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• Prior to this Yorke took a start-up software development company from a prototype through three major product releases with installations at well -known investment banks. In this capacity he designed, programmed, installed, and supported the flagship product for prospect tracking, and managed help desk, programmer, and product planning personnel. Customers included: New York Life Insurance Co., Forstman, Leiff & Associates, Kleinwort Benson, Brown Brothers Harriman, and Finland Airlines. Yorke started his computer career at New York University where he received his Bachelor of Science degree in computer science and was the Director of the Micro Computer Laboratory during his studies there. In this capacity he established the first microcomputer lab for the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, taught introductory classes, and managed a staff of 10 consultants. Joe H. Howell Joe Howell is a Senior Network Architect within IBM's Emerging Broadband Solutions organization. He excels at understanding Customer's broadband access communications needs and translating those needs into solutions that add value to the Customer's business. He has 23 years of proven experience designing, implementing, and supporting a wide range of multi - protocol, secure, local and wide area wireless and wired networks. These networks enable applications such as broadband network access for mobile police vehicles via citywide wireless networks, broadband wireless "last mile" Internet access for residential and business users, laptop and handheld enablement via wireless LAN, home grocery delivery and wireless data collection in the Distribution Industry, mobile forms processing in the Public Safety Industry, mobile guest check - in in the Hospitality Industry, and mobile email delivery via wireless WAN. Mr. Howell has led the planning and design of multiple citywide fixed and mobile broadband wireless access and wireless backhaul networks that required high levels of performance and high security. He designed and implemented a highly secure large wireless LAN infrastructure for a major financial services institution. This network enables executives and other users to wirelessly access their corporate data without fear of the wireless data being compromised. He also led the design effort for a campus wireless LAN at a major western US university. This design provides secure seamless wireless LAN access to users in highly dense indoor areas and also outdoor areas. Mr. Howell led the effort to research and design the wireless wide area data network infrastructure for a major southeastern grocer's move to home delivery of groceries. The design required the services of multiple wireless data carriers in order to provide complete coverage in the diverse delivery region. The network enables real time data communications between the driver's handheld computing devices throughout the delivery region and the grocer's central dispatch office. Use or disclosure of data contained on this page is subject to the restriction in the 16 disclosure statement of this document.