1. David Gitz Pre-Professional Programmer, GSI I/O Bring-Up, IBM

2. About Me… Senior in Electrical Engineering at SIU- Carbondale, IL. Originally from Freeport, IL but have lived in Wisconsin, Texas, Arizona, and South Korea.

3. My Interests… Distributed Networking and Computing Robotics Data Acquisition Control Theory, including DSP Simulation Modeling GPS Graphical Programming Robotic Vision Systems Robotic Drive-Train Systems Astronomy

4. My Activities… Research “Assistant” at SIUC, in distributed power monitoring networks, data acquisition, and robotics. Lead Technical Advisor to FRC Robotics Team #2219 at Brehm Preparatory School. Vice-Chair of SIUC-IEEE. Oversee Minority Engineering Summer Camps at SIUC. Engineering Student Council Liaison to EE,ECE, and CE dept’s. Technical presenter at SIUC-IEEE, topics including robotics, PID control algorithms, spacecraft propulsion. Have participated in many robotic competitions, using PIC μ- controller’s and FPGA’s. SEDS (Students for the Exploration and Development of Space) Liaison to SIUC-IEEE

5. Current Projects Autonomous Car with GPS waypoint navigation using an 8-processor μ- controller. Autonomous Helicopter with GPS waypoint navigation and graphical interface. Power Monitoring system using a distributed wireless network (ZigBee). Creating a Robotics Club at SIUC.

6. What I want from IBM A good experience Practical knowledge of the systems IBM support, their features, their inherent limitations, and how to produce better systems in the future. Develop skills to rapidly learn new technical systems and their application.