John Shay

  
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Prior to losing his mind to "zupercilious" ambitions, Mr. Shay was Director of International Business Development for Hutchison Whampoa Americas Limited. While at Hutchison he was tasked with evaluating and securing best-of-breed technology, applications, games, and content in support of Hutchison Whampoa 3G cellular network launches worldwide. Mr. Shay also served as Director of Business Development for Hutchison's streaming media subsidiary, Vidiator Technology, where he spearheaded Vidiator's successful acquisition of Eyematic, a 3D avatar animation and video motion capture company.

Prior to joining Hutchison-Whampoa, Mr. Shay was Director of IPv6 Business Development at Zama Networks. As a next generation Internet startup, Zama was building the first native IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) network bridge between the US and Asia. Zama was shutdown when funding collapsed in the wake of the 911 terrorist attacks.

Prior to Zama, Mr. Shay was with RealNetworks where he was recruited as the original product manager for the RealAudio server product line. Mr. Shay was instrumental in establishing RealAudio as a ubiquitous streaming media solution by gaining broad firewall industry support for Real's streaming media protocol, RTSP. As product manager, he coined the term Synchronized Multimedia to describe RealNetworks' developed technology binding HTML updates to real-time media streams. This technology was the forerunner of Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL); which has since become a W3C open standard. Both RTSP and SMIL have also been endorsed by the 3G cellular industry for the delivery of multimedia content to mobile devices.

Mr. Shay later served as International Business Development Manager. In this role he spearheaded the introduction of RealNetworks technology to telecommunication and broadcast companies throughout the world, including ABCnews, BT, DT, FT, BBC News Online, ITN, Korea Telecom, SK Telecom, KBS, Hong Kong Telecom, RTHK, China Central Television, Chungwha Telecom, NTT, TBS, Telstra, Australian Broadcasting Corp., SingTel, Embratel, Globo Television, Telmex, Televisa, and Cable & Wireless. He is also credited with conceiving and executive producing the landmark Princess Diana and Hong Kong Handover Cybercasts.

Previously, Mr. Shay produced multi-player interactive games at Sierra On-Line for AT&T's ImagiNation Network. Mr. Shay has worked in the software industry since 1989, having started as a UNIX and VMS software engineer developing geophysical software for Sierra Geophysics, Halliburton, and Western Atlas. Mr. Shay holds advanced degrees in chemistry and geophysics.

Dr. Joan Oltman-Shay

When not contributing ideas, laughter, and financial stability to Headzup, Dr. Oltman-Shay is President and Senior Research Scientist for Northwest Research Associates, Inc., headquartered in Redmond, Washington.

Dr. Oltman-Shay received her B.S. in Applied Physics/Electrical Engineering from the University of California at San Diego and both an M.S. and Ph.D. in Applied Ocean Sciences and Oceanography from Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), La Jolla, CA, respectively. She studied under William Hodgekiss (Marine Physical Laboratory, SIO) and Dr. Robert T. Guza (Center for Coastal Studies, SIO).

Since graduating from Scripps in 1986, she has spent much of her career performing field and model studies of nearshore (shoreline to nominally 10m depth) wave and current dynamics and the interplay with morphology and sediment dynamics. Her work has centered on the analysis of data from in-situ arrays of pressure and current sensors designed to study the surface gravity (wind and infragravity) wave field and the wave-averaged current field. Significant results from those efforts are - the recognition that infragravity waves are ubiquitous with kinematics that are in agreement with theory, and the discovery of shear instabilities of longshore-directed currents. Early in her career she designed the USACE 8m-depth wave-directional array and analysis software for the Field Research Facility in Duck, NC which remains operational today. Her present focus of activity includes remote sensing of nearshore environmental parameters (satellite, airborne, and land-based). She has published over fifty refereed articles, technical reports, and conference papers on these and related topics.

Dr. Oltman-Shay is also an Affiliate of the School of Oceanography (University of Washington) and sits on several national and international boards, including the USACE Coastal Engineering Research Board (CERB), the National Academies Ocean Studies Board (OSB), and the Editorial Advisory Board for Elsevier Science Publications. She has served as Associate Editor for JGR Oceans, and is presently the U.S. Series Editor for the Nearshore and Coastal Oceanography journal (Elsevier Science Publications). Dr. Oltman-Shay is a member of The Oceanography Society, the American Meteorological Society, the Geological Society of America, and the American Geophysical Union. She has additionally served on several national-level committees that develop recommendations on various aspects of coastal issues and research. Significant National Academies Press publications from those efforts are: "Enabling Ocean Research in the 21st Century: Implementation of a Network of Ocean Observatories," (2003) "Science for Decisionmaking: Coastal and Marine Geology at the U.S. Geological Survey," (1999), "Oceanography and Naval Special Warfare: Opportunities and Challenges," (1997), "Priorities for Coastal Ecosystem Science," (1994).