Garry M. Paxinos

Voice +1.954.655.7453

pax@siggraph.org

Work

From mid 2006 until recently I was the Senior Vice President, Engineering for Sezmi Corporation.

If you want to get really bored, here is a copy of my resume.

• 1990 - 2003 Metro Link Inc. (BOD)
• 1996 - 2003 Linux International (BOD)
• 2000 - 20xx OCN (BOD)
• 2003 - 2003 Gente Solutions (TAB)

Organizations

• Saint Demetrios / Fort Lauderdale
  • 2006 - 2008 Vice President Parish Council
  • 2002 - 20xx Parish Council
  • 1984 - 1986 Parish Council
  • 1980 - 1982 Parish Council
• AHEPA Chapter 394 / Fort Lauderdale
  • 2004 - 20xx Chairman, Board of Govenors
  • 2004 President
  • 2002 - 2004 Vice President
• Danny Joannides Scholarship Fund
  • 2002 - 200xx Committee Member

Presentations

• SIGGRAPH 2004 - Panel Chair - Next Generation User Interfaces for Consumer Electronics
• CES/2003 - Panel Presentation on UPnP
• COMDEX/Fall 2000 - Linux Business Expo
  Presented with Stuart Anderson - 'We do windows. A history of X'
• Linux World Expo 2000
  Presented with Stuart Anderson - 'Embedding the X Window System'
• COMDEX/Fall '99
  Panel Chair - 'Will Linux be your next Development Platform'
• COMDEX/Miami '99
  Panel Chair - 'Linux: The Windows Alternative'
• COMDEX/Spring '99
  Presented with Morgan Von Essen - 'Linux: The Windows Alternative'
• Uniforum '98
  Presented with Morgan Von Essen - 'Working Together: Open Source and Commercial Projects. The XFree86 Project and Metro Link Inc.'

Conference Program Committee

• IEEE International Symposium on Consumer Electronics, International Advisory Committee, 2004, 2005, 2006
• IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking 2004
• Usenix 2001 - Freenix Program
• ACM Multimedia 1996
• X Technical Conference 1996
• X Technical Conference 1992
• FedUnix Motif/CDE Conference 1993
• FedUnix Motif Conference 1992

Conferences

• ACM SIGGRAPH
  • 2000 - 2001 Member of the Conference Advisory Group (CAG)
  • Creative Applications Lab committee member for ACM SIGGRAPH 99
  • Creative Applications Lab Chair and member of the Conference Committee for ACM SIGGRAPH 98
  • Creative Applications Lab committee member at ACM SIGGRAPH 97
  • Professional Chapters booth Co-Chair at ACM SIGGRAPH 96
  • Electronic Media Committee Co-Chair at ACM ACM SIGGRAPH 95
  • Coordinated the MBONE multicasts from ACM SIGGRAPH 94 as well as technical coordination for the onsite WWW servers.
• ACM Multimedia
  • Network Chair, member of the Conference Committee, and Liaison with the colocated SPIE conference for ACM Multimedia 96.
  • Network Chair and member of the Conference Committee for ACM Multimedia 95
  • Member of the Electronic Media Committee for ACM Multimedia 94.
• IEEE
  • 2005 - 200x Member of the International Advisory Committee for the International Symposium on Consumer ELectronics (ISCE)
  • 2002 - 200x Member of the International Steering Committee for the International Workshop on Networked Appliances (IWNA).

Professional Organizations

• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
  • 2004 - 20xx Member of the US ACM Public Policy Committee
  • 1996 - 1998 Member of the ACM Electronic Services Working Group (ESWG)
  • 1996 - 1998 Information Director for and Member of the ACM Membership and Activities Board (MAB)
  • 1995 - 1996 Information Director for and Member of the ACM LAB (Local Activities Board)
• ACM SIGGRAPH
  • 2004 Member of the CDTF
  • 2001 - 2003 Re-elected to the Executive Committee as Treasurer
  • 2000 - 2001 Member of the Conference Advisory Group (CAG)
  • 1999 - 2001 Elected to the Executive Committee as Treasurer
  • 1998 Nominated to run for Treasurer
  • 1998 - 2000 Information Director.
  • 1997 Nominated to run for Director for Professional Chapters
  • 1996 Nominated to run for Treasurer
  • 1996 - 1998 Webmaster of www.siggraph.org
  • 1995 - 2000 Communications Chair on the Professional Chapters Committee.
  • 1994 - 1996 Member Online Task Force
  • 1994 Invited to attend the SIGGRAPH in the 21st Century: Rediscovering our Fire meeting held in Snowbird, Utah.
  • 1993 - 1999 Chair of the Fort Lauderdale ACM SIGGRAPH Professional Chapter.
• Advanced Television Systems Committee
  • Application Subcommittee
    • 2004-2005 Chair Ad Hoc Group on Advanced CODECs in the Main Stream
• Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)
  • Technical Standards Council
    • 2001 - 2005 Member
  • R7 Home Electronics Committee
    • 2000 - 20xx Member
  • R7.1 CEBus Technical Standards Committee
    • 1999 - 2000 Member
  • R7.3 Powerline Carrier Committee
    • 2001 - 2002 Evaluation Team
  • R7.4 Home Networks Committee
    • 2001 - 2004 Chair
    • 1998 - 2004 Member
  • R7.5 Video Committee
    • 2001 - 2005 Member
  • R7.6 Digital Entertainment Network
    • 2003 - 2005 Member
  • R7.7 Wireless Network
    • 2003 - 2005 Member
• Florida Center for Electronic Communication (CEC)
  • Fellow
• IEC/ISO JTC1 SC25 Working Group 1
  • 1999-2004 Member of the US Delegation
  • 1999-2004 Member of the US Technical Advisory Group (TAG) / ANSI
  • 1999-2002 Webmaster
• Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
  • 2006 - 2008 Elected member of the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society's AdCom
  • 1994 - 1997 Vice-Chair of the Broward Section of the IEEE
• Linux International
  • 2000 - 2005 Member of the Charter Board of Directors
  • 1996 - 2000 Member of the Board of Directors
• Museum of Discovery and Science (Fort Lauderdale, Florida.)
  • 1998 - 200x Scientific Advisor
  • 1995 - 1998 Member of the Technology Advisory Council
• Nova Southeastern University
  • 2005 - 20xx Member of the Graduate School Academic Advisory Committee
• SETI Institute
  • 1994 - 1994 Managed initial WWW Server
• South Florida Library Information Network (SEFLIN)
  • 1998 - 1999 Chair of SEFLIN's Broward Advisory Board.
  • 1996 - 1998 Vice Chair of SEFLIN's Broward Advisory Board.
  • 1994 - 1999 Member of the advisory committee and chair of the technical committee for the Broward County Free-Net operated by the South Florida Library Information Network.
• South Florida Sun User's Group (SFSUG)
  • 1994 - 1994 Member of the Steering Committee
• South Florida Unix User's Group (SFUUG)
  • 1986 - 1990 Member of the Steering Committee
• South Florida X User's Group (SFXUG)
  • 1990 - 1992 President
• The Open Group (TOG)
  • 1997 - 1999 Member of the X Project Team / X.Org
  • 1998 Co-Chair of the Network Client Program Group
  • 1997 - 1998 Deputy-Chair of the Desktop Program Group.
• Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA>
  • Member of the Home Network Committee
• X.Org / X Consortium
  • 1999 Vice Chair
  • 1991 - 1996 Advisory Board Member

Can you say volunteeritis? :-) I'm getting better... really...

Other Interests

Hmm, do you really think I have time for other things with that much stuff going on? :-) I occassionally SCUBA dive, and I recently earned my Private Pilots License (VFR).