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Chief Scientist in the Environmental Community / Safety Engineering

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© Wayne B. Norris 2010

Professional Summary: Extensive experience in management, business, finance, accounting, engineering, software development, and scientific research.  Currently Chief Scientist of a government services and technology R&D firm.  Previously President and Chief Financial Officer of a publicly traded technology firm with 130 employees and 3 offices on 2 continents.  Personally closed over $30 million in product and service sales.  Negotiated mergers to $20 million.  Program manager for an RFID-based repair and maintenance Supply Chain Management System for the US Army.  Inventor of a patented nuclear particle beam system for battlefield explosives detection (US Patent 7,573,044 B2; others pending).  Former host of a weekly radio talk show, Business and Technology.

RECENT EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Chief Scientist, BOSSdev, Inc., family of companies  2005 - current

• BOSSdev is a technology provider specializing in multiple systems for major US and international firms and the US military community.

• Duties:

• Strategic positioning, Technology Management of US Government contracts, Customer relationship management, security solution engineering, representation of the company to government and industry.  I am a regular presenter on Capitol Hill and at the Pentagon's Joint Improvised Explosives Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO).

• Created a Series A Preferred / Series B common structure for a solar energy utility to be added to a California public power district

• With a support team, won a contract for security audits of all Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration facilities.

• With a support team, won a contract for supply chain management / data mining for all US Army armored vehicle parts and maintenance operations.  I was the first Program Manager of the resulting I-LIMBS [Intelligent Logistics Information Management and Bridge System] supply chain middleware project for the US Army Tank Command’s Tank Automotive Research and Development Center [TACOM/TARDEC].

• Chief Designer and Program Manager of a patented Improvised Explosive Device [IED] detect/defeat system using Thermal Neutron Activation Analysis.  Successful tests were performed at the Radiochemical Engineering Development Center at Oak Ridge National Laboratories [REDC/ORNL] and at BOSSdev's laboratories in Redwood City, CA.  The company was awarded Congressional funding in the 2008 Defense Budget.

• Chief Scientist for our line of millimeter and terahertz microwave security cameras, which can detect hidden liquid explosives under clothing without invading personal privacy, in final negotiations for placement at US airports:  http://www.defendertech.com/threatdetection.php.  [Interviewed on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 on August 10, 2006 about this camera system and its capabilities as a result of the disclosure of the London bomb plot]

• Former host of a radio show, Business and Technology, on KZSB-AM 1290 and streamed live on the Web at www.newspress.com.  Previous guests include the Outreach Coordinator for the Central Intelligence Agency’s In-Q-Tel Venture Capital firm, as well as numerous other technology leaders.

President, Chief Financial Officer, and Board Member, Offshore Creations, Inc.,  2003 – 2005 [acquired by BOSSdev, Inc.]

Offshore Creations, Inc. was a publicly traded 130-person US-based multinational software engineering firm with 4 campuses in the United States and engineering offices in Ukraine.  It was acquired by my present firm.  OSC and its successor business unit supply IT products and services, web services, and static art and animation to more than 100 customers from the US and Europe.  Users of OSC software include Disney, Warner Brothers, the Department of Homeland Security, the US Navy, the US Army, the German Air Force, Brunswick Corporation, and more than 100 others.

Duties:

• Designed the financial and capital structure and reporting system, authored the internal financial processes, trained the senior financial and bookkeeping staff, and managed all financial and audit operations.

• Responsible for all US regulatory agency reporting and liaison, including SEC and NASD reporting responsive to GAAP, FAS, SAB, and SOP standards.

• Authored the company’s Form 10, including the MD&A.

• Responsible for developing and implementing company performance metrics, job costing standards, and related management accounting standards.

• Responsible for all tax planning and reporting to US taxation authorities and generating output for reporting to foreign tax authorities.

• Responsible for our outside finance instruments, primarily debentures.

• Responsible for all financial aspects of the company’s merger.

SUMMARY OF CAREER EXPERIENCE

• Financial, Corporate and, Engineering Management in the following areas:
  • Defense industry, focusing on Force Protection, asymmetric warfare, and counterterrorism / weapons detection
  • Neutron and gamma ray physics
  • Web based Real-time 3-D visualized stock market reporting systems
  • Point of Sale [POS] systems
  • Biomedical, Electrophysiologic, and Medical Imaging
  • Software development in numerous vertical markets
  • Aircraft flight simulators and truck simulators
• Determining capital requirements, preparing business and financing plans, making presentations to financial interests, raising capital, and developing strategies with accounting and legal staffs.
• Determining long-term corporate strategy and vision, producing tactical and strategic plans, and building staffs to achieve those plans.
• Conducting investor and shareholder relations.
• Sales and marketing in a variety of industries, with lifetime sales in excess of $30 million. Products included computer software products and services and engineering services to large and small companies. I was the primary person responsible for identifying, selling, closing, and delivering 57 software products and projects to 41 customers over 5 years, including 7 Fortune 500 customers.
• Technical and personnel management of teams of engineers in distributed environments, including development of methodologies for requirements specification, software design and development, quality assurance, configuration management, testing, verification, validation, engineering change requests, cost tracking, job cost accounting, budgeting, line management, staff motivation, and personnel procedures. Software development according to Software Engineering Institute [SEI] guidelines.
• Continuing hands-on experience in engineering, including customer needs analysis, workflow analysis, GUI design, data modeling, module design, coding, configuration management, and testing.
• Coordinating and inspiring large groups of technical and non-technical people to do superior jobs and get superior results within a budget and a schedule, from strategic planning thru engineering, publicity, marketing and sales, fulfillment, customer service, and product updates.

EDUCATION

University of California, Santa Barbara:  B.A. Physics
University of California, Santa Barbara:  Human Factors, Advance Math, Physics
DOD Industrial Security Institute, Honolulu, HI: Security Management Certificate
University of Texas, Austin:  Professional Certificate, HAZOPS and Risk and Management
University of California, Santa Barbara:  Accounting

CERTIFICATIONS

Project Management Professional, certified by the Project Management Institute
Microsoft Certified Professional

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Publications, Professional Memberships, Environments, Degrees and Certifications, and Computer Experience (For Establishing Expert Witness Qualifications)