Mark Littlefield is Director of Embedded Technologies for
Elma Electronic. He is an active contributor to several standards
organizations including multiple VITA and SOSA technical working groups.
He has served as chair or co-chair for various standards activities including
VITA 65 (OpenVPX) and VITA 93 (QMC small form factor mezzanine), as well as the
SOSA small form factor (SFF) sub-committee where he is currently co-chair. He
has more than 35 years of experience in high-performance embedded computing for
defense, medical, and commercial applications, and began his career doing
computer vision research at NASA Johnson Space Center working problems related
to on-orbit autonomous robots. Mark also is a frequent contributor to
various industry journals and conferences. Mark holds BS & MS degrees
in control systems engineering from the University of West Florida.