Frank Wartena

Technical Working Group Vice Chair

Research Scientist

Phillips Research Europe

Frank Wartena is Research Scientist at Philips Research Europe working on the topics Healthcare Informatics and Home Healthcare to support Philips Healthcare in future growth opportunities. As part of his activities Frank has been involved in the Continua Health Alliance since the start in June 2006. From October 2006 till October 2008 he was Secretary of the Use Case Working Group (UCWG), in that position he already had a strong relationship with the Technical Working Group (TWG) and acted as liaison between both working groups. Since June 2009 Frank is Vice-Chair of the TWG and maintains the liaison role with the UCWG. An important activity as Vice-Chair is to guide the staged process of the TWG that takes the use cases and develops them through requirements and standards selection into guidelines.

Next to his activities in Continua, Frank is active in multiple research projects in home healthcare and information management for clinical trials.

Frank obtained his Master's degree with honors in Computer Science at the University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands and has since worked at Philips Research Europe in Eindhoven. In 2007 he received the Distinguished Employee Award at Philips Research. He lives in Eindhoven with his wife and two cats.

Jose Manrique Lopez de la Fuente

Technical Working Group Vice Chair

Health and Well-being Innovation Lab Manager

Andago

Manrique works as the Health & Well-being Innovation Lab Manager at Andago Ingenierí­a (http://www.andago.com) in Bilbao (Spain). This specific Andago Innovation Lab, in collaboration with the Andago Chair in Rey Juan Carlos Univerisity, is responsible for adding HDP (Health Device Profile) to BlueZ (http://bluez.org) stack and collaborates with some companies for integrating Andago's Open Source Continua IEEE Manager in their mobile platforms. As Continua members, Andago has implemented and spread Continua Design Guidelines in every project and event where it has participated. One of their latest activities has been joining Open Health Tools consortium, in order to add an Open Source community project that will cover the whole E2E Continua architecture.

On the TWG perspective, Manrique would like to add more interaction between Mobility TF and the TWG itself, in order to increase the visibility of what is being done and how it could benefit other WG. He would like to help the current Chair and Vice-Chair on the great work they are doing, and would like participating in the WG objective achievement process.

Manrique holds a MSc Industrial Engineer (Management specialization) from the University of Oviedo (Spain) and  is currently working on his dissertation about Semantic Technologies and data visualization to get the Certificate of Advanced Studies, prior to beginning his  Ph.D. in Computer Science. In the past, he spent 3 years with the W3C Mobile Web Initiative (http://www.w3.org/mobile) and has had close participation with the Mobile for Development (http://www.w3.org/2008/MW4D/) interest group, and as both Project and Product Manager at the CTIC (http://www.fundacionctic.org) research center focused on the R&D in mobile and accessibility Web fields. He is a passionate Open Source and Open Standards user, developer, and promoter of this initiative as a path to interoperability and innovation in any sector. He has been involved in several Open Source communities related to mobile technologies.

End-to-End Architecture Chair 

Johan Muskens

Philips Research

Currently, Johan is a scientist at Philips Research Europe in the area of healthcare systems architecture. From a technology perspective, he supports Philips businesses in medium-to-long term growth opportunities. In scope are applications and services for remote patient management and personal and consumer healthcare. In this context, he has been participating in the Continua Health Alliance Technical WG. As a chair of the end-to-end architecture sub-team, he has been focusing on the impact of new use cases on the overarching and longer-term architectural aspects of the Continua interoperability framework. In parallel to these activities Johan works on projects searching for new personal disease management concepts.

Previously, Johan Muskens worked as a scientist in the area of component based middleware for high volume embedded devices that support robust and reliable operation, runtime upgrading and extension and component trading contributing to Philips corporate research programs, external research projects with European partners and standardization efforts in MPEG (Multi Media Middleware). Before his work at Philips Research, Johan worked as a scientist at Eindhoven University of Technology on the topics predictable assembly of components and software architecture analysis.

Johan Muskens is a M.Sc. in Computing Science from the Eindhoven University of Technology. He lives in Eindhoven, The Netherlands and his hobbies include sailing, skiing and driving a motorbike.

End-to-End Security 

Martin Rosner

Director of Standardization

Philips

Martin Rosner is a Director of Standardization at Philips - North America and has over 10 years of experience in research and standardization of technologies applicable in the healthcare domain. Martin began his career at Philips as a Researcher with focus on security and privacy issues facing Philips Healthcare. His early work at Philips explored new innovations in patient identification and authentication, suitable access control mechanisms and privacy policy management and enforcement. Martin also applied his data security expertise to challenging problems in the Consumer Electronics domain, including copy protection and digital rights management. Currently, as a Director of Standardization at Philips, Martin is managing research and standardization projects directed at enabling the secure exchange of health information within and between the consumer and professional healthcare domains. In this capacity, Martin is chairing the security and privacy discussions in the Continua Health Alliance and is contributing to the relevant security initiatives within HITSP and HL7. Within Philips, Martin contributes in defining the directions for standardization for the global businesses of Philips Healthcare and manages a set of standardization programs relevant to them.

Philips is a global leader in healthcare, lighting and consumer lifestyle, delivering people-centric, innovative products, services and solutions through the brand promise of "sense and simplicity". Philips employs approximately 121,000 employees in more than 60 countries worldwide. With sales of EUR 26 billion in 2008, the company is a market leader in medical diagnostic imaging and patient monitoring systems, energy efficient lighting solutions, as well as lifestyle solutions for personal well-being.

End-to-End Mobility Chair

Thomas Erickson

VP of Product Development in the Engineering Services Group

Qualcomm

Thomas J. Erickson is President and CEO of the CDMA Certification Forum which defines technical certification requirements for CDMA devices world-wide, and co-chair of the CTIA Certification Program CDMA Working Group which defines technical certification requirements specific to CDMA devices for the U.S. market.  Mr. Erickson is also Vice President of Product Development in the Engineering Services Group at QUALCOMM where his efforts focus primarily on transferring CDMA technology to help the industry bring innovative products to market.  Mr. Erickson has more than 20 years experience developing and implementing test solutions for products ranging from CDMA handsets to cryogenic launch vehicles.  He holds a Master of Science in Business Administration and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering.

During his 15 years within Qualcomm, over 10 years working as co-chair in the CTIA, and over 5 years as president of the CDMA Certification Forum, Thomas has an extensive experience to draw upon working directly with operators, device vendors, test equipment providers, and test houses around the world.

End-to-End Mobility Vice Chair

Ian Hay

Head of Emerging Technologies

Orange/France Telecom

Ian has enjoyed a career of more than 21 years at Orange after joining Nokia Mobira when they were providing airtime provision for Cellnet and Vodafone, and since then have performed a very wide range of roles in Hutchison Cellular Services, initially through a series of technical roles designing and building IT and Network support systems, building up to creating an IT and Network department from scratch in Sweden; and then moving on to a more strategic role looking at new technologies and how they might be internalized through concept development, prototyping and rapid development.

In 2008, Ian moved over to international standardization and ecosystem development where he led projects that led to the creation of the Universal Charger Initiative and continues to focus on the implementation of the Universal Charger and wireless charging for a wider range of devices.

Since 2009, Ian started working on mHealth initiatives and became the Vice Chair of the Continua Health Alliance Mobility Task Force in June 2010 where he has driven the development of new Use Cases to support standards for Mobile Health.  During the same period he has also been a lead contributor to the GSMA mHealth Embedded project covering architectures, regulatory impact and business models for mHealth.

Devices Task Force Chair 

Lars Schmitt

Senior Scientist

Phillips Research Europe

Lars is a Senior Scientist at Philips Research Europe. Since joining Philips in 2006, Lars has been active in the healthcare domain addressing connectivity standards and technology. In this context, he has been actively participating in the Continua Health Alliance and other standardization organizations such as IEEE, Bluetooth, and ZigBee.

Lars received the Dipl.-Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany, and his PhD from the RWTH Aachen University, Germany, in Iterative Algorithms for Communications Receivers.

Devices Task Force Vice Chair

Tim Reilly

President

Stonestreet One, LLC

Tim Reilly is the Founder and President of Stonestreet One, a company dedicated to providing protocol stack software for Bluetooth wireless technology since 2000. Tim has served in various management, sales, and engineering roles while with Stonestreet One and represents the company in standards work with the Bluetooth SIG and Continua Health Alliance. Tim serves on the Ecosystem Committee with the Bluetooth SIG and participates in the Medical Working Group. Tim is also the Chair of the PAN Working Group with the Continua Alliance. Prior to his work at Stonestreet One, Tim worked as a software engineer for over 6 years with several groups within Motorola's Land Mobile Product Group in Ft. Lauderdale, FL and Schaumburg, IL. Tim received his BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Louisville and currently lives with his wife and two children in Louisville, KY, USA.

Services Task Force Chair

Barry Reinhold

President and CEO

LNI

Barry is President and CEO of LNI and has been involved in Continua since 2007. Barry has been engaged with the IEEE PHD workgroup since 2008 focusing on the 11073-20601 specification. Barry currently chairs the Continua TWG WAN group.

Barry has worked with communication protocols, as well as compliance and verification issues in a number of settings. Barry founded the InterOperability Lab (IOL) at the University of New Hampshire (UNH) in 1989 and directed it until 2001. From 2001 – 2003 Barry acted as the lead protocol architect for an iSCSI to Fibre Channel translation chip built by Trebia before joining LNI in 2003. Barry has developed test suites for many communications and storage protocols including IEEE 11073, iWARP (RFC 5044, RFC5040, and RFC 5041), Fibre Channel, iSCSI, FDDI, IEEE 802.5, HomePlug, PCI-ASI, PCI-E, and well as protocols within the IEEE 802.x family.

Barry received a B.S. in Physics and Computer Science and a M.S. in Computer Science from the University of New Hampshire.

In his free time Barry enjoys board games, cycling, frisbee and mentoring University students interested in technology.