Martin L.W. Hall, Ph.D.
2924 Conifer Court Napa, CA 94558-5876 USA (707) 257-8158 (W) (707) 257-8110 (H) (707) 257-8318 (Fax) E-mail: martin@sysval.org
Values Technology 740 Front Street, Suite 318 Santa Cruz, CA 95060 USA (408) 457-3115 (W) (408) 457-6972 (Fax) E-mail: martin@values.com
Details
Citizenship: U.S (American), British, and Canadian
Summary of Industry Work Experience
Values Technology,
Santa Cruz, CA. (800) 745-7783
Director, Strategy and Communications, I operate as a principal in a management and organizational consulting and software firm. I am a shareholder and have been on the Board of Directors. My duties include original research on systems and values, quality process, new product design and business development. Major projects include putting our software technology on the internet, and producing the publications we offer. I also participate fully in the international consulting of the firm.
MC Systems Consulting
Napa, CA. (707) 257-8158
Owner, Consultant (Currently Consulting) I operate a consulting company that concentrates on quality and organizational consulting. Contracts have included consulting in organizational development, quality assurance procedures, business development, documentation, system and networking management, and sales support.
SunWorld (formerly SunTech Journal), (IDG)
San Francisco, CA.
Director, Test Center Senior Editor. I designed and built from scratch the SunWorld Test Center, where I oversee the development of tests and reviews for SunWorld. I also operate as a technical editor in that I review all articles for technical content. I am also in charge of looking at new technologies and operating as an industry analyst. I write the News | Grep, news analysis column. I have been integral in decisions concerning the growth of the magazine, and have been involved in redesign of the magazine and transitioning the magazine to a monthly publication.
Verity, Inc.
Mountain View, CA.
Manager, Quality Assurance. I was in charge of quality at Verity. This meant that I tried to achieve as defect -free software as possible; as well as working on the product release process to make it more effective, and quality oriented. I was also in charge of testing all of Verity’s software products. This included creating and executing test suites, projecting resource needs, project management, hiring, debugging problems, setting up manufacturing and shipping processes and quality controls; and coordinating beta testing. I reported to the VP of Customer Service.
Frame Technology
San Jose, CA.
Manager, Quality Assurance. I was in charge of testing all of Frame Technology’s software products. This included creating and executing test suites, projecting resource needs, hiring, debugging problems and coordinating beta testing. I reported to the VP of Engineering.
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Mountain View, CA.
Software Quality Engineer. Software System Test Group in the Engineering Operations Division. Tests written have included window performance, UNIX file system call performance and UNIX commands and system calls test suites. All the tests have been automated to make regression testing much easier as well as to introduce a consistent base of testing. I was involved in coordinating a bug verification effort for various OS releases.
Other Independent Consulting:
Bitwise Systems Consulting - General Partner 1984 - May 1986
Olivetti ATC - SW QA Engineer (Programmer) 1983 - May 1986
Omega Associates - Supervisor/SW Engineer August 1981 - May 1984
Hawkins-Hall Associates - General Partner 1983 - 1984
University of Santa Clara - Student Assistant 1980 - 1981,1982 - 1985
IBM (San Jose) - Summer Pre-Professional June - July 1983
Computer Languages, Software & Hardware
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I have worked on many application packages on the MS-DOS, Macintosh and UNIX platforms. I have used most of the popular products (editors/word processors, spreadsheets, and databases) on each of these platforms. On UNIX, I have used Informix DBMS and FrameMaker extensively. I have an extremely high rate of adaptability to new computer systems, software, networking and mobility issues.
Education
University of Lincolnshire & Humberside -- Lincoln School of Management
Hull, United Kingdom
Ph.D in Management (Systems Science)
Lincoln School of Management, Center for Systems and Information Sciences, Focus in Systems, Organizations and Values.
University of Hull
Hull, United Kingdom
1st Year Ph.D. Research.
Department of Management Systems and Sciences, Focus in Systems, Organizations and Values.
San Jose State University
San Jose, California
MS in Cybernetic Systems
Emphasis in Organizational Development. (GPA: 3.75)
Santa Clara University
Santa Clara, California
BA in History
Bachelors in History with much course work in Computer Science.
Indiana University
Bloomington, Indiana
Attended Indiana University Journalism Institute -- Photojournalism Focus.
Non-Industry Experience and Publications
University of Lincolnshire & Humberside -- Lincoln School of Management
Hull, United Kingdom Visiting Research Fellow
Hall, M.L.W. 1992.General Systems Theory and Cybernetics in the Real World: A Handbook for Using Systems Concepts in Organizational Settings, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA.
Hall, M.L.W.; Haskell, W.; Hurwicz, C.; Lazzeri, M.; and Reali, W. Spring 1990. Organizational Consulting and Systems-Thinking: Project Report Cyb S 295. San Jose State University, San Jose, CA.
Hall, Martin L.W. "The confusing capitals", Sullivan, P. H. (Eds.) (1998) Profiting From Intellectual Capital: Extracting Value From Innovation. NY: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Newsletter Publishing with PageMaker, Macintosh Edition, Davis, Barry & Hall, 1987.
Book Review -- Dealing with Complexity, System Practice, (TBP) 1995.
Numerous technical articles notably SunWorld and Workstation News
SunWorld Column (Column -- News|grep -- June 1990-December 1992)
Workstation News (Column -- Industry Analysis -- January 1993-September 1993
LanTimes
WangTimes
ISSS94 Paper -- Systems and Values: A Practical Approach to Organizational Intervention
Special Presentation and Panel on Internet and Systems Science at 1994 ISSS Conference
Chaos 94 -- Discerning Chaos in Organizations: Understanding Chaos and Complexity in Organizations Using Human Values
2 ISSS95 Papers -- Reducing Complexity & Background
2 Systems Research Papers 1996 (TBP)
ISSS96 Papers -- Practical description of SAM (TBP)
ODN 1992 paper -- The Holographic Organization: Transforming Corporate Culture Through Values Measurement, Brian P. Hall & Martin L.W. Hall, National OD Network Conference, Toronto, October 20, 1992
ODN 1995 Paper
Brown County Democrat, 1978
Managing Through Values, Hall & Hall 1996 (TBP)
Edited (Values Shift by Brian Hall)
Conferences and Other Speaking Engagements
1994 Chaos Conference -- September 7-10, 1994 Denver, USA
UKSS 95 -- July 10-14, 1995 -- Hull, UK
ISSS 94 -- June, 14-19, 1994 -- Asilomar, Monterey, CA, USA
ISSS 95 -- July 24-28, 1995 -- Amsterdam, Netherlands
ISSS 96 -- -- Louisville, KY, USA
ISSS 97 -- -- Seoul, (South) Korea
isss 98 – Atlanta, GA, USA
National OD Network Conference 92 -- October 92 -- Toronto, Canada
BAODN 93 -- Best in the West -- Spring (April 1993);
National OD Network Conference 95 -- Seattle, USA
West Coast Computer Faire-- Summer 91 -- San Francisco
SUG conference -- Spring 91 -- SPARC Industry Panel
Unix in Multi media at Multi media Expo--Fall 91
SunWorld Spring 1992 -- Santa Clara Conference Center
SunWorld Spring 1993 -- Moscone Center, San Francisco
Ph.D. Seminar November 1994 -- University of Humberside
Systems, Values & MIS April 10, 1995 --- Golden Gate University
Professional and Community Qualifications
Developed class on Work flow and Business Process Engineering, Plexus, 1993
Associations: ISSS, UKSS, Computer Press Assoc., NODN, BAODN, USENIX, ASVI, ISVI, and SUG.
Member, Board of Directors, Values Technology, Santa Cruz, CA
Former Member, Board of Directors, InterSoft Information Systems, Hayward, CA
Certified Level 1 & 2 Values Technology
NTL Workshops -- Human Interaction Lab
Runner up Geoffrey Vickers Award (Student Contest ISSS 1994)
Board of Directors, Merrivale West Home Owners Association
References
Available Upon Request