Winter 2009 Key Contributors

Bob Hoy

Nonin

Bob Hoy drove the TCWG to meet their certification availability goal this past quarter. Bob was a pioneer in USB PHDC certification with the Nonin USB pulse oximeter. He helped Continua and USB-IF streamline the USB PHDC certification process in order to enable successful certification for Continua companies. In addition, Bob provided early input on Bluetooth certification options, which helped Continua refine their Bluetooth certification plans. Most importantly, Bob pioneered the Continua certification process by bringing the Nonin pulse oximeter through the very first successful Continua certification in January 2009. Bob's motivation and determination helped keep Continua on-track and motivated to meet their certification goals. Bob is a Senior Software Engineer in the connectivity group at Nonin Medical, Inc., where he is responsible for implementing communication strategies for their medical devices. Before joining Nonin, Bob had 15 years of experience working in the communications industry with AT&T and LSI Logic Corporation.

Johan Muskens

Philips

Johan has served Continua beyond the 'normal' contribution including organizing and sponsoring out-of-cycle F2F meetings to resolve critical issues. He has masterfully led the Complex E2E Architecture discussions culminating in the extension of the architecture to accommodate V2 needs. Johan participates actively into all architecture related discussions and follows the progress to many teams to insure the coherency of the whole picture.

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 is work at Philips Research, Johan worked at 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.