Chapter Chair: Hector A. Martinez,Concurrent Technologies Corporation, Largo FL
Hector has a BSEE and MSEE degree from FSU-FAMU College of Engineering, Tallahassee, FL. His bachelor's
emphasis was in Communications Systems. His master's research emphasis was in Small Signal Modeling of
Microwave Field Effect Transistors using Artificial Neural Networks. This research resulted in a thesis and a published
paper in the October 2007 IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement on Small Signal Modeling of
MESFETs. From January 2003 to July 2005, he was with RCC Consultants as an intern in which he was involved
with RF and Microwave Systems for Public Safety applications. From August 2005 to December 2008, he was part of
the ITS (Intelligent Transportation Systems) group of HNTB Corporation. With HNTB he was involved in the planning,
designing, integrating and testing of Fiber Optic and Wireless
Communication Systems for ITS applications. In December of 2008 he joined Concurrent Technologies Corporation
to work in the design, modeling, testing and implementation of a High Speed Data Communications System Test Bed
for the local Public Safety and ITS agencies. This system is meant to provide interoperability and information sharing
in case of emergencies between these agencies. His goal as a consultant and IEEE member is to continue to learn
about new technologies available and provide the best solutions to our everyday problems, maintain our quality of
life, protect the public and our nation's safety and improve our international competitiveness.

IEEE SP/COM Societies joint Chapter meetings:
For information about our next meeting click here.

Announcements:
Posted 01/23/09 - The IEEE SP/COM joint chapter is now looking for one local member of the Signal Processing or
Communications Societies that would like to volunteer for the position of Vice Chair.
This volunteer position will take on some of the responsibilities to organize chapter meetings,
research seminar opportunities for the local professionals in the industry and help the
Chair in the organization of networking and career oriented activities for the
benefit of our community of professionals.
For more information please contact Hector at hmartinez@hntb.com.

IEEE Signal Processing Society Sponsored Conferences for 2008 in USA

PCS 2009	27th Picture Coding Symposium (May 6th -8th, 2009, Chicago Illinois, USA)
GENSIPS'2009	IEEE International Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics (May 17 -21, 2009, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA)
	2nd International Conference on Immersive Telecommunications (May 27 - 29th, University of California, Berkeley, USA)
ISBI'09	IEEE International Symposium in Biomedical Imaging (June 28 - July 1st, Boston, Massachusetts, USA)
	First IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience (July 29-31, 2009, San Diego, California, USA)

IEEE Communications Society Sponsored Conferences for 2009 in USA:

	IEEE Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (22 - 26 Mar 2009, San Diego, California, USA)
RFID 2009	IEEE International Conference on RFID (April 27-28, 2009, Orlando, Florida, USA)
CTW 2009	IEEE Communication Theory Workshop (May 10-13, 2009, Napa Valley, California, USA)
CQR 2009	IEEE Int'l Communications Quality and Reliability Workshop (May 12-14, 2009, Naples, FL, USA)
IM 2009	IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (June 1-5, 2009, Long Island, NY, USA)
MOBILE WiMAX'09	IEEE Mobile Wimax Symposium (July 9-10, Napa Valley, California, USA)

For additional Signal Processing Society conferences visit:
http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/listview/

For additional COMSOC conferences visit:
http://www.comsoc.org/confs/calendar/2009/confdate.html
http://www.comsoc.org/confs/index.html

For IEEE Spectrum free Webinars visit:
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/webcasts

For IEEE-USA Employment and Career Development free Webinars visit:
http://www.ieeeusa.org/careers/webinars/