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
Experience
A+America, LP (June 2000 - Present)
Chief Technology Officer
  • Responsible for pre-IPO E-commerce school fundraising portal www.technology4kids.com
  • Research and development staff growing to 5. 
  • Duties include hands-on control of NT/Novell infrastructure, Internet connectivity, CRM, marketing support, Cold Fusion-based web site maintenance, competitive analysis.
Information Technology Systems, Inc. (1993 - June 2000)
Chief Technical Officer
  • Information Portals: Directed and developed 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 - June 2000) Part Time Instructor
  • Taught MBA course CS 776 E-commerce in Computers and Information Sciences department
  • Developed and taught Continuing Education in the Internet Systems Management certificate 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, Kingston, New York
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.