User:Charles W. Robinson

Charles Walter Robinson born(1966)is a African American Electrical Engineer and member of the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) Quantum Computer team headquartered at the TJ Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights New York.[1] Charles receive a Bachelors of science in Electrical Engineering from Howard University, a Masters in Electrical Engineering from Johns Hopkins[2]. His engineering background is in Quantum Computing, biomedical engineering, computer engineering, electronics fabrication and testing. Charles is currently creating and driving the formation of the first Historically Black College and University(HBCU)Federally Funded Research Center(FFRDC)[2]

Life

Charles W. Robinson grew up in North Philadelphia PA. Raised by a a singe mother Ms. Joanne (Stith) Williams who worked thirty five years at Ford Electronics Factory outside of Philadelphia. Charles went into his first Electronics Manufacturing plant at four years old. Charles is married to Catherine Robinson BS Psychologist, Masters Social Work, has three children, Cierra Nicole Robinson BS Heath Science, Charles Walter Robinson Jr. BS Electrical Engineering, and Christina Robinson, BS Computer Science, all alumni of Howard University.

Charles graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School in 1983. From 1983 to 1986, Charles served honorably in the United States Navy at Bethesda Naval Hospital as a Hospital Corpsman. Charles learned electrical engineering design from Dr. Gary Lynn Harris. Charles interned as a test engineer in surface mount manufacturing at Hewlett Packard Medical Products Group in Andover Massachusetts. Charles graduated from Howard University in 1993. After graduation he became a Test & Evaluation engineer for Lockheed Martin, formerly Martin Marietta in the Intelligence Community(IC). Charles would spend twenty plus years working as a engineer, and executive for various companies, BAE, Sun Microsystems,IBM, Oracle, and Verizon supporting the National Security Community.

HBCU FFRDC

In 2017 Charles founded Computer Resource Company (CRC)[3]. CRC's goal was to help the HBCU's get more research in the National Security Community. Charles directed the formation of the first Historically Black College (HBCU) Research Institute (HRI) Incorporated. The nations first HBCU based entity that has the status FFRDC. Dr. Garry Lynn Harris and Charles Robinson was the visionary’s of an HBCU FFRDC in National Security Research[4]. The founding member schools of HRI are Howard University, Morgan State University, Bowie State University, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, and North Carolina Agriculture and Technical University [6]. Retired US Army General William Kip Ward is the CEO of HRI, Charles is currently a board member of the HRI a non-profit and currently IBM Quantum Computing Public Sector Leader.

[1]https://www.linkedin.com/in/crobinson3/ [2]https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/news-articles/item/1989-talking-stem-at-howard-university [3]https://www.crc-engineering.com/ [4]https://www.crc-engineering.com/about/