George R. Cross 
 
Summary
            25 years of professional experience in research and
            development in Computer Science including 10 years
            of university teaching experience in Computer Science.
 
Education
            Ph.D., Computer Science, Michigan State University, 
                   1980. 
            M.S., Computer Science, Michigan State University, 
                   1979. 
            M.A., Mathematics, State University of New York, 
                   College at New Paltz, 1973. 
            B.A., Mathematics, University of Rochester, 1969. 
            
Experience
	  * A+America (2000 - Present)
            Chief Technology Officer

            Responsible for E-commerce school fundraising portal
            www.technology4kids.com.  Research and development
            staff to grow to 5.  Duties include hands-on control
            of NT/Novell IT infrastructure, Internet connectivity,
            CRM, marketing support, web site maintenance.

          * Information Technology Systems, Inc. (1993 - 2000)
            Chief Technical Officer
            
            Information Portals: Currently directing and 
            developing content, community building, and 
            E-commerce features for the company-owned gaming 
            industry portals www.casinocity.com and 
            www.casinovendors.com.  Also responsible for ad 
            management, search engine optimization, customer 
            service. Staff of 5. 
            
            Internet Service Provider: As Director of Network 
            Services, built business from the ground up.  Hands 
            on experience with Windows NT server administration, 
            DNS administration, Cisco router configuration 
            (IOS), Frame Relay, MS SQL Server,  MS IIS Web 
            servers and E-commerce Web hosting services. Staff 
            of 3 
            
            Web Development: As an individual contributor, 
            developed database-oriented Web sites (Cold Fusion, 
            Visual Basic, PERL). 
            
            Product development: Built MUSE, a database add-on 
            tool for the CCA Model 204 database (IBM Assembly 
            Language) 
            
          * Bentley College, (1998-2000) Part Time Instructor

            Taught MBA course CS 776 E-commerce in Computers and 
               Information Sciences department 
            Developed and teach Continuing Education in the Internet
            Systems Management certicate program:
                SM 949C E-commerce
                SM 935C Internet Networking and Security
                SM 904C Web Management 

          * GTE Laboratories Incorporated (1991 - 1993)
            Principal Member of the Technical Staff,
            Service Applications and Technology Laboratory 

            Led project (team size 3), designed, and prototyped 
            a personalized information filtering system. 
            Sole designer and developer of a knowledge-based 
            remote diagnosis workstation for automation of a 
            Technical Assistance Center for hardware (Sun) and 
            software maintenance. 
            Team member of project to create a tool for 
            assessment of new service business opportunities. 
            Responsible for domain analysis, task analysis, 
            object-modeling of business enterprise. 
            
            Contel Technology Center (1989-1991) Principal Scientist, 
            Intelligent Systems Laboratory 

            Led project (team size 3), and designed remote 
            diagnosis system for hardware maintenance of a 
            network of secure computers. 
            Led project (team size 5) and principal designer of 
            system to assist in console operations and on-orbit 
            maintenance of the TDRSS satellite system 
            Responsible for internal and external business 
            development. Wrote funding proposals to internal 
            clients and Federal Government. 
             
          * Washington State University  (1985-1989) Assistant Professor, 
            Department of Computer Science 
             
          * Louisiana State University  (1981-1985) Assistant Professor, 
            Department of Computer Science 
             
          * Michigan State University  (1973-1980) Graduate Research
              Assistant, Department of Computer Science; 
              Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Mathematics 
             
          * IBM Corporation  (1969-1973) Senior Associate Programmer 
            
Publications
            Pattern Recognition and Image Processing:
               7 refereed journal papers, 
               7 conference proceedings and book chapters. 
            
            Artificial Intelligence:
               5 refereed journal papers,
               20 conference proceedings and book chapters.