Archived: Contributions & Stories of LMAG Members
The intent of the web section is to provide inspiration and lessons learned during an engineering career from the Life Member Affinity Group (LMAG) members.
Hopefully, you will gleam what it takes to have a successful engineering career.
Below are two videos: (1) 37-second video on John Meredith Wishing IEEE A Happy 125th Anniversary in October 2008, and (2) Flag Folding Ceremony and Presentation. The flag-folding ceremony was narrated by Dr. John Santiago as a tribute to his mentor, military colleague and friend. The video was sent back to his home at Fayetteville, Arkansas where the rest of his family and friends resided.
IEEE Pikes Peak Section Meeting & Tribute to Navy Veteran & 2007 IEEE*USA President John Meredith
A Great Leader Who Builds & Motivates Other Leaders
During September 2018, Professor Santiago will Chair for the IEEE Pikes Peak Section with John Meredith as Vice Chair starting in 2019. As a long-term strategic plan, Professor John Santiago was going to handle the outreach community programs to educate parents and their kids emphasizing what engineering and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) is all about. John Meredith will handle setting up the technical session activities. The partnership was planned as a team effort. John Meredith set up the following first IEEE technical session held at CTU while Professor Santiago hosted and handled the local logistics:
IEEE Pikes Peak Section Two-Part Meeting, September 27. Part 1: Cybersecurity: Threat and Risk Management and Part 2: “The President’s Forum” – A Three-Hour Live Video Conference with the IEEE President, Jim Jefferies and senior leadership. Key topics for Part 1from the presenter, Michael G. Semmens include: the nature of cyber threats, priorities for cybersecurity & the national cyber exchange.
After Professor Santiago completed the Manitou Incline on 26 September 2018, he found that John Meredith, died that same day. Unknown to Professor Santiago, John Meredith has been suffering a blood infection during the past eleven days. Two weeks before John Meredith died what was planned as a family event, the blood infection started. Also, before John Meredith left for his planned family event, one of the last request by John Meredith to Professor Santiago was to take a group photo of the Cybersecurity Meeting. Professor Santiago honored his request with the photo shown below. Before the presentation started, a 1-minute moment of silence was given and a short video clip of John Meredith was shown offering best wishes to IEEE 125th Anniversary in 2008. The planned meeting proceeded as John Meredith would have wanted.
Information about John Meredith used with permission by his wife, Lorraine.
Oral History of Dr. Donald Kraft, IEEE Life Fellow
Donald Kraft an oral history conducted in 2022 by Gene Freeman, IEEE History Center, Piscataway, NJ USA.
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John Reinert has over 50 years serving in numerous positions at IEEE.
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Russ Bogardus has been a consistent contributor to the IEEE Pikes Peak Section serving in a variety of officer positions in the Section. Russ has been a Pikes Peak Section member for over 25 years and activity engaged in the
leadership (Treasurer, Vice-Chair, Chair, EXCOM member) for the past 10 years. He has done many humanitarian projects around the world and his latest one is described below.
Russ Bogardus graduated with a B.S.E.E. from Union College (Tau Beta Phi, Eda Nappa Nu) (Schenectady, NY) and a M.S.E.E from the University of Rochester (Rochester, NY). His courses centered on system and control theory and signal and state estimation. He spent the next 40 years working for IBM Federal System (25 years) and Lockheed Martin Mission Systems (15 years) as a system engineer and chief engineer His projects included submarine detection and tracking, terrain following radar, and the GPS Command and Control System. After retiring he became a P.E. in the state of Colorado and volunteers with Engineering Ministries International designing electrical infrastructure for missionaries in the world’s poorest countries.
Date/Time: 27 Sep 2022: 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm
Location: 4110 North Academy Blvd (Old Chicago), Colorado Springs , CO 80918
REGISTER: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/321749
Slide Show Presentation from Russ Bogardus
As LMAG Chair, David Bondurant has given several presentations in the Section as well as performing several duties at the IEEE Regional level.
CONGRATULATIONS TO DAVID BONDURANT!
For being the recipient of the 2022 MGA Achievement Award in Region 5, well-deserved congratulations go to one of our leaders in the Pikes Peak Section
DAVID BONDURANT
Chair, Life Member Affinity Group (LMAG)
IEEE Pikes Peak Section
“For exemplary leadership and distinguished contributions in promoting IEEE activities at the Section, Council, and Region levels. “
David is a very energetic and valuable advisor to the Section Chair who volunteered as Chair, Life Member Affinity Group (LMAG) Chapter. He collaborated closely with LMAG and Computer Society Chapters in helping to revitalize them as well as delivering quality presentations to the Section. He provided future Section and Chapter Chairs a foundation of documented events with multi-media content for others to follow with a gallery of digital flipbooks and embedded videos serving as one of many examples to inspire future volunteer leaders and members.
While assuming his regional responsibilities, David collaborated closely with LMAG and Computer Society Chapters across the Regions having a global impact in helping to revitalize many chapters. He provided a foundation of documented events for others to further inspire future volunteer leaders and members. His actions are for others to build and improved, especially at the Section-level, while assuming major and numerous leadership roles shown below at the Region Level.
Leadership Roles:
Chair, Life Member Affinity Group (LMAG), Pikes Peak Section (2019-Present)
IEEE Region 5, Pikes Peak North Area LMAG Coordinator in 2019
IEEE Region 5 LMAG Coordinator, 2020-2021
IEEE Life Member Committee Member, 2021-2022
IEEE Life Member Activities Member, 2021-2022
IEEE Life Member Committee Member Activities coordinator for Life Member Committee, 2021-2022
IEEE Computer Society Region 5/6 Coordinator, 2020-2021
IEEE Computer Society Chair of Geographic Activities Committee and Vice Chair of Computer Society Member and Geographical Activities Board
The digital flipbook is the award nomination package for David Bondurant in which he received the Achievement Award.
During COVID, Gene Freeman stepped up to become Chair, Computer Society. As a result of his efforts, Gene received the Jim Leonard Award for Outstanding Member.
Below is his contributions during the COVID award from previous year but was used to build for another award for next year.
Experimenting With AI
Here is a playlist demonstrating the video content creations by Dr. Santiago.
The initial series of videos shows applications of AI.
The second video and fourth video use AI Talking Photos in various parts of the video. Here a static photo was converted into a talking-head video. The talking photo software is still evolving as the talking-head video currently does not have eyes that blink occasionally and does not have any arms movement to make it more realistic. The next iteration of talking-head videos should incorporate these features. Another AI app was also used to stitch together some stock videos.
The third video is Dr Santiago’s bio given Gene Freeman for his talk, during 2024 IEEE Education Week, a 5-webinar series on AI from Region 5 Section, with IEEE Pikes Peak Section as lead host. The fifth and fun video is another use of Talking Photos as videos which stitches together a series of AI generated videos created as talking photos. The image photos of Dr. Santiago are generated using AI as well.
The other videos series includes topics such as short videos on the entrepreneurial mindset leading to the use of the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (or KEEN) framework.
Mindmap (or Sitemap) of the IEEE Pikes Peak Section Website
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Dr John Santiago’s Bookcase of Recent Publications
A Demonstration of Interactive Video Using H5P
Dr J’s IEEE Documentation as Section Chair (Oct 2018-Feb 2023)
The example nomination form below is an example of how the IEEE Pikes Peak Section website can be used to provide credible information to the nomination package: