Advisory Board
- Dr. Mark Shayman, Chairman of CertusNet
Advisory Board, Professor and Associate Dean, University of Maryland, College Park
Dr. Shayman graduated Summa Cum Laude from Yale University with a B.A. in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry in 1975. He received his S.M. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University in 1977 and Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard in 1981.
Since 1986, he has been a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland where he currently holds the rank of Professor. He is also Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs in the A. James Clark School of Engineering.
Dr. Shayman received the Donald P. Eckman Award in 1984 from the American Automatic Control Council (U.S. member organization in International Federation of Automatic Control) for outstanding contribution to the field of control by a young researcher in the United States. He was granted the Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1985 from the National Science Foundation. Dr. Shayman received the George Corcoran Award for contributions to electrical engineering education from the Electrical Engineering Department and the Outstanding Professor Award from the Graduate Student Association of the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of Maryland, both in 1988. In 2006 he received the Entrepreneurship Award from the University of Maryland Office of Technology Commercialization. He has served as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and as Chair of the Technical Committee on Control Theory of the IEEE Control Systems Society.
Dr. Shayman's research interests are in the broad area of communication networks. Specifically, he is involved in research in traffic engineering, WDM networks, free space optical networks, ad hoc networks, sensor networks, and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack mitigation.
- Paul Yazge, CertusNet Advisor, Vice
President of Southeast Sales, Niksun, Inc.
Mr. Yazge has over 20 years of high-tech experience across multiple disciplines including network security, broadband wireless, optical networking, data communications, and telecommunications. He started his career as a hands-on network engineer advancing into senior management roles in marketing and sales culminating as the CEO of a broadband wireless start-up. In addition to several start-up ventures where he played a key, early role in the development of each company, he has worked for industry leaders such as Cisco Systems, CIENA Communications, and Hughes Network Systems.
He is an entrepreneurial and forward-thinking professional with proven skills, accomplishments, and experience in leading sales, marketing, and business development efforts. He has strong experience in the following areas:
- Account Development & Customer Relations
- Strategic Sales Initiatives & Planning
- Strategic Alliances & Partnerships
- Sales Channel Development and Management
- Corporate Branding and Marketing Programs
- Market Development Initiatives
Education:
B.A., Broadcast Communications, University of Maryland
- Michael T. McCarty, CertusNet Advisor, Chief
Network Officer, Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Health
System
Mr. McCarty is the Chief Network Officer for the Johns Hopkins University and the Johns Hopkins Health System. He is responsible for networking, telecommunications, network security, web infrastructure and the Local Area Networking environment. He has been involved in IT since the mid 1970's. His background and experiences include various senior management positions with responsibility for applications development, operations and technical support, systems integration, web based architectures, networking and telecommunications. He is currently involved with a number of major projects that include: widespread deployment of wireless technologies; implementation of high bandwidth computing services involving animation, image information and research in a virtual environment; Internet 2 activities including work with the National Science Foundation on the development and deployment of middle-ware products and services, as well as innovative efforts dealing with network security.
Prior to joining Hopkins, Mr. McCarty was president of Adaptive Sciences Corporation. Adaptive Sciences was a consulting firm that provided senior level IT management services. Prior to his involvement with Adaptive Sciences, Mr. McCarty had been a Vice President with the USF&G Corporation for eleven years.
Education:
Towson University, Towson Md. - B.S. Degree in Business Administration
