Thomas Loos
                        October, 2000

Email: tloos@cs.indiana.edu
Personal Web Page: http://www.cs.indiana.edu/hyplan/tloos.html

Education:
Indiana University-Bloomington. Ph.D., Computer Science, December, 1996.

A short description of the thesis, including its abstract, is available
at 
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/hyplan/tloos/thesis.details.html
The full dissertation is also available as IUCS Technical Report 471.  
Advisor: Dr. Randall Bramley, Associate Professor, Computer Science
Dept.,

North Carolina State University, MS, Computer Studies, August, 1987. GPA
3.90/4.0,

University of Nebraska-Lincoln, BS, Computer Science and Math, May,
1986.  GPA 3.88/4.0.

Employment:
February, 1997 - present: Member of Technical Staff, Lucent
Technologies, Naperville, IL.

   2/97 - 12/97: System Engineer: wrote NNS ISUP signaling requirements
and submitted 
   results periodically to customer. 

   1/98 - 12/99: Expatriate assignment, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: Lead
technical member of
   team that received System Qualification Testing (SQT) approval for
the 5ESS from 
   Saudi Telecom (STC). Ran tests in STC's 5ESS test facility,
coordinated, prepared, 
   and wrote formal responses with Saudi and Netherlands teams, and
discussed results 
   as needed with customer. Eventually, scope included all 5ESS SQT/TAT
approval testing 
   activities in Saudi Arabia, including technical negotiation, test
coordination, and 
   coordinating/executing customer demonstrations in the US, UK, and
Saudi Arabia. 

   1/00 - today: AT&T market system engineer for 7R/E.  Write
requirements for OA&M on the
   7R/E, prepare descriptions of customer features, participate in
technical customer 
   meetings for OA&M and ISUP/BICC switching, and coordinate and write
compliance 
   results to AT&T's specifications.   
 
January, 1992 - December, 1996: Associate Instructor, System Assistant,
and Research 
   Assistant. Computer Science Department, Indiana
University-Bloomington. Taught 
   C and Operating System theory/practice classes.  Wrote iterative
system 
   solver codes in C and C++ (both uni-processor and parallel), and visualization
tools.  

June, 1986 - August, 1993: Member of Technical Staff, AT&T Bell
Telephone 
   Laboratories, Naperville, IL. Developed two retrofits from start to
finish - lead 
   engineer for second. Both projects were end-to-end from requirements,
through design, 
   coding, and testing, to field deployment and support. Note: On OYOC
(One Year on Campus) 
   from August, 1986 to June, 1987 and on leave of absence from August,
1991 to August, 1993.