Program Director in the Infrastructure Program of the Division of Mathematical Sciences in the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the National Science Foundation.

Life is an adventure and it's been an interesting ride so far. I was born in October, 1951, near the Polo Grounds in New York, NY, a few days after Bobby Thomson hit his famous home run. I was a year old when we moved to Brooklyn, NY where I attended Lafayette Public School (P.S. 25, now called the Eubie Blake School ) from 1956 to 1962, Berriman Junior High School (J.H.S. 64) from 1962 to 1964 and Brooklyn Technical High School from 1964 to 1968. After winning a New York State Regents Scholarship I attended The City College of New York, where I received a B.S. degree in Mathematics in 1972. There, I was a three-year varsity lacrosse player. During summers from 1971 through 1976 and during my senior year in college, I worked at the law offices of LeBoeuf, Lamb, Leiby and MacRae in New York, NY, where I became a paralegal assistant specializing in litigation. I attended graduate school at Miami University, where I was a graduate assistant in the math department and assistant coach of the lacrosse team. I received a M.S. degree in Mathematics in 1974. I was enrolled in Boston University's doctoral program in the mathematics department from 1974 to 1977 where I studied Algebraic Coding Theory under the now-deceased Edwin Weiss and held a Senior Teaching Fellowship in the department as well as being a mathematics tutor in the university's Resident Tutor Program.

In 1976, I was hired as a Mathematician at the U.S. Naval Underwater Systems Center (now called the Naval Undersea Warfare Center) in Newport, RI. In 1979, I joined the Trident Command and Control System Maintenance Activity in Newport, RI as a Computer Specialist, where I was the on-site representative for the data processing subsystem on the first Trident submarines. From 1980-1983, I was an Operations Research Analyst at the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command at Ft. Monmouth, NJ. Then I moved to work at the U. S. General Services Administration in Washington, DC, as a Computer Specialist in the Office of Advanced Planning, where I engaged in Federal-wide technology assessment in automatic data processing and telecommunications.

In 1984, I came to NSF and have held a variety of management positions in the Division of Information Systems before coming to DMS. During this time, I graduated from OPM's Executive Potential Program for Mid-Level Employees, where I had developmental assignments at the Internal Revenue Service as a manager in computer capacity management and at the Forest Service, USDA, as a telecommunications planner. In my spare time, you will most likely find me playing sports or studying foreign languages.

E-mail: ldouglas@nsf.gov
Phone: 703-292-4862
Fax: 703-292-9032