Mr. Sterni is a recent graduate from the University of Southern California. He received his Bachelors of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering and is pursuing a Masters degree in Integrated Multimedia. He is currently a Project Specialist and Webmaster for the USC School of Engineering Technology Transfer Center (ETTC).

Mr. Sterni is currently involved in Geographical Information Systems. He current work includes mapping of incubators in the 8 Western states under a NASA Minority/ Women owned-business grant. The goal of the project was to target incubators in Federal and State empowerment and enterprise zones and to target these businesses in technology transfer. The project involved identifying and locating incubators that fell into these regions using GIS information of incubator locations and Empowerment / Enterprise zones within these states. Mr. Sterni has also developed other GIS projects including identifying industry cluster areas in the United States, identifying areas with in the where multimedia industries are located using National Association of Broadcasters Industry data, and generating a map of attendee's locations from a NASA sponsored Conference on Geospatial Applications.

Mr. Sterni has held an Internet account for more than nine years. He has seen the Internet from the days before the world wide web develop into the mainstream infrastructure it has become today and has been researching its development. He has experience in most Internet technologies from HTML, JavaScript and ASP to original protocols such as Telnet and FTP. He has been actively involved in the publication and creation of webpages at the ETTC, its affiliates and field centers. Mr. Sterni has taken several courses in web publishing and information organization. He has consulted on several website designs and has provided technical assistant to many others. Mr. Sterni has also designed and developed interactive website, including integration of collecting and retrieving information, dynamically changing website based on user-inputs and website that gather information from various resources.

Mr. Sterni has been an active part in the administration and maintenance of the ETTC computing infrastructure. He also assisted in maintaining the employee account for the ETTC, and troubleshooting employee question regarding software questions and interfacing with the Internet. He has played an active role in decision making of hardware and software solutions. He is also the liaison with the University of Southern California's Information Services Division (ISD) who maintains the overall university computing and telecommunication systems.

Mr. Sterni is a member of the Society of Mechanical Engineers (SAE) and a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

You can visit Sterni's personal page at Sterni's Universe