Chairman

Robert (BJ) Johnson - B.J. is employed as a software engineer/architect at Boeing in El Segundo. He has worked for over 27 years in the aerospace industry for several different companies, focusing on the automated test and measurement environment for communication satellite payload testing. B.J. has an extensive background in automated test control, telemetry and command systems, and data storage/presentation facilities for many government and commercial customers.

B.J. graduated as a returning student with a B.S.C.S in 2002, and an M.S.C.S in 2005, both from LMU where he is also a part-time instructor. He has been active in the ACM for the past three years.

Vice Chairman

Andrés Buriticá - Andrés Buriticá is a Loyola Marymount University alumnus. His senior project OpenJSGL, an implementation of the OpenGL graphics pipeline in JavaScript, was presented at the Southern California Conference for Undergraduate Research (SCCUR) in 2007. He currently works as a Software Engineer developing and maintaining the back-end infrastructure for Revver.

Secretary

Mike Walsh - Mike reprises his role as secretary of the Los Angeles Chapter of ACM. He has been active in the LA Chapter since 1971 and has held a number of chapter positions during this period. He retired from TRW in November 1992 after a career of software development from requirements, design, coding, test, and delivery of software to customers on a number of projects. He has a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin and a MS in Mechanical Engineering from USC. He expects to stay active in the LA Chapter.

Treasurer

Ray Toal - Dr. Toal is Professor of Computer Science at Loyola Marymount University where he has been teaching continuously since 1986. He has also been doing architecture and development at Citysearch since 1996. He has held past positions in the local chapter including Treasurer, Vice Chair and Chair. He finds the whole idea of a "general interest" professional society very cool since the greatest thinkers and intellectuals of all time were not members of sharply focused SIGs. However, Ray is not running for membership chair, but for treasurer, and the best he can promise is to avoid investing the chapter's funds in Haitian penny stocks or bonds for building multi-million dollar Curling stadiums in Eastern Alabama.

Member-at-Large

Caskey Dickson - Caskey L. Dickson is currently a Lecturer and Manager of the Computer Science Labs at Loyola Marymount University's Frank R. Seaver College of Science and Engineering. In his 12 year career in the software industry he has co-founded two prominent online services, CitySearch and LiquidWit; served as primary architect for the technology behind two more online services, The Wedding Channel and CarsDirect; and founded his own consulting company, TechnoCage, through which he has contributed to numerous other online and offline software projects.

In his spare time he contributes to and manages a number of open source software projects, founded the Santa Clarita Valley Linux User's Group (SCVLUG) and is nurturing the newly reborn student ACM chapter at LMU. His current areas of research involve reliable multi-petabyte data storage systems and distributed agent-based simulation. Caskey has been a member of ACM since the mid-90's and can be reached at caskey@acm.org.

Mike Megally - Mike Megally graduated from Loyola Marymount University with a Bachelors degree in Computer Science in May 2006. Currently, he is working as a software engineer for a web technologies company. Mike's spare time is dedicated to learning more about anything Computer Science related, mainly working on personal projects. His interests are in linguistics, operating system design, distributed programming, and typical client/server applications. Languages of choice are C, Java, x86 assembly and C# though he is knowledgeable in many other languages. Mike says that he hears rumors of Python being pretty awesome, but he hasn't yet had the opportunity to sit down with it.