Barry Sullivan is Director of Program Development for the International Engineering Consortium.  Prior to joining the IEC, he spent nine years at Ameritech, where he served as Director of Emerging Technologies.  He has developed and delivered continuing education courses in communications technologies, and he guided the technology strategy for a start-up company delivering packet voice services.  He was on the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Northwestern University for more than six years, and has taught there as an adjunct professor.  He also worked as a member of technical staff at Bell Laboratories.  He received the B.S.E.E. and M.S. degrees from Marquette University, and the Ph.D. degree from Princeton University, all in electrical engineering. 

Barry has served as an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, publications chair of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, and local arrangements chair for the Digital Signal Processing Workshop.  He was also editor of THE BRIDGE, the magazine of Eta Kappa Nu.  He has published over forty papers on topics in signal reconstruction and image processing.