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Harry B. Funk



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Experience

1999-Present                         SMA Information Flow Technologies (SIFT), LLC

Vice President, Research and Development

Ø  Principal in start-up woman-owned consulting firm

Ø  Lead for DARPA Agile Information Control Environment effort.

Ø  Projected 80% growth in first year

1995-1998                               Honeywell Technology Center          Minneapolis, MN

Senior Principal Research Scientist

Ø  Top 5% performance evaluations for 11 of last 12 years, including 1998.

Ø  Lead for usability testing in Phases 2 and 3 of Abnormal Situation Management Consortium ($16.7M program) (C++, Java)

Ø  Lead for Nova Chemicals plant screen redesign recommendations

Ø  Lead for Small Unit Operations HMI definition (C++, multimedia)

Ø  Lead for Rotorcraft Pilot’s Associate (RPA) Cockpit Information Manager Advanced Concepts

Ø  Led proposal efforts winning over $6M in 1998, including new role on DARPA Commander’s Information Policy Specification toolset (IPSO FACTO)

1990-1994                               Honeywell Systems & Research        Minneapolis, MN

Principal Research Scientist

Ø  Led team for Central Maintenance Computer/ Model capture tool – Alpha Team Award

1987-1990                               Honeywell Systems & Research        Minneapolis, MN

Senior Research Scientist

Ø  Elicited requirements, designed and implemented:

§         Sputtering deposition repair expert system

§         GBU-15 Trainer

§         Topological Reasoning Package

Ø  Sun® /Unix® administrator


 

1986-1987                               Honeywell Systems & Research        Minneapolis, MN

Research Scientist

Ø  Designed and implemented Symbolics® UI for flightline maintenance diagnostic tool.

Ø  Symbolics®  and VAX/VMS® administrator.

1984-1986                               Honeywell Systems & Research        Minneapolis, MN

Student

Ø  Designed and implemented Markov model iterative optimization search technique and visualization tool for same in C.

Education

1974-1979                               University of California                               Berkeley, CA

Ø  B.A., Psychology.

Ø  Graduated Summa Cum Laude.

1982-1986                               University of Minnesota                     Minneapolis, MN

Ø  B.S., Computer Science.

Ø  Additional 40 graduate credits

Interests

Woodworking, volleyball, home demolition, dadhood.

Selected Papers and Presentations

Funk, H. and Miller, C. (2001) "User Acceptance and Plan Recognition: Why Even Perfect Intent Inferencing Might Not be Good Enough" in Proceedings of the AAAI Fall Symposium on Intent Inference for Collaborative Tasks, North Falmouth, MA; November 2-4.

Miller, C. & Funk, H. (1996) "Knowledge requirements for information management; A Rotorcraft Pilot's Associate example." in Proceedings of the 2nd Automation Technology and Human Performance Conference, Cocoa Beach, FL; March 7-9.

Miller, C., Guerlain, S., Goldman, R., Riley, V., and Funk, H.  (1996).  Advanced Cockpit Information Manager Studies in Crew Coordination and Task Management, Explanation Facilities, and Customizations. Honeywell Systems and Research Center, Minneapolis, MN.  May 14.

Miller, C. and Funk, H.  (1995).  A guide to assigning Scope, Resolution, Bandwidth, Importance and Control values to Information Requirements and Presentation Elements. Honeywell Systems and Research Center, Minneapolis, MN.  Internal Report.  November 10.

Funk, H. and Miller, C.  (1995).  “What do you need to know to know what you need to know: Information requirements to support cockpit information management.”  In Proceedings of the 1995 Symposium on Human Interaction with Complex Systems.  Greensboro, NC; September 17-20.

Funk, H.A., Meisner, J.M., Bursch, P.B., and Radke, K.M. (1994). Flight control maintenance diagnostic system (FCMDS) field testing results and future plans, SAE Aerotech '94, Dayton, Ohio, April.

Funk, H.A., and Meisner, J.M. (1993). Dual-use technology:  Applications of flight control maintenance diagnostic system technology in the commercial environment, Eighth Annual Human Factors Issues in Aviation Maintenance and Inspection, Alexandria, VA, November.

Funk, H.A. (1992). Automated generation of diagnostic models from on-line design descriptions, Honeywell Technical Report.

Funk, H.A. (1991). Functional analysis of life-cycle cost for knowledge-based systems in guidance and control.  AGARD Guidance and Control Panel Working Group #11, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (paper and presentation).

Meisner, J.W., Bursch, P.M., and Funk, H.A. (1990). Evolution of a maintenance diagnostic system, in Proceedings NAECON ’90.

Funk, H.A., and Jeppson, M.M. (1989). Integrated diagnostics for fault-tolerant systems. AGARD Conference Proceedings #456, Fault-Tolerant Design Concepts for Highly Integrated Flight-Critical Guidance and Control Systems, Toulouse, France (paper and presentation).

Funk, H.A., Glide bomb unit (GBU-15) part task trainer true target infrared synthesis, (1988) Presentation to Air Force Aeronautical Systems Division.

Case, L., and Funk, H.A. (1988). User scenarios for the GBU-15 PTT visual database generation workstation (EO and IR), Honeywell Technical Report.

Funk, H.A. (1988). Topological representation and generic shape descriptors, Honeywell Technical Report.

Funk, H.A., and Hill, W.C. (1987). TARP:  The topological advantage reasoning package, Honeywell Technical Report.

Funk, H.A., and Wittenburg, T. (1987). Minefield prediction:  A declarative representation for tactical analysts, Honeywell Technical Report.

Kramer, A., Funk., H., and Hawthorne, J. (1987). Topological reasoning, Honeywell Initiatives Report.

Wald, J., Hill, W.C., and Funk, H.A. (1986). Topological reasoning, Honeywell Technical Report

Funk, H.A., Boettcher, K.L., and Wisniewski, E.J. (1986). Virtual partitioning by examination of rule relatedness, Honeywell Initiatives Report.

Johnson, D.J., Kramer, A.P., and Funk, H.A. (1984). Mission planning in a risky environment, Honeywell Initiatives Report.

 

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