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Candidate for IEEE Communications Society
Vice President of Conferences

 

STANLEY L. MOYER

 

Executive Director, Strategic Research Program

Telcordia Technologies, Inc.

Piscataway, New Jersey, USA

 

Stan Moyer (stanm@research.telcordia.com) is Executive Director and strategic research program manager in the Applied Research area of Telcordia Technologies, where he has worked since 1990. Currently, Stan is the product manager for the Telcordia Mobile Messaging and Application Solution, a hosted service for mobile marketing and affinity messaging and mobile web applications.  In the past, he has led research and business development activities related to digital content services and home networking.  On these and other topics, Stan has been a frequent speaker at industry events, conferences, and standards meetings. Stan is currently president of the OSGi™ Alliance, an industry consortium creating specifications for the managed delivery of networked services. 

 

Stan received his M.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ in 1990, his B.S. degree in Engineering Physics from the University of Maine in 1987, and received an MBA in Technology Management from the University of Phoenix in 2004.

 

Statement

One of IEEE’s current struggles is how to remain relevant to the practicing engineer.  If elected to the position of VP of Conferences, I will use my experience to support the needs of the practicing engineer while continuing to promote academic engineering research that enables and feeds many advances in industry. Coming from the commercial world, where I am the program manager for my company’s long-range research program, I understand the importance of fundamental technical research and the potential impact it can have if focused correctly.

 

The importance of business relevance of technical work is becoming an increasingly predominant theme these days.  I would like to foster closer interactions between the academic and industrial communities to identify sets of problems that are both technically interesting and challenging, but also address specific business needs.  I would like to use the position of VP of Conferences to promote conference and workshop activities that encourage these interactions on topics of interest to both communities.

 

Relevant Experience

I believe that my varied background as an IEEE Communications Society volunteer uniquely qualifies me for the position of VP of Conferences.  I feel this way because I believe that ComSoc conferences must serve three “customers” — paper authors, conference attendees, and ComSoc.  My first experiences as a ComSoc volunteer were in the technical committees (e.g., Multimedia Communications, Communications Software, Enterprise Networking, Information Infrastructure) and it is those committees that use the ComSoc conferences as vehicles to promote the technical accomplishments of its members, the paper authors, who need venues to publish and present their work. 

 

More recently I have been a member of the ComSoc board of governors (as a member-at-large for three years and as treasurer for four years) and have seen the “business side” of conferences — that is, how the conferences need to be supported, what their financial needs are, and how the conferences need to be marketed and promoted in order to attract attendees.  My blend of experiences will enable me to ensure all constituencies are represented and addressed as we continue to evolve and improve upon the collection of ComSoc conferences.

 

IEEE Activities – (M’90-SM’97)

IEEE: TAB Finance Committee: Member, 2008-09; Corresponding Member, 2007; Standards Association Standards Board New Standards Committee, 2009

 

Communications Society: Treasurer (2006-09); Board of Governors Member-at-Large (2004-06); IEEE Communications Magazine, Technical and Series Editor (2001-05,08-09); IEEE Transactions on Multimedia Steering Committee (2002-03); Multimedia Communications Technical Committee Chair (2001-03); Communications Software Technical Committee Chair (1997-99), Secretary (1995-97);  Enterprise Networking Technical Committee Technical Program Vice-Chair (1996-1998); Standards Board (2006-09); Technical Recertification Committee (2004-2006); Bylaws Committee (2005)

 

Conferences: IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC) Co-Chair (2007-08), Steering Committee Chair (2003-04), Steering Committee Vice Chair (2005-08), Technology Applications Panel Chair (2007), Technical Program Committee, Member (2007-09).  IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) steering committee (2002-2005); International Workshop on Network Appliances technical committee and steering committee (2000-2003); IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) Next Generation Internet symposium program chair (2001 and 2002).  SoftCOM Technical Program Committee (1998-2003); International Workshop on Quality and Productivity, Program Chair (1997); Technical Program Committee for many ICCs and Globecoms (1994-2001).

 

IEEE Accomplishments

As IEEE Communications Society treasurer I coordinated the process of establishing and managing a $16M budget for the society that ended each year with a surplus.

 

As a member of the IEEE Communications Society Standards Board I oversaw the creation of four new ComSoc sponsored IEEE standard working groups and developed a good understanding for how IEEE SA can work with new organizations to develop standards.

 

My participation in the IEEE Technical Activities Board Finance Committee has provided me visibility into the best practices, activities, and needs of other societies.

 

As IEEE Multimedia Communications Technical Committee chair, I grew the size and increased participation of the committee.  This experience provided me a good understanding of IEEE’s core constituency — its technical folks.  As committee chair I also worked with three other IEEE societies on a joint publication, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, and the jointly sponsored conference, ICME — gaining more experience on the pros and cons of collaboration between organizations.

 

My role as president of the OSGi Alliance has given me a lot of experience in both standards (as an industry consortium) and running a board consisting of several large companies where compromises often must be made to reach consensus.

 

 

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IEEE Communications Society Vice President of Conferences Candidate

 

Stanley L. Moyer

Fostering the interaction of industry and academics to advance the state of the art in electrical engineering.