User:Josephbrophy



Retired Actuary living on Lake Sunapee, N.H.

Of Irish Ancestry: Ballyfin, Laois and Cloughboley, Sligo

Just a farm boy at heart

Just discovered (June 2006) Wikipedia; Believe it to be an important building block for civilization.

Postions Held

 * Altar Boy, Solemn High Mass
 * Life Scout, Explorer Scout Troop 114 NYC
 * Private,USMCR, 60 mm mortarman, age 15
 * Corporal USArmy,Stenographer - Korea, Korean War
 * Paramedic New York City Times Square Area. Tough duty when there is a full moon over Broadway.
 * Computer Programmer & Systems Designer
 * Rocket Scientist (feasibility of Polaris Weapon System)
 * Consulting Actuary
 * Chief Actuary: FSA, MAAA, EA
 * Chief Information Officer, coined the title, first to use it
 * President & Chief Executive Officer (large insurance company)
 * Corporate Director
 * University Trustee,Four Posts, Chairman and Advisor
 * Judge and Arbitrator (American Arbitration Association)
 * President and Treasurer (Saint Patricks Pipe Band)

Accomplishments

 * Accomplished Competitor Irish Step Dancing, Highland Bagpipe, Track, Football, Basketball
 * Worked on OR team proving feasibily of Polaris Weapon System
 * Fellow Society of Actuaries, Charter Member of American Academy of Actuaries and Enrolled Actuary ERISA
 * Assisted in the exposure of the Equity Funding insurance scam
 * Built Major Administation Systems for Insurance Companies
 * Built Large Data Center & nationwide network
 * Spearheaded the "Caesarian" Birth of controversial COBOL 85
 * Pioneered in Distributed Processing: Nationwide deployment of Personal computers, (40,000)
 * Built 40 HMOs (Health Maintenance Organizations)
 * Built Acoustic Room for Sound Engineering
 * Discovered why Highland Pipes sound loud
 * Built Astronomical Observatory on 40' Concrete Pier inside Silo
 * Proved that it is genetically safe for second cousins to marry
 * Founded WEDI (Workgroup on Electronic Data Interchange)
 * Through WEDI, enabled HIPAA - Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act
 * Authored Text Books and more than 300 technical articles
 * Composer & Arranger & Performer & Collector - Pipe Band Music
 * Unpublished Poetry
 * Cubist - Rubik's Cube - 45 seconds

Hobbies and Interests

 * Model Railroading (Marklin digital "HO" and "1" gauge)
 * Model Car Racing (1/32nd scale)
 * Musical Instruments (Piano; Highland, Parlor, Cauld Wind bagpipes; all other)
 * Musical Synthesizers: Kurzweil and G.H. Boyd Electronic Bagpipe
 * Genealogy & Celtic Studies & related Photography
 * Magic & Illusions: Member of IBM International Brotherhood of Magicians
 * Acoustics - of bagipes in Bell Laboratories
 * Digital Photography & Photoshop CS
 * Linguistics
 * Poetry - student & collector of Works of Seamus Heaney
 * Information Systems & Transhumanism
 * Astronomy with a 14' Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope
 * Computer Security
 * Analysis of the Rubik Cube
 * Futurology

Articles Written

 * John Francis Mitchell, vice chair Motorola, inventor cell phone
 * Chevalier W. H. Grattan Flood work in progress
 * History of the Sligo Mitchells work in progress
 * History of the Great Irish Warpipes incipient stages
 * Office of the Chief Actuary
 * Glossary of Bagpipe Terms
 * List of Composers who employed Pipe Music
 * List of Eminent Pipers of all Ages
 * WEDI WEDI - Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange

Articles: Added Significant Content

 * Actuary
 * Actuarial science
 * Brophy
 * Ballybrophy
 * Bill Smith (Motorola engineer)
 * Bob Galvin Chairman Motorola
 * Mobile phone
 * Car phone
 * Colby-Sawyer College
 * Connecticut Science Center
 * GLEON, Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network
 * History of mobile phones
 * Lake Sunapee;Sunapee, New Hampshire; Mount Sunapee
 * List of published bagpipe music
 * List of bagpipe technology books
 * Manhattan Valley; Lion Brewery New York
 * Martin Cooper (inventor)
 * Meat Cove, Nova Scotia
 * Mobile Telephone Service
 * Motorola DynaTAC
 * Pager
 * Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia
 * Saint Joseph College, West Hartford
 * Six Sigma
 * Society of Actuaries
 * Transposing instrument
 * Uilleann Pipes

Articles: Added Minor Content

 * Bagpipes
 * Brother Walfrid
 * COBOL
 * Feather Bonnet
 * List of bagpipers
 * List of pipe bands
 * List of pipe makers
 * Insurance
 * ledger and leger, Parts
 * Mitchell
 * Old English (Ireland)
 * Overtone and Harmonic and Tone
 * Piers
 * Probability theory
 * Piobaireachd
 * Reed (music)
 * Sporran
 * Staple
 * Treacle

Personal Websites

 * Saint Patricks Pipe Band
 * Brophy Website
 * Sligo Mitchells Website
 * Brophy Blog
 * joe brophy's net
 * joe brophy's organization
 * Brophy Family & Friends

SANDBOX
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wiki names; Car phone update this article as well --  Bob Galvin cell phoneadd links to pics of mitchell and cooper with phones; also link to patent and use a mitchell quote -- Motorola DynaTAC ===== HISTory of mobile pHones   ===== Martin Cooper (inventor)    ===== Six sigma   ===== Mobile Telephone Service  ========= cleanup and add ref to motorola and car radio and get links  =====so add story on saltellite iridium  ===== add about car phones in 0g in hist of cellular phones

Mobile phone, History of mobile phones, Six Sigma, Mobile Telephone Service,  1948 first car tel using mts from bell labs ;

edit wiki on motorola ===== EDt Pager   ========six sigma, make link to jfm artcle on blog, plus mention baldrige award in 1988? also mention bob galvin and jfm w strategy

http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions/a/pager.htm in 1959 with name pager, and first consumer in 1972 at motorola  pagers and beepers http://www.sicom.com.uy/recursos/museo/history-motorola-timeline-overview-1p06mb-20.pdf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Pageboy

http://www.itexaminer.com/pagers-are-almost-history.aspx

http://www.motorola.com/blog/2012/04/11/motorola-milestones-paging-past-innovations/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHqLixYhbXs   is this john mitchell

1956 or 55

http://www.motorolasolutions.com/US-EN/About/Company+Overview/History/Timeline  RE CARRADIOTELEP;HONE 1946

http://www.motorolasolutions.com/US-EN/About/Company+Overview/History/Explore+Motorola+Heritage/Handie-Talkie+Paging+System in 1955 RE PAGERS

http://courses.missouristate.edu/philrothschild/Syllabi/mgt487/motorolaarticle.htm    lost its way after jfm

need to sign in  xxxx http://www.echeat.com/free-essay/Motorola-Business-Strategy-Overview-and-History-25719.aspx

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Motorola_products  check this out

CEO Bob Galvin was always focused on improving the quality of Motorola products. Galvin found an ally in John F. Mitchell,  a young engineer on the rise to becoming Chief Engineer. Mitchell was seen as a demanding, hands-on manager who cared for his co-workers and insisted on team effort. Mitchell believed in building quality into the engineering and manufacturing processes as a way of lowering costs and improving yield. He also favored competition among product lines and distributors as a business discipline to both reduce costs and to promote quality improvement. Mitchell’s early successes with quality control appeared with the introduction of a new digital transistorized Pager, and the formalization of improvised Mitchell Quality Tests. Mitchell also used  Shainin Methods and other tests in his operations. Mitchell set the bar high for his engineers knowing they would respond. By the early 1970s, as Mitchell was on his ascendancy to General Manager, Communications Division in 1972, Motorola had established itself as second largest producer of electronic equipment behind IBM, and as the world leader in wireless communication products, and had been battling Intel and Texas Instruments for the number one slot in Semiconductor sales. Motorola was also the largest supplier of certain parts and products to Japan's National Telegraph & Telephone Company, but at the same time, the Japanese were beginning to erode Motorola's lead in the Pager market. The rapid successes and expansion of the Motorola Pager business created by Mitchell, as cited above, led to competitive deficiencies in quality controls, notwithstanding the "Mitchell Testing."

In the late 1970s, as Mitchell was on the ascendancy to being named President & COO in 1980, he was joined by other senior managers, notably, CEO Bob Galvin, Jack Germain, and Art Sundry,  who worked in Mitchell's Pager organization to set the quality bar 10x higher. Sundry was reputed to have shouted "Our Quality Stinks" at an organizational meeting attended by Galvin, Mitchell and other Senior Executives; and Sundry got to keep his job. But most importantly, the breakthroughs occurred when it was recognized that intensified focus and improved measurements, data collection, and more disciplined statistical approaches Mitchell's untiring efforts, and support from Motorola engineers and senior management, prevailed and brought Japanese quality control methods back to the USA, and resulted in a significant and permanent change in culture at Motorola. "We ought to be better than we are," said Germain, director of Quality Improvement. The culmination of Motorola quality engineering efforts occurred in 1986, with the help of an outside quality control consultant who joined Motorola, Bill Smith   when the Motorola University and Six-Sigma Institute was founded. Two years later, in 1988, Motorola received the coveted Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award which is given by the United States Congress. Later, the Six Sigma processes subsequently were adopted at the General Electric Corporation. Jack Welch said: "Six Sigma changed the DNA of GE." The Six Sigma process requires 99.99967% error free processes and products, (or 3.4 parts per million defects or less). Without the Six Sigma process controls, it may not have been possible for Mitchell to launch the Iridium Constellation, one of the most complex projects undertaken by a private company, which involved some 25,000 electronic components, and took 11 years to develop and implement at a cost of $5 Billion. Six Sigma processes resulted in $16-17 Billion in savings to Motorola as of 2006. A search of Safari Books Online reveals 1062 books written about Six Sigma. with 532 published since 2009.

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