Randy Sweeney

William Randolph 'Randy' Sweeney (born January 7, 1956) is an American research scientist. He is a Senior Research Engineer and director for R&D at Philip Morris USA.^[1][2]

Biography

Sweeney was born in Richmond, Virginia and educated at the Virginia Tech. He graduated with a BS in Electrical Engineering in 1978.

Sweeney joined Philip Morris in 1978 directly after graduating, he began work in advanced digital process control, became a leader in human-machine interface, distributed network-centric control systems, artificial intelligence, machine vision systems and later was the principal technical lead in Digital Marketing Technology and the Identification Technologies R&D effort at Philip Morris USA. He has obtained at least 18 patents in his field while working at Philip Morris.^[3]

Sweeney was one of the founders of the Wonderware International Users Group and served as its first president. He also served as an organizing chairman of the 1999 Usenix Embedded Systems Conference. Sweeney is also a founding board member of MIT's "AutoID Center," which centers on RFID technology and created the Electronic Product Code (EPC).^[4]

Sweeney is a former adjunct professor of digital technology at Virginia Commonwealth University,^[5] and has previously been a speaker at the IEEE Richmond Section.^[6] In addition, Sweeney has spoken at workshops across the nation, including the RFID workshop at the University of Washington.^[7]

Personal

Sweeney currently lives in Richmond, Virginia with his wife and three children.

References

1. 'Philip Morris Glossary', ucsf.edu
2. 'Profile', linkedin.com
3. 'Randy Sweeney', Bu.edu. Retrieved May 9, 2007.
4. 'jeffharrow', 'futurebrief. Retrieved May 9, 2007.
5. 'Bulletin', 'vcu.edu. Retrieved May 10, 2007.
6. 'IEEE Newsletter', 'ieee.org.edu. Retrieved May 9, 2007.
7. 'RFID Workshop', 'inform.org. Retrieved May 10, 2007.