Dr. Alexander Cannara is an electrical engineer, a computer networking consultant, and an educator.  He holds a Stanford PhD, plus MS degrees in EE and Statistics.  His undergraduate EE degree is from Lehigh, where he became an IRE member before its merger with AIEE to become the IEEE.  In summers, he worked at Ballantine Labs as a technician and later designed their 3570 digital measurement system.  At Stanford, he did graduate work in plasma physics and wrote: “Electron-Beam Probing of Plasmas”.  His PhD thesis was in Education, teaching computer principles/programming to middle-school students.  That led to a DoE contract to develop computer-assisted instruction for handicapped schoolchildren in Cupertino.

Alex spent over 25 years in computer networking, about half of those managing developing and delivering technical training for software & hardware engineers.  Alex has spent years in consulting, helping tens of organizations with network design and operational issues.  He has taught courses in engineering, statistics, computer programming and networking.  More recently, Alex has addressed varied groups on energy and environmental topics, especially nuclear power and the global environment.  Among those are:  National Council on Science & Education, American Geophysical  Union, The ASM, The Thorium Energy Alliance, The Humanist Society, Lockheed Martin, The Maker Faire, Stanford CISAC, The N. Sea Council, Cal Native Plant Soc, The Lynceans,The Catholic Diocese of Palo Alto.