Leadership

Starting with Kinesix Corporation from the founding in 1996, Russ was appointed by the Kinesix board of directors as President and CEO in January 2003. Jamerson has been in commercial software development for the vast majority of his 30-year career and has a strong technical background, as well as experience in sales, marketing, and operations.

Russ also founded Xtensible Technologies, Inc. (XTI) in 2001 to address the need for intuitive, visual, drag-and-drop software tools for managing XML technologies and transformations, extending to the use of XAML.

Prior to Kinesix and XTI, Russ worked at Johnson Space Center (Houston, TX) for the Space Shuttle Ascent Flight Design group at Rockwell Space Operations (later United Space Alliance). Key areas of involvement included multi-team analysis of flight procedures and flight control scenarios for shuttle contingency abort scenarios. Russ's team trained astronauts on related flight control software changes, including participation in full motion simulator sessions.

Russ spent additional time at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, CA during his graduate work at Georgia Tech, implementing a software prototype for automated flight control for rotary wing aircraft — a real-time algorithm using input from a single camera to avoid obstacles at extremely low altitudes.

At Georgia Tech (Atlanta, GA), while pursuing his Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering (specializing in control theory), Russ's thesis involved analysis and modeling of the F/A-18 aircraft. The research team produced an advanced non-linear model of the aircraft for testing advanced flight maneuvers and control automation via simulation.

Jamerson is a member of the International Society of Automation (ISA) and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), and has published articles in process control and aerospace journals.