James Whitescarver

17 Vale Road, Landing, NJ 07650 201-596-2937

Employment Experience

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.

Consulting experience - see separate list

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.
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.