Robert S. Jaffe, PhD, President

Dr. Jaffe has been involved with Intelligent Transportation Systems Architecture and System Engineering since 1992 when he served as Program Manager and Principal Investigator for IBM's successful Phase I and Phase II National ITS Architecture Development team for the USDOT. In 1996 he founded Jaffe Engineering and Development Industries where he has worked with the Federal government, State and Local governments and internationally to support ITS system engineering development, deployments and training.

Today, as president of ConSysTec, he continues to work with the Lockheed Martin Company team under contract to USDOT. Dr. Jaffe in this regard is involved with extending the National ITS Architecture for new User Services, its use in federally funded programs, training, and in the development of Standards based on the National ITS Architecture. Dr. Jaffe was the lead in developing a series of National ITS Architecture training courses that have been given across the country and internationally. The National ITS Architecture Training courses that Dr. Jaffe developed received ITS America's highest award for Outstanding Achievement in Education and Training in April 1999.

In August 1999 Dr. Jaffe was appointed by USDOT to Chair the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) ITS Data Registry Configuration Control Committee. The Data Registry will allow developers of ITS systems to easily access standards based data and message definitions for ITS system interfaces. In this role Dr. Jaffe provides technical leadership on the necessary dependence and congruency between data concepts in the ITS standards and the National ITS Architecture. This committee provides overall technical direction and resolution of technical issues associated with the ITS Data Registry Project.

Dr. Jaffe holds Electrical Engineering degrees from Cornell (BS) and Stanford (MS, Ph.D.), and is an active member of ITS America (Chair, System Architecture Committee) and IEEE (Chair, Data Registry Configuration Control Committee).

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Bruce S. Eisenhart, Vice President of Operations

Mr. Eisenhart has 27 years of professional systems engineering experience. He joined Consensus Systems Technologies in April 2001 and is currently the Vice President of Operations. Prior to this move he spent 18 years at Lockheed Martin. As a member of Lockheed Martin, he served as the Chief Engineer on the National ITS Architecture program since its inception in September 1993 through March 2001. In this role he led the Lockheed Martin team in architecture maintenance, architecture training course development and delivery, and in deployment support activities. He continues to support the Lockheed Martin Team on the current US National ITS Architecture Program. He is one of the foremost experts on the subject of ITS Architecture Development.

From 1999 until September 2000 he was the primary developer of the Canadian National Architecture. Lockheed Martin performed the work as a subcontractor to IBI Group. This architecture, based upon the US National ITS Architecture, was expanded to include 5 additional User Services.

In addition to his transportation experience, he has 20 years of management and systems engineering experience.

Mr. Eisenhart received a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from California Institute of Technology, and an Engineer Degree from the University of Southern California.

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Manny S. Insignares, Vice President of Technology

Mr. Insignares has over 20 years of system development experience, 17 of those dedicated to the development of intelligent transportation systems (ITS) including freeway management systems, traffic signal control systems, traveler information systems, and center-to-center communications. He has developed the customized architecture development tools that provide ConSysTec’s industry leading capability to capture stakeholder inputs in real time and then to provide a web based version of each architecture that facilitates review and understanding of the complexities of architecture.

Mr. Insignares is currently the chair of the NTCIP Joint Committee. He has been a consultant for IEEE 1512 Incident Management Standards, the ITE Traffic Management Data Dictionary (TMDD), and other ITS Standards. He is a nationally recognized expert in ITS standards.

Prior to joining ConSysTec, Mr. Insignares held positions with Siemens-Gardner Transportation Systems, TransCore ITS, and Electronic Data Systems.

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Paula (Polly) Okunieff, Senior Technical Staff

Ms. Okunieff has over twenty two (22) years experience of system engineering development, sixteen (16) of which is dedicated to transit ITS planning, design and deployment. Her experience ranges from developing Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite and transceiver navigation algorithms, risk assessment of medical information systems, to planning, designing and building transportation information systems that use a variety of information technologies (IT) including GPS, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), IT standards (such as XML/XSLT), and communications systems.

Ms. Okunieff worked for over fifteen (15) years defining and editing transit ITS standards specifically for transit. She is the architect and technical project manager for the Transit Communications Interface Profiles (TCIP) family of standards. She represents transit needs on the GeoSpatial One Stop standard transportation advisory committee, and she is a U.S. Delegate to the International Standards Organization Technical Council 204 Working Group 8 on Intelligent Transportation System for Public Transport and Emergency.

Prior to joining ConSysTec in April 2005, Ms. Okunieff was president of Systems & Solutions, Inc (SASI), a recognized leader in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) and Information Technology (IT) planning and implementation. Ms. Okunieff holds a MSEE from Boston University.

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Patrick Chan, P.E., Senior Technical Staff

Mr. Chan of ConSysTec has over 18 years of experience in Intelligent Transportation Systems. Since joining ConSysTec in May of 2003 he has been actively engaged in the development of over 30 Regional ITS Architectures including for Florida, New Jersey, New York City, Arkansas and Texas. He has become the company’s expert in dealing with multilevel architectures and has extended the company’s custom architecture development tools to add additional aspects of architecture to the web based outputs. He is currently involved with the application of the systems engineering process to several ITS Standards, including NTCIP 1202 v3 (ASC), and NTCIP 1211 v2 (SCP).

Prior to joining ConSysTec, Mr. Chan was a Project Manager at MTA Bridges & Tunnels, New York City where he managed and provided technical assistance for various Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) projects and Electronic Toll Collection Systems (i.e., E-ZPass), including variable message signs and video surveillance systems. Prior to that he was a Principal Transportation Engineer with TransCore in New York City where he had experience with traffic control systems, systems integration, and The National ITS Architecture.

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