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Glen Roberts Glen Roberts is a Project Manager for the Systems Analysis and Exploitation group at Assured Information Security, Inc. (AIS), specializing in penetration testing, reverse engineering, embedded systems security and exploitation, drone security and professional cybersecurity education. Prior to joining AIS, Roberts spent more than sixteen years in law enforcement working in New Jersey. During his career in law enforcement, he earned his bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in Cybersecurity (Computer Forensics and Cyber Operations) from Utica College, where he currently teaches graduate and undergraduate cybersecurity courses. He also earned the following certifications: CISSP (ISC2); OSCE (Offensive Security); OSCP (Offensive Security); and Security (Comp-TIA). Nathan Rose Nathan Rose is a Director and Principal Accident Reconstructionist at Kineticorp, LLC, a Denver-based accident reconstruction, forensic engineering, and forensic visualization firm that he helped found in 2005. Prior to that, he held positions as an engineer (1998 to 2003) and a senior engineer (2003 to 2005) at Knott Laboratory, another Denver-based forensic engineering firm. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines (1998) and a master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Colorado at Denver (2003). Nathan is accredited as a Traffic Accident Reconstructionist by the Accreditation Commission for Traffic Accident Reconstruction (ACTAR) and he has offered expert testimony as an accident reconstructionist in courts around the United States. During his graduate studies, he specialized in dynamics and impact mechanics and he has published numerous technical articles and reports related to vehicular accident reconstruction. These articles have covered topics including crush analysis, structural restitution, video analysis, crash test sensor analysis, rollover crash reconstruction and analysis, and motorcycle crash dynamics and reconstruction. Nathan is a past organizer for the Rollover, Rear Impact, and Accident Reconstruction Sessions held annually at the SAE World Congress. Phillip Ross Phillip J. Ross is President of Quality Services International, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in quality and statistical training. He has accumulated over 4500 hours of classroom instruction teaching courses in quality, design tools, and manufacturing processes and problem solving in the United States, Great Britain, Holland, Japan, and Singapore. Prior to his consulting business, Mr. Ross worked for General Motors in automotive powertrain design and development and automobile manufacturing and assembly. He first worked with Allison Transmission Division in product design/development and then with Saturn Corporation in the manufacturing and assembly aspects. Mr. Ross was involved in the design phase of many transmission components and systems, developed statistical/quality methods and training, and performed process development. He also performed process development
for lost foam casting, painting, molding, and others while at Saturn. Mr. Ross is the author of the book Taguchi Techniques for Quality Engineering which has sold over 35,000 copies worldwide, has had articles published in Quality Progress by ASQC and in Target by AME and is the holder of three patents on product design. Mr. Ross received a B.S. in mechanical engineering from General Motors Institute, and is an ASQ Fellow and Certified Quality Engineer. Richard Ruth Mr. Ruth is currently president of Ruth Consulting LLC which specializes in passenger car and light truck Event Data Recorders and restraint systems performance in crashes. He has 10 published papers on EDR accuracy and assists civil attorneys and prose- cutors in Frye and Daubert hearings to get EDR data admitted in court. He has taught over 30 classes in EDR imaging and data analysis to law enforcement and private reconstructionists, and is a regular speaker at national and regional crash reconstruction conferences. He is a beta tester for new releases of the Bosch Crash Data Retrieval system. Mr. Ruth is a member of the SAE J1698 Event Data Recorder Committee, and a member of ISO’s EDR related TC22/SC12/WG7, and a former member of the ASTM 4150 group that developed an EDR procedure. Prior to consulting, Mr. Ruth worked 33 years for Ford Motor Company, and since 2008 managed the engineers who did field investigations of safety system performance in real world crashes including EDR imaging and analysis, and championed the release of Ford EDR data to the Bosch Crash Data Retrieval system, personally writing some of the data limitations. He handled law enforcement requests for EDR readout assistance, was a member of Ford’s EDR policy committee, was Ford’s representative to the SAE EDR standards committee, and helped shape Ford and Auto Alliance responses to NHTSA on Part 563 EDR legislation. Mr. Ruth has a B.S.in Electrical Engineering from Michigan Technological University and an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan Ross Business School, and is a registered professional engineer. Pranab Saha Pranab Saha is an entrepreneur, co-founder, and a Principal Consultant of Kolano and Saha Engineers, Inc., an independent professional engineering and consulting company in acoustics, noise, and vibration. A well-known authority on automotive noise, body interior systems, and sound package materials, Dr. Saha has directed and participated nationally and internationally in numerous advanced noise control engineering programs and training seminars for various OEM companies and their suppliers in three different continents. Dr. Saha is an active member of SAE International, ASA, ASME, ESD, INCE-USA, and NSPE/ MSPE. He is the past Chair of the SAE Engineering Meetings Board, SAE Noise and Vibration Conference, SAE Acoustical Materials Committee, and the past contributing editor of Sound and Vibration magazine. He has written a document on how to write an SAE technical paper, has helped develop several SAE standards in acoustics, is a Professional Development Instructor, and Lead Faculty Member of the SAE Vehicle Interior Noise
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