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Biographical Sketch
Andrew Hammoude

Neda Communications, Inc mailto:office@andrew.hammoude.1.byname.net
3610 164th Place SE http://andrew.hammoude.1.byname.net
Bellevue, WA  98008-5807 Phone: (425) 644-8026

i. PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION

University of Cambridge, England Engineering B.A. 1973
(King’s College) (Honors)
University of Cambridge, England Engineering M.A. 1977
(King’s College)
University of Toronto, Canada Electrical Engineering M.S. 1978
University of Washington, Seattle WA Electrical Engineering Ph.D. 1988

ii. APPOINTMENTS

1999–present

Principal Engineer, Neda Communications, Inc., Bellevue, WA

2006–present

Director, Free Protocols Foundation, Bellevue, WA

2007

Consultant, The Technical Commitee, Bellevue, WA

Assisted the Department of Justice in monitoring Microsoft

technical compliance with the Final Judgement

2000–2002

Consultant, TeleCommunication Systems, Seattle, WA

Strategic planning for Location Based Services

1988–2000

Owner, IMAGEsystems, Inc, Seattle, WA

High-technology start-up company, developing advanced

image processing hardware and software systems

iii. (a). FIVE PUBLICATIONS RELATED TO PROPOSED TOPIC

  1. Hammoude A. and Banan M. Free Protocols Foundation Policies and Procedures. Free Protocols Foundation, Bellevue, WA, January, 2000. Available at
    http://www.freeprotocols.org/PLPC/100201.
  2. Banan M. and Hammoude A. Libre Services: A non-proprietary model for delivery of Internet services. Free Protocols Foundation, Bellevue, WA, March, 2006. Available at http://www.freeprotocols.org/PLPC/100101.
  3. Hammoude A. and Banan M. Operation WhiteBerry. Free Protocols Foundation, Bellevue, WA, January, 2000. Available at http://www.freeprotocols.org/PLPC/100006.
  4. Banan M. and Hammoude A. The WAP Trap: An Exposé of the Wireless Application Protocol Free Protocols Foundation, Bellevue, WA, January, 2000. Available at;
    http://www.freeprotocols.org/PLPC/100014.
  5. Hammoude A. The By* Concept: A Unified Model for Internet Services. Neda Communications, Inc., Bellevue, WA, January, 2007. Available at http://www.neda.com/PLPC/110001.

iii. (b). FIVE ADDITIONAL PUBLICATIONS

  1. Hammoude A. An Empirical Parameter Selection Method for Endocardial Border Identification Algorithms. Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics 25:33-45, 2001.
  2. Hammoude A. Edge Detection in Ultrasound Images Based on Differential Tissue Attenuation Rates. Ultrasonic Imaging 21:31-42, 1999.
  3. Hammoude A. Endocardial Border Identification in Two-Dimensional Echocardiographic Images: Review of Methods. Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics 22:181-193, 1998.
  4. Hammoude A. An Empirical Parameter Selection Method for Border Identification Algorithms. Computers in Cardiology, 1998.
  5. Hammoude A and Smith HW. Experiments with Self-Tuning Control of Flotation. Proceedings, IFAC Symposium on Automation in Mining, Mineral and Metal Processing, 1980.
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