James Whitescarver

23 Bucknell Way, Hopatcong, NJ 07650 201-596-2937

Experience

Consulting

Specializing in the delivery of high-quality groupware and Web integration solutions. With over twenty five years of experience in development of groupware and networked applications. Work includes: Computer-mediated Communication - CMC since 1975; UNIX since 1978; PC since 1979; Internet since 1981; SGML and Forms since 1984; Business Process Re-engineering, Workflow, Imaging/Document Management since 1987; WWW development since 1990; Management, CASE, CSCW, GDSS, Smalltalk/OO, and distributed systems. Recent world wide web design, integration and development projects include: AT&T; Catholic.Net; DewittPlaza.com; Megasoft; Sematech; Union Camp and more.

1984-present New Jersey Institute of Technology

Assistant Director for the Computerized Conferencing and Communications Center (CCCC). Project Director for the Electronic Information Exchange System (EIES). Responsible for the management, design, development, and research in computer-mediated group communications systems (CMC). Current developments include Hyper-media group decision support (GDSS) and the virtual classroom (VC), World Wide Web browser (HTML) and servers (HTTP). Teach Smalltalk and object-oriented methodology.

1982-1984 Sycomm Systems Inc.

Consultant on office automation for AT&T and Western Electric. Responsible for office automation system requirements analysis, evaluation, and recommendation. Technical support for office automation systems, including UNIX system administration and personal computers. Developed electronic mail interface, spelling check facility, special device support, relational databases integrated from a variety of corporate sources, networking facilities for document and binary file distribution, office automation training. Developed executive report on office automation for AT&T Consumer Products Division.

1975-1982 New Jersey Institute of Technology

Senior Systems Analyst for CCCC and adjunct faculty. Participated in the design and development of the original EIES system. Responsible for management of research assistants and student employees. Projects include the design and development of the Interact interface language, Fortran compile postprocessor, the EIES text editor, a network database management system, use interfaces for information exchange, text processing, indexing, searching, computer mediated instruction, information filtering, and controlled experimentation in group systems human factors and decision aids. Responsible for evaluation and recommendation of computer and communications equipment. Taught graduate, undergraduate, and faculty/student seminars. Topics include Interact, Basic, string languages, BAL, hobby microcomputers, CMC, and artificial intelligence.

1968-1974 Whitescarver Transportation Corp.

Began as programmer and became Manager of data processing by 1972 responsible for design, implementation, maintenance and operations. Projects included vehicle and warehouse scheduling, billing, order analysis, payroll, accounts payable, management report writers, financial statements generation. Programmed in Fortran, Cobol, RPG, and BAL.

Education

New Jersey Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with EE minor. A Charter member UPE National Computer Science Honor Society. President NJIT chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery.

IBM Customer Education and Systems Science Education (top of class)

Publications

1977 The Human Machine Interface in a Computerized Conferencing Environment,
Proceedings IEEE Man and Cybernetics Conference.
1979 Applications of Computer Conferencing for the Disadvantaged,
ASIS Proceedings, Minneapolis Oct. 14.
1981 On the design of an Information Marketplace,
ASIS Proceedings, Wash. D.C. Oct 25.
1982 The Resources Reference Guide, A Network Data Base,
NJIT/CCCC Research Report 19
1987 A Network Environment for Computer-Supported Collaborative Work,
ACM SIGCOMM '87 Proceedings, Stowe, Vermont, August 11.
1987 Computer-Mediate Communication and Developing Countries,
Proceedings CC and Developing Countries, Oct 27, New Delhi, India.
(1988), A User Environment for Computer Supported Collaborative Work,
ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, May.
1992 EIES 2 A distributed Architecture for Supporting Group Work,
NJIT/CCCC Research Report 28.
1992 EIES Smalltalk Programmer's Manual,
NJIT/CCCC Technical Report.
1994 Integration of Virtual Classroom and Multimedia on the Information Superhighway
Proceedings of ISMM Conference on Distributed Multi-media Systems and Applications, Aug 1994, Honolulu, Hawaii.
1995 Integration of Simulations with the Internet for Distance Education
Accepted for publication at the LAAS Conference on Computer Simulation, Beirut, Lebonon, Sept 1-4, 1995.
1996 From Isolation to Collaboration: A WWW Based Peer System.
Proceedings of 2nd Americas Conference on Information Systems.
1996 From Virtual Classroom to Hypermedia Virtual Classrrom.
Proceedings of 2nd Americas Conference on Information SYstems.
1997 Toward A Framework and Architecture for Internet-based 'Evolutionary' Collaboration
Submitted to AIS97.
1997 An Archetechure for Evolving a Knowledge Network through Internet Collaboration.
Submitted to WebNet97.