Robert H Greenfield, DSc

http://www.niedermayer.ca/~rhg/
ve5dsc@rac.ca
+1.215.885.7950

Professional interests

Telecommunications, telematics, medical, educational, and library applications of computing and engineering, Internet, electronic mail, web, Unix, Linux, and consulting.

Education

• DSc in Computer Science, Dissertation: Characteristics of Clinical Data Base Files and Their Usage, Washington University, Saint Louis, MO 63130
• Biomedical Engineering Certificate, Washington University, Saint Louis, MO 63130
• MS in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Washington University, Saint Louis, MO 63130
• Graduate Study in Biomedical Engineering, New York University, Bronx, NY 10453
• MS in Electrical Engineering, New York University, Bronx, NY 10453
• BE in Electrical Engineering, New York University, Bronx, NY 10453

Licensure

• Registered Professional Engineer, in Saskatchewan
• Amateur Digital Radio and Amateur Radio Operator's Certificates, Industry Canada
• Amateur Extra Radio License, Federal Communications Commission, United States

Honors

• Dean's Honor List, three years
• Participant in National Science Foundation Undergraduate Research Program in Electrical Engineering
• Elected to Tau Beta Pi (Engineering Honorary Society)
• Elected to Eta Kappa Nu (Electrical Engineering Honorary Society)
• Awarded National Institutes of Health Biomedical Engineering Training Program Fellowship

Publications

A bibliography of publications and presentations is available.

Experience summary

Adjunct faculty, Department of Computing Sciences, Villanova University, Villanova, PA 19085

• Taught graduate computer science courses, mostly telecommunications and Internet.

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Regina, Regina, SK S4S 0A2

• Developed new and revised existing courses.
• Taught computer science courses on the graduate and undergraduate levels specializing in office automation, telecommunications, and FORTRAN for engineers and scientists.
• Contracted with the Saskatchewan government to provide MUMPS- based psychological testing programs on IBM PCs.
• Actively participated in the deliberations of the MDC (MUMPS Development Committee).
• Conducted funded research in the area of the development of a computer communications network for rural health care practitioners.
• Supervised the development of telecommunications software.
• Managed the operation of the departmental research computer, a VAX-based Unix system.
• Served on university advisory committees for library and for research and instructional computing.

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Computer and Information Science, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH 44115

• Taught computer science courses on the graduate and undergraduate levels including COBOL, FORTRAN, PL/I, data structures, and data processing for managers in a business school.
• Served on Health Care Administration hiring and steering committees.
• Privately consulted in the area of medical computing for Case Western Reserve University, University Hospital, and private physician clients.

Computer Specialist (GS 12-3), Nuclear Medicine Service, Veterans Administration Medical Center, Albany, NY 12208

• Responsible for the installation of a MUMPS-based psychological testing system under ISM on DEC PDP 11 hardware.
• Represented the Albany VAMC at the MDC deliberations.
• Worked with an ECG telenetworked analysis system, nuclear medicine programs, and other MUMPS applications.

Research Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO 63110

• Managed the operation of a 13 Mb ophthalmologic research data base (with two data entry employees) central to the research of the Glaucoma Center.
• Responsible for the preparation of the computer portions of large grant requests.
• Taught MUMPS seminars at national meetings and at the university.
• Organized and chaired (and edited the proceedings of) the first international meeting on computers in ophthalmology.

Research Assistant, Department of Ophthalmology, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO 63110

• Designed, implemented, and researched (dissertation) medical information systems.
• Consulted on computer applications.

Research Assistant, Biomedical Computer Laboratory, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO 63110

• Managed a minicomputer to mainframe data network.
• Modified teleprocessing host software.
• Participated in MUMPS development, reliability analysis, and evaluation.
• Consulted on voice and data telecommunications problems.
• Very active in the MUMPS Users' Group (board member), MUMPS Development Committee, and the Saint Louis IEEE-CS chapter (officer).

Lieutenant (O-3), Division of Computer Research and Technology, National Institutes of Health, US Public Health Service, Bethesda, MD 20892

• Responsible for the technical aspects of RFP generation, vendor selection, contract monitoring, and installation of a real-time computer and other data acquisition equipment.
• Specified, designed, and supervised the construction of an A/D interface for the digitization of ECGs for subsequent computer processing. High Speed Synchronous Data Adapter communications terminal in an OS/360 environment, using assembler and channel code.

Systems Programmer, Computer Center, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, Chicago, IL 60680

• Consulted for the systems and applications programming staff during their transition from an IBM 1620 to an IBM System 360/50 OS environment.

Programmer, Heights Academic Computing Facility, New York University, Bronx, NY 10453

• Developed initial programming support and test programs for an IBM 2701

Research Aide, Department of Medicine, New York University Medical Center, New York, NY 10016

• Wrote computer programs for the selection of optimum vector ECG leads.
• Constructed and operated equipment in cardiology research projects.

Affiliations

• American Radio Relay League (ARRL)
• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Professional Member
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Life Senior Member
  • IEEE Computer Society (South Saskatchewan Chapter, founding chair)
  • IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
• Great Plains Free-Net Inc (GPFN), founding president

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Updated on July 24, 2010 by ve5dsc@rac.ca.