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Jack Harper, President/Secure Outcomes Inc.


e-mail: jharper@frobenius.com or jharper@secureoutcomes.net
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Harper is a software developer/engineer with a strong engineering/technical background in cryptography, real-time embedded systems, artificial intelligence, forensic livescan fingerprint collection and analysis, and parallel processing systems. Programming languages used over the past 42-years include 
Common Lisp/CLOS/MOP (and other Lisp varients),   
C/C++ and, in ancient times, 
ALGOL, 
FORTRAN, 
PL/1, 
SNOBOL, and 
assembly languages for numerous machine architectures, and others.



Platforms over the years include 
Windows XP/NT/98/95 (soft real-time embedded), 
Apple Macintosh, 
Rabbit and
68000 (hard real-time embedded), and, many years ago,
Prime minicomputers, 
HP 2100 minicomputers, 
Symbolics LISP Machines, 
 Univac 1108/1110 mainframes, 
IBM 360, 
SDS Sigma-7, and others.



Harper holds four issued patents: 8,331,775 Fingerprint Scanning Systems and Methods (US);  7,107,457 Optical Card Based System for Individualized Tracking and Record Keeping (US); 7,128,258 Optical Immunization Card (US); and 2005/01261 Optical Banking Card ( in South Africa) and has fifteen patent applications currently pending in the areas of advanced digital livescan fingerprint collection and processing techniques, cryptography, financial systems, and security.



His professional interests are centered around early stage tech companies and he has thirty+ years experience designing, building, and fielding secure and security-related systems and taking the products to market. Harper's past (and current) work has involved real-time embedded hardware/software crypto systems; advanced digital livescan fingerprinting and biometrics systems; internal crypto details of the U.S. Green Card; the design of variable-topology supercomputer systems for artificial intelligence, molecular modeling, image processing, and other applications; vaguely autonomous laser-imaging guided mobile security robots; medical instrumentation (dialysis and laparoscopic ultrasound gear); and, many years ago during the Cold War (1978/1979), he was a civilian contractor to NATO forces in Central Europe. 



Harper has worked, consulted, and sold systems with feet on the ground in 22 countries. He has an MBA degree from the University of Denver (1992) and a B.S. Electrical Engineering and a   B.A. Mathematics degree with a four-year Minor in Russian Language and Studies from the University of Houston (1975). 



In the past, he founded, arranged financing, grew, and took his previous company BSI2000 Inc., which designed and built high-end security systems, public with maximum market capitalization of on the order of $50-million. Venture investors in the company had the opportunity to cash out at about 10x their investment once the company was public.



Harper founded Secure Outcomes Inc., his current company, which manufactures and sells advanced forensic digital livescan fingerprint collection, archiving, and transmission systems with about sixty system sales to date across the United States. He is a member of the Rockies Venture Club.



Harper's personal interests include the History of Computing -- especially Ancient Lisp Systems (Harper has assembled a collection of still working 25 year old Lisp Machines (an enormous Symbolics 3650 and several 3620's) and components (e.g., about a hundred Symbolics triple-high VME boards) from the primordial age of symbolic processing); the Internals of LISP Programming Systems; Amateur Radio (WØYJ -- CW on 20/40 meter HF) especially with vacuum tube receivers/transmitters from the 1950s/1960s; Voracious reading (history, politics, tech, early 20th century literature); Investments; Flying -- stick time in Cessna 150/172/177, Bellanca 14-13-2, Stearman PT-17, J-3 Cub, Sweitzer sailplane and others; Amateur Astronomy with a Celestron NexStar 11 GPS and a Cave Astrola 10 inch Reflector (under restoration); Scuba Diving (PADI Open Water Certified); Chess (not very well); Cycling; and Skiing. Harper parachuted some years ago and hopes to take that up again as time and courage permits. He does his best to walk three miles every day at 8,000-feet elevation.



Harper is (slowly!) writing a book on the early history (1955 - 1962) of the development of the LISP 1.5 programming language along with its first applications to build the classic early AI programs on the IBM 709/7090/7094 mainframes of that time.





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