SpeckTech Inc.

March 2007 - April 2008

Google, Inc, Enterprise Federal Systems Architect

Spliting time between Mt. View CA engineering teams and Washington DC sales/marketing teams. Working with government customers utilizing Google Earth, Google Maps, and other Google technology integration applications. Working with engineering team on Enterprise Google Earth/Maps server based deployed solutions.

July, 2005 – March 2007

Intelligence Consulting Enterprise Solutions, Sr. Systems Architect

Glen Speckert was the Sr. Systems Architect for a National Geospatial Agency (NGA) prototype called Concept Car, which is leading transformation of a major program called GeoScout. This prototype integrates government geospatial information into a Google Earth framework, while filtering and organizing RSS based information into topic folders. Glen interacted with teams in Gaithersburg, MD, Herndon, VA, St Louis, MO, and Mountain View, CA to develop the approach to the prototype. As an NSG-SI, (National System for Geospatial Intelligence - System Integrator) Glen defined and promoted the initial plan for scaling the prototype for full scale enterprise deployment. Glen interacted with multiple elements of the NGA as the eGlobe Systems Engineering IPT lead, which integrated the GeoInt Integration Framework (GIF), consisting of both Google Earth and ESRI spatial frameworks, into a services oriented architecture.

May, 2000 to June, 2002
Studion Inc., VP of Engineering

Glen Speckert was Vice-President of Engineering for a 3G wireless Multimedia Messaging System startup. Responsibilities included:

Managed a plug-in product to market

Wrote Technical section of Business plan

Designed the Architecture of the Multimedia Imaging Systems framework product

Developed Web Prototype

Produced Full Scale Detailed Designs, Costs, and Schedule

Mr. Speckert began as a consultant, and transitioned to a full time role upon funding. Studion Inc. softly and suddenly vanished away on June 15, 2002.

Glen Speckert was the Technology Architect of the Integrated Exploitation Capability (IEC), a National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) program which will deliver 2153 workstations over an 8 year deployment plan at 63 NIMA and DoD sites worldwide. He helped structure the interactions between the IEC and other United States Imagery and Geospatial Systems (now NSGI) programs, especially the multi-Petabyte Library system, while he was the Interface Architect. His contributions to the Team IEC proposal, primed by Lockheed in Gaithersburg MD, were central to the architecture of the proposed design.

Mr. Speckert was the Lead Systems Engineer for TASC's Information Dissemination Manager, the central component of DARPA's Battlefield Awareness and Data Dissemination (BADD) program. He developed the major set of requirements that defined the terminology and structure of the TASC software deliverable, the Information Dissemination Manager (IDM).

Mr. Speckert also supported the NIMA Video Metadata Working Group, developing the Video Metadata Encoding standards which were proposed to SMPTE.

Mr. Speckert was the Project Engineer of the Image Management, Archive, and Communications Testbed (IMACTS), a 5 Terabyte image archive, with very large images browsable in seconds, and fully accessible in minutes. IMACTS prototyped community standards, integrated commercial exploitation products, and provided innovative access extensions to query / browse / navigate / view a large image and video database. This early 90's project prototyped the operating requirements for the NIMA Library System. Mr Speckert received a Certificate for Exceptional Performance from NPIC for his role in IMACTS. He also authored an earlier study and simulation of architectural alternatives for national image archives.

Mr. Speckert was an original member of the United States Imagery System (USIS) Image Handling Standards and Guidelines (IHS&G) core team. This evolved into the Image Access Working Group (IAWG), the Common Image Interoperability Working Group (CIIWG), and into the NIMA United States Imagery and GeoSpatial Systems(USIGS) Interoperability Working Group. This process established standards for the use of national image data by commercial workstations. This work included extending the National Image Transmission Format (NITF) for use with full frame imagery. Mr. Speckert was the principle author of the NITF Support Data Extensions for national imagery. Later efforts focused on establishing stream and tile based access standards to supplement file based interoperability.

Glen Speckert had management responsibility for all software in support of the Pixar Image Computer at the time of the sale of the Pixar Image Computer group to Vicom. This included Image Processing, Volume Visualization, Terrain Mapping, Electronic Darkroom, and Electronic Light Table products. He transferred the PIXAR image computing software group to new management shortly after the acquisition of the Image Computer hardware and software by Vicom Inc.

Mr. Speckert joined Pixar at the start of the Hurricane project, and was its software project manager. The Hurricane evolved into the Pixar Electronic Light Table (ELT) and integrated ELT / Image Processing windowed application systems. These systems could harness mulitple Chaps, had large memory for their time, could output to dual screens (including stereo and 2k x 2k displays), included early RAIDs, and were integrated as imaging extensions to the Network Extensible Windowing System (NeWS) in the PII-9.

The PII-9 and ELT software were developed as the core of the prototype Integrated System for Imagery Analysis (ISIA). Mr. Speckert further managed the ELT package into product development, including installation/training at NPIC's National Exploitation Laboratory in 1990.

Glen Speckert played major roles at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in three programs: Laser Isotope Separation Program, Beam Research Program, and the Magnetic Fusion Program.

July 1983 to June 1988 - Computer Control Systems for Laser Isotope Separation
Mr. Speckert prototyped, architected, and became the group leader for the Laser Control system for the Laser Demonstration Facility (LDF), a multi-node computer control system which included a large Vax Cluster and 70 distributed processors and 30 user access stations. The LDF is a large array of lasers which produces a stable high power tunable frequency for use in separating isotopes of Uranium or Plutonium. The control system team included eight people, plus a 24 hr/day operations staff. Mr. Speckert also designed the Laser Control system for the planned production plant at Idaho Falls.

June 1981 to July 1983 - Lead Software Engineer for the Advanced Test Accelerator
Mr. Speckert was responsible for the software control and monitoring system of DARPA's Advanced Test Accelerator, a 50 Mev, 10k amp induction accelerator. Responsibilities included system level architecture and planning, management of software team (12 people), and development of the control ICDs. Mr. Speckert was personally responsible for the software development of the 5 nanosecond beam diagnostics imaging system.

September 1978 to June 1981 - Team Leader within Supervisory Controls Group for the MFTF
Mr Speckert lead a three person team (8 man-year) which designed and implemented a touchpanel based graphical control room for the Mirror Fusion Test Facility (MFTF). The MFTF contained the world's largest superconducting magnets and was the principal alternative to Tokamaks for controlling Fusion. The "soft" control room contained 42 color displays and touchpanels, and interfaced to the control system which consisted of 9 minicomputers with shared memory, and 75 distributed LSI-11's.

Glen Speckert worked on several Machine Vision projects in a period of 2 years, and produced four papers while at the MIT AI Labs, working under the direction of Professor BKP Horn.

M.S. 1978, Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana
B.S. 1975, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

		Glen Speckert's Resume

	Glen Speckert has 25 years of experience in the architecture, design, development, and integration of imaging systems hardware, software, media archive/management systems, and emerging standards. He enjoys working with creative teams, and has extensive systems engineering and management experience. SpeckTech Inc., President and Technology Consultant SpeckTech Inc. provides Technology Architecture Consulting services for distributed Imaging Systems, with experience in government imaging architectures and commercial wireless imaging frameworks. Consulting tasks typically include: Proposal Participation Architecture Definition Interface and Requirements Definition Standards Compliance Interoperability Analysis Systems Engineering Technology Insertion SpeckTech Inc. integrates custom solutions with its StreamWeaving technology.


March 2007 - April 2008 Google, Inc, Enterprise Federal Systems Architect Spliting time between Mt. View CA engineering teams and Washington DC sales/marketing teams. Working with government customers utilizing Google Earth, Google Maps, and other Google technology integration applications. Working with engineering team on Enterprise Google Earth/Maps server based deployed solutions. July, 2005 – March 2007 Intelligence Consulting Enterprise Solutions, Sr. Systems Architect Glen Speckert was the Sr. Systems Architect for a National Geospatial Agency (NGA) prototype called Concept Car, which is leading transformation of a major program called GeoScout. This prototype integrates government geospatial information into a Google Earth framework, while filtering and organizing RSS based information into topic folders. Glen interacted with teams in Gaithersburg, MD, Herndon, VA, St Louis, MO, and Mountain View, CA to develop the approach to the prototype. As an NSG-SI, (National System for Geospatial Intelligence - System Integrator) Glen defined and promoted the initial plan for scaling the prototype for full scale enterprise deployment. Glen interacted with multiple elements of the NGA as the eGlobe Systems Engineering IPT lead, which integrated the GeoInt Integration Framework (GIF), consisting of both Google Earth and ESRI spatial frameworks, into a services oriented architecture. May, 2000 to June, 2002 Studion Inc., VP of Engineering Glen Speckert was Vice-President of Engineering for a 3G wireless Multimedia Messaging System startup. Responsibilities included: Managed a plug-in product to market Wrote Technical section of Business plan Designed the Architecture of the Multimedia Imaging Systems framework product Developed Web Prototype Produced Full Scale Detailed Designs, Costs, and Schedule Mr. Speckert began as a consultant, and transitioned to a full time role upon funding. Studion Inc. softly and suddenly vanished away on June 15, 2002. June 1990 to January, 2000 TASC, Inc., Senior Principle Member Technical Staff Glen Speckert was the Technology Architect of the Integrated Exploitation Capability (IEC), a National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) program which will deliver 2153 workstations over an 8 year deployment plan at 63 NIMA and DoD sites worldwide. He helped structure the interactions between the IEC and other United States Imagery and Geospatial Systems (now NSGI) programs, especially the multi-Petabyte Library system, while he was the Interface Architect. His contributions to the Team IEC proposal, primed by Lockheed in Gaithersburg MD, were central to the architecture of the proposed design. Mr. Speckert was the Lead Systems Engineer for TASC's Information Dissemination Manager, the central component of DARPA's Battlefield Awareness and Data Dissemination (BADD) program. He developed the major set of requirements that defined the terminology and structure of the TASC software deliverable, the Information Dissemination Manager (IDM). Mr. Speckert also supported the NIMA Video Metadata Working Group, developing the Video Metadata Encoding standards which were proposed to SMPTE. Mr. Speckert was the Project Engineer of the Image Management, Archive, and Communications Testbed (IMACTS), a 5 Terabyte image archive, with very large images browsable in seconds, and fully accessible in minutes. IMACTS prototyped community standards, integrated commercial exploitation products, and provided innovative access extensions to query / browse / navigate / view a large image and video database. This early 90's project prototyped the operating requirements for the NIMA Library System. Mr Speckert received a Certificate for Exceptional Performance from NPIC for his role in IMACTS. He also authored an earlier study and simulation of architectural alternatives for national image archives. Mr. Speckert was an original member of the United States Imagery System (USIS) Image Handling Standards and Guidelines (IHS&G) core team. This evolved into the Image Access Working Group (IAWG), the Common Image Interoperability Working Group (CIIWG), and into the NIMA United States Imagery and GeoSpatial Systems(USIGS) Interoperability Working Group. This process established standards for the use of national image data by commercial workstations. This work included extending the National Image Transmission Format (NITF) for use with full frame imagery. Mr. Speckert was the principle author of the NITF Support Data Extensions for national imagery. Later efforts focused on establishing stream and tile based access standards to supplement file based interoperability. 1988 to 1990 PIXAR, Inc., Software Project Manager Glen Speckert had management responsibility for all software in support of the Pixar Image Computer at the time of the sale of the Pixar Image Computer group to Vicom. This included Image Processing, Volume Visualization, Terrain Mapping, Electronic Darkroom, and Electronic Light Table products. He transferred the PIXAR image computing software group to new management shortly after the acquisition of the Image Computer hardware and software by Vicom Inc. Mr. Speckert joined Pixar at the start of the Hurricane project, and was its software project manager. The Hurricane evolved into the Pixar Electronic Light Table (ELT) and integrated ELT / Image Processing windowed application systems. These systems could harness mulitple Chaps, had large memory for their time, could output to dual screens (including stereo and 2k x 2k displays), included early RAIDs, and were integrated as imaging extensions to the Network Extensible Windowing System (NeWS) in the PII-9. The PII-9 and ELT software were developed as the core of the prototype Integrated System for Imagery Analysis (ISIA). Mr. Speckert further managed the ELT package into product development, including installation/training at NPIC's National Exploitation Laboratory in 1990. 1978 to 1988 LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY, Supervisory Control Systems Glen Speckert played major roles at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in three programs: Laser Isotope Separation Program, Beam Research Program, and the Magnetic Fusion Program. July 1983 to June 1988 - Computer Control Systems for Laser Isotope Separation Mr. Speckert prototyped, architected, and became the group leader for the Laser Control system for the Laser Demonstration Facility (LDF), a multi-node computer control system which included a large Vax Cluster and 70 distributed processors and 30 user access stations. The LDF is a large array of lasers which produces a stable high power tunable frequency for use in separating isotopes of Uranium or Plutonium. The control system team included eight people, plus a 24 hr/day operations staff. Mr. Speckert also designed the Laser Control system for the planned production plant at Idaho Falls. June 1981 to July 1983 - Lead Software Engineer for the Advanced Test Accelerator Mr. Speckert was responsible for the software control and monitoring system of DARPA's Advanced Test Accelerator, a 50 Mev, 10k amp induction accelerator. Responsibilities included system level architecture and planning, management of software team (12 people), and development of the control ICDs. Mr. Speckert was personally responsible for the software development of the 5 nanosecond beam diagnostics imaging system. September 1978 to June 1981 - Team Leader within Supervisory Controls Group for the MFTF Mr Speckert lead a three person team (8 man-year) which designed and implemented a touchpanel based graphical control room for the Mirror Fusion Test Facility (MFTF). The MFTF contained the world's largest superconducting magnets and was the principal alternative to Tokamaks for controlling Fusion. The "soft" control room contained 42 color displays and touchpanels, and interfaced to the control system which consisted of 9 minicomputers with shared memory, and 75 distributed LSI-11's. 1975 to 1976 MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LABS Glen Speckert worked on several Machine Vision projects in a period of 2 years, and produced four papers while at the MIT AI Labs, working under the direction of Professor BKP Horn. EDUCATION M.S. 1978, Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana B.S. 1975, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology WEB ARTICLES PUBLICATIONS Hobbies include Dog Frisbee, Sailing, and Juggling