THE HONORABLE SHENG THAO • MAYOR OF OAKLAND
CITY HALL • 1 FRANK H. OGAWA PLAZA • OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA 94612 • (510) 238-3141 • [email protected] Letter of Reappointment
February 16, 2023
Dear President Bas and members of the City Council:
Pursuant to City Charter Section 601, the Mayor has reappointed the following persons as members of the following board or commission, subject to City Council confirmation:
Privacy Advisory Commission
Brian Hofer, to serve a three-year term beginning March 15, 2022 and ending March 16, 2025, filling a seat previously held by himself.
Lou Katz, to serve a three-year term beginning March 15, 2022 and ending March 16, 2025, filling a seat previously held by himself.
Thank you for your assistance in this matter.
Sincerely,
Mayor Sheng Thao
Lou Katz
RESUME
Lou Katz
Metron Computerw
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Oakland, CA 94602
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Home Address:
CA, 94602
Resident of Oakland, CA for over3 0y ears.
PROFESSIONAL
Pr ivacy AdvisoryC ommission, City of Oakland, CA
Commissioner 2016-2019
Oakland Privacy: Pr ivacy Advocacy group
Member
VerifiedVoting.org:
Member,B oard of Advisors
University of Wisconsin: Ph.D.( Physics)
C.C.N.Y .: B.S.( Physics). Cum Laude,P hi Beta Kappa, Second Y ear Honors, ACM/SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group in Computer Graphics):
Director (Member of the ExecutiveC ommittee.)
Chairman,L ocal Groups Steering Committee
ACM( Association for Computing Machinery):
Member,C hapters Board
The USENIX Association, Ber keley, CA.:
One of the Founders,fi rst President,P ast Director.
ACM/SIGGRAPH BayA rea Local Group:
Founder and first Chairman.
SIGGRAPH ’82: Boston, MA.
Chairman,F ilm and Video Show.
Niccograph ’82: Tokyo, JAPAN.
Co-chairman,F ilm and Video Show.
3rd International Animation Film Festival, NewYor k 1975:
Co-chairman,c omputer animation conference.
POSITIONS
Pilot Networ kSer vices,A lameda, CA
Senior Security Systems Analyst.R esponsible for evaluating the security aspects of third-party prod- ucts prior to deployment on internet-facing servers.S ecur ityreviews of customer produced code prior to installation on internet-facing servers.G eneral networ k secur ityconfiguration.
Peritek Corporation, Oakland, CA
Consultant and Software Manager.P er itekwasam anufacturer of VME, PMC and PCI frame buffers forw or kstationsand industrial applications.P er itekdisplayb oards have on-board X servers for improved perfor mance.R esponsible for operations of heterogeneous networ kof Unix and real-time operating sys- tems,l ocal and wide area networ king,documentation, customer support, software configuration, revision control and support.
NetBack, Inc. Venice,C A
Chief Technical Officer .N etBackw as the originator of On-Line backup services,a llowing users to back up their computers overt he internet, utilizing data encryption and access controls for privacy.R esponsi- blef or technical operations.
RGB Spectrum, Alameda, CA
Software Engineering Manager.R GB Spectrum is a manufacturer of video scan converters,v ideo win- dowing systems and MediaWall and ComputerWall, computer graphics displayc ontrollers for walls of video monitors.R esponsible for software product design, project scheduling and management of software and firmware engineers.
Networ ked Picture Systems,S anta Clara, CA
Director of Research and Development forc omputer graphics startup company. S oftware design and product development of PC based electronic graphics paint programs for medical, printing, video and ani- mation applications.
University of Califor nia,Ber keley
Director of Computing Resources.D epar tmentof Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.R e- sponsible for planning and management of the department’sc omputing resources,i ncluding 38 VAX mini- computers,7 5S un wor kstations,e tc. Ann ual budget of over$ 2m illion. Staff exceeded 30 FTE.
Califor niaCollege of Arts and Crafts,O akland, CA
Instructor,D epar tmentof Architectural Studies.D ev elped semester course in Computer Literacyf or Architects and Designers,w hich included training in AutoCAD and P-Cad systems.
Fortune Systems Corporation, Redwood City,C A
Long range planning department. Responsib le for UNIX, database management and computer graphics product planning.
Golemics,I nc., Berkeley, CA
General Manager and V.P. ofR esearch & Development,i nc onjunction with Mr.L ee Felsenstein (de- signer of the Osborne Personal Computer and the Processor Technology Sol-20).
University of Califor nia,Ber keley, CA
Visiting Associate Professor of Computer Science.C ourses: Video Graphics Languages and Tech- niques; Data Structures; Machine Structure.
Columbia University,N ew Yor k,NY
Director,C ore Computer Facility,C ancer Center/Institute of Cancer Research and Pharmacology Pro- gramP roject. Assistant Professor of Pharmacology,F aculty of Medicine.
Lou Katz 4/4/2019
Columbia University,N ew Yor k,NY
Director,C omputer Graphics Facility,D epar tmentof Biological Sciences. Adjunct Associate Profes- sor of Graphics,D ept of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics.
MIT,C ambr idge,M A
Senior Research Associate ,Depar tmentof Biological Sciences.M olecular biology of nucleic acids and biopolymers,u sing X-ray crystallographya nd nuclear magnetic resonance.
Visking Corporation, Chicago,I L
Research Scientist. Str uctureof cellulose films using small-angle X-r ay diffraction.
Union Carbide Metals Company, NiagaraF alls,N Y
Research Scientist. Str uctureof manganese dioxide ores using electron spin resonance.
METRON COMPUTERWARE, LTD./M etron Studios,O akland CA
President of Metron Computerware since its founding in 1978. Metron Computerware is a consulting and training fir ms pecializing in computer systems networ kingand management, graphics systems,C AD, graphic arts,a rchitecture and design, with emphasis on UNIX, Linux and Windows systems configuration and security,D NS,a nd Sendmail. Metron Computerware provides Domain Name Service,S MTP service and web hosting for more than three dozen local domains.
PROJECTS AND CONSULTING
University of Califor nia,Ber keley-I nstitute of Transpor tationStudies/PATH Create,i nstall and manage software repositories for project software.C onfigure ser vers,w or kstationsand RSUs for periodic backup.P repare and maintain scripts and procedures for updating software reposito- ries and field vehicles with current code.
Pilot Networ kSer vices,I nc
Sendmail configuration, SPAM control policies and procedures.
Br ittonSilber manand Cervantez, LLP .
Networ kmanagment and installation of FreeBSD fileser vera nd mailserverf acilities for the firm’sW indows 95 and 98 wor kstations.
FaceSaver
Metron Studios is the developer of the FaceSavers ystem, an integrated real-time image capture,d ata- base and image printout system for production of selectivep icture lists on demand. This system was used foro vert wo years at conferences of the USENIX Association to digitally capture the portraits of almost 4000 attendees,a nd to print attendee lists using these portraits.M ost of these portraits are also nowe lec- tronically accessable through the Internet from UUNET Infor mationSystems.
Omnimath, Inc., NewYor k,NY
Design of custom systems for displaying total trading postions for commodities brokerage houses.D esign and implementation of a commodities Trade Matching System for monitoring legal trading limits require- ments and for establishing "Haircutting" amounts for reporting of trader’sn et wor th.
Teknekron Software Systems,P alo Alto,C A
Design of an integrated stockt rading wor kstationsoftware for Goldman Sachs,N Y. Design, programming and enhancement of a PC-based institutional stockp or tfolio analyzer to summarizel arge stockh oldings forb lockt rading on major stocke xchanges.
Lou Katz 4/4/2019
CAD
Configuration and customization of AutoCAD systems ,c ustom AutoLisp programming, AutoShade,A ut- oFlix and Animator.S ystem layout and configuration for UCP-CAD Productions (Oakland), custom Au- toLisp wiring layout programf or IBM (Oakland), AutoShade and AutoFlix "Fly-bys" for Autodesk and LSA (Richmond).
Array Technologies,O akland, CA
GPIB system software for transfer of large image files between propr ietar yscanning hardware and end- user computers.
Networ ked Picture Systems,S anta Clara, CA
PC based image processing and data compression software.
Fortune Systems Corporation, Redwood City,C A
Project manager for RUBIX relational database management system. Designed and implemented a 401X Tektronix emulator to use For tuneSystem’sp ropr ietarym onochrome graphics controller.
EtraT echnology Research Associates,O akland, CA
Consultant on three-dimensional imaging, stereo image processing, real-time generation of color stereo images for TV broadcasting. Software systems design for digital control of analog and digital video pro- cessing modules,v ideo colorizers and multi-levelk eyers.
Pur visSystems,S an Diego,C A
Analysis and evaluation of marketp otential of a PC-based networ kingand electronic document exchange system developed at Purvis.
Vertigo Computer Imagery, Vancouver,B .C.
Technology assessment and evaluation of plans for a new, state-of-the-ar tgraphics hardware and soft- ware system for video post-production and animation.
REFERENCES
References supplied on request.
PUBLICATIONS
List of professional publications supplied on request.
Lou Katz 4/4/2019
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Brian Hofer
“Protecting Our Communities, Respecting Our Liberties” January 21, 2015 California Department of Justice - Attorney General Kamala D. Harris San Francisco, CA
“Bay Area Digital Government Summit” October 28, 2014
Government Technology/e.Republic
Foster City, CA
Opinion Pieces
“BART Poised to Lead in Protecting Civil Liberties” September 11, 2018 East Bay Express Guest Opinion
“Berkeley Can Become a City of Refuge” March 8, 2018
East Bay Express Guest Opinion
“Making Oakland a Real Sanctuary City” June 28, 2017
East Bay Express Guest Opinion
“Oakland Poised to Protect Civil Liberties with April 26, 2017 new Surveillance Technology Ordinance”
East Bay Express Guest Opinion
“Without Public Discussion, Alameda County Must Nix Stingray System” October 12, 2015 Contra Costa Times Guest Commentary
“Oakland Poised to Lead in Protecting Privacy” February 4, 2015 Eastbay Express Guest Opinion
“Why We Oppose the Oakland Spy Center” February 26, 2014 Eastbay Express Guest Opinion
Recognition
“Brian Hofer Thwarts Authoritarian Power” – Oakland Magazine August 6, 2018 Best of the East Bay “Defender of a Free Society” – East Bay Express August 9, 2016 “Patriot Award” – Bill of Rights Defense Committee March 1, 2016 Current Employment
The Law Office of Gould & Hahn – Berkeley, CA
Executive Director – Secure Justice
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CITY ATTORNEY’S OFFICE
OAKLAND CITY COUNCIL
RESOLUTION NO. _______________ C.M.S.
INTRODUCED BY MAYOR SHENG THAO
A RESOLUTION CONFIRMING THE MAYOR’S REAPPOINTMENT OF
BRIAN HOFER AND LOU KATZ TO THE PRIVACY ADVISORY
COMMISSION
WHEREAS, Section 601 of the City Charter provides that members of City boards and commissions shall be appointed by the Mayor subject to conf irmation by the affirmative vote of five members of the City Council; and
WHEREAS, the Privacy Advisory Commission (Commission) was created by Ordinance No. 13349 C.M.S., adopted January 19, 2016; now, therefore, be it RESOLVED: That pursuant to City Charter Section 601, the City Council hereby confirms the Mayor’s reappointments to the Privacy Advisory Commission:
Brian Hofer, to serve a three-year term beginning March 15, 2022 and ending March 16, 2025, filling a seat previously held by himself.
Lou Katz, to serve a three -year term beginning March 15, 2022 and ending March 16, 2025, filling a seat previously held by himself.
IN COUNCIL, OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA,
PASSED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:
AYES - FIFE, GALLO, JENKINS, KALB, KAPLAN, RAMACHANDRAN, REID, AND
PRESIDENT FORTUNATO BAS
NOES –
ABSENT –
ABSTENTION –
ATTEST:
ASHA REED
City Clerk and Clerk of the Council of the
City of Oakland, California