Notes for Marshall Andrew Townsend: [LippoldCharles.FTW]
[mine.FTW]
Professional Biography--1997 ----------------------------------------------- Matt is a Data Modeler/Database Developer experienced in all phases of a client/server development life cycle. He uses his business training to understand requirements and then develop function/event/data models that represent a customer’s business process. Completely familiar with IE/Martin, IDEF1X, and Oracle’s CASE data modeling methods and has developed several methods of his own. Matt has end-to-end life cycle experience with Sybase Servers and over a 5 year period. He has similar experience with Oracle over a 3 year period having performed every task but production support. He has assumed roles as an Architect, Technical Lead, and Data Modeler for business areas involving Insurance, Telecommunications, Smart/Stored Value Credit Cards, Dealer Satisfaction Systems, and Time sheet Billing Engines to name a few.
Matt’s MIS career traces back to roots borne in 1971 when he programmed microprocessors bit-by-bit, wrote assemblers in DEC Macro language, and coded simulators using assembly, FORTRAN , and Basic.
These simulation skills, the ability to test performance before committing hardware to architecture, would prove useful when Matt systematized architecture proposals being presented to customers requiring Application Specific Integrated Circuits. Matt’s appreciation for strong, verifiable data models backing credible DBMS’ came from this need to translate these model solutions to a financial model and finally a customer proposal. He also learned and managed the strengths and weaknesses of integrated applications and became an early supporter of the concept of open client/open server and object reuse.
Matt spent 17 years with Intel Corporation beginning in 1971 as employee number 375. At the beginning he was hired to work on applications using the milestone 1103 DRAM but quickly transitioned to the small research group headed by the founder of the microprocessor. He concentrated on many architectural issues involving 8 and 16 bit machines before continuing with this team after they turned over (after 5years) microprocessor issues to a new group. Then came many exploratory projects in the telephony, analog, and digital signal processing application areas. Matt simulated and built a 256 bit echo canceller which found applications in satellite communication, Telephone conferencing, and high speed modems. One such project was a 28 bit Digital Signal Processor which Matt architected, simulated, and constructed. The success of this effort lead to the development of the 2920 Signal Processor, a high speed accumulator/math unit with microprogram store in EPROM, and a multichannel 9 bit analog subsystem. Matt coinvented two patents from this effort and although the product was only marginally successful three of the architectural findings in these patents found their way into all current Intel microprocessors. The product did received numerous awards and Matt presented at least 25 papers on the design.
Matt’s career at Intel extended to Strategic Long Range Planning, Supervision, and management. His last 6 years he supported the startup of the applications specific IC group, conceiving, hiring, proceduralizing, and training a worldwide architectural specialist organization. In that role he also doubled up as a sales and marketer.
Matt’s current research interests include modeling methods that better communicate the data, applications, and their rules to end users. He also is looking for improved techniques that combine object and relational modeling as one and including business rules (methods, actions) comprehension.
His hobbies include Horse Training, Trout Fishing, and Genealogy Research (dating back to 1020 A.D.).
More About Marshall Andrew Townsend: Date born 2: 04 September 1947, Long Beach, California.197, 198 Fact 3: Computer Scientist.199, 200
More About Marshall Andrew Townsend and Lynn Hisami Mukumoto: Marriage: 28 January 1967, Los Angeles, California.201, 202
More About Marshall Andrew Townsend and Laura Emma Mittelsdorf: Marriage: 11 August 1978, Redwood City, California.203, 204
Children of Marshall Andrew Townsend and Lynn Hisami Mukumoto are:
Marshall Andrew Townsend (b. 04 September 1947)
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