Chuck Baldi
Northern Virginia Section Director, 2009-10
cbaldi@ieee.org

Chuck Baldi is a Development Manager/Architect at Sprint Nextel where he is involved with the development of OSS and service delivery tools and systems for wireless and data networks. He has also been involved in a number of different areas including digital video transmission, predictive dialing applications, and web services.

Baldi received his B.S.E.E. degree in 1993 from George Mason University and has been an IEEE member since 1990. He is the Northern Virginia Section Editor for the Scanner and a past chair of the Graduates of the Last Decade (GOLD) Affinity Group.

Sirak Belayneh, Ph.D.
Northern Virginia Section Director, 2008-2009
sbelayne@ieee.org

Sirak Belayneh holds an M.S. and Ph.D. from George Mason University and a B.S.E.E. from Addis Ababa University. He has over twenty years of experience in the design, analysis and review of electrical power systems with recent focus on fault analysis and protective system coordination. He is a registered professional engineer in Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia. He has been member of IEEE for the last 23 years.

Laura J. Black
Northern Virginia Section Director, 2008-2009
astarte@ieee.org

Susanne Dreier
Northern Virginia Section Director, 2009-10
susie.dreier@yahoo.com

Diba Khan
Northern Virginia Section Student Representative, 2008-2009
dkhan1@gmu.edu

Diba Khan is a Ph.D. candidate in the field of Statistical Science at George Mason University. She holds a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from George Washington University and a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering from an Indian university.

Vinod Mishra, Ph.D.
Northern Virginia Section Director, 2009
vmishra@ieee.org

Katie Schaffold
Northern Virginia Section Director, 2009-10
katie.schaffold@ieee.org