Professional Resume for Clifford A. Isberg
Specialized Professional Competence
Computer systems consulting and product line planning; computer system architecture,
design, development, and integration; planning and development methodologies;
mainframe, personal, workstation, and distributed computers; parallel computers,
telecommunications networks and inter/intranets
Representative Research/Consulting Projects Led (for SRI International, 1972-1995)
Projected future high-speed and broadband telecommunications networks developments, for NTT
Compared internetworking and computer network management in case studies of 8 major US corporations
Consulted on the selection of a parallel computer vendor for the American Express
Projected future VLSI computer architectures (for JEIDA, Japan's standards agency)
Compared, in case studies, the development and test cycles of six major computer manufacturers
Evaluated the Ada language for a major oil corporation's exploration applications
Projected technology trends for computers, networks, and software (several separate projects)
Reviewed a major insurance conglomerate's new business systems, then under development
Established corporate information system architectures for ANZ Bank, and later for other corporations
Evaluated symbolic (AI), numeric, and hybrid parallel computer architectures and products
Compared the major competitive programmable logic system architectures
Served as Principal SRI computer systems consultant for The Fuji Bank Ltd., for over 10 years
Evaluated a proposed product line for small business computer systems
Provided product line planning for office automation; architecture and software
Evaluated several business ventures based on microprocessors and software subsystems
Planned, specified, and evaluated computer procurements, including two valued over $1 billion
Surveyed emerging, computer-related product lines for biotechnology
Related Experience
Institute for Information Management 1984-87, owner and technical director, capacity planning education/training
Memorex 1971-72: product planner for a proposed Memorex midrange computer
Computer Synectics 1970-71: consulting, demonstrating, and developing hardware monitors for mainframes
Stanford University 1957-63: academic research in computational complexity and computer arrays
IBM Experience (1959-1970)
Advisory Systems Engineer in Advanced Systems Development Division (Los Gatos), representative projects included:
Computer Aided System Design simulation subsystem design, development, and programming
Materials Handling System, product planning for computer and robot-based grocery warehousing systems
Financial Terminals (ATMs, POS terminals) systems engineering and advanced development
BART financial terminals systems engineering and planning
CTS secretarial and ATS administrative terminal design and programming
Design and advanced development of disk and recirculating delay line computers
Background
B.S.E.E. (summa cum laude), University of Alaska
M.S.E.E. and Ph.D., Stanford University
IBM doctoral fellowship; NEMA undergraduate fellowships
Registered Professional Engineer (Electrical), California
IEEE; Sigma Xi; Mensa
Publications on computers, simulation, and systems design
U.S. patent and five patent disclosures on computer systems and components
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