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Appendix B Committee Biographies
Pages 55-60

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... He joined the then Allied Chemical as a research scientist in 1968 and moved through a succession of management positions, leading to appointment as vice president of corporate research and development in 1984. He continued in this capacity until joining DOD in 1994.
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... Costello held positions of manufacturing engineer, manager of engineering services, vice president for quality assurance, and vice president for product engineering and quality assurance. Prior to his work for Colt's, he worked as a producibility engineer at Pratt & Whitney Machine Tool Company and a process engineer at Winchester-Western Division, Olin-Mathieson Chemical Corporation.
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... From 1990 until his retirement in 1996, he was vice president, corporate research and technology, for the aerospace, automotive, and engineered materials company, AlliedSignal Inc. (called Honeywell since the 1999 merger of the two companies)
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... Markus was vice president and chief technical officer for Cronos Integrated Microsystems, Inc., a MEMS research and development company acquired by JDS Uniphase in 2000. She was chairman of the board and executive director of the HI-MEMS Alliance in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, from 1993 to 1997; from 1992 to 1999, she was director of the MEMS Technology Applications Center at MCNC, a family of private, nonprofit corporations created to drive technology-based economic development and job creation throughout North Carolina.
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... Previously, he was chief scientist and co-founder of Veridicom, Inc., a developer of personal fingerprintauthentication systems, and before that he was a distinguished member of the technical staff at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey. He has worked in areas of pattern recognition and image processing applied to biometrics, security, digital libraries, Web messaging, document processing, and machine vision.
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... as program director, solid state and microstructures, in the Electrical and Communications Systems Division at the National Science Foundation and as a visiting research scientist at the Naval Research Laboratory Solid State Device Branch (1987­1988)
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