Bryan C Norman
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Chief Executive Officer (co-founder)
A manufacturing & technology
industry veteran with more than 10
years of operations management
experience, Chris is leading the way
for real world utilization of Rapid
Manufacturing as CEO of Digital
Reality, chairman of SME Chapter 211
and as a member of the Direct
Digital Manufacturing sub-committee
to the Society of Manufacturing
Engineers. He co-founded Digital
Reality in 2005 on the premise of
delivering the worlds first B2B &
B2C Mass-Customization system for
Direct Digital Manufacturing. He
earned his MBA from the University
of Phoenix and a BS in Manufacturing
Engineering from Texas A&M
University.
Read
more about Chris at
http://chapters.sme.org/211
Chad L. Oliver
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Chief
Technology Officer, (co-founder)
Co-Leading the way to the
realization of Made-To-Order Rapid
Manufacturing Enterprise technology
is Chad L. Oliver who serves as
Chief Technology Officer. Mr. Oliver
holds a BS in Computer Science with
a minor in mathematics from Texas
State University. Mr. Oliver Is a
member of the Association for
Computing Machinery. With more than
10 years of enterprise software
development expertise, Mr. Oliver is
the lead architect for Digital
Reality's software development
project and fundamental driver in
technology implementation for
Digital Factory; Enterprise software
for Rapid Manufacturing.
Read More about
Chad at
http://www.skeedee.com/
Don Jarrell
- Advisor,
Intellectual property Digital
Thinking, Inc.
Mr. Jarrell has over 25 years of
business experience in the software,
Internet and telecommunications
industries in strategic, technical,
product, and business management
positions in companies including
Nortel (Northern Telecom), Alcatel,
and The Equitable. In most
positions, he was called upon to
define his own function, which
typically involved a combination of
broad responsibility,
executive scope, and hands-on
contribution. His roles
included several positions involved
in changing or refining a company's
business model, often toward
software, services, or a combination
of both. Mr. Jarrell holds a BA in
Learning Psychology from the
University of Illinois and
specialized training in Electrical
engineering/Engineering Management
from The Georgia Institute of
Technology and is a former security
intelligence officer for the US Air
Force (Retired).
Read more
about Don at
http://www.digitalthinkinginc.com/
Todd Grimm
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Advisor, Rapid Prototyping and
Manufacturing
Todd's
experience includes 17 years in the
product development industry. He is
an accomplished writer and public
speaker. Over the years, he has
published more than two dozen
articles on rapid prototyping. For
the past two years, Todd has
authored a monthly editorial
feature, Perspectives, for
the industry trade magazine
Time-Compression Technologies.
In February 2004 his book,
User's Guide
to Rapid Prototyping,
was published. For the past five
years he has been an advisor for
RP&M, a trade show and conference
sponsored by the
Society of
Manufacturing Engineers
(SME). Todd graduated from Purdue
University in 1985 with a Bachelor
of Science degree in Mechanical
Engineering and holds a Master Level
Certificate for Rapid Prototyping &
Manufacturing.
Read
more about Todd at:
http://www.tagrimm.com/company/about-tgrimm.html
Carl Dekker
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Advisor, President Met-L-Flo, Inc.
Carl K. Dekker serves as the
president of Met-L-Flo, Inc., a
growing Service Center for Additive
Manufacturing located in Sugar
Grove, IL. For more than a
dozen years, he has been actively
involved in research and product
development using current
technologies and innovative methods.
Carl has presented his work at
various conferences, including those
sponsored by ANTEC, National Mfg
Week, 3DSNASUG, RP&M, and SME.
He has also provided training and
installations at Motorola, Abbott
Laboratories, Delphi and numerous
other shops. Mr. Dekker’s work
has been published in industry
journals including Wohlers
Report,
Prototyping Technology, Time
Compression Technologies, and the
Rapid Prototyping Report, to
mention a few. A former
Chairperson of the SME’s Rapid
Technologies and Additive
Manufacturing (RTAM) Community
(formerly the RPA), he currently
serves as a steering committee
member and Chair of the Direct
Digital Manufacturing Tech Group of
the RTAM. Additional
positions held include: Rapid
Prototyping and Manufacturing
Conference advisor (2002-7),
National Design and Manufacturing
Conference Advisor 2005, National
Plastics Exposition Conference
advisor 2006 and Chair of many
specialty programs and conference
sessions. He has also served
as the 2003 and 2004 Secretary of
the 3D Systems North American
Stereolithography Users Group.
Read
more about Carl at
http://www.met-l-flow.com/
Dr. Joseph J. Beaman Jr.
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Sc.D., P.E
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Advisor, The University of Texas.
Dr.
Beaman is Chairman of department of
Mechanical Engineering at the
University of Texas at Austin. Dr.
Beaman is a faculty member of the
Manufacturing & Design Program. Dr.
Beaman specializes in rapid
prototyping and dynamic systems and
control. His specific manufacturing
interest is in Solid Freeform
Fabrication. Dr. Beaman is one of
the original inventors of of the
Selective Laser Sintering process.
Dr. Beaman has published more than
55 technical articles and reports,
and has authored or edited two
books. He received the
National
Science Foundation
Young Investigator Award in 1984,
and was the 2002 recipient of the
UT College of
Engineering
Joe J. King
Professional Engineering Achievement
Award
for exemplary leadership in the
engineering profession.
read
more about Dr. Beaman at
https://utwired.engr.utexas.edu/lff/people/peopleTemp.cfm?ID=13
Dr.
Richard Crawford
-
PH.D
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Advisor, The University of Texas.
Dr. Crawford is a faculty member of
the
Manufacturing
& Design program
in the Mechanical Engineering
Department at the University of
Texas at Austin. Dr. Crawford
specializes in computer-aided
engineering. He founded the
Manufacturing
and Design (MADLab) Research
Laboratory
in 1989 with
Dr. Kristin L.
Wood.
The program
endeavors to improve manufacturing
and engineering design through the
application of systematic design
methodologies and the development of
computer-based design tools.
Pam Goldston
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Advisor, Software Sales & Marketing,
MLC-CAD Systems
Pam Goldston is a software sales
consultant for MLC CAD Systems. with
more than 20 years in software sales
and service, Pam is an experienced
and well connected professional in
the CAD/CAM software world.
Read more about
Pam at
http://www.mlc-cad.com/
David
K. Leigh
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Advisor, President Harvest
Technologies
President of Harvest Technologies,
Inc. a RP bureau located in Belton
Texas and expert in RP technology.
Mr. Leigh was a pioneer of selective
laser sintering technology in the
early 1990's contributed to the
development of the first commercial
laser sintering system along with
Dr. Beaman. Mr. Leigh will help
guide Digital Reality into a viable
solution for Phase II.
Read more about
David at
http://www.harvest-tech.com/
Bonnie S. Squier
- Advisor,
Marketing & Advertising President,
Texas Branders, Inc.
Bonnie Squier is a sales and
marketing expert with over 20 years
experience in the Advertising
Specialty and Promotions industries
and president of Texas Branders,
Inc. Mrs. Squier will help guide
Digital Reality’s sales and
marketing ideas as we enter the
incentives markets.
Read more about
Bonnie Squier at
http://www.texasbranders.com
Dan
Kolar
- Advisor,
Industrial Psychologist
Daniel E. Kolar is an Industrial
Psychologist and a Certified Human
Factors Professional with over 25
years of experience in applying
human factors and ergonomic
principles to products to ensure
their usability. He is an
expert in understanding how people
perceive, process and act upon the
information they use to make
decisions in the office &
manufacturing. He recently
published “How to Love Your Computer
without Cursing the Cursor,” a book
that specifically addresses the
human factors and ergonomic needs of
senior citizens. Dr. Kolar is
on the board of directors for the
Technology Advisor’s Group (TAG) in
Austin, an adjunct instructor at
Austin Community College, and vice
president of SME Chapter 211.
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