BRUCE ALAN McHENRY
ROADTRAINS.US
Networking
Site
Founder 1/2009 -
Networking
activities for engineers and other supporters of hybrid-electric roadtrains.
CENTER
FOR ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT AND TRANSPORTATION INNOVATION
Open collaboration on
21st century transportation technologies
Co-founder 2005 – 2006
Obtained founding grant
with Christine
Economides and Jim
Longbottom and
was responsible for setting CEETI's focus on
electrified guideways and dual mode vehicles.
DISCUSSIT.ORG
Web Publication
Principal 2002 -
Managed site and
published own articles principally about transformational improvements to land
transportation systems and the development of a “global mind”.
RICHARD LOUNSBERY
FOUNDATION
Grantmaking principally for science, education and
policy
Member, Board of
Directors 1994 – 2003
Involved
with grants ($2-$5M/yr) and investment advising. [David
Abshire, Jesse Ausubel, Will Happer, David Sabatini, Rod Nichols; Frederick Seitz, William J. McGill; Glenn Strehle]
OLL
CONSULTING
Provides services to establish and develop innovative on-line
learning platforms
Principal 2001 - 2002
·
Strategic development of course and learning management systems, with attention
to MIT OpenCourseWare and relationship between open learning/software and free learning/software (2001).
·
Reviewer, Journal of Asynchronous
Learning Networks (2001) [John
Bourne].
·
Founded MIT Alumni Continuing Education newsletter (ace@listserv.mit.edu)
(2002).
WILDFIRE COMMUNICATIONS
Designs, develops and markets a voice activated personal operator
Consultant Summer
1995
Developed
marketing plan for a speech recognition based phone assistant based on customer
interviews using KJ diagrams, and analysis of usage patterns. Proposed “groupware” extension to product line, a virtual “water
cooler”. [Rich Miner]
WORKSMART! TECHNOLOGIES, inc.
Custom call processing and workflow applications
Consultant Summer 1994
Developed
courseware and taught Edify classes for Aspect Telecommunications, Inc. Lotus Notes trainee. [Steve King]
SRI INTERNATIONAL Menlo Park,
CA
Nonprofit research
institute
Research Engineer 1985
Implemented
multimedia conferencing system for Command & Control Workstation System
under DARPA grant [Doug
Moran, Earl Craighill, Andy Poggio] at Telecommunication
Sciences Center, descendant of Doug Engelbart's group. Developed and
proposed an on-line learning methodology, giving talks at HP Labs and XEROX PARC.
STRATACOM, (was PACKETCABLE, now CISCO
SYSTEMS)
Developer of digital
access cross-connects for T1
Associate Member of Technical Staff 1984
Designed
and programmed virtual circuit management protocols and user interface for PacketDAX, the first commercially available packet based T1
router [Pete Stonebridge, Jim Marggraff].
·
With Bryan Thompson,
set out a strategy for the eventual restart of the company (2003).
·
Explored opportunities for integrating reputation capture and reward
distribution into multimedia discussion system (2001) Bryan Alexander and sync/asynchronous web based
learning platform (1999) David Rose.
·
Extended Apollo Computer's Network Computing System to support concurrency on
Sequent computers and upgraded remote database application (1991) [Norman Abramovitz].
·
Documented and attempted sales of a voice server for personal computers (1990)
[Ellen Lapham].
·
Developed a graduated process for building equity in start-ups (used with five
partners: Phil
Zarboulas, Ellen
Lapham, Brian Hill, Dimitri Zarboulas, Norman
Abramovitz)
·
Created and marketed VS100 Voice Server with telephony and network interfaces
for three products: 1) Using Optel Communications' Telewriter, created the first PC based multimedia
recorder/player, (1987) [Abe
Zelkin], 2) Voice HyperCard,
installed at Apple Computer (1988) [Stuart Greene; Philip
Zarboulas; Linda Stone], 3)
Voice MarkUp, in partnership with Mainstay (1989) [Tom Nalevanko].
·
Created hardware and software for telephony applications on the original IBM PC
(9/1983 - 4/1984) [Calvin
Hsia, Claude von Roesgen, Bill Warner].
MIT MEDIA LAB 1997
Master
of Science in Media Arts and Sciences
Researched
radio news segmentation, asynchronous conversations; wrote RIPE: Rapid
Instruction and Production Environment under Nishikant
Sonwalkar and Dick Larson; Walter Bender. Admitting advisor: Chris Schmandt (Speech
Group)
MIT SLOAN SCHOOL OF
MANAGEMENT 1993
Master
of Science in the Management of Technology
Wrote Corporate Principles in the
Information Age: A Survey and Analysis under Erik Brynjolfsson with David C. Croson at
Harvard Business School; results used in Creative Destruction: A Six
Stage Process for Transforming the Organization (1995) by Richard
L. Nolan with David C. Croson.
MIT
1983
Bachelor
of Science in Computer Science
Thesis
motivated by on-line learning, under Andrew Lippman.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
2000 - “New Features for Learning
Management Systems (revised and with embedded user comments),” by IMS
Global Learning Consortium.
1999 “New
Features for Learning Management Systems, ” in ALN Magazine, 3(2).
1998 with Nishikant
Sonwalkar, “RIPE: Rapid
Instruction and Production Environment,” in ALN Magazine, 2(2).
SKILLS
Conversant in French;
basic Spanish and German
Met requirements for Competent Toastmaster (CTM), MIT chapter of Toastmasters
International
Programming experience principally in 'C' on MS-DOS and UNIX, with C++ course at University
of California Extension Berkeley, workshops in Oracle/Solaris administration, Arsdigita Community System in Tcl on AOLserver, and
seminar on Microsoft .NET.
Updated
4/24/2009