Grover Righter

GROVER RIGHTER has been active in networking projects and network
standards for over 20 years. He has contributed to IEEE 802.x efforts,
IEEE 1003 (POSIX) and X-Open XPG standards in addition to multiple ITU
(CCITT) and OSI standards. He has a passion for practical, applied
standards and software component reuse. He has been a Developer and
Architect for network systems at levels 2,3,4 and 5 of the OSI stack
(none of them, however, on OSI Protocols. In addition, Mr. Righter has
contributed to multiple wireless projects for services over TDMA and
CDMA 2.0 and 2.5 G networks. He is a frequent public speaker on topics
related to next-generation optical, broadband and wireless (UMTS)
services, especially value-added services created from high-level models
and business rules on top of application service frameworks using object
methodologies, UML and the action semantics language. He has held
technical and executive management positions with several companies
including AT&T, Novell, Geoworks, RMS Inc. and Univel. He has degrees in
Mathematics, Classical Studies and EE/CS. Grover Righter is currently
Vice President of Technical Strategy at Kabira Technologies, Inc., a
provider of infrastructure software for next-generation network
services.