Lee Rhodes is Chief Scientist of the Open Network Systems Division at Hewlett-Packard Company. During his career of 29 years at HP he has led research and development teams in a broad range of technology areas including fiber-optics, integrated circuit design, high-performance graphics software and hardware, CPU architecture, massively parallel processing (MPP) systems, multimedia and video streaming software, communications software systems, and 2D/3D visualization software. During the past 5 years, Mr. Rhodes has been heavily involved in the development of operational systems software for the communications network service provider industry. He recently invented and developed a suite of technologies in the area of real-time analysis software that enables Internet service providers to quickly extract statistical information about subscribers' usage behavior that is critical to security, network operations, capacity planning and business product planning. He assembled and managed the R&D team that has delivered this technology as a commercially successful product. Mr. Rhodes' formal educational background includes a master's degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University where his emphasis was in integrated circuit design and solid-state physics. His undergraduate degree was in physics from the California State University at San Diego.