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ECL Executive Management
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Biography of the Founder of ECL
Alan R. Weiss, Chairman and Chief Technical Officer, ECL
Alan R. Weiss 
has been in the computing and semiconductor and processor industry for 24 years, and has worked as a Software Engineer,
Manager, Project Manager, Program Manager, and Software Architect on operating systems, compilers, database systems,
and embedded real-time software.
He is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer
of
EEMBC Certification Laboratory (ECL, LLC)
with offices in Austin.
ECL
has been profitable from Day 1 (February 1, 1998), is debt-free,
and has the top 60 semiconductor and software tools companies as clients.
As Chairman of ECL, he provides both strategic management as well as day-to-day operational management.
Mr. Weiss is also President and CEO
of Synchromesh Computing,
which was formed to provide engineering,
analysis, development, and non-EEMBC certification services.
Mr. Weiss is the Project Manager for EEMBC's
Technical Advisory Group, the main team chartered with the technical direction of EEMBC,
an industry-standard consortium of 60 semiconductor and compiler companies.
Mr. Weiss is also on the Technical Advisory Board of a very high technology company in San Jose,
California, and is a Strategic Consultant for a number of other semiconductor and software companies,
as well as serving on the Board of Directors of two companies.
He is a member of the prestigious Microprocessor Report Editorial Review Board.
Mr. Weiss was elected a Director of the Northwest Austin #1 Municipal Utility District
and has a fiduciary responsibility for that public utility in the state of Texas, USA.
He serves as the Finance Chairman, and has lead the effort to reduce taxes three years in a row while improving services.
Mr. Weiss is the Founder and Chairman of
The Ceres Project,
a small investment project dedicated to funding a new film and book by
L. Neil Smith
entitled "Ceres", and is similarly the Founder and Chairman of the follow-up project,
The Ares Alliance.
Combined, the two funds have raised significant capital in a very short amount of time.
Mr. Weiss offered to certify the voting process and the balloting for
The Free State Project,
and his company performed this important task to the satisfaction and gratitude of everyone involved.
Before starting ECL with business partner Markus Levy, Mr. Weiss worked for
Motorola for 6 years, most recently as Manager of Software Technologies and
Principal Systems Software Engineer for Intelligent Transportation Systems,
as well as a Software Architect for corporate-wide Speech Recognition technologies
inside of Motorola. He was also named a Program Manager Master and is a
Certified Software Inspections Trainer. He was the Manager of the Windows
NT on PowerPC Functional and System Test group, which included managing 25
IBM and 50 Microsoft employees.
Prior to Motorola, he helped start up two software companies, including
Tivoli Systems (where he was the first Software Test and Quality Assurance
Manager on the first management team), and Locus Computing (where he was
Functional and System Test Manager for AIX 370 and AIX PS/2). He was also
a Program Manager II for dBASE IV 1.1 (the one that worked) at Ashton-Tate.
He is a co-founder and was the Motorola Voting Board Member of the EDN
Embedded Benchmark Consortium (EEMBC). He served as the first Chairperson
of that consortium's Automotive/Industrial Subcommittee. Before that, he
helped found and served as the first Vice-Chairman of the Standard Performance
Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) Graphics Performance Committee Multimedia Benchmark
Committee (SPEC Media). He is a recognized industry expert in microprocessor performance analysis and benchmarking.
Mr. Weiss holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business from California State University, Northridge (CSUN),
and has extensive post-baccalaureate training and education in hardware and software engineering,
semiconductor physics, management science, and project management, including formal training.
He regularly teaches classes in software engineering to help better the industry and its products.
Mr. Weiss has published a number of papers at various software and semiconductor-related conferences,
and regularly gives presentations at Embedded Systems Conference, DesignCon,
Cool Chips IV, and Embedded Processor Forum.
Alan is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Number 40357826).
He lives with his wife of 21 years, Jane, and their three children in Austin, Texas USA.
Alan R. Weiss in Austin, Texas
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