Jack Harper - Resume/CV
BSI2000, Inc.
(1994 - 2007)
Mr. Harper (jharper@frobenius.com) began with BSI2000, Inc. in Denver, Colorado USA in 1994 and was President from 1995 until 2007. The company believes that it designs, builds, and sells the best systems in the world that identify, authenticate, and track people and their activities. The systems combine 21st century biometrics, electronic identification and tracking cards, sophisticated sensors and control electronics, extensive embedded software, and advanced cryptography to result in the most secure identification and tracking systems in the world. They are designed to economically and securely protect the complex infrastructure of today's world -- corporate HQ buildings, financial and IT facilities, government sites such as nuclear and hydroelectric plants, water treatment works, military sites, petrochemical and chemical plants, national laboratories, etc. BSI2000's security systems protected Denver International Airport, Anchorage International Airport, and other similar high-value sites. In addition, over twenty federal agencies, police and sheriff departments/agencies, and medical examination groups use the Company's live scan FBI and CBI (Colorado Bureau of Investigation) certified electronic fingerprint capture/transmission systems. A high-level hardware/software crypto product (Crypto2000) designed and built by the Company received NIST certification in 2006. Other BSI2000 customers include the US Department of Homeland Security. BSI2000 became a public company in 2003.
See 
for a list of his publications and formal presentations and here for PGP crypto key information needed to send secure e-mail to Jack Harper.
Technology Fusion, Inc.
(1989 - 1994)
Previously, from 1989 until 1994, Mr. Harper was President of Technology Fusion, Inc., a company that specialized in low-cost add-in video hardware products for the Apple Macintosh. He initiated and closed agreements, with CompUSA, Inc., for the national distribution and co-marketing of the TotalVision product line that included an initial order for over 1,000 units. Mr. Harper also designed and implemented the product launch campaign that resulted in page length stories in several national computer publications. In early 1992, TotalVision was introduced at the MacWorld Expo trade show in Tokyo where it was voted one of the Ten Best New Products of the Year by a major Japanese computer publication. He also built, in C/C++ on the Macintosh, the GUI user interface/front-end software that controlled the Technology Fusion hardware.
Topologix, Inc.
(1986 - 1989)
From 1986 until 1989, Mr. Harper was co-founder and President of Topologix, Inc., a company that designed, built, and marketed high-performance, UNIX-based, variable-topology Parallel Processing Transputer systems that ranged from quad-processor workstation level machines to 32/128-processor minisupercomputers. He raised initial seed-level and follow-on financing; created the 50-person sales, marketing, engineering, and operations organizations from scratch; and defined the initial Topology parallel processing product line. In 1987, Mr. Harper raised approximately $1.0-million of private angel money and in 1988 led a successful over-subscribed initial public stock offering on the NASDAQ exchange, with a New York underwriter, that raised an additional $3.8-Million. In addition, he personally setup foreign distribution for the Topology product line in Japan and Korea with C. Itoh and Hyundai and also closed the largest single order received by Topologix in that period which was from Nippon Steel. Approximately fifty Topology minisupercomputer systems were sold and shipped into the United States and several countries while Mr. Harper was president. Applications included molecular modelling, virus research, very high-end CAD systems, sonar and radar signal analysis, semiconductor design, SDI, symbolic and other mathematics, financial market and econometric modelling, high-end graphics, and others. He left the company in 1989 as president but remained on the Board of Directors for several more years. Mr. Harper also designed and built a parallel LISP-based Linda simulation package for the Topology system.
Robot Defense Systems, Inc.
(1983 - 1986)
From 1983 until 1986, Mr. Harper was with Robot Defense Systems, Inc. (RDS) of Denver, Colorado where he started as Senior Software Engineer and left as Director of Technology. At RDS, he directed a group of computer scientists and engineers that built a series of mobile robotic machines -- about the size of a small Volkswagen -- that were used for security and military applications. Mr. Harper also built a real-time LISP system (~50,000 lines of 68000 assembly language that used the Baker incremental garbage collection algorithm) that powered the AI portions of the robotic control system.
Machine Cognition, Inc.
(1979 - 1983)
From 1979 until 1983, Mr. Harper, as Machine Cognition, Inc., (a one-man company) was an independent Software Development Contractor. During this period, he completed numerous short and long term projects for EDS of Dallas and Denver, US Department of Energy, the Aker Group of Oslo, Norway, First National Bank of Midland, Texas, the US Coast Guard at Governor's Island New York, the Tennessee Valley Authority, and others. These projects involved X.25 real-time data communications, CAD systems, LISP coded expert systems, geophysical data management, development of a source code management systems, and others.
Bell Tech. Ops./Frankfurt
(1978 - 1979)
From 1978 until 1979, Mr. Harper was on TDY assignment in Frankfurt, Germany with Bell Technical Operations, Inc. During this time he was the Senior Software Engineer that developed software for the first real-time Command and Control system (CCIDES) that was designed to direct NATO nuclear forces in Europe. This classified system was first activated with live data and information during REFORGER 78 and WINTER REFORGER 79.
(Cold War photos by J Harper - 1979 (except the shot of the I. G. Farben headquarters building in Frankfurt which was taken by Lt. Delbert Walden in 1946)
Designers and Planners, Inc.
(1976 - 1978)
From 1976 until 1978, Mr. Harper was a Software Engineer with Designers and Planners, Inc. -- a marine engineering and naval architecture design firm in Galveston, Texas. He was completely responsible for an early 150,000 line Norwegian-built computer aided ship design CAD system (AUTOKON). In 1977, Mr. Harper moved the system from the older and very expensive Univac 1100 mainframe to an inexpensive Prime 400 minicomputer which saved the company hundreds of thousands of dollars. For an account of this, written by Prime Computer, Inc., see the November 27, 1978 issue of COMPUTERWORLD.
Lockheed Electronics/NASA
(1976)
In 1976, Mr. Harper was a real-time data communications Programmer for the NASA Univac 1100 complex at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Texas with Lockheed Electronics.
University of Houston
(1970 - 1975)
In 1975, Mr. Harper received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering, a B.A. in Mathematics, and a Minor in Russian Studies from the University of Houston. During this period, he also held several part-time positions within the university including: Programmer for the EE Department where he built a spectral analysis system (Fast Fourier and other transforms etc) for a SKYLAB Radar Scattering project under NASA subcontract; Programmer for the College of Engineering where he developed a Student Records Database on the Univac 1108; and others. Interesting student projects during these years included an Artificial Intelligence based fingerprint classification system, a resolution based, first order predicate calculus theorem proving system in Univac 1100 LISP, as well as modifications to the University of Wisconsin Univac 1100 LISP system.
Harper later (1992) received an MBA from the University of Denver.
Jack Harper was born in Paducah, Texas in 1952.
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TotalVision Photo
Byte WriteUp
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Topology-1
Topology-1000
Topology-1000
Prowler Robot
Image through RDS built Laser Vision System mounted on Prowler - Brightness represents Distance
Prowler Video Clip
Source Code Management system announcement in ComputerWorld (25 July 1983)
Berlin Wall
From the middle of No Man's Land between Warsaw Pact/NATO barriers at Checkpoint Charlie - Berlin
I worked in a vault in the underground section of this building in Frankfurt, Germany during 1978/1979. It was, then, HQ V Corps of the U.S. Army and, before 1945, HQ of I. G. Farben, AG.