automate compliance and certification activities.

○ Director of Operations and Chief Pilot – Hire, train, direct, and manage personnel.

○ Operations Software – Defined, sold, and maintained flight operations software.

○ Safety Assurance System – Incorporated SAS compliance into our software and services.

AT&T Labs

○ ISO 9000 Lead Assessor – Integrated ISO standards into AT&T Best Current Practices.

○ AT&T Common Security Platform – Defined and built enterprise authentication service.

○ Process Engineering – Achieved SEI Level 3 and 4 for better quality and time to market.

○ ACCU-Ring Pricing Tool – Designed and developed a pricing tool to sell ultra-high bandwidth backbone networks.

AT&T Process and Technology Center

○ Best Current Practices – Established Project Audits, Metrics, Architecture Reviews, and Project Management Audits to assure quality, performance, and regulatory compliance consistently across all AT&T products and services.

○ Business Process Engineering – Conducted Project Audits, Established Best Practices.

○ Technical Project Management – Briefed Customers, Negotiated Legal Contracts.

○ Automated Service Provisioning – ASP Project Engineer, Technical Lead.

○ Process Owner – Planning, Documentation, Design Reviews, Code Inspections, and Change Control.

○ Project Management Support – Resolution of generic (inter-system) technical issues.

Technical Contributions

○ AT&T Pixel Machines – Project Engineer, 3D Visualization, Scientific Computing.

○ Radio Control Equipment – Lead Engineering on FAA Contract.

○ Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System – Lead Engineer on FAA Contract.

○ AT&T Project Management – Audits, Metrics, Technical Project Management.

○ AT&T Bell Labs Functional Plan – Planning for Vice President, Government Systems.

○ AT&T EMSP – Engineer, Supercomputer for Naval submarines.

○ Duke University Medical Center – Research Associate, Diagnostic Medical Imaging, Nuclear Cardology Research.

Education