Speaker Biographies
Jim DeRoest
ResearchChannel
Jim DeRoest directs a research, development and support team focusing on the cyberinfrastructure surrounding multimedia capture, digitization, management and delivery for ResearchChannel, UWTV, KEXP radio and the University of Washington campus. Jim is also involved in audio/video middleware research, data and computational grid forums and international collaboration and outreach efforts with PRAGMA (Pacific Rim Applications and Grid Middleware Assembly), CANS (Chinese American Networking Symposium) and WUN (Worldwide Universities Network).
Timothy Lorang
ResearchChannel
Timothy J. Lorang is the director of membership and production for the ResearchChannel
and UWTV Productions at the University of Washington in Seattle.
UWTV Productions provides television production support for the
University, as well as supporting UWTV, the University's cable TV
channel, and the ResearchChannel. The University of Washington is
a leader in developing and testing cutting edge networking and streaming
technologies.
Amy Philipson
ResearchChannel
Amy Philipson is the Assistant Vice Provost, Streaming Media Video and TV Technologies and she is responsible for the UW's extensive, award winning Television, Video production and major advanced multimedia efforts. As director of Video and TV Technologies she is responsible for the UW's extensive, award winning Television, Video production and major advanced multimedia efforts. She led the successful efforts to establish and manage the UW's two cable channels (UWTV and uw2.tv) in the greater Puget Sound metropolitan area and across the State of Washington, and has built a subscriber base of 2 million (and growing). UWTV programming has received many awards including Emmy nominations, Golden Cine, Best of the Northwest and others.
Ms. Philipson is also the founder and now Executive Director of the national ResearchChannel (aka ResearchTV) consortium, which includes many of the country's leading research universities and also key corporate research partners such as IBM. In addition to providing on-demand programming and distribution of broadcast TV materials via the Internet, as of January 2000 the ResearchChannel has a full time national channel on Echostar's consumer oriented Dish500 Direct Broadcast Satellite system which reaches many millions of citizens across the country.
The ResearchChannel pioneered MPEG-2 high quality broadcast TV quality (and above) demand-video distribution services, and catalysed and produced the first real-time, and first live, high definition television transmissions over the internet. These HDTV over IP efforts included a series of record setting demonstrations in which over a billion bits per second of real-time, uncompressed studio-quality HDTV streams were successfully distributed over Internet2-Abilene, DARPA NTON, and in the first live coast to coast HDTV (also at > a gigabit) over DARPA Supernet. In November of 1999 the ResearchChannel and UCAID announced a new working group dedicated to streaming video especially very high quality pushing hard at the further convergence of television, HD multimedia, and the Internet.
Ms. Philipson holds BS and MCP degrees from MIT.
Patricia (Patty) Sullivan
IBM Corporation
Patricia A. (Patty) Sullivan is the Area Education Executive for the Western Area. Her responsibilities include marketing and sales management to colleges, universities and school districts in the 18 western states, university and schools relations, and management of joint projects and partnerships with educational institutions.
Ms. Sullivan joined IBM in 1982 as a sales trainee in Anchorage, Alaska and held various technical and marketing positions, including Systems Engineer, Network Technical Specialist and Marketing Manager.
In 1990, she joined the higher education sales team in Oakland, California as the Systems Engineering Manager, and in 1995 was named Business Unit Executive of the same organization. With the creation of IBM's Worldwide Education Industry Solutions Unit in 1997, Patty assumed leadership of the higher education and K-12 industries for the Western US.
Patty has participated as an industrial segment advisor and consultant to numerous task forces. Recent efforts include working with a university system to create a performance architecture for organizational accountability. Output of this task force was a recommendation for implementing a procedure for performance measurement focused on outcome-based results and benchmarks against "best of breed" organizations. She has also participated in the creation of collaborative research relationships between the industrial sector and educational institutions.
She provided leadership to a university task force which developed a vision for improving services to undergraduate students using process reengineering and information technology. The recommendation from this group was for the implementation of a pilot of an internet-based admissions application system, which has now become a model for other higher education institutions.
Patty is a graduate of Stanford University with a B.S. in Mathematical Sciences and the mother of one daughter. She is currently serves on several business council boards for educational foundations, and is a professional mentor for women executives.
Michael Wellings
ResearchChannel
Michael Wellings is the Director of Engineering for the ResearchChannel consortium and the University of Washington,
which in addition to providing programming via the Internet also
supports a 7x24 broadcast stream nationwide. Mr. Wellings directly
contributes to the ResearchChannel goals of content creation and
manipulation processes to test materials for analog and digital
broadcast and on-demand multimedia offerings and creates experiments
with new methods of distribution and interaction on a global basis.
Michael pioneered efforts in MPEG-2 high-quality on-demand video
distribution and was the chief broadcast architect for High Definition
Television over IP networks with streams ranging up to 200mbps.
Mr. Wellings is also the Director of Engineering for the University of Washington's
cable television channels, UWTV and uw2.tv, and radio station, KCMU.
Michael was responsible for the successful demonstration of uncompressed
audio streams over internet and leads a team of 10 engineers to
further push the intersection of technologies that combine Internet,
satellite and cable distribution. Mr. Wellings hold a BS degree
from the University of Alaska in physics and is SBE certified in
broadcast engineering.
Jeff Nesbit
National Science Foundation
Jeff Nesbit is the director for the Office of Legislative and Public Affairs
at the National Science Foundation (NSF). (BIO)
Gretchen K. Bakamis
UW Medicine
As Director of Marketing for UW Medicine, Bakamis helps coordinate all strategic marketing communications for UW Medical Center, Harborvierw Medical Center, our Neighborhood Clinics, our specialty care clinics and the School of Medicine. She coordinates all brand development and cause/presence marketing efforts.
Prior to her work at UW Medicine, she owned a successful communications company specializing in media and government relations, product introduction and crisis communications. Bakamis has also served as the Senior VP/Managing Director of DDB Seattle handling marketing and public relations; director of media services for WA House of Representatives; staff assistant and media liaison for UW Cong. Thomas Foley and Press Secretary for US Sen. Warren Magnuson. Her interests lie in all things family and all things to do with goofy dogs.
Ed McNichol
University of Washington
A communications professional by career, Ed McNichol started his career as a film and video editor in the U.S. Army in 1982. He is now the Post-Production Supervisor at the University of Washington and the ResearchChannel. In this role, he designs and manages innovative workflows and technologies that provide post-production services to the University. His department consistently produces high-quality media and generates upwards of $500,000 in revenue each year. He also details how to accomplish efficient media production in his role with the ResearchChannel, a consortium of research universities and corporate research divisions.
A recognized expert in his field, Ed taught the craft of editing at the Sony Video Institute for eleven years. His articles on video post-production have appeared in many professional trade publications, including Post, TV Technology, Video Systems and HighDef. His firm, EDcetera, continues to provide consulting services. An Apple Certified Professional, Ed is proficient in Final Cut Studio, OS X Server and Xsan. He is a member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. His work has received numerous awards, including Emmys and Tellys, and honors at several film festivals. More information is available at www.mcnichol.com.
Michael Richardson
University of Washington
Michael Richardson is the Program Manager at DO-IT (Disabilities,
Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology), a grant-funded outreach
program to increase the college and career success of individuals with
disabilities, using technology as an empowering tool. Prior to coming to
the UW in 2000, Michael was a vocational rehabilitation counselor and
supervisor with the Washington State Division of Vocational
Rehabilitation and has been coordinating disability-related programs and
services for the last 15 years.
Jabran Soubeih
University of Washington
Jabran Soubeih is a Video Network Engineer for Streaming Media, Video, and TV Technology in the Department of Computing & Communications (C&C) at the University of Washington. Jabran works on designing systems and processes that bring together broadcast and IT devices to support UWTV, Research Channel and technology demonstrations. Jabran has a deep respect for understanding user requirements and designing systems that meet the needs of the users. Jabran is capable of designing systems that require high availability, high reliability approaches.
Prior to joining the University of Washington in 2006 Jabran was a broadcast engineer at KOMO-TV in Seattle, WA for 8 years. At KOMO Jabran participated in the design, build, commissioning and on-going support of KOMO's state of the art digital news, production and origination facility. Jabran worked on systems involved in automating and managing tasks in the newsroom and master control. Jabran also integrated cameras, robotics, video servers, video editing, video switchers and lighting controls at KOMO. Jabran received a BS from Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN. While studying electronics, wireless communications and fiber optics at Purdue Jabran worked at WLFI-TV and Lockheed Martin Aerospace.
Jonathan Tyman, Ph.D.
Internet2
Jonathan Tyman serves Internet2 as manager for digital video initiatives. He has a background in higher education, having taught courses in filmmaking and mass media at the University of Michigan for eight years. He also has considerable experience in video production, having spent ten years as a video producer and consultant for the automotive industry with a focus on globalization issues involving multi-lingual and cross-cultural video communications. He is now exploring such advanced networking applications as collaborative HD & DV25 video production over IP, while striving to grow use of H.323 and other collaboration tools that bring academic communities together and enable research to take place in virtual space. Jonathan received his Ph.D. in American Culture and his M.A. in Telecommunication Arts from the University of Michigan and his B.A. from St. John’s College in Santa Fe.
José G. Conde, M.D.
University of Puerto Rico
José has held academic positions in departments of epidemiology and family medicine. He is currently professor in the Division of Graduate Studies at the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine, and Director of the Center for Information Architecture in Research. Since 1994 he is Associate Director of the Research Centers in Minority Institutions (RCMI) Program at the University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus. José holds MD and MPH degrees from the University of Puerto Rico, and a medical residency in Preventive Medicine from Johns Hopkins. He co-chairs the ResearchChannel/Internet2 Working Group in collaboration with Dave Deveraux-Weber, from the University of Wisconsin. He is also Internet2 Executive Liaison of the University of Puerto Rico. His current interests include the use of collaborative technologies in biomedical research.
Thomas A. DeFanti, Ph.D.
Calit2
Thomas A. DeFanti, Ph.D., at the University of California, San Diego, is a research scientist at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2).(BIO)
Jamie Alls
University of Washington
Jamie Alls is the Engineering Manager for Streaming Media, Video, and TV Technology in the Department of Computing & Communications (C&C) at the University of Washington. In that role he leads a team of broadcast engineers and specialists to support the origination and transmission of UWTV and ResearchChannel, two nationally distributed broadcast channels, as well as uw2.tv, and KEXP FM. He also manages the technology demonstrations and experiments in high-resolution video distribution over IP networks that have recently garnered local Emmy nominations for engineering achievement.
Jamie received his BA from Temple University in Philadelphia, PA and has worked in film and television production, interactive videoconferencing, and broadcast systems design for over twenty years. Prior to coming to the UW, he worked at Washington Interactive Television, in Olympia, WA and the Neighborhood Film and Video Project in Philadelphia, PA.
Phillippa Kassover
ResearchChannel
Phillippa Kassover, Senior Director of Development and External Relations joined ResearchChannel in May, 2007. Phillippa started her career as a broadcast journalist and then joined the University of Colorado as a Public Relations officer. She also founded a public opinion research firm, which provided survey research services to local and State government in Colorado for more than 10 years. In 1990 she was lured into fundraising by one of the nation’s finest liberal arts colleges, Colorado College. During her 14 years with the College she worked closely with faculty and administrators, raising funds for science and technology from federal agencies, private foundations and individual donors. Phillippa was responsible for raising funds from the NSF to build the first wireless network link in Colorado, finally connecting the Colorado College Alumni House across a state highway to the campus network by something other than a phone modem. She also raised funds for a number of computer laboratories, and volunteered as an on-air fundraiser for the college’s well-known Public Radio station, KRCC, which provides public radio to Southern Colorado and Northern New Mexico.
In 2004 Phillippa was recruited by Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology, a nonprofit organization with a 35-year history of presenting internationally respected scientific conferences, and headquartered in beautiful Summit County, Colorado. As their Director of Development she raised funds from the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries worldwide, as well as from national and international private foundations and government agencies.
After two of their grown sons moved to the Seattle area, Phillippa and her husband Ken decided to leave the high mountains and snow of Colorado and relocate to the warmer – if wetter—climes here in the Puget Sound region. Phillippa has already begun solicit potential sources of funding for ResearchChannel and looks forward to working with ResearchChannel members to advance the channel financially and increase public awareness and viewership.
Dr. Deborah Kelley
University of Washington
Deborah Kelley is a marine geologist studying how submarine volcanoes and rock alteration processes support life in the absence of sunlight. She routinely uses the human occupied submersible "Alvin" to dive to depths more than 7,000 feet beneath the ocean's surface to examine some of the most extreme environments on Earth: submarine underwater hot springs that emit fluids at over 700°F. These systems host novel life forms that thrive on volcanic gases and grow at temperatures more than 200°F in the absence of oxygen. Her research is currently focused on hot springs along an underwater volcanic mountain range called the Endeavour Segment of the Juan de Fuca Ridge and at an underwater mountain the size of Mt. Rainer called the Atlantis Massif. The Atlantis is the site of one of the most spectacular hydrothermal fields known, called Lost City, which hosts limestone towers of ghostly beauty that tower 200 feet above the seafloor.
When she is not exploring the deep seas, Deb is working to develop an in-situ microbial incubator for black smoker systems designed to establish the upper temperature limit to life. She is also the Project Scientist for the Regional Cabled Observatory, which will launch a new era of human discovery in our oceans by providing electrical power and high-speed Internet connectivity throughout large portions of the global ocean.
Thomas Mentele
University of Washington
Thomas Mentele, director of Development and Alumni Relations since 2001, has focused on advancing the College of Forest Resources' mission by developing funding from public and private sources for future students, faculty and programs. Now celebrating it's 100th year, the College of Forest Resources is an internationally recognized leader in research and education dedicated to the creation of applied scientific solutions for environmental science and natural resource sustainability issues. As a graduate of the University of Washington's School of Business, and an experienced executive, Tom is interested in the strategic planning process, and the achievement of goals and objectives derived from the organization's mission, vision and values statements. As a relationship manager, Tom seeks strategic partnerships to help achieve mutual goals while also expanding the footprint of his organization. These skills have been instrumental in guiding the College of Forest Resources' successful capital campaign, Creating Futures Since 1907, which has generated nearly $18 million dollars of private support for the College in the last 7 years. Tom has served on various committees, and continues to perform volunteer work for the Catholic Youth Organization, and Boy Scouts of America. Tom is a student of the natural world, and an outdoor enthusiast, enjoying hiking, skiing, horticulture, and other activities found in the Pacific Northwest. Tom resides in Seattle, Washington, with his spouse Catherine, and three children.
David Evans
David Evans, oceanographer and past under secretary for science for the Smithsonian Institution, holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. in oceanography from the University of Rhode Island. As a scientist, Evan's areas of specialty include physical oceanography, small-scale dynamics and climate. While serving as the assistant administrator for research at the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, he led the White House Global Climate Change Initiative.
Anne Moore
Virginia Tech
Anne Moore is Associate Vice President for Learning Technologies and director of information technology initiatives at Virginia Tech. Drawing upon Virginia Tech's strengths in information technology, she is responsible for building partnerships within the university and with other organizations that assist in meeting modern needs for technology in society. As head of the Office of Information Technology's Learning Technologies division, she works along side colleagues to coordinate such award winning programs as the Faculty Development Institute (a four-year cycling development program for university faculty in integrating technology in teaching) and the Graduate Education Development Institute (a credit-bearing course for graduate students on contemporary approaches to pedagogy and technology); to contribute to university initiatives like the Math Emporium (a 24 X 7 advanced learning community in mathematics); and to assist underserved rural and urban communities with integrating technology in teaching and learning activities. She also serves as adjunct faculty in the Department of Urban Affairs and Planning.
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