Reply #102: Toby Nixon in King County [View All]

[Carolab]

http://www.tobynixon.com/bio.htm

Used to work for Datamaxx as a senior product engineer. He won his races in both 2002 and 2004--Repub state rep. Toby Nixon lost a close and expensive race to Democrat Laura Ruderman for one of the district's House seats in 2000. Nixon was appointed to the other House seat to replace Republican Kathy Lambert when she moved to the King County Council and he was narrowly re-elected in 2002.

Lived in Georgia and ran for office there too.

http://www.munileague.org/archives/cec/2000/candidates/45/nixon.htm

Has a heavy telecommunications background and serves on the House committees on Transportation, State Government, and Technology, Telecommunications and Energy (assistant ranking member). He also serves on the Joint Legislative Systems Committee, as vice chair of the Joint Administrative Rules Review Committee, and as vice chair of the House Republican Caucus. He served on the Joint Task Force on Local Effort Assistance (school levy equalization) in 2002.

Toby works as a Program Manager in the Windows Networking and Communications group at Microsoft in Redmond; he’s held various positions with Microsoft since January of 1993. His expertise is in communicating over the Internet, and he takes a special interest in communication for the disabled. For nine years prior to joining Microsoft, Toby was Principal Engineer and Standards Committee Representative for Hayes Microcomputer Products, then the leading manufacturer of modems for personal computers.

Toby’s career has been focused on building consensus on standards and policy issues to enable the computer communications industry to move forward and effectively serve customers, and he applies this experience in the Legislature to bring together people having disparate views to work toward common goals.


Patents:

Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 1999

Puget Sound Blood Center, 2 Gallon Award, 1999

U.S. Patent 5,694,457, “Method of supporting uniform addressing of telephone numbers” (with Bob Frankston)

U.S. Patent 5,475,743, “System and method for processing telephone numbers” (with Arul Menezes)

U.S. Patent 5,012,489, “Method for Sending a Plurality of Data Channels Over a Single Communications Line” (with seven others)

Canadian Patent 1,283,230, “Automatic Call Routing Device” (co-inventor)

As chair of Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) technical committee TR-30.4, I led the work to publish the US standard for control of modems by personal computers. I also led similar work on the international level in Study Group XVII (now SG 16) of the Telecommunications Standardization Sector of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), based in Geneva, Switzerland; as technical working group chair, I led the effort to write ITU-T Recommendation V.25 ter, which provides the basis for control of fax modems and for features in modems to support telecommunications devices for the deaf (TTYs). In TIA and ITU, I also participated in the formulation, refinement, and publication of many other standards important to the Internet today, including ITU-T V.32 bis, V.34 (28.8kbit/s modems), V.42 (error control in modems; I was a major contributor to this standard), V.42 bis (data compression in modems), and version 2 of Recommendation H.323 and related standards for multimedia conferencing on the Internet.

I was the author of Amendment 1 to International Standards Organization standard ISO 3309, which defined a character-oriented framing technique for sending computer network data which is now used by millions of people every day for dialing into the Internet over modems. Like thousands of other software engineers, I am proud to have contributed my small part to something which is now changing the world!