EXPERIENCE

Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, September, 2004 - Present

Assistant Professor, Department of Software Engineering, Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences (GCCIS)

·         Teaching: Software Requirements, Verification and Validation, Information System Design, Introduction to Software Engineering

·         Research: Collaborative learning and knowledge management, model-driven development, software process engineering, cyberinfrastructure for environmental computing

University/Space Research Association - NASA, Huntsville, Alabama, Summer 2004

Visiting Researcher, NASA Technical Standards Program

·         Develop requirements and design for next-generation information system architecture for agency-wide technical standards search and delivery system

University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 1999 – 2004

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, College of Engineering

·         Teaching: undergraduate and graduate Software Engineering, Software Architecture, Human-Computer Interaction, Introduction to C++

·         Research:

o        NASA Standards Advisor: applying semantic web, formal modeling (ontologies, UML, process metamodels), information retrieval (metadata-driven search), and other advanced information technology to better create, manage, find, deliver, and use standards, lessons learned, and engineering process documentation for aerospace hardware and software design and manufacture

o        Architecture and behavior of situated action and observation agents cooperating on large-scale analysis and control applications – application to traffic safety analysis

o        Component-based software engineering processes and architectures

Motorola, Phoenix, Arizona and Austin, Texas, 1995 - 1999

Semiconductor Products Sector

CIM System Architect, Worldwide CIM Solutions, 1997-1999

·         Systems architect working in partnership with key suppliers to develop next-generation manufacturing execution system for semiconductor manufacturing.  Designed innovative data collection, storage and delivery architecture

·         Defined an Advanced Process Control Platform for use in all Motorola semiconductor factories, integrating and leveraging third-party analysis and control execution environments and advanced sensors and analyzers.  Architecture lead in factory pilot and in other Advanced Process Control applications

·         Primary author, SEMI Standard Domain Architecture for manufacturing execution systems (SEMI-STD-E81)

·         Championed concepts and practice in agile manufacturing and virtual organizations

Motorola -- On assignment to SeMaTech, Austin, Texas, 1995-1997

Program Manager, Project Manager, CIM Standards and CIM Framework Development

·         Project Manager and architect, then promoted to Program Manager for developing industry standards for CIM (Computer Integrated Manufacturing) Frameworks

-        Led definition, development, validation and adoption of the SeMaTech CIM Framework, an industry-consensus standard for an open, multi-supplier, plug-and-play application architecture for manufacturing execution systems in semiconductor fabrication.  It won the 1996 Object World award for the best use of object-oriented technology for software reuse. 

-        Created, participated in, and coordinated seven focused engineering teams formed from SeMaTech assignees and volunteers from SeMaTech member companies, suppliers, users, and standards bodies (over 30 participants from more than 15 companies) to achieve industry-wide consensus in the definition, validation and adoption of CIM Framework Specification and Architecture.  Obtained international participation in and led the creation and transition of these teams to SEMI Standards Task Forces (SEMI:  Semiconductor Equipment and Materials, International) and to leadership in OMG (Object Management Group) Manufacturing Domain Task Force and Business Object Domain Task Force standardization.

-        Participated in the Factory Integration Technology Working Group creating the SIA National Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors.  I championed and edited the Manufacturing Information and Execution Systems section, which identified technology needs through the next 15 years.

-        Project manager and program manager, responsible for budget ($1.8M/yr.), personnel (7 staff, plus 30 industry volunteers), program-level and project-level planning and management, supplier selection and performance, strategic planning, technology transfer, and industry coordination.

Honeywell, Inc., Phoenix, Arizona, 1991 - 1995

Industrial Automation and Control Division

System Architect: New product definition and opportunity assessment

·         Designed architecture for integration of manufacturing process control with production control

-        Defined information models and functional requirements for real-time, closed-loop control and reporting of product cost, quality, yield, and schedule in continuous process industries

-        Defined integration infrastructures with services including databases, real-time data caches, data communications and event propagation agents, application scheduling and invocation, and mechanisms to integrate object-oriented-style applications with relation­al- and procedural-style applications

-        Worked with cross-functional team to research make/buy options, recommend business alignment, and launch partnership for production control component of new product architecture

·         Defined client-server architecture and led client implementation for field trial of portable, radio-linked computer for use by mobile workers in hazardous industrial sites

-        Coordinated development for three-compa­ny, ten-person development team

-        Worked with marketing to develop a business feasibility assessment

Product Architect:  Process Control Engineering Workstation

·         Conceived and defined engineering workstation architecture featuring a tool integration infrastructure based on CASE frameworks, including an object-oriented database, common user interface, reusable base classes, and component-based tool invocation and visual editing

-        Led seven-person international team (including USA, Japan, and Europe) in architecture design, technology evaluation and selection, and development project structuring

-        Technical lead and architect on twenty-person team for detailed design and development of tool infrastructure services, including coordination with architects of overall next-generation control system

Honeywell, Inc., Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1988 - 1991

Defense Avionics Systems Division

System and Software Engineer: Flight and Mission Management Systems

·         Led design and prototype of a development facility for real-time, embedded expert systems including a knowledge engineering workstation, a real-time embedded inference engine with parallel execution, and a rule-base translation and optimization tool leveraging automatic program synthesis technology

·         Defined and prototyped knowledge-based system architecture to support and integrate flight management and mission management functions for military aircraft operations.  Worked with customers and corporate research to apply system to specific aircraft and missions

-        Defined modular partitioning and integration architecture for functions including sensor integration, situation assessment, action planning and reactive control, and combat crew interface

-        Leveraged Air Force Pilot's Associate results in informa­tion-based integration using a real-time control blackboard, terrain and feature databases, and real-time distributed database manage­ment

-        Provided threat, terrain, and geographic data models for planning and decision support on covert missions

Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 1984 - 1988

Institute for Robotics and Center for Design and Manufacturing Innova­tion

Graduate Research Assistant:  R&D of Knowledge-Based Control and Agile Manufacturing Systems

·         Conceived and developed an intelligent control system refer­ence model focusing on the representa­tion and coordinated use of world knowledge and goals in modular observa­tion/action agent controllers

-        Applied reference model to manufacturing information and control systems, dual-armed assembly robots, and autonomous underwater surveillance vehicles

-        Led an eight-person team to design and implement a dual-armed robot system for assembly tasks.  System integrates and coordinates two different robot arm controllers, a vision system, sonar proximity sensors, and gripper contact/force sensors

·         Developed concepts that helped lead to the definition of the Agile Manufacturing Enterprise.  Applied modular, agent-based control concepts, information modeling, and communications to improve manufacturing agility

·         Designed fiber optic plant for communications network for manufacturing automation

·         Co-taught graduate course in robotics and intelligent machines

·         Lectured on manufacturing systems engineering and computer communications networks for Manufacturing Engineering Systems program seminars, Manufacturing Excellence Symposia and industry seminars

AT&T Bell Laboratories, Whippany, New Jersey, 1982 - 1988  (Educational Leave, 1984 - 1987)

Signal Processing Software and Systems Engineer: Undersea Surveillance Systems

·         Conceived and defined a functional architecture for autonomous, underwater surveillance vehicles, including functions for sonar sensor processing and fusion, covert motion planning and control, and covert communica­tion

·         Developed, improved, and led field trials of new signal processing and display algorithms to improve signal detection performance and operator productivity

Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, 1981 - 1982

Electrical Engineering Department

·         Developed signal processing and data visualization tools for information analysis in geophysical exploration

·         Maintained and calibrated timing and sampling instrumentation for high-energy physics experiments

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Member IEEE (Computer; Software; Systems, Man and Cybernetics; Standards Association), ACM, American Society for Engineering Education, Standards Engineering Society, SEMI Standards, Association of Aerospace Standards Users

PUBLICATIONS

Gupta, S., Hawker, J.S.,  and Smith, R.K., “Acquiring and Delivering Lessons Learned for NASA Scientists and Engineers: A Dynamic Approach,”  2005 ACM Southeast Conference, Kennesaw, GA, March, 2005.

Yau, H.Y., and Hawker, J.S., “SA_MetaMatch: Document Discovery through Document Metadata and Indexing,” 2004 ACM Southeast Conference, Huntsville, AL, March, 2004.

Hawker, J.S., Ma, H., and Smith, R.K., “Web-Based Process and Process Models to Find and Deliver Information to Improve the Quality of Flight Software,” (Best Paper in Track) 2003 Digital Avionics Systems Conference, October, 2003.

Hawker, J.S., “Concepts for a Lessons Learned Software System,” in The 2003 NASA Faculty Fellowship Program Research Reports, NASA/CR—2004-213285, pp.XVI-1 – XVI-6 May, 2004.

Hawker, J.S., Massey, K.E., and Davis, S.M., “Re-Architecting a Data Analysis System to Enable Pluggable Tools and Data,” Computer Science Technical Report TR-2002-08, University of Alabama, October, 2002.

Hawker, J.S., “Integrating Process, Product, and People Models to Improve Software Engineering Capability,” Computer Science Technical Report TR-2002-05, University of Alabama, September, 2002.

Hawker, J.S., “A Three-Way Stakeholder Structure for Software Engineering Course Projects,” Computer Science Technical Report TR-2002-06, University of Alabama, September, 2002.

Hawker, J.S. and Massey, K.E., “Toward Distributed, Pluggable Tools and Data: Re-Engineering a Data Analysis Architecture,” Computer Science Technical Report TR-2002-07, University of Alabama, September, 2002.

Hawker, J.S., Woolridge, R., “A Process for Gaining Competence in Component-Based Development,” Computer Science Technical Report TR-2000-08, University of Alabama, September, 2000.

Burg, W.D., Hawker, J.S., et al., “Exploring a Comprehensive CBD Method: Use of CBD/e in Practice,” Third International Workshop on Component-Based Software Engineering, International Conference on Software Engineering, Limerick, Ireland, May, 2000.

Hawker, J.S., Hodges, R., et al., “Provisional Standard for CIM Framework Domain Architecture,” Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI) Standard #E81-0699, SEMI, Inc., Mountain View, CA, 1999.  (An international industry standards document)

Hawker, J.S., “CIM Framework Architecture and Application Models,” in Information Infrastructure Systems for Manufacturing II, J.J. Mills and F. Kimura, Editors, pp. 201-214, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, 1999.

Hawker, J.S., SEMATECH CIM Framework Architecture Concepts, Principles and Guidelines.  Technology Transfer #96123214A-ENG, SEMATECH, Austin, Texas, 1996. 

Hawker, J.S., Waskiewicz, F.W., “Agility enabled by the SEMATECH CIM Framework.”  Plug and Play Software for Agile Manufacturing in SPIE’s Photonics East 1996 Conference, Boston Massachusetts, November 18, 1996.

Hawker, J.S., An Organization for Intelligent Robot Control, Ph.D. Dissertation, Lehigh University, October, 1990.

Hawker, J.S. and Nagel, R.N., “World Models in Intelligent Control Systems,” Proceedings of the 1987 IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control, pp. 482-488.

Hawker, J.S. and Nagel, R.N., “Integration of a Dual-Arm Control System,” Proceedings of the 1986 SME Robotics Research Conference, MS86-776.

Hawker, J.S., Nagel, R.N., et al., “Multiple Robotic Manipulators,” BYTE Magazine, Vol. 11, No. 1, January, 1986, pp. 203-219.

PRESENTATIONS

“The NASA Standards Advisor Program: Towards a Next-Generation Information System Architecture,” presented at Rochester Institute of Technology Conference on Computing and Information Sciences, January 21, 2005.

“An Integrated Process/Product Component Model for Software Engineering,”

 presented at University of Alabama Computer Science Graduate Research Colloquium, September 28, 2001.

“Components from an Industry Perspective,” presented at NSF Component-Based Software Development Workshop, June 15, 2001.

“So You Know How to Program.  Now What?” at the University of Alabama ACM Student Chapter meeting, September 18, 2000.

“Enterprise Integration Standards” at the ERP 2000 Workshop, University of Alabama, April 7, 2000.

“The SEMI CIM Framework: Standards for Semiconductor Manufacturing Executions System Integration” at the University of Alabama Industrial Engineering Graduate Seminar, February 15, 2000.

“CIM Framework Architecture and Application Models” at the 1998 Conference on the Design of Information Infrastructure Systems for Manufacturing, Arlington, Texas, May, 1998.

“SEMI North America CIM Framework Standards Task Force – Status Report.”  Invited presentation at the SEMI Japan CIM Framework Technical Education Program (STEP), Tokyo, Japan, December 5, 1997.

“Semiconductor Industry Trends and SEMATECH CIM Framework Update.”  Invited presentation, IBM SiView/POSEIDON User Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona, September 23, 1997.

“The SEMATECH CIM Framework.”  Invited presentation for the European Open Workshop, Munich, Germany, July 11, 1997.

“SEMATECH CIM Framework.”  Invited presentation, IBM POSEIDON User Symposium, Tokyo, Japan, May 21, 1997.

“The SEMATECH CIM Framework: a Standard Specification for Adaptive, Responsive Manufacturing Information Systems.”  Invited presentation for the 1997 National Manufacturing Technology Conference, Gaithersburg, Maryland, April 17, 1997.

“The SEMATECH CIM Framework: An Agility Enabler.”  Presented at the 1997 Agility Conference, San Diego, California, March 6, 1997.

“CIM Framework Tutorial.”  Half-day tutorial at ESPRIT EuroFrame Workshop, Munich, Germany, February, 1997

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FUNDED RESEARCH

“Standards Advisor: MetaMatch, 7120.5B Web Portal, and Integrating Training and Lessons Learned,”  NASA Marshall Space Flight Center and National Space Science Technology Consortium, $57,223, May 2003 – May 2004 (Principal Investigator).

“ED14 Interactive Software Process,”  NASA Marshall Space Flight Center and National Space Science Technology Consortium, $25,000,  May 2003 – May 2004 (Co-Principal Investigator).

“Standards Advisor Web Portal,” NASA Marshall Space Flight Center and University Space Research Association, $13,572, August 2002 – May 2003 (Principal Investigator).

 “Systems and Data Enrichment for Traffic Safety,” North Carolina Department of Transportation, $105,420, October 2001 – September 2002.

NASA Faculty Fellow, $13,500, May 2002 – August 2002;  $13,500, May 2003 – August 2003.

“ERP 2000: The Supply Chain and the Internet,” NSF, $10,000, April, 2000.