Bill Hand

Born: December 6, 1960 USA

Married: November 1, 1993

Player 3 added: July 28, 2000; Player 4 added: October 15, 2003

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Oct 6, 2025

Bill is a really nice guy, just a joy to work for and the author of all these bio pages so you can believe them totally. I wouldn't lie to you. You can reach me as "bill" at this domain.

I collect arcade games (pinball and video).

I started writing Air Traffic Control software for the FAA in 1982, was a founder of each incarnation of Overkill and have performed the following since leaving the FAA:

• Classic:
  • 1988: Shareware version of Risk - Software design and implementation, graphics.
  • 1988: PLATO Graphic Terminal Emulator - Software design.
  • 1988: Avalon Hill's Air Force - Preliminary software design.
  • 1987-1988: Various proposals - Author.
• United States of America:
  • 1992-present: Various proposals - Author.
  • 1993: Air Traffic Control Radar Training System (ATCRTS) - NAS and NAS SERVER software implementation and maintenance.
  • 1993, 1995-1997: Display Channel Complex Rehost (DCCR) - Monitor software design, implementation, maintenance and test support. Provided onsite support in Chicago and Leesburg. Designed and implemented a SAR-tape "VCR" for radar displays (used in TWA800 investigation and a recent court case).
  • 1996: Assisted in the migration of jobshop software to ESA architecture.
  • 1997-1998: Implemented Conflict Probe enhancements in the Oceanic ODAPS system.
  • 1998-1999: Assisted in the development of MARC (an Air Traffic Control educational system) software, provided some off-site support.
  • 1998-2002: Host and Oceanic Computer System Replacement (HOCSR) - Monitor software implementation.
  • 2000: DCCR Removal - optimizing the Monitor for the remaining display system (DSR).
  • 2001-2005: MDM Replacement - Design, implementation, testing and support of RADAR Quality Analysis (QARS) software. Ported offline 370 BAL application to Operational NAS C program element (NAS' first C module!).
  • 2003-2006: IATS - NAS and NASSERVer development and maintenance.
  • 2004-2007: ERAM EDSM - Designed and implemented Flight Strip Printer (FSP) management software. Designed and implemented San Juan "patch" to output custom strip format.
  • 2005: Host System Recovery Simulator (HostSRS) - Revised procedures and executable, maintained custom Oracle database, wrote simulation generation utility.
  • 2005-2009: ERAM EOPD - Assisted with RADAR support software (QARS, BFTA, COMDIG, TAARS, PEAS, etc.) algorithms and specifications, assisted with coding, corrections, baseline comparisons and testing.
  • 2008-2009: ERAM - Software verification, Test Lead.
  • 2020-present: Hawaiian OFDPS - Converted NAS to run in z-Architecture. On-site delivery and sustainment support, offsite software maintenance and development.
• Republic Of China (Taiwan):
  • 1997-2002: Implemented several Flight Data Processing fixes in JOVIAL source for Republic of China ATC system, performed Year 2000 analysis of NAS operational and support software, provided months of on-site operational support and software maintenance in Taipei.
• United Kingdom:
  • 1988-1992: General NATS software maintenance.
  • 1992-present: Various proposals - Author.
  • 1994, 1997: Strategic PAM Replacement Incorporating Network Technology (SPRINT) - Monitor software design, implementation and documentation, test support, occasional maintenance.
  • 1995: Performance Measurement specification (CAS-MD-318) - Project lead.
  • 1995: Simulation from SAR (System Analysis Recording) - Project lead, documentation.
  • 1997: Reconfigured VM on an ES9000 to solve Test NAS performance problems.
  • 1997: Software and analysis support for the New En Route Center.
  • 2009-2024: Software maintenance for NATS. Design, code, implementation, documentation, system test lead.

Education:

• Courses toward MASc in Human Factors Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
• A-level in Psychology (audited, 1990) Uxbridge College, England
• Various graduate courses (1985-1988) at Drexel University, etc.
• Several hundred hours of training at the FAA Academy (1985), Oklahoma
• BSc in Info & Computer Sciences (1984) Stockton State College, NJ
• Undergraduate Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering courses (1979-1980) University of Delaware, DE

Activities:

• 1993: Membership Director of Virtual Reality Alliance of Students & Professionals (VRASP)
• 1993-Present: Member (ex-Fellow) The Electronic Frontier Foundation
• 1993-Present: Member Amnesty International
• 2001-2019: Board Member, then President, Board of Directors, Argo newspaper, Stockton University

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