2005 RFID Fall Forum Biographies

Opening Plenary
The Promise of RFID Technology: What Is It and What's All the Buzz About?
Tuesday, December 6, 2005
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Moderator:

Delegate Joe T. May
P.O. Box 406
Richmond, VA 23218
804-698-1033
Del_may@house.state.va.us
Delegate Joe May is currently serving his fifth term in the Virginia House of Delegates. He is chairman of the Science and Technology Committee, the Joint Commission on Technology and Science, and the Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce and Technology. He has sponsored numerous technology and commerce based laws. He was a key participant in Governor Warner's recently enacted IT reform-bill. In September 2000, he received the Governor's Legislative Leadership Award in Technology. Delegate May currently serves as Vice Chair of the Foundation for State Legislatures (FSL) Partnership Project on Identity Security. Delegate May, a member of the Virginia Society of Professional Engineers who holds 19 patents, is founder and CEO of the Virginia based electronic engineering and manufacturing firm, EIT. In 2001 he received the Greater Washington Area "Engineer of the Year Award" and was named "Virginia Biotechnology Legislator of the Year." Delegate May is a graduate of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute.

Speakers

Paula Bruening
Staff Counsel
Center for Democracy and Technology
1634 Eye Street NW #1100
Washington DC, 20006
202-637-9800
pbruening@cdt.org
Paula Bruening is Staff Counsel for the Center for Democracy and Technology. CDT is a non-profit, public interest organization that is dedicated to developing and implementing public policies to protect civil liberties and democratic values on the Internet. In her work at CDT she focuses on privacy and defense of the First Amendment on the Internet. Prior to her arrival at CDT, she was the Director of Compliance and Policy for TRUSTe, the online privacy seal program, where she was responsible for compliance and for working with the government on evolving privacy policy. While with TRUSTe, she served on the Federal Trade Commission Advisory Committee on Access and Security. Before that, Ms. Bruening was Senior Attorney-Advisor for the Office of Chief Counsel, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, US Department of Commerce, where she worked closely with the White House to advise the Clinton Administration on a wide range of domestic and international electronic commerce and Internet issues.

She began her work in information policy at the US Congress Office of Technology Assessment, where she authored Protecting Privacy in Computerized Medical Information, and was co-author of Information Security and Privacy in Networked Environments and Finding a Balance: Computer Software, Intellectual Property and the Challenge of Technological Change. Ms Bruening served as an onsite consultant to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris, France, and has written and spoken extensively on information policy issues in the US and in Europe. Her recent publications include Consumer Privacy In the Electronic Marketplace, and Is Privacy Possible in the 21st Century? published by the New School for Social Research.

Ms. Bruening began her career in the practice of intellectual property law with Cushman, Darby & Cushman in Washington, DC. She holds a bachelor's degree from John Carroll University and earned her law degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Law.

Michael A. Malik
Customer Care Team Leader
Department of Technology and Information
State of Delaware
801 Silver Lake Blvd
Dover, Delaware 19904
mike.malik@state.de.us
In his current assignment Mr. Malik leads the Customer Care Team for the Department of Technology and Information in the State of Delaware. The Customer Care Team is responsible for owning and maintaining the relationship between DTI, the various state agencies and school districts. The Customer Care Team is available to assist agencies in Business Case Summary Process and serve as an interface with the various technical teams in DTI. The Customer Care Team is also responsible for informing customers of new technological development and new IT solutions or tools that can be leveraged to meet their business needs.

Prior to that, Mr. Malik managed the infrastructure coordinate the day-to-day planning, design, operations, and maintenance of LAN/WAN assets, e-mail and network security for Playtex Products a consumer products company and one of Wal-Mart’s top 100 suppliers selected to be part of the initial RFID pilot.

As Principal Network Engineer for SSDS, Inc. Mr. Malik provided telecommunications support to the Criminal Justice Information Services Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation and was lead engineer for the design and deployment a new nation wide network for the transmission of digital fingerprints.

During his career with the United States Air Force, Mr. Malik served many roles including Chief, Network Support at Dover AFB where he was responsible for construction, procurement, installation, testing, integration and maintenance of the base metropolitan area network.

Steven A.N. Shafer
Senior Researcher
Microsoft Corporation
One Microsoft Way
Redmond , WA 98052
425-703-1298
stevensh@microsoft.com
Dr. Steven A. N. Shafer is a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Corporation working in the area of ubiquitous computing. Dr. Shafer was a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon until 1995. He founded the Calibrated Imaging Laboratory, working on the modeling of color, highlights, texture, lens and camera optics. He also worked on robot driving in the NAVLAB robot truck project. Dr. Shafer was a founder and later Chair of the Robotics Doctoral Program at Carnegie Mellon, and helped establish the Human-Computer Interaction Institute. Dr. Shafer joined Microsoft in 1995, where he started the EasyLiving project to develop an architecture for building intelligent environments. His current work is in location awareness and RFID. He is past Chair of the Institute for Electronics and Electrical Engineering (IEEE) PAMI TC -- the primary scientific organization for computer vision – and he is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Pervasive Computing magazine. He also serves on the Program Committees of numerous recent conferences in pervasive and ubiquitous computing. Dr. Shafer is one of the Microsoft representatives at EPCglobal, an international RFID standards organization, and is a co-author of the Microsoft RFID Privacy whitepaper. He received his BA from the University of Florida in 1976, and his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon in 1983.

Tres Wiley
Director eDocuments
Texas Instruments
Dallas, Texas
treswiley@ti.com
Tres Wiley has more than 25 years of experience in developing and fielding new technologies in governmental and commercial markets with over six of those years in RFID. He has spent three as a strategist with Texas Instruments, shaping their supply chain, contactless payments, and electronic documents businesses from a tag perspective. He has spent the other three years in RFID on the reader side of the equation as president of SAMSys Technologies, a provider of multi-protocol RFID readers used in a variety of markets.

Prior to joining Texas Instruments he worked for 20 years with Motorola’s Space, Systems, and Technology Group. There he was involved in a variety of technologies, including side-looking radar, GPS, biometrics, and information security.

His career has included roles in engineering, engineering management, program management, marketing, and general corporate management. His education includes a BA in physics from Occidental College, MSEE from the University of Arizona, and MBA from UCLA.

Identification Systems/Transportation Security
Wednesday, December 7, 2005
8:30 am - 9:45 am

Senator Debra Bowen
State Capitol, Room 4040
Sacramento, CA 95814
916-445-5953
Senator.Bowen@sen.ca.gov
Working to "make government make sense" has been Senator Debra Bowen's aim ever since she was first elected to the Legislature in 1992. After serving in the Assembly for six years, Senator Bowen was elected to the California State Senate in November 1998. During her time in office, Senator Bowen has focused her attention on opening government to the people, protecting the environment, overhauling California's dysfunctional electricity market, and protecting consumers. She sponsored landmark legislation to unlock the Legislature's computer files, giving computer users instant access to information about bills, committee analyses and legislators' voting records via the Internet. She also authored the California Digital Signature Act, and her "anti-spam" legislation gives consumers and businesses the ability to guard against unsolicited email. Senator Bowen has written numerous laws to prevent identity theft, including SB 168, a first-in-the-nation law giving people the right to freeze access to their credit reports and preventing businesses from using Social Security numbers as public identifiers. Senator Bowen also introduced privacy legislation to stop secret monitoring of employee email and Internet use. In 2004, Senator Bowen authored SB 1834 to prevent businesses from using radio frequency identification (RFID) tags attached to consumer products or an RFID reader to gather, store, use, or share information that could be used to identify an individual unless the entity complies with certain conditions. In 2005, Senator Bowen introduced SB 852 to expand California’s security breach notification law, SB 13, to protect personal information held in state agency databases, and SB 1016 to protect voters’ privacy. Senator Bowen was chairwoman of the Senate Energy, Utilities & Communications Committee from 1999 to 2004, and is currently serving as chairwoman of the Senate Elections, Reapportionment & Constitutional Amendments Committee. Senator Bowen serves on the Appropriations, Energy, Utilities & Communications, Government Modernization, Efficiency & Accountability, Natural Resources & Water, Revenue & Taxation, and Rules committees. She graduated from Michigan State University and earned her law degree from the University of Virginia.

Frank Moss
Deputy Assistant Secretary, Passport Services
U.S. Department of State
2201 C Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20520
202-647-5366
MOSSFE@state.gov
Frank Moss is the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Passport Services of the Bureau of Consular Affairs of the Department of State. He is responsible for overall management of the Department's efforts to adjudicate and produce passports for more than 10 million American citizen customers each year. He has served in this position since January 2003.

Prior to his current assignment he served between 1998 and 2003 as the Executive Director of the Bureau of Consular Affairs of the Department of State, where he received a Presidential Meritorious Rank Award in 2002 for his service as the Executive Director.

He also served as the Senior Advisor for Border Security to the Assistant Secretary for Consular Affairs. Prior to joining the Bureau of Consular Affairs, Frank Moss served from 1987-1994 in the Office of the Coordinator for Counter-terrorism.

Frank Moss also was the Refugee Coordinator at the US Embassy in Khartoum, Sudan from 1985-87. He also served with the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees from 1982-85 and was assigned to the UNHCR office in Islamabad, Pakistan, where he managed relief programs for Afghan refugees.

Neville Pattinson
Director of Business Development
Technology & Government Affairs
Axalto Inc.
8311 North FM 620 Rd.
Austin, Texas 78726
512-257-3982
pattinson@axalto.com
Neville Pattinson is the director of Business Development, Technology and Government Affairs for the Smart Cards, IT and Public Sector division of Axalto in North America.

Pattinson is an ISC² Certified Information Systems Security Professional. He is a member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals, a Board Member of the International Biometric Industry Association and Chairman/Secretary for OpenCard Consortium.

Previously, he was director of Technical Support for Mobile Communications at Axalto (formally Schlumberger). Immediately prior to this appointment, Pattinson was the program manager responsible for obtaining the first ever FIPS 140-1 Level 2 certification for the Java^TM-based Schlumberger Cyberflex* Access Smart Card and its integration in the Department of Defense Common Access Card program. He was also responsible for the introduction of Cyberflex Access and accompanying middleware into the Schlumberger-wide corporate smart card-based PKI.

Pattinson graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electronic Engineering from Leicester Polytechnic in England in 1984.

Rei Onishi
Legislative Aide
State Capitol, Room 4062
Sacramento, CA 95814
916-651-4011
rei.onishi@sen.ca.gov
Rei Onishi is a Legislative Aide in the office of California State Senator Joe Simitian, who represents the Silicon Valley and Santa Cruz areas. Rei specializes in technology and privacy legislation and also staffs the Senator on education, public safety, and diversity issues. He is the lead staff member for Senator Simitian’s SB 768 (formerly SB 682), which ensures that government-issued identification documents that transmit information using RFID have meaningful privacy and security safeguards.

Prior to joining the California State Senate as a legislative aide, Rei wrote for Let’s Go Publications as a travel writer, co-authoring Let’s Go Mexico 2002 and Let’s Go Barcelona 2003, served as a research analyst at the Radcliffe Public Policy Center and the Harvard Department of Government, taught in Japan through the JET Program, and was awarded a California Senate Fellowship from the California State Senate and the Center for California Studies.

Rei is an active member of the Asian Pacific Islander Legislative Staff Caucus. Born in Okinawa, Japan, he grew up in the Sacramento area and graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. in Social Studies and Philosophy.

David E. Williams
Vice President, Policy
Citizens Against Government Waste
1301 Connecticut Ave., NW
Suite 400
Washington, DC 20036
202-467-5300
dwilliams@cagw.org
David E. Williams is a vice president for Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW). His responsibilities include supervision of the research, media, and legislative departments; maintenance and updating of research and library materials; development of position papers on government waste and related public policy issues; and briefing media on findings. Mr. Williams also writes for the CAGW quarterly newsletter.

During his career, Mr. Williams has worked on many projects, both as a researcher and as supervisor and co-writer, including several editions of the Congressional Pig Book, a detailed analysis of Congress' appropriations bills which has been cited in numerous media outlets and in Congressional hearings and floor speeches; and Prime Cuts, an analysis of duplicative and unnecessary programs throughout the entire Executive Branch. He has also written and delivered testimony to various Congressional subcommittees, including the House Budget Committee.

Mr. Williams is a graduate of Kutztown University, receiving his BS in Telecommunications in 1988. He has also earned a Masters in Political Science from Villanova University.

Libraries & Schools
Tuesday, December 6, 2005
3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Moderator:

Representative David L. Hogue
318 State Capitol
Salt Lake City, UT 84114
801-538-1029
dhogue@utah.gov
Representative Hogue is serving his fifth term in the Utah House. He currently serves as a chairman of the Executive Offices and Criminal Justice Appropriations Subcommittee, and as a member of the House Education and Judiciary Committees. During the 2003 legislative session he introduced the “Radio Frequency Right to Know Act” which passed the House but died in the Senate after session time expired.

Speakers:

Ashi Majid
Marketing Manager, RFID and Transit Solutions
Contactless Memories and RFID Marketing
Infineon
1730 North First Street
San Jose CA. 95112
408-501 6590
ashi.majid@infineon.com
Ashi Majid, Marketing Manager RFID and Transit Solutions, has led the RFID team at Infineon for the past four years. Mr. Majid, a graduate of Cal Poly and the University of Santa Clara, has been in the electronics field for the past 25 years. With experience from the Wireless segment, Mr. Majid has led marketing efforts for Cellular, Bluetooth, and Cordless applications. He has transitioned to security ICs and Solutions, seeing the opportunity for growth in this area. He has had past business relationships with National Semiconductor, Honeywell, Data General, and Plessey Semiconductors. He is an active member of EPCglobal and ISO Standards committee.

Deborah Caldwell-Stone
Deputy Director, Office for Intellectual Freedom
American Library Association
50 East Huron
Chicago, IL 60611
800-545-2433
dstone@ala.org
Deborah Caldwell-Stone serves as the Deputy Director for the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom, where she works on projects dealing with censorship and privacy in libraries. An attorney by training, she practiced appellate law before the state and federal courts in Chicago before joining the ALA in 2000. She now works closely with librarians to address various intellectual freedom issues affecting libraries, including the use of Internet filtering, the removal of books and materials from library shelves, and the impact of new technologies and the USA PATRIOT Act on user privacy. She is an honors graduate of the Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology.

Darrell Walery
Director of Technology
Consolidated High School District 230
15100 South 94th Avenue
Orland Park, IL 60462
708-745-5203
dwalery@d230.org
Darrell Walery is Director of Technology for Consolidated High School District 230. District 230 consists of three High Schools serving over 9000 students in the southwest suburbs of Chicago. Mr. Walery started his work in the District as a science teacher in 1978. In 1995, he became the district’s first Director of Technology. He has a keen interest in new technologies and currently is on the Executive Committee of the Consortium for School Networking’s Emerging Technologies Committee. He has presented at several National Technology conferences and has written articles for national educational technology magazines.

Medical/Health Care
Wednesday, December 7, 2005
10:00 am -11:15 am

Moderator:

Speakers:

Pam Dixon
Executive Director
World Privacy Forum
California
760-436-2489
info2005@worldprivacyforum.org
Pam Dixon founded the World Privacy Forum in November, 2003. An author and a researcher, she was formerly a research fellow with the Privacy Foundation at Denver University's Sturm School of Law. There, she researched and wrote about workplace and technology-related privacy issues in a series of ground-breaking reports. She was the principal investigator and author of the first sector-wide study of job applicant privacy, a report a year in its research that was released in November 2003. Other reports she has written document, for the first time, job applicant privacy issues on resume databases and on online job sites. She has written extensively about technology both as a book author and as a former New Media columnist for the San Diego Union Tribune. Ms. Dixon has written seven books, including two critically acclaimed books on job searching using the Internet. She wrote the first book to ever be published about the subject, a book for Random House / Times Books which went on to be a finalist for the Computer Press Awards. Her book on distance education is a classic and is used in college classrooms today.

Representative Mary Flowers
House of Representatives
251-E Stratton Office Building
Springfield, IL 62706
217-782-4207
mflowers@hdsmail.state.il.us
Representative Mary Flowers has served the Illinois House of Representatives since 1985. She is Chairperson of the Committee on Health Care Availability Access and serves on the Human Services, Appropriations-Elementary & Secondary Education; International Trade & Commerce; and the Fee-For-Service Initiatives Committees. She also services on the KidCare Subcommittee. Representative Flowers attended Kennedy King Community College and the University of Illinois-Chicago Circle. She received the 1993 "Legislator of the Year" award from Illinois Alcoholism and Drug Dependence Association.

David A. Gonzales
Director, State Government Relations
Healthcare Distribution Management Association
901 North Glebe Road
Suite 1000
Arlington, VA 22203
703-787-0000
dgonzales@hdmanet.org
David Gonzales, director of state government relations for the Healthcare Distribution Management Association, has nearly 20 years experience in public policy development, advocacy, and communications. David has developed a recognized expertise in health care policy as it relates to the legislative and regulatory process. He regularly testifies before legislative committees and works closely with senior state agency administrators to formulate and implement health care policies.

Prior to joining HDMA, David served as the Senior Director of Public Affairs for the Texas Pharmacy Association where he was responsible for developing legislative strategy, coordinating coalition building, and cultivating working relationships with key policymakers and their staff. While at TPA, David managed legislative and policy communications including the content and message for TPA press releases, electronic communications, journal and newsletter articles, and public presentations.

David’s background includes directing public affairs and representing the interests of 550 independent Texas pharmacists on a variety of state legislative and regulatory health care issues. As the Director of Governmental Affairs and later the Vice President of Public Affairs for Legend Pharmacy, David served as the primary spokesperson and advocate for independent pharmacists at the Texas Capitol. Throughout his tenure with Legend Pharmacy, he served as the Treasurer and Administrator for the Texas Independent Pharmacy Political Action Committee (Pharmacy PAC).

David also served the Texas Senate for nearly a decade, where he worked for a State Senator as legislative aide. During his years at the Texas Senate, David coordinated legislative policy and monitored wide-ranging public policy issues. David's career also includes work with an Austin-based public relations firm, serving as an assistant congressional campaign manager, and managing his own consulting firm.

Elliot E. Maxwell
Fellow, Communications Program
Johns Hopkins University
5001 Worthington Drive
Bethesda, Maryland 20816
301.229.8575
emaxwell@emaxwell.net
Elliot E. Maxwell advises public and private sector clients on strategic issues involving the intersection of business, technology, and public policy in the Internet and E-commerce domains. He is a Fellow of the Communications Program at Johns Hopkins University, and Distinguished Research Fellow at the eBusiness Research Center of the Pennsylvania State University. He also advises EPCglobal, the entity implementing the Electronic Product Code version of radio frequency identification (RFID).

From 1998 until 2001, Maxwell served as Special Advisor for the Digital Economy to U.S. Secretary of Commerce William Daley and U. S. Secretary of Commerce Norm Mineta. In this position he was the principal advisor to the Secretary on the Internet and E-commerce. He coordinated the Commerce Department's efforts to establish a legal framework for electronic commerce, ensure privacy, protect intellectual property, increase Internet security, encourage broadband deployment, expand Internet participation, and analyze the impact of electronic commerce on all aspects of the economy. He was deeply involved in the development of E-government activities and was a founding member of the Federal Interagency Working Group on Electronic Commerce.

After leaving the government he was Senior Fellow for the Digital Economy and Director of the Internet Policy Project for the Aspen Institute’s Communications and Society Program. The Communications and Society Program focuses on the impact of communications and information technologies on democratic institutions, the economy, individual behavior, and community life.

Previously, Maxwell worked for a number of years as a consultant and as Assistant Vice President for Corporate Strategy of Pacific Telesis Group where he combined business, technology, and public policy planning. He served at the Federal Communications Commission as Special Assistant to the Chairman, Deputy Chief of the Office of Plans and Policy, and Deputy Chief of the Office of Science and Technology. Maxwell also worked for the U.S. Senate as Senior Counsel to the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Activities.

Maxwell graduated from Brown University and Yale University Law School. He has written and spoken widely on issues involving the Internet, electronic commerce, telecommunications, and technology policy. His most recent work, "Promoting Innovation and Economic Growth: The Special Problem of Digital Intellectual Property," was issued by the Committee for Economic Development. His study of Internet Governance “Rethinking Boundaries in Cyberspace,” written with Erez Kalir, was published by the Aspen Institute.

Retail & Business Applications
Tuesday, December 6, 2005
2:15 pm - 3:30 pm

Moderator:

Speakers:

Jürgen Reinold
Senior Director of Technology
Advanced Development, Architecture, Standards, and Intellectual Property
Motorola
Juergen.Reinold@motorola.com
Jürgen Reinold is Senior Director of Technology, Advanced Development, Architecture, Standards, and Intellectual Property for Motorola’s Asset Visibility Systems business. He directs the creation of visionary architectures for Asset Visibility Solutions, leads Motorola’s world-wide standards activities in this field, and identifies and incubates the enabling technologies in the areas of automatic asset identification, location determination, telemetry gathering, and control.

Since joining the Motorola Computer Group in Düsseldorf, Germany in 1989, Jürgen held various positions with increasing responsibility in Europe and the US in pre-sales support, post-sales support, system software development, computer system performance evaluation, advanced systems architecture, technology management, intellectual property management, and strategy. He was the Chief Systems Architect for Motorola’s StarMax PRO 6000 desktop computer, “The Fastest Personal Computer on Earth” according to the MacWEEK magazine in August 1997.

Jürgen joined Motorola’s Corporate Technology organization in 2002 where he was instrumental in launching the Advanced Technology Businesses organization. He created well structured patent portfolios in Motorola Labs and supported the commercialization and licensing of Motorola’s technology assets. Commercialization efforts in the asset tracking space led to the creation of Motorola’s Asset Visibility Systems organization as in internal startup in 2003.

Jürgen received his Diplom-Informatiker degree (Master in Computer Science) from the Rheinisch-Westfählische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen in Germany. In addition to internal conferences, Jürgen presented several papers at IEEE and ACM conferences and is a frequent speaker and panelist at industry events such as the MIT Enterprise Forum. He holds over forty issued or filed US patents and is a Motorola Science Advisory Board Associate.

Richard J. Varn, President
RJV Consulting
620 42nd St
Des Moines, IA 50312-2732
515- 255-3650
rjmvarn@msn.com
Richard J. Varn is President and founder of RJV Consulting. His firm, founded in 1988, serves public and private sector clients and specializes in information technology, business strategy, innovation, and public policy consulting. He is a Senior Fellow with the Center for Digital Government, a Technology Policy Advisor to the National Retail Federation, and serves on the Board of Trustees for the Educational Testing Service. He is currently engaged as the Chief Technology Officer for the Business Gateway, a federal initiative to implement enterprise e-forms solutions and streamline regulatory processes.

Mr. Varn’s first career was in public service. He began in 1981 as a state legislative staff person. He went on to win elected office and served as a State Representative for four years and as a State Senator for eight years. During that time, he was twice elected Majority Whip, created and chaired the first Communications and Information Policy Committee, and chaired the Education Appropriations, Human Services Appropriations, and Judiciary Committees. He was the first Iowa legislator to install and use a computer in the Iowa legislative chambers. He left the legislature in 1994 to teach and be Director of Telecommunications and IT Production Services at the University of Northern Iowa. There he led a successful reorganization of the technology departments and created numerous innovative e-learning programs. He returned to state government in 1999 to create the state’s first Information Technology Department, and he served as its first Director and as the state's first CIO. Mr. Varn returned to full-time consulting in 2003.

Mr. Varn has received numerous awards and recognitions for his public service. He was named twice to the Federal 100, he received the National Association of State Chief Information Officers Outstanding Achievement Award in the Field of Information Technology for Iowa's Return on Investment Program, and he received the Award for Outstanding Support for Distance Learning from the Iowa Distance Learning Association. His degrees and academic honors include membership in Phi Beta Kappa and numerous other honor societies, a B. A. with honors in Political Science, and a Juris Doctorate, with distinction, from the University of Iowa.

Closing Plenary
Luncheon RFID: Policy Issues & Options
Wednesday, December 7, 2005
11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Moderator:

Delegate Joe T. May
P.O. Box 406
Richmond, VA 23218
804-698-1033
Del_may@house.state.va.us
Delegate Joe May is currently serving his fifth term in the Virginia House of Delegates. He is chairman of the Science and Technology Committee, the Joint Commission on Technology and Science, and the Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce and Technology. He has sponsored numerous technology and commerce based laws. He was a key participant in Governor Warner's recently enacted IT reform-bill. In September 2000, he received the Governor's Legislative Leadership Award in Technology. Delegate May currently serves as Vice Chair of the Foundation for State Legislatures (FSL) Partnership Project on Identity Security. Delegate May, a member of the Virginia Society of Professional Engineers who holds 19 patents, is founder and CEO of the Virginia based electronic engineering and manufacturing firm, EIT. In 2001 he received the Greater Washington Area "Engineer of the Year Award" and was named "Virginia Biotechnology Legislator of the Year." Delegate May is a graduate of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute.

Speakers:

Marc-Anthony Signorino
Director and Counsel, Technology & Environmental Policy
Executive Director, AeA State Government Affairs
American Electronics Association (AeA)
Washington, D.C.
202-682-4428
marc-anthony_signorino@aeanet.org
Marc-Anthony Signorino is Director and Counsel of Technology and Environmental Policy, as well as the Director of State Government Affairs at AeA (formerly the American Electronics Association), in Washington, D.C. At AeA, Mr. Signorino advises Congress and various Executive Branch agencies on issues ranging from e-commerce and telecom legislation to intellectual property law and environmental policy. Mr. Signorino also chairs a number of committees in AeA’s State Policy Action Network (SPAN), a grassroots state lobbying effort for the high–tech industry, coordinating the efforts of AeA’s 18 regional offices across the country with over 2,500 member companies. Mr. Signorino’s SPAN Committees include Online Privacy/Spam, Broadband Deployment, E-waste, and Intellectual Property. Mr. Signorino is also the Project Director for AeA’s RFID Initiative, a systematic program for addressing the issues surrounding the increasing applications and use of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology both in the US and abroad.

Prior to AeA, Mr. Signorino was employed by eBay as a Policy Analyst in their Washington, DC Government Affairs office. Mr. Signorino worked on such issues as Database Protection, Online Privacy, and Online Consumer Protection, as well as coordinated eBay’s political efforts.

Mr. Signorino has also served as Executive Vice President of Forum Provisions, a Boston area food brokerage. Prior to that, he was a Copywriter at Mullen Advertising & Public Relations, writing ads and PR pieces for Reebok Golf, Digital Electronics Corporation, Timberland, and Rolls Royce/Bentley Automobiles. He was awarded two New England Hatch Awards for Advertising Excellence.

Mr. Signorino studied law both at Georgetown University Law Center and Northeastern University School of Law, the latter of which granted him a Juris Doctorate. He received his Bachelors of Science at Boston University’s College of Communication, where he was an International Radio & Television Society Scholar and the recipient of Boston University’s Scarlet.

Lisa Wallmeyer
Executive Director
Joint Commission on Technology and Science
910 Capitol Street
Richmond , VA 23219-3404
804-786-3591
lwallmeyer@leg.state.va.us
Lisa Wallmeyer serves as the executive director of the Virginia Joint Commission on Technology and Science, a 12-member legislative commission to study and develop public policy related to science and technology in the Commonwealth. When the General Assembly is in session, she also serves as counsel to the House Committee on Militia, Police, and Public Safety and the Senate Finance Committee. Ms. Wallmeyer graduated from Washington and Lee University, and received a law degree and a master's degree in mass communications from the University of Florida.