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Alan R. Weiss
Rick Foos, MBA
Gad Krumholz
David Gholami
Tamara Drasny
Nancy LaHaye, C.P.A.
David Engbers


Alan R. Weiss, , has been in the computing and semiconductor and processor industry for 24 years, and has worked as a Software Engineer, Manager, Project Manager, Program Manager, and Software Architect on operating systems, compilers, database systems, and embedded real-time software. He Founded EEMBC Certification Laboratory (ECL, LLC) in 1998, and serves as the Chief Executive Officer and well as Chief Technical Officer. ECL has been profitable from Day 1, is debt-free, and has the top 60 semiconductor and software tools companies as clients. As CEO of ECL, he provides both strategic management as well as day-to-day operational management. As CTO, he continues to direct overall hands-on technical direction. In March of 2006, he merged ECL with Synchromesh Computing.

Mr. Weiss started Synchromesh Computing, LLC in December 2003 to provide advanced strategic consulting, development, product analysis, and other services, and serves as the President and CEO. Synchromesh Computing offers a wide range of development, certification, testing, and advisory services. Synchromesh Computing personnel have more experience with embedded tools than anyone else on the planet, and has grown rapidly to become the best-of-breed supplier of development services. Synchromesh Computing is growing quickly, and has a first-class customer list, is debt-free, and has been profitable since Day 1 - in keeping with Alan's desire to build a business grounded in the fundamentals of serving customers.

Before starting ECL, Mr. Weiss worked for Motorola for 6 years, most recently as Manager of Software Technologies and Principal Systems Software Engineer for Intelligent Transportation Systems, as well as a Software Architect for corporate-wide Speech Recognition technologies inside of Motorola. He was also named a Program Manager Master and is a Certified Software Inspections Trainer. He was the Manager of the Windows NT on PowerPC Functional and System Test group, which included managing 25 IBM and 50 Microsoft employees. He left Motorola to form ECL.

Prior to Motorola, he helped start up two software companies, including Tivoli Systems (where he was the first Software Test and Quality Assurance Manager on the first management team), and Locus Computing (where he was Functional and System Test Manager for AIX 370 and AIX PS/2). He was also a Program Manager for dBASE IV 1.1 (the one that worked) at Ashton-Tate.

He was a co-founder and was the Motorola Voting Board Member of the EDN Embedded Benchmark Consortium (EEMBC). He served as the first Chairperson of that consortium's Automotive/Industrial Subcommittee. He was the Project Manager for EEMBC's Technical Advisory Group (TechTAG) for 4 years, and was responsible for development of EEMBC's benchmarks.

Before that, he helped found and served as the first Vice-Chairman of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) Graphics Performance Committee Multimedia Benchmark Committee (SPEC Media). He is a recognized industry expert in microprocessor performance analysis and benchmarking, and sits on the Editorial Review Board of Microprocessor Report.

Mr. Weiss is the Project Manager for EEMBC's Technical Advisory Group, and is responsible for development of EEMBC's benchmarks.
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Vitae
Born: New York City , New York 1959
Raised: Los Angeles , California
Moved: Relocated to Austin , Texas 1991
Married 26 years to wife Jane
Three nearly-grown children (Robyn (ACC, Paramedic), Jessica (pre-Law, University of Texas at Austin), and David (Westwood High))
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Education
High School: El Camino Real H.S., Woodland Hills , California (graduated with honors, 1977)
University: California State University , Northridge (CSUN) (Bachelor of Science, Business, 1982)
Post-Grad: Numerous courses in Semiconductors, Software Engineering, Project Management
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Teacher
Program Management Master (specializing in Software, International Business, and Systems)
Software Inspections and Software Engineering Trainer
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Current and Past Board of Directors or Advisor Roles
•  Sustaining Member, Cypress Creek Community Church
•  Director, Canyon Creek Homeowners Association
•  Former Chairman, EEMBC Technical Advisory Board
•  Advisor, dbk Associates (Dana Point, CA) - Ethics in Business, Change Mgmt
•  Advisor and Former Vice President, Free State Project
•  Director and Finance Committee Chair, Northwest Austin #1 Municipal Utility District
•  Former Advisor, Travis County Libertarian Party
•  Former Member, Editorial Review Board, Microprocessor Report ( San Jose , CA )
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Work Experience
•  IBC Computer (Programmer)
•  Burroughs Corporation / Unisys (Systems Analyst)
•  Locus Computing Corporation (Manager, Functional and System Testing, AIX)
•  Ashton-Tate (Senior Program Manager, dBASE IV 1.1)
•  Tivoli Systems (Manager, Software Quality Assurance and Test)
•  IBM (consultant, AIX)
•  Motorola (Software Engineer, Software Architect, Program Manager)
•  EEMBC Certification Laboratories, LLC - ECL (CEO and CTO)
•  Synchromesh Computing (President and CEO)
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Organizations
•  Member, IEEE
•  Co-founder, EEMBC (also first Chair, Automotive/Industrial Subcommittee)
•  Co-founder, SPEC Multimedia Benchmark Committee (also first Vice Chair)
•  Former member, BAPCo
•  Past Vice President, Free State Project
•  Westwood High School Marching Band Boosters
•  Chair and Organizer, "The Ceres Project" and "The Ares Alliance "
•  Participation in various organizations, including Church, Homeowners Association, and Charities
•  Guitarist, Praise Team, Cypress Creek Community Church
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Rick Foos, MBA. Director of Engineering (ECL) and Vice President, Engineering, Synchromesh Computing , has been in the computing, semiconductor, PC, industry for over 25 years, and has worked as a Principal Software Engineer, and Engineering Management, in CAD/CAM, database systems, PC BIOS, embedded software (including RTOS work), and Internet. He is responsible for hands-on architecture and infrastructure development for new products, industry standard benchmark software, as well as strategic and tactical consulting work for clients. Rick has been with ECL for almost 2 years.

Before ECL, Rick worked for Motorola for 7 years, he was Principal Software Engineer of Firmware for PowerPC, and delivered a product ported to over 30 platforms running AIX, Solaris, Windows NT, and MacOS. He also held roles managing Motorola public web site content three corporate divisions, and sector wide web applications for all of Motorola SPS.

Prior to Motorola, he worked in the PC Industry at Award Software, CompuAdd, and American Megatrends responsible for PC BIOS products and system design projects that led to PC Magazine Technical Excellence, PC Magazine Editors Choice, PC World Best Buy, and system BIOS used in several million PC's. He also designed the customized OS and Firmware for point of sale systems used in all Sears North America stores.

Rick holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Computer Engineering from University of Michigan , Ann Arbor , and an MBA in business management from St. Edwards University , Austin.

Rick has been panel chairman, published, and spoken at ACM/SIGMOD, IEEE/CompCon conferences, as well as presentations and exhibitor at Comdex, ACM/Siggraph, and Windows Hardware Engineering Conference. Rick also does ongoing work with a local charity Shoes for Austin . He lives with his wife and children in Austin , TX . Rick is active in his church, and is a counselor/lay leader.
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Gad Krumholz is our Systems Administrator and member of the Engineering Staff. He maintains the Synchromesh Computing networks, servers, and e-mail. His experiences include embedded computing, basic software development and debugging (C, C++, C#), website development (php, mysql, html, and javascript), and has the ability to learn new software very quickly. Mr. Krumholz resides in Austin, Texas.
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David A. Gholami, a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin in Computer Engineering, anchors the First Impressions Team at Synchromesh Computing and participates in benchmark studies.   His experiences include embedded computing, hardware (Verilog) design, computer architecture, software development (embedded C, Visual C.net and C#).   Mr. Gholami resides in Austin, Texas.

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Tamara Drasny - Supreme Allied Commander Tamara Drasny coordinates logistics, administration, and communications. Tamara, a graduate from the University of Colorado at Boulder, has earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in both History and English.

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Nancy LaHaye, C.P.A. - Bookkeeper and Staff Finance Advisor , formerly Finance Lead for Logistics Outsourcing Project for Applied Materials. Nancy brings solid accounting and finance skills to us, including Audit, Cost Accounting, Managerial Accounting, Public Accounting, and Project Management.
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David Engbers - David is our Web Developer and Web Test Engineer and provides key web-enabled technology to the companies. What David also brings is an intense background in software development (C, C++, Java, Javascript, Perl, MySQL, CGI, etc.), software testing, benchmarking, and embedded development as well.
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Edward H. Gowett, J.D., CPA, MBA, Austin , Texas
Synchromesh Computing is fortunate to have the legal, tax, and accounting services of Ed Gowett. A practicing attorney and Certified Public Accountant, Mr. Gowett provides valued advice and counsel to the firm.
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