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The Fuller Knowledge Alliance
dedicated to having all individuals gain the fullest knowledge they are capable of "... the object is TO GO HOME -- and to be safe. I hope I'll be safe at HOME!" -- George Carlin |
| who we are |
| In addition to these Fuller Knowledge Alliance members, numerous other individuals contribute of themselves, their thoughts, and their resources to formulate, develop, support, and advance the Fuller Knowledge Alliance's initiatives and to further its goal. If you have thoughts also or have questions, we will be pleased to hear from you. |
| projects director |
| Fred Krumbein has delivered software and systems for several companies, including Nike, Seiko Instruments, Fujitsu Electronics, State Farm, CNA, and Sun Microsystems, has done research work at NASA, has managed project teams at Intel and at a number of start-ups, and has developed software systems and products with numerous ventures, including Louth Automation, Forward Technology, and Optimation. From 1987 to 1995, he helped build Synopsys from 10 people in the early stages of software product development into the world leader in synthesis & optimization, with 1,100 people and sales of over $200,000,000 annually: he developed the first external interface products; he implemented core functionality for Design Compiler™ — the first logic synthesis & optimization product in the EDA industry; he managed the primary circuit and schematic image transfer product line. From 1999 to 2002 with Zeiss, the world leader in precision optics, he managed the team located on three continents in the design, development, and delivery to market of Ensemble® — the first universal image processing system in the ophthalmic industry. Starting in 2002 as software engineer with Vmatrix, the company that created the first online marketing video in the US, and in the role of video SEO director from 2009 to 2011, he managed the team and devised, instituted, and managed the processes, techniques, and methods that propelled it to be the leading provider of the industry's most effective video SEO services. He holds degrees in computer science and statistics from San Jose State and has completed post-graduate computer science studies at Stanford in databases and advanced software systems. |
| systems technologist |
| Dan Moore has provided risk management and database technology consultancy for several organizations, including JPMorgan Chase, Credit Suisse First Boston, British Petroleum, Stanford University, and Silicon Graphics, with stints in Singapore, in Tokyo, and on the Arctic shores of Alaska. From 1988 to 1993, he helped build Synopsys from 40 people in the early stages of software product distribution into the world leader in synthesis & optimization: he took charge of various related collateral, including documentation, packaging, and software licensing distribution. Starting in 1996 in the Tokyo offices of Morgan Stanley, one of the world's largest investment banks, he took on the first of a number of roles over more than a decade and three quarters: from 2004 to 2010 in their New York offices, he served as vice president of Enterprise Infrastructure on the production support team managing global distributed relational databases; from 2010 to 2014, as executive director of ISG Technology/QAPM, he headed up the divisional effort on a major regulatory program related to technology risk reduction and entitlements management, developing and deploying services that directly address risk reduction across more than 800 application systems and managing offshore teams focused on software remediation across over 1200 application systems. He holds a degree in computer & information science from the University of California at Santa Cruz and has completed computer science studies at Stanford and Brown Universities. |
| advisory board |
| José McNeill has provided real estate consultancy for many private investment companies and individuals, has held project management and portfolio management positions with a number of organizations, including Bechtel Investment Realty, Hillman Properties West, and PM Realty Group, and is a partner in numerous development and investment projects in northern California. With Summit Commercial starting in 1998, he oversaw development at Southport Business Park, a 640-acre mixed-use development. From 2001 to 2006, with CalPERS (the California Public Employees Retirement System): serving in the role of portfolio manager, he undertook responsibility for the industrial real estate portfolio, with a market value of over $6,000,000,000 across North America and Europe; he successfully privatized two real estate investment trusts: the $2,200,000,000 Cabot Industrial Trust and the $5,000,000,000 Centerpoint Properties; he oversaw CalPERS investments in commingled funds and advised on the overall $28,000,000,000 CalPERS real estate portfolio. As deputy commissioner for the Tennessee Department of General Services, he directed the evaluation, reorganization, and improvement of the Tennessee facility management program; he recruited new highly skilled experts, which immediately boosted morale and productivity, and implemented third-party facility management by means of the RFP system, culminating in 2012 with his successfully replacing the deputy commissioner position. He holds a degree in business finance from San Jose State with a minor in cybernetic systems and is an active member of NAIOP, the national commercial real estate development association, having served as president of its Sacramento chapter. |
| Ruth McElhinney has done economic development work with several organizations, has provided public relations consultancy for a number of agencies, including CalTrans, the County of Yolo, and the Sacramento Regional Transit District, and has been a community organizer and activist: coordinating organizational and outreach efforts for California state initiative campaigns and local community groups. As a group worker, she has created and put into action processes to develop job skills, improve problem solving, and strengthen family stability with kids on Chicago's southside. She served as a California state legislative staffer for five years: coordinating the district office of Assemblywoman Leona Egeland and administering the Senate Rules Committee newsletter program for President Pro Tem David Roberti. With SMUD (the Sacramento Municipal Utility District), she took on the role of economic developer for many years through 2014. She has participated in archaeological excavations and laboratory work, and in 2015, she facilitated an excursion to a neolithic excavation and other prehistoric sites on the Orkney Islands in the north of Scotland. She holds degrees in sociology and religion from the College of Wooster, holds a master's degree in social service administration from the University of Chicago, has undertaken post-graduate economic development studies with the International Economic Development Council and the University of Oklahoma, post-graduate Latin American political science and Spanish studies at the Centro Intercultural de Documentación in Cuernavaca, and community organizing studies at the Industrial Areas Foundation in Chicago, and is a board member of the Sacramento Archeological Society. |
| Drew Brost has held senior hardware designer and architect positions for a number of companies and has provided electronics design engineering consultancy for several organizations, including printer interface component architecture and design for the Ricoh TP35 newsprint facsimile system used by USA Today and other large content providers and development of several Xilinx FPGAs for telephone products. From 1985 to 1995 at Ampex, a leader in high-performance digital storage systems, he took on senior engineering roles with responsibility for proposals, system architectures, and circuit design, including a NASA Command Center voice multiplexer interface, the digital design of a tape recorder interface used by the US Air Force and Ford Aerospace, and an Air Force satellite weather reconnaissance downlink used during Desert Storm. Beginning in 2004 with 2Wire, continuing since their 2010 acquisition, with Pace Americas, the global market leader in set-top boxes, and since their 2016 acquisition, with Arris, a world leader in entertainment and communications technology, he has undertaken a number of product development initiatives: he was responsible for Verizon residential gateway prototype design; he provided key innovations for Broadcom diagnostic test utilities; as the engineering product lead from concept through production, he led the design and delivery to market of the 2Wire 3801 modem, the core component of AT&T's U-verse® voice, video, and data service deployed in nearly 5,000,000 homes, and has led the design, development, and delivery of the next-generation U-verse® modem technologies. He holds a degree in electrical engineering from San Jose State and holds multiple digital data correlation and multiplexing patents. |
| Richard Trainor has been a journalist, researcher, author, and lecturer for a number of publications, broadcast outlets, and universities. His feature stories have appeared in several magazines and newspapers, including ELLE, Paris City Magazine, France Today, Sight & Sound, American Film, California Magazine, SF Magazine, the Los Angeles Times syndicated wire services, Los Angeles Magazine, Players, Parenting, Western Cities Magazine, Sacramento Magazine, the Vancouver Sun, the Sacramento Bee, and the Sacramento News & Review. He served as guest lecturer in 1988 with the California State University of Sacramento and from 1993 to 1994 with the American University of Paris. And he was managing editor of France Today from 1995 to 1996. He has researched and written numerous analytical and historical studies and white papers, including in 1983 for the City of Tustin, in 1988 for Union-Pacific Railroad, and in 1991 for the Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency, and he co-authored the 1990 California Energy Commission Conservation Report. Non-fiction books he has researched and authored include Sacramento: Heart of the Golden State, Access Travel Guide to Los Angeles, Paradise Lost?, and The Final Say. And Windwhistle Bone and Valley Fever and Other Stories are fiction books that he has recently written. He has completed political science and english literature studies at the University of California at Davis, creative writing studies at Stanford, and photography studies at the American University of Paris; he received an Emmy Award in 1984 and won the American Society of Professional Journalists First Prize for stories in 1990 and 1992 and First Place Award for investigative reporting in 1994. |
| Lyle Thompson has delivered software and hardware for several companies. From 1986 to 1990, he brought products to market for Raychem, a major aerospace, automotive, and telecom manufacturer, serving as hardware manager of RayNet fiber-optic token ring & ethernet hubs. From 1991 to 2000 at Zeiss, the world leader in precision optics, he designed and delivered machine control, middleware, and UI software for the HFA™, OCT, and Ensemble® — the first universal image processing system in the ophthalmic industry. From 1999 to 2003, he developed the curriculum for and taught University of California at Berkeley Extension advanced C++ courses. From 2000 to 2003, he developed products for TeleCruz, a leader in TV hardware and software platforms worldwide, serving as software development manager of Transcast interactive TV products. Since 2004, he has served in senior engineering roles for Ixia, the leading provider of network test & visibility products; in 2010, he took on the role of principal engineer; since 2012, as software architect, he has been the technical lead in the delivery to market of a number of products, including IxLoad® — the industry's most scalable solution for testing converged multiplay services and application delivery platforms. He has completed electrical engineering and computer science studies at Idaho State, developed multiple RESTful script generation, digital clock recovery circuit, and quadcopter 3-D scanning drone patents, and reverse-engineered an electronic blood-pressure meter, which led to a successful patent infringement settlement with Johnson & Johnson. |
| Steve Ruder is a social worker who has delivered services for many organizations and agencies. He served as educational assistant for Fairview State Hospital from 1980 to 1982. With the YMCA from 1982 to 1985, he worked in their New Horizons program, which is designed to aid individuals with developmental disabilities. In the position of job developer with Stepping Stones from 1985 to 1987, he helped developmentally disabled persons with their career growth opportunities. From 1987 to 1994 with Training Towards Self Reliance, he assumed the role of facilitator for individuals with special needs, training them in independent living skills. He has served as an independent contractor since 1994, coordinating services for an individual with cerebral palsy. He worked with Progressive Employment from 2009 to 2013 as job coach for persons with developmental disabilities. He has served as transition specialist with the MIND Institute of the University of California at Davis since 2013. And from 2009 to 2019, he was coordinator for St. John's Lutheran Church in their participation with the Safe Ground and First Step Pilgrimage interfaith community outreach groups in Sacramento that provided meals, lodging, and other fellowship services to low-income persons through community gatherings at the facilities of their constituent faith-based congregations. He holds a degree in social work from Sacramento State and has also completed social work studies at San Francisco State. |
| Prasad Utturkar has provided management consultancy, engineering program management, and software applications and infrastructure design and development for numerous organizations, including as project manager with Xoriant, chief technologist with Auraline, engineering director with Vmatrix, and senior business intelligence and business analytics architect with Certive. With Cisco, as technical lead in 2003, he prototyped, designed, and developed access control authentication schemas, Web tools, and security script automation, and in the role of senior program manager from 2004 to 2013, he developed and led key release management processes, managing over 300 developers through more than 15 complex releases and taking charge of release management office resources globally, led program teams to deliver complex programs in ERP (enterprise resource planning) as well as Web services domains, and developed and led best practices for system cut-over transition planning and execution. From 2013 to 2014 with Sephora, he managed the team that provided big data analytics, text analytics, and customer loyalty and lead acquisitions management. He assumed the role of senior engineering program manager of the first-party tracking information initiative with PayPal from 2014 to 2015. In 2016 for Adobe, serving as technical program manager for AWS Cloud automation, he managed the initiative to jump-start the AWS provisioning automation of the Adobe Campaign and Marketing clouds. He holds degrees in computer science and electronics from Shivaji University and certification in data-driven marketing from Cornell. |
| Cloyce Dickerson has held business development and sales positions for a number of healthcare IT and medical device companies. He served as corporate client executive with Pfizer from 1988 to 1998 in the Valleylab electronic surgery and ultrasound products division. He was manager of healthcare business development with Toshiba America Medical Systems from 1998 to 1999. With Qualcomm, he took on the roles from 2008 to 2013 of Western Region vice president and from 2013 to 2018 of Western Division vice president of sales for the Capsule Technologie subsidiary of Qualcomm Life, the leading global provider of medical device integration solutions for hospitals and healthcare organizations. Since 2018 with Voalte, he has served as Western Region vice president in the sale of life-changing healthcare communication tools. In 2017, he was inducted into the Greater Flint African-American Sports Hall of Fame, having been named to All-GEC and All-State track-&-field teams in 1982 and 1983, played basketball for the 1982 district- and regional-champion Hamady High Hawks, on which he was 1983 team captain, and played guard as team captain from 1985 to 1987 for Olivet College, being named 1986 team MVP. And from 2015 to 2019, he was coordinator for Bayside Evangelical Covenant Church in their participation with the Safe Ground and First Step Pilgrimage interfaith community outreach groups in Sacramento that provided meals, lodging, and other fellowship services to low-income persons through community gatherings at the facilities of their constituent faith-based congregations. He holds a degree in business from Olivet College and holds a master's degree in business administration from National University. |
| Doug Wright is a businessman and entrepreneur who has provided wholesale sales service representation of electrical products for several companies, focusing on heavy-duty industrial clientele, including diesel electric shop, MRO (maintenance and repair operation), governmental, and marine. As part owner from 1957 to 1979 of Battery Bill, he took charge of opening accounts, billing, product delivery, account servicing, and warranty management, and served in the role of general manager from 1978 to 1979. In 1980, he founded Wright Wire & Terminal and, until 1992, was the owner and operator, building the business that grew to serve over 450 clients throughout California. He started Wright Predator Batteries in 1994 and ran the company until 1999. From 2000 to 2010, he worked as transit operator for Sacramento Regional Transit. He is the founder of Wright Electrical Products, and he has run the business since 2010. From 1975 to 2015, he worked extensively as a volunteer for TNMC (the Tibetan Nyingma Meditation Centers of Berkeley) under the direction of its founder the Tulku Lama, Tarthang Rinpoche, and for several of its related mandala of organizations that work to preserve and transmit the Dharma to Western Civilization, including the Odiyan Retreat Center of the Copper Mountain Mandala, the Nyingma Institute, Dharma Publishing, and the Tibetan Aid Project. For more than four and a half decades, he has been a student of Tibetan Buddhist teachings, with particular emphasis on spiritual practices, including three years under the guidance of the Tulku Lama. |
| Ellen Gonzales-Kelly is a linguist who has delivered services for many organizations in the broadcast industry, in the penal system, and as an interpreter. For Fuller Jeffrey Broadcasting, she took on the role of account executive with KRCX Radio from 1986 to 1990 and took charge of administrative duties from 1993 to 1995 with KSTE Radio. With the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation from 1990 to 1993, she served as correctional officer at Folsom State Prison. Since the mid-1990s, she has been a Spanish interpreter specializing in the medical, educational, and legal disciplines. She performed duties supporting psychothereapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, physical therapy, and psychiatric evaluation for Alta Regional Center and performed further medical care support duties for Language World Services, and she has been an independent contractor for many years: in the medical field, she provides services during surgeries and in all subspecialties, focusing on state worker's compensation cases, and has delivered services to numerous private physicians, clinics, care providers, and hospitals, including Sutter, Kaiser Permanente, Care Management, Mercy/Dignity Health, and UC Davis; she has participated in California IEP (individual educational plan) sessions for Stockton's Lincoln USD (Unified School District), the Roseville USD, and the Rocklin USD; in the legal field, she focuses on depositions, mediations, and personal injury cases, and has provided services to numerous insurance companies, including State Farm, Allstate, and Farmer's. She holds a degree in criminal justice from Sacramento State. |
| Jeff Chadbourne is an entrepreneur who has provided brokerage, sales, and systems consultancy services for numerous companies and clients. He served as real estate broker from 1996 to 1997 with Marcus & Millichap, the largest commercial real estate brokerage firm in the U.S. specializing in real estate investment services, as sales rep from 1997 to 1998 with United Asset Coverage, an underwriter of PBXs and related equipment, and in 1998 founded Chadcom Consulting, a search service for PBX equipment insurance. In 2000, he founded fisbo.com, which he ran until 2003, selling it to forsalebyowner.com, the largest "by owner" real estate Website in the U.S., with whom he continued until 2006 as publisher of their nationwide printed and online listings magazines and also as owner of the California regional franchise. With Lewis Operating Corp., the largest privately owned land developer in the U.S., he did land acquisition (including finding, optioning, and buying) from 2006 to 2008. From 2008 to 2012, he acted as sales rep with Granite Bay Energy, an EPC (engineering, procurement, and construction) turnkey provider of wind, solar, and biomass systems, with a focus on agricultural solar systems and installation. He provides services in renewable energy consultancy, specializing in solar systems and installation, and as a real estate broker. He has completed business and economics studies at Butte College and holds a degree from Santa Barbara City College, having completed the coursework for certification in economics, holds multiple broker and agent licenses, including a Series 7 registered representative license as a stockbroker, and holds multiple patents, including for a magnetic headphone cable. |
| Luís Bermúdez has held senior electrical engineering positions and provided telecommunications, networking, and test engineering consultancy for several companies, including Innovative Digital Solutions, Natural MicroSystems, and Sierra Network. Starting in 1996 with MCI, the second-largest long-distance provider in the US, he led a number of special telecommunications projects, including the infrastructure upgrade from copper to fiber optics for the City of Hartford, Connecticut, and the completion of international ISDN circuits from the US to Spain, Croatia, and Brazil. From 2002 to 2003 with Raytheon, a global leader in commercial electronics manufacturing and defense contracting and the world's largest producer of guided missiles, he led the installation of enhanced walk-through metal detectors in over 400 airports nationwide for the US Department of Homeland Security, including assembly, coordination, and training of Transportation Security Administration personnel. Beginning in 2007 with Intel, one of the world's largest semiconductor chip makers, serving as senior test engineer, he has contributed to the development and delivery to market of a number of microprocessor products; he created test platforms for the initial release in 2008 of the Atom™ S1200 series of ultra-low-voltage CPUs; in his work on the multi-million-dollar "Tukwila" program, he discovered the discrepancies in the test platform interface that had threatened the cancellation of the entire years-long development of the product, and this led to the successful 2010 release of the new Itanium® processor 9300 series. He holds a degree in electronics technology from the New England Institute of Technology. |
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