Feburuary 23, 2006

RESUME

Thomas Mitchell Kisko, Retired

Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida

PERSONAL DATA

Retirement Address: 2041 NW 17th St., Crystal River, FL 34428
Phone : 352/257-9474 (mobile); 800/987-3312 (home)
Date and Place of Birth : September 15, 1948, Detroit, Michigan, U.S. Citizen

EDUCATION

1973     University of Florida M.E.             Industrial Engineering
1970     University of Florida B.S.(Honors)     Engineering Science
1968     Palm Beach Junior College A.A.         Pre-engineering

EMPLOYMENT

6/80 - 6/01         Retired (6/01),
                    Associate in ISE (7/86 - 6/01),

                    Assistant in ISE (9/81 - 6/86 full-time, 6/80-9/81 half-time),
                    Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering,
                    University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
                    Responsibilities: Teaching, research, advising and
                    departmental computer coordination.

1/79 - 6/80         Visiting Instructor,
(half-time)         Computer and Information Sciences Department,
                    University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
                    Responsibilities: Teaching.

10/77 - 9/81        Director,
(half-time);        Management Systems Engineering,
9/75 - 10/77        Shands Hospital,
(full-time)         University of Florida,Gainesville, FL
                    Responsibilities: Directed the Management Systems
                    Engineering Department, an internal industrial
                    engineering consulting group at Shands Hospital.

10/77 - 9/78        Project Coordinator,
(half-time)         Health Systems Research Division,
9/71 - 9/75         J. Hillis Miller Health Center,
(full-time)         University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
                                             Responsibilities: Developed dental practice  simulation
                    models on three NIH grants.

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

Regular courses taught:

Industrial Applications of Microprocessors SUM80,SUM83,SUM85,S90,S92,S93
(ESI 4161) S94,SUM94,SUM95,S96,SUM96,F96,S97,SUM97,F97,S98,SUM98,F98,S99,
SUM99,F99,S00,SUM00,F00,S01

Computer Programming for Engineers (COP 3212) a large FORTRAN and then C++
service course, enrollment has exceeded 400, supervised F86,S87,SUM94;

taught SUM87,F87,S88,SUM88,F88, S89,SUM89,F89,S90,SUM90,F90,S91,
SUM91,F91,S92,SUM92, course number changed to CGS 3422, F92
Started teaching C++ (and FORTRAN) sections, S93,SUM93,F93,S94,SUM95,F95,
S96,SUM96,F96,
course number changed to CGS 2422, S97, course number
changed to CGS 2425, F97,S98,SUM98,F98,S99


Production Control Computer Programming F80,W81,S81,F81,W82,S82,F82,S83,
(ESI 3154) F83,S84,F84,S85,F85,S86,F86

Advanced Industrial Applications of Microprocessors (ESI 6162) S92
Industrial Systems Simulation (ESI 4523) S82,S89,S90,S91,F91,F92
Discrete Systems Simulation (COP 4300) W79,SUM79,W80,S82
Software Systems Development (COP 3603) S80

Special topics courses taught:
Industrial Applications of Robotics (EIN 4905) SUM83,F83
Pascal (EIN 4905) SUM82
PDP 11/34 User (EIN 4905) SUM81
Job Control Language (CIS 4930) W80
C++ (CGS 3422L special section) S93

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

4/98-6/01 "Mid-infrared Imager for the GEMINI 8-M Telescopes,"
Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, .30 to .68 FTE
as project manager and software engineer, C.Telesco co-principal

    investigator, $1,605,871 plus $241,653 and $25,616 supplements.
8/94 - 4/95 Sabbatical leave, consulting/research activities included:

    IVHS modelling for Westinghouse, windows program development
    for Shands Hospital, and database application development for
    Valic.
10/93 - 12/94 "Development of a System Architecture for a Nationwide
    Intelligent Vehicle Highway System (IVHS)," Westinghouse
    Electric Corporation and the Federal Highway Administration,
    .22 to 1.0 FTE co-principal investigator, C.Wallace co-principal
    investigator, $153,477.
1/90 - 4/92 "A Simulation Decision Support System for Emergency Evacuation
    and Management," Florida High Technology and Industry Council,
    15 to .20 FTE co-principal investigator, S. Tufekci co-principal
        investigator, $91,843.
3/84 - 6/87 "Group Technology and its Applicability in Electronics
    Assembly," IBM, .25 FTE as co-investigator, D. J. Elzinga principal
        investigator, $300,000.
9/81 - 12/84 "Network Models of Building Evacuation,"  National Bureau of
    Standards, .25 FTE as co-principal investigator, R. L. Francis
    co-principal investigator, $80,434.
10/77 - 9/78 "Microsimulation Model of Dental Practice," Health Resources
    Administration, .5 FTE as director, K. E. Kilpatrick principal
    investigator, $37,800.
6/76 - 6/77 "Dental Practice Analysis Through Computer Simulation/
        Communication Technology Satellite," Health Resources Administration,
    .25 FTE as director, K. E. Kilpatrick principal investigator, $86,977.
9/74 - 9/75+ "Utilization of Computer Simulation in TEAM," Bureau of Health
    Resources Development, 1 FTE as project coordinator, K. E. Kilpatrick
    principal investigator, $69,380.
9/71 - 9/74 "Dental Task Assignment via Computer Simulation,"  HEW, 1 FTE as
    project coordinator, K. E. Kilpatrick principal investigator, $247,252.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Current interest are computer applications in industrial engineering, intelligent control of machines, robotics, and software engineering. Recent research includes software develoment of astronomical instrument control, development of network models of evacuation, development of robotic work cells, robotic assembly of electronic devices, and group technology in assembly.

PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATIONS

Registered Professional Engineer, Florida # PE 0035555

CONSULTING ACTIVITIES

9/81 - present Consultant, Shands Teaching Hospital, Gainesville, FL
4/03 - present Consultant, UF Health Affairs - Contracts and Related Services, Gainesville, FL
3/73 - 12/80 Consultant, Southern Simulation Service, Tampa, FL
Miscellaneous consulting assignments have been conducted with:
IBM, Boca Raton, FL
Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ
Apple Computer, Cupertino, CA
Westinghouse, Baltimore, MD
VALIC, Houston, TX
Intellon, Ocala, FL

Southern California Earthquake Preparedness Project, CA
South-Eastern Organ Procurement Foundation, Richmond, VA
Retirement Corporation of America, Ocala, FL
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
Health Resources Administration, Washington, DC
University of Toronto, Canada
Vitilo Construction, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
James Schuler, P.E., Gainesville, FL


SOFTWARE DEVELOPED

Tom Kisko was the primary implementor of the following:

JEI - The Java Engineering Interface for T-ReCS, the infrared imager
and spectrograph for the Gemini South telescope
DENTSIM - a dental practice simulation model

TO_FUN - converts empirical data to GPSS piecewise linear cumulative
    probability functions
PMS - a hospital productivity management system
ONCALL - a hospital on call system
MC - a hospital message center (Windows)
MB - a message board (Windows)
WINLIST - a file viewer with a search engine (Windows)
FCIS - a file and contract management system (Windows)
SCANVIEW - a paperless office scanning and viewing program (Windows)
TTM - a telephone traffic monitoring system
ASSM2 - an AML program for robotic assembly of microcomputers
EEEE - an engineering economy expression evaluator
EVACNET+ - a building evacuation modeling program
ONCALL - a hospital on call system
SPS - a space planning system
OCP - an organizational chart drawing program
OP - an outpatient pharmacy prescription tracking system
REMS - a regional area evacuation modeling system
SAMS - a space allocation monitoring system
TARS - a time and activity reporting system
LPL - a linear programming language/solver
IRR - solves for internal rate of return on calendar dated cash flows
FE - a font editor
E - a music notation editor and player
SURFACE - a three dimensional response surface drawer
CAMNET - a manufacturing network messaging system
QUEUE - a queueing analysis program
PCBHOLES - a printed circuit board hole drilling program
TS - a time study data collection and analysis system
DO-AT - an automated task scheduler
KUTIL - a set of utilities for the PC, a partial list follows:
CDX - search for and change to a directory
CMPDIR - compares two directories
COPYTO and COPYFROM - allows big files to be copied via floppy
DIRD - a directory DIR command
ENCRYPT - a file encryption program
E - an multiple window ASCII text editor
SAVE - a file saving command
EBCDICTA - an EBCDIC to ASCII converter
REP_ALL - does string replacement over a set of files
FDIR - finds all directories meeting a specification
INFO - lists info about your PC, e.g. available space on all disks
SEECOLOR - a color text presentation program
TYPEWRIT - turns your PC into a smart typewriter
WHICH - tells you where commands will be found (on the path)
LIST - a file viewer
D - a directory management tool
and more ...

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

"GatirCam: the Gemini mid-infrared imager," Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 3354, International Society of Optical Engineering, Kona, Hawaii, March 25-25, 1998 (with C.Telesco, et al.).

"Generic Class Web Page," The Ninth International Conference on College Teaching and Learning, Jacksonville, Florida, April 15-18, 1998.

"The Course Planning Program," The Ninth International Conference on College Teaching and Learning, Jacksonville, Florida, April 15-18, 1998.

"Automatic Generation of Response Curve Drawings of Simulation Results," Simulators IX, Simulation Series, Vol. 24, No. 4, Society for Computer Simulation, 1992 (with D. Williams).

"A Tutorial on Modeling Emergency Evacuation," Proceedings of the 1992 International Emergency Management and Engineering Conference, Society for Computer Simulation, Orlando, Florida, April 6-9, 1992 (with S. Tufekci).

"REMS : A Regional Evacuation Modeling System," Proceedings of the 1992 International Emergency Management and Engineering Conference, Society for Computer Simulation, Orlando, Florida, April 6-9, 1992 (with S. Tufekci).

"Regional Evacuation Modeling System (REMS): A Decision Support System for Emergency Area Evacuations," Computers and Industrial Engineering, Vol. 21, Nos 1-4, pp. 89-93, 1991 (with S. Tufekci).

"Design of a Regional Evacuation Decision Support System: Integrating Simulation and Optimization," Proceedings, Society for Computer Simulation Conference on Emergency Management and Engineering Conference, Anaheim, California, January 23-25, 1991 (with S. Tufekci).

"A Linear Programming Formulation for Regional Evacuation Problems," Research Report no. 90-10, Industrial and Systems Engineering Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, December, 1990.

"Extensions to the Engineering Economy Expression Evaluator," Research Report no. 89-4, Industrial and Systems Engineering Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, May, 1989, also presented at the CORS/TIMS/ORSA Joint National Meeting, May 8-10, 1989, Vancouver, Canada

"A Case Study of the Implementation of a Vision System in a Robotic Assembly Application," Robotics and Factories of the Future '87, Proceedings of the Second International Conference, San Diego, CA, July 28-31, 1987, Springer-Verlag, 1988 (with E. Muth).

"Case Study: Demonstration of the Final Assembly of a Personal Computer by Robot," accepted for publication in Industrial Engineering, (with E.J. Muth).

"A Low Cost MIDI Out Interface," accepted for publication in Keyboard.

"Design Considerations for a Cushion Cluster Gripping Mechanism," Special Report to IBM, Industrial and Systems Engineering Department, University of Florida, April, 1987.

"An Engineering Economy Expression Analyzer," Computers and Industrial Engineering, Vol. 13, No. 1-4, 1987, also presented at the IIE 9th Annual Conference for Computers and Industrial Engineering, Atlanta, Ga., March 1987.

"A Syntax for Linear Programming that Computers and People Can Understand," Technical Report Number 86-13, Industrial and Systems Engineering Department, University of Florida, also presented at the October 1986 Miami ORSA/TIMS meeting.

"Redesign of a Personal Computer for Automated Assembly," Proceedings of the IIE International Electronics Assembly Conference, Boston, Mass., September, 1986 (with E. Muth)

"Multiple-Stage Assembly of Personal Computers in Robotic Workcells with Vision Support," Proceedings of the IIE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, San Francisco, CA, April, 1986, (with E. Muth).

"Using a Pocket Computer as a Time Study Data Collection Tool," Computers and Industrial Engineering, vol 11 nos 1-4, 1986, also published in Proceedings of the 8th Annual Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering, Orlando, Florida, March, 1986.

"Using A Radio Shack Model 100 as a Real-time Equipment Monitoring and Recording Device," Computers and Industrial Engineering, vol 11 nos 1-4, 1986, also published in Proceedings of the 8th Annual Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering, Orlando, Florida, March, 1986.

"EVACNET+: A Computer Program to Determine Optimal Building Evacuation Plans," Fire Safety Journal, Vol. 9, Nos. 1 & 2, May/July, 1985, (with R. Francis).  

"General Purpose Coordinate Transformations in AML," Proceedings, International Conference on CAD/CAM, Robotics and Automation, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 1985.  

"EVACNET+: A Network Model of Building Evacuation," Computer Simulation in Emergency Planning, Simulation Series, Vol. 11 No. 2, Society for Computer Simulation, 1983, (with R. Francis).  

"The Use of Computers in Industrial Engineering Education at the University of Florida,", Proceedings, ASEE 1983 Southern Section Meeting, American Society for Engineering Education, 1983.  

"Microprocessor Education in Industrial and Systems Engineering,", IEEE Transactions on Education, Special issue on Microprocessor Education, 1980, (with B. Capehart, J. Dean, D. Swift, and D. Dailor).  

"The Use of Physical Models in the Application of Microprocessors," presented at the Third National Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering, October, 1980 (presentation only). 

"An Automated Method of Creating Piecewise Linear Cumulative Probability Distributions," Proceedings of the 1976 Winter Simulation Conference, December, 1976. 

"Dental Practice Analysis Using Computer Simulation," Journal of Dental Education, November, 1976, (with K. Kilpatrick and R. Mackenzie).  

"GPSS/SIMSCRIPT - The Dominant Simulation Languages," Record of Proceedings, Eighth Annual Simulation Symposium, March, 1975, (with I. Kay and D. Van Houweling).  

"A Manpower Analysis of Private Practice Dentistry Through Simulation," Record of Proceedings, Seventh Annual Simulation Symposium, March, 1974, (with K. Kilpatrick and R. Mackenzie). (Best paper award. Also published in Simuletter, Volume 5, Number 3.)