Frederick Charles Druseikis, Ph.D.
Curriculum Vitae
http://cse.sc.edu/~fredd/cv.html
(Last Updated March 4, 2005)

CURRENT POSITIONS
University of South Carolina


Adjunct Professor
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
College of Engineering & Information Technology

Senior Research Fellow
Center for Health Services & Policy Research,
Norman J. Arnold School of Public Health

Independent Consultant

OFFICE ADDRESS


Department of Computer Science & Engineering

Swearingen Engineering Center Room 1A01C

University of South Carolina

Columbia, SC 29208



803 - 269 - 2972 (mobile)

e-mail: fdruseikis at sc dot edu

http://cse.sc.edu/~fredd

RESIDENCE


221 Holly Ridge Lane

West Columbia, SC 29169



803 - 796 - 8935 (home)

e-mail: fdruseikis at sc dot rr dot com

803 - 269 - 2972 (mobile)

NATIVITY Rochester, New York

US Citizen


EDUCATION




Ph.D. Computer Science
6/1975
University of Arizona Tucson, AZ

M.S. Computer Science
6/1973
University of Arizona Tucson, AZ

B.S. Mathematics, with Honors
6/1971
University of Arizona Tucson, AZ



MARITAL STATUS

Married

EXPERIENCE



5/2002 - Present
University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

Senior Research Fellow
Center for Health Services & Policy Research





Projects in Quality Improvement and Health Services Research.  Grant proposal development, design of information systems supporting health services research and quality improvement projects for the Palmetto Health Alliance, the Dorn VA Medical Center, and the USC School of Medicine; special projects in the evaluation of health services. Co-founder of the South Carolina Pay-for-performance Forum (www.scp4p.org)






8/2001 - Present
University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

Research Associate Professor and Adjunct Professor
Department of Computer Science & Engineering





Teaching and Research in Computer Science and Engineering.   Taught CSCE 740 (Graduate Software Engineering), CSCE 492 (Senior Capstone in Software Engineering, Model Driven Architecture and OptimalJ), CSCE 245 (Advanced Object-oriented Programming: Unix, C/C++, UML); CSCE 209 (Web development using Java and J2EE); CSCE 204 (Program Design and Development: Visual Basic .NET) Interdisciplinary projects with the School of Medicine, School of Public Health, and Center for Health Services and Policy Research.  Position contingent on research funding.


7/2000 - 8/2001
Identity&Security, Inc., Columbia, SC

Cofounder & Principal




Startup. HIPAA Consulting, Product definition and prototype for HIPAA Privacy; Assessment methodology development; 3rd-party product evaluation for HIPAA X12N transactions (Mercator), privacy and security, advanced development and web infrastructure development for .NET and open-source technology. Sold to Integrys LLC, Greenville, SC.


11/1996 - 6/2000
HealthMagic, Inc., Columbia, SC

Chief Architect/VP Technology Adoption




Lead the technical team (eight engineers) that developed an Internet-based Personal Health Record. Deployed in 1997 at Adventist Health System's Celebration Clinic at Celebration, FL; later marketed under the trade name HealthCompass; contributor to OMG CORBAmed PIDS (Patient ID Service) [Master Patient Index] specification; HIPAA, Security & Privacy; Built on Microsoft, Sun and Oracle.


11/1995 - 11/1996
Adventist Health Systems/Sunbelt Home Health Care, Columbia, SC

Chief Architect




Predecessor project to the formation of HealthMagic. Requirements definition for an internet-based personal health record; primary market research including prototype development and focus-group evalutations. Technology assessement in prepartion for development. Staff recruiting.


12/1991 - 11/1995
AT&T/NCR, Columbia, SC

Technology Consultant




Technology Architect for productization of NCR CORBA Technology; lead design and development of a CORBA 1.0 and CORBA 2.0 ORBs. Participated in OMG standards initiatives representing AT&T and NCR. Product was marketed as the "AT&T Cooperative Frameworks". Built on Windows and Unix.


8/1989 - 12/1991
 AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ

Technical Supervisor




Managed (twenty technical staff) the System Engineering for 3rd generation Office Information System marketed as AT&T Rhapsody - Workflow, Client/ Server; directed the off-shore development of a key component with Dublin (Ireland) software development company; integration with customer's mission critical systems for a major aerospace contractor. Microsoft clients; Unix servers.


1/1985 - 8/1989
 AT&T Bell Laboratories, Lincroft, NJ

Technical Supervisor




Lead systems engineering & development team (eight engineers) for Call-center automation software; extensive real-time speech processing hardware/software integration; integration with mission critical business systems for a leading credit card travel company. Unix.

 

1/1981 - 1/1985
 AT&T Bell Laboratories, Lincroft, NJ

Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff




Advanced development of speech processing/voice response software for a value-added data network service. Deployed network components and integrated with mission critical business systems for a major airline and book publisher. The airline service was extensively advertised. Unix.


7/1979 - 1/1981
RCA David Sarnoff Research Center, Princeton, NJ

Member of the Technical Staff




Advanced development on RCA's initiative to develop a home computer (the PC didn't have that name yet!) I designed an operating systems for the Intel 8086 supporting Pascal. Subcontracted language development to Microsoft.


7/1977 - 7/1979
Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ

Member of the Technical Staff




Exploratory Development projects aimed at using advanced software technologies (C/Unix and Concurrent Pascal) to control PBX (Private Branch Exchange) real-time control software.


7/1975 - 7/1977
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Assistant Professor of Computer Science




Taught Compiler Design, Programming Languages, Software Engineering to undergraduates and graduate students. SNOBOL4, Simula, Pascal, Algol-68, APL. Staff researcher on departmental NSF grants in the development of new programming languages - SL5.


8/1971 - 7/1975
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Graduate Associate - Teaching & Research

Taught courses in the math and computer science departments. Research in programming languages.

AFFILIATIONS

Pi Mu Epsilon - National Mathematics Honary

Upsilon Pi Epsilon - National Computer Sciences Honary

Phi Beta Kappa - National Liberal Arts Honary

ASTM

WEDI - Working Group for Electronic Document Interchange

PUBLICATIONS

(K. Armstrong, F. Druseikis, N. Hazeltine) "Case Study, HealthCompass: Providing Direction in a World of Health Care" appears in 1998 Guide to Health Care on The Internet, J.W. Hoben, Ed., Faulkner & Gray, New York, 1997.



Co-author and contributor to the OMG [Object Management Group] CORBAmed PIDS (patient identity services) specification, 1997; work performed while employed by HealthMagic, Inc.



(F.C. Druseikis, D.K. Kythe) "Consumer-centric Security Policy for Patient Indexing," 2nd Master Patient Index Workshop, Washington, 1996.



Co-author and contributor to the OMG CORBAsec security specification. 1995; work performed while at AT&T/NCR.



(G.D. Ripley, F.C. Druseikis) "A Statistical Analysis of Syntax Errors", J. Computer Languages, Vol. 3, pp. 227-240, 1978.



(F.C. Druseikis) "Error Recovery in SLR(1) Parsers," ACM National Conference, Houston, 1977.



(D.E. Britton, F.C. Druseikis, R.E. Griswold, D.R. Hanson, R. Holmes) "Procedure Referencing Environments in SL5", ACM Principles of Programming Languages, 1976.



(F.C. Druseikis) "Influences of Modularity on Program Portability", ONLINE Conferences LTD, London, Conference Proceedings, Software Systems Engineering, 1976.



Ph.D. Dissertation, "The Design of Transportable Interpreters", U. of Arizona, 1975. (Advisor: Ralph E. Griswold)



(F.C. Druseikis, J.N. Doyle) "Procedural Approach to Pattern Matching in SNOBOL4", ACM National Conference, 1974.



Numerous technical reports in AT&T Bell Laboratories, U. of Arizona.



"Near-rings on the Quaternion Group," Undergraduate Honors Thesis, U. of Arizona, 1971. (Advisor: James R. Clay)

AWARDS


1983 - Bell Labs Individual Contributor Award for contributions to the design and development of speech processing services on AT&T/Net 1000.



1990 - The AT&T Rhapsody team received a PC World Magazine award and recognition for the product.



2000 - HealthCompass received a Smithsonian award for innovative applications of the 20th century.

CONFERENCES


Various academic conferences from 1974-1980.



1994 - 1999: Working meetings of the OMG technical committee as a contributor to several working groups.



"Performance and Scalability of a CORBA ORB", OMG Object World Conference, Boston, January, 1994. (Presentation and panel discussion.)



"Practical Experience with a CORBA ORB," AT&T Object Technology Conference, Holmdel, October 1995.



1st Master Patient Index workshop, Los Alamos, 1996. (Discussion group leader.)



2nd Master Patient Index Workshop, Washington, DC, 1996.



"Status of CORBAmed PIDS," 10th HL7 Conference, Washington, 1996. (Presentation and panel discussion)