In the above role, David Lounsbury leads activities related to government research, with a particular focus on developing adaptive and real-time system software. David's previous executive assignments at The Open Group include Vice President, Open Group Program Management. In this role, he was in charge of coordinating corporate activity for major programs among the development, membership, and specification/test/branding business activities. He also served as Vice President of the Collaborative Development Group, which fosters availability and proliferation of open systems technology through collaborative funding and development. Major programs in the group included LDAP, ActiveX Core Technology, DCE 1.2, CDE-Next, and Complex Text Layout PST's, as well as support and consulting activities. Other assignments at OSF include Director of the Distributed Environment Engineering group. This group was responsible for production of the DCE 1.1 and DME 1.1/Network Management Option technologies. David has been the manager of OSF's DCE effort from the announcement of the RFT in 1990. Prior to coming to OSF, David worked for Prime Computer as the manager of the Multiprocessor Operating Systems group, working on systems incorporating CMU Mach and Unix System V release 4 technology. Earlier, he led the Open Systems technology group, which developed a variety of networking products including SNA, TCP/IP, and OSI Ethernet. David holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and is holder of three U.S. patents. |