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Zitzmann, Frank Richard was born on March 17, 1933 in Brooklyn. Son of Frank August and Ethel Salina (Long) Zitzmann.
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Frank Richard Zitzmann
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Frank Richard Zitzmann, American engineering executive. Achievements include patent disclosures for novel data storage media; pioneering use of digital computer simulator for telecommunications network design; co-development of CAble TeleVision systems and directed system engineering. of 1st commercial all-digital telecommunications satellite network.
Education
Bachelor of Electrical Engineering summa cum laude, Polytech. Institute Brooklyn, 1956. Master of Electrical Engineering, Polytech.
Institute Brooklyn, 1959.
Career
Member technical staff Bell Telephone Laboratories, New York City, 1956-1960. Development engineer Federal Systems division International Business Machines Corporation, Bethesda, Maryland, 1960-1965. Director Analysis and Evaluation Division Communications Satellite Corporation, Washington, 1965-1969.
Vice president Ross Telecommunications Engineering Corporation, 1969-1974. Assistant director engineering Satellite Business Systems, McLean, Virginia, 1974-1978. Division manager American Telephone & Telegraph Company Headquarters, Basking Ridge, New Jersey, 1978-1983.
Vice president ISACOMM (subsidiary United Telecom), Atlanta, 1983-1985. President Colvin Run Consultant, Inc., Great Falls, Virginia, since 1985. Senior executive service chief Systems Operations Center National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration/National Weather Service, Silver Spring, Maryland, since 1987.
Adjunct professor University Maryland, College Park, since 1985.
Achievements
Membership
Board governors, vice-chairman Citizens for Good Government, Rockville, Maryland, 1975. President Citizens for a Better Montgomery County, Silver Spring, 1976-1977. Candidate City and County Councils, Rockville, 1974-1976.
Member charter review committee City of Rockville, 1972, Federal Communications Commission Cable television Technology Advisory Committee, Washington, 1970. Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (senior ), New York Academy of Sciences, American Meteorological Society, Tau Beta Pi (chapter president 1955-1956), Eta Kappa Nu, Sigma Xi, Alpha Phi Omega (chapter treasurer 1954-1955).
Connections
Married Janet Evelyn Smith, December 14, 1958. 1 child, Douglas Clark.
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Lutheran -
Political Party
Republican
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1956
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1959