Biography

Smith’s innovative talents were realized at a young age with his fascination to design video games.  Back then, his dreams of creating a virtual world of fun and games sparked his levels of creativity and began his journey to develop a career in engineering.  However, he realized his talents as an educator when a 10th grade teacher game him an opportunity to teach the class in Geometry.  His talents of teaching his peers started his passion for helping others.  With the guidance and support of his loving mother in addition to the influence of his father as an electrician/entrepreneur and two brothers going into science-related fields, Smith began his journey to serve the community through his God-given skills.

His life has then taken him on a path of excelling in many mediums in such a short time in the areas of electrical engineering, information technology, web design, organization & community leadership, teaching, tutoring, mentoring, modeling, poetry, music, graphic design, video production, the arts, public speaking, personal & professional coaching, program development and the list continues.

After graduating high school with over 13 scholarships, Mr. Smith attended the University of Maryland and received his Bachelors of Science degree in Electrical Engineering.  While in college, Mr. Smith served as Steering Committee Chair and President of the Black Engineers Society. He later became a Chairperson of Region II on the National Board of the National Society of Black Engineers.  Mr. Smith also received many honors including the Martin Luther King Community Service Award, the USAA National Collegiate Engineering Award, and Who’s Who Among American Colleges and Universities.

Through his work as an engineer and consultant for IBM, GE, Motorola, Sybase and the FCC, Smith has received numerous awards and accolades for his technical solutions to the government on projects solved in three days single-handedly using a methodology he created to various solving problems. 

Not only did his abilities lead him to developing database, software, web and Voice-over IP (VOIP) solutions for his own Information and Technology solutions company, but his concepts of problem solving have led him to founding his 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, which in-turn, is dedicated to creating innovative industry-based programs in career, professional and workforce development for youth, adults and the general community.

Now for over 15 years since, Smith has impacted over 4000 youth in over a dozen states and mentors over 100 youth and adults every year to achieve their goals.  Along with culinary arts, media and many other areas, Smith designs and manages creative STEM-based programs for Northrop Grumman and other businesses around the country on an annual basis.

With his background, Mr. Smith currently serves as a highly sought consultant and innovator for youth, adult and community educational-based programs.  Ever since, Mr. Smith has been selected, appointed and elected as a top advisor, chairman and leader of many local and national engineering organizations and corporations to lead STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) and many other community service efforts related to youth.  Some of his affiliations and leadership roles in the past have included Project Lead the Way (Chairman - Northwestern High School), Prince George’s County Science and Technology Board - Parent and Student Advisory Board (Chairman), and Black Data Processing Associates (National CIO).

Smith currently serves on Congressman Steny Hoyer’s United States Service Academy Selection Board to recommend candidates to the Military Academy - West Point, Naval Academy, Air Force Academy and Merchant Marines Academy.

In all, Mr. Smith has a lovely wife, two beautiful children and is actively involved in their lives as he continues to serve his community.

Leader

Brian K. Smith is a scholar, activist and leader in community service related to education.  He founded the Community Stakeholders Partnership Initiative in 2011 that works with over 20 companies, school systems and nonprofits in a collaboration to develop a pipeline of successful outcomes from elementary school to the workforce. 

Community Leader

Smith is currently leading a “Request for Collaboration” initiative to build community stakeholders to unite their services and strengths to solve various community problems.  This initiative is designed to build a pipeline of consistent support for youth until the reach the age of maturity to receive opportunities from employers.  Smith has served in various community leadership roles in his local church growing up, on campus at University of Maryland and as a community activist to help those in need. 

STEM Leader

Smith is a leader amongst leaders in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics).  With his degree in Electrical Engineering, Smith currently leads the summer enrichment program implementation and designs all of the engineering projects for several Northrop Grumman affiliates in multiple states within the United States.   His expertise in several industries has lead to the leadership of Saturday-based STEM programs in robotics, computer maintenance, WORTHY Programs supporting high school students to enter the field of engineering. 

Smith serves on the Program Advisory Committee (PAC) of the Project Lead The Way (PLTW) Pre-Engineering program in Prince George's County Schools.  Prior to this, Smith served as the Chairperson of the PLTW Board at Northwestern High School and Chairperson of the Parent Student Support Committee for the Science and Technology Advisory Board for the Prince George’s County School System. 

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Innovator (biggest accomplishments)

Brian K. Smith has always been a unique innovator and creative problem solver.  Ever since Brian raised the most money for his class as Freshman class president in high school over the course of 2 months, he has used his talents to create solutions in a number of ways in various industries. 

Below are some of the most notable accomplishments he has developed as an innovator to date:

Fundraising

EduSerc
2004 - Present

• Developed a national awards ceremony to honor educators on the red carpet and turn the profits into direct returns for communities that support. 
• Developed business units within the organization to provide services to serve as fund raising mechanisms to sustain the nonprofit in media, business, engineering, etc.

Technology (biggest accomplishments)

EduSerc
1996 - Present

• Created a workforce development model to allow unemployed or underemployed individuals the chance to receive hands-on experience in fields of their interests
• Created a youth development model that yields highly-skilled students in a number of fields

SMITHSolutions
1999 - Present

• Created an innovative Voice Over IP (VOIP) solution for business, residential and home phone systems
• Created an customizable corporate intranet to search resumes, job opportunities and manage employee data
• Created a Transaction Management Monitoring Tool for Sybase Databases to determine the health of database systems and database environments across servers

Federal Communications Commission
1999 - 2005

• Developed a method and implemented a solution to fix data corruption in a SQL database for a mission critical system within the 1st month of working at the agency
• Developed an innovative SQL trigger and data management solution to retrieve pdf documents less than a second and solved one of the largest and longest performance problems of the FCC website of retrieving documents for the E-Docs system after agency frequency meetings

Boeing RCAS Project (as a Sybase Consultant)
1997 - 1998

Single-handedly developed data change capture solution and algorithm in SQL (standard query language) in 3 days to manage and track military equipment around the world, where Boeing engineers took more than 8 months to attempt to develop an algorithm.  Smith received 4 awards of recognition from Boeing as a result.

Motorola Space and Systems Technology Group
1995 - 1997

Single-handedly developed an HP VEE Testing solution and algorithm for Motorola space technology in 3 days, where Motorola engineers took over a year to attempt to develop an algorithm

Engineer

Brian K. Smith received his Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1995 and has implemented all of his innovative solutions with engineering methods ever since.

Engineering Trainer

Since 2005, Smith has been performing professional development training for an engineering mentoring program for Northrop Grumman across the country in various states.  His unique and fun way of learning has sparked corporations to have Smith teach their employees how to implement mentoring programs in engineering for youth across the United States.

Engineering Fields

With his experience from a variety of engineering environments since high school (e.g. IBM, GE Information Services, Motorola, Sybase, Boeing, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Federal Communications Commission, etc..), Smith has received a number of opportunities to understand how to learn and apply concepts in a number of fields.  Most of these fields include the following:

• Electrical Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
• Aerospace Engineering
• Aeronautical Engineering
• Civil Engineering
• Computer Engineering
• Robotic Engineering

Engineering Leadership

Smith is a leader amongst leaders in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics).  With his degree in Electrical Engineering, Smith currently leads the summer enrichment program implementation and designs all of the engineering projects for several Northrop Grumman affiliates in multiple states within the United States.   His expertise in several industries has lead to the leadership of Saturday-based STEM programs in robotics, computer maintenance, WORTHY Programs supporting high school students to enter the field of engineering. 

Smith serves on the Program Advisory Committee (PAC) of the Project Lead The Way (PLTW) Pre-Engineering program in Prince George's County Schools.  Prior to this, Smith served as the Chairperson of the PLTW Board at Northwestern High School and Chairperson of the Parent Student Support Committee for the Science and Technology Advisory Board for the Prince George’s County School System. 

In 1994-1995, Smith served as the Region II Chairperson of the National Society of Black Engineers and was  the president of his local chapter at the University of Maryland the prior year.

Information Technology

Ever since Smith was 10 years old, he wanted to build and design video games after spending all of his allowance on playing video games at the local arcade on a regular basis.  This fueled his interest in computer games, technology and other areas of science.  His two older brothers were going into engineering-related fields and his father owned an electronics shop, so it seemed fitting for Smith to venture into a technology-related field. 

However, one of Smith’s major strengths is programming in computers along with engineering.  In fact, as a college student although he worked to earn his Electrical Engineering degree, he took software engineering related internships with IBM, GE and Motorola to balance his experience.  At the time Smith was applying to college, there wasn’t a major called ‘Software Engineering’ in 1990.  So, he decided to create his own software engineering experience by taking receiving an engineering degree with computer science work experience. 

Now, Smith combines his skills of logical applications through technology into so many areas of his businesses and community-based organization.

IT Business Innovator in Technology

Smith is the co-founder, CEO and President of SMITHSolutions, an information and technology firm that builds customizable solutions in database, software, network, web and VOIP arenas for its clients.  After start the company 3 years after EduSerc was founded, Smith created a number of solutions for its clients ranging from local churches, small businesses, federal agencies and colleges.  To date, Smith builds and hosts the web-based solutions for Prince George’s Community College and the phone system for a national IT organization for black professionals called the Black Data Processing Associates (BDPA).

IT Business Innovator in Diversity Management

Smith is the co-founder, CEO and President of another IT business called IVS Solutions, where the IVS stands for Integrity, Value and Service.  His database solutions and technology inventions in this endeavor is directed to support fortune 500 businesses with management, cleansing and upkeep of their minority vendor databases on a quarterly and annual basis. 

IT Innovations in Robotics

Smith designs all of his IT solutions from scratch and builds various programs in robotics to help students learn about STEM (Science - Technology - Engineering - Mathematics).  Through is innovations, Smith has inspired 1st graders through college students how to build various programs to help them accomplish various goals using computers.  Robotics has always been an interest of Smith.  Through his creations, Smith replicates his robotic-based projects to colleges in various states for Northrop Grumman.

Film / Media

Brian K. Smith has always dreamed about producing his own movies.  As a result, Smith has invested in building a media production unit within EduSerc to make innovative movies and fun stories that help learn how to solve their problems.  As an innovative learning tool, Smith creates stories and helps students reproduce their visions into detail segments of 10 minute creations that are on YouTube or EduSerc.tv 

Frenemies

Smith has produced a movie called ‘Frenemies’ at www.youtube.com/eduserc with a number of middle school students in an after-school special format.  This movie is designed to talk about bullying and the affects of what can happen.  This fun skit is the official 1st of Smith’s suite of products.

The EduSerc Awards

Smith has produced an annual national awards show and has aired it on television in May 2011 to honor educators in the country.  From the talent to the teleprompter, Smith choreographs and orchestrates the entire production once a year to showcase the accomplishments of his partners and other organizations that do great things to help the community.

Author / Writer

Brian K. Smith has written 2 books (Engineering Discovery and Technology Foundations) and working on 3 more in relation to engineering development, math and how to accomplish your goals in life.  His passion is to continue writing for various other venues in his spare time. 

Smith has always has a talent for writing songs, poems and other types of creations.   Inspired by his mother’s poems and writings over the years growing up, Smith wrote his own content during an era when rap was mainstream.  Smith wanted to become a rapper himself and called himself the ‘BKS’ which are his initials, but stood for ‘The Better Known Storyteller.’  His raps were all stories of experience that happened to him, and others that were fiction.  But overall, his talents were creative and were mostly performed free-styling.

Artists like Curtis Blow, Salt ‘N Pepa, Kwame’, Kid and Play and The Fresh Prince influenced Smith to write his own raps with his friends and have rap battles outside of his lunch period at Crossland High School in Temple Hills, MD.  With his talent for dancing, Smith entered various lipsync, rap and dance contests up to his sophomore year in college.  Smith received the opportunity to meet Salt ‘M Pepa at a record store in Marlow Heights and even won 3rd place in a rap contest solely judged by MC Lyte herself during his freshman year in college.  Smith also won other rap and hip hop dance contests and still loves to dance. 

Now, Smith uses his writing talents to develop his curriculums for students and his public speeches, although he still free-styles his speeches without writing a single word down.  Smith has a very good memory, but moreso writes and speaks from his heart at a moment’s notice. 

Education

• University of Maryland College Park  - College Park, MD [B.S. Electrical Engineering - May 1995]
• Crossland High School - Temple Hills, MD [Graduate - June 1990]

Professional Experience

• SMITHSolutions, Inc, Greenbelt, MD 1999 - Present [Chief Executive Officer] ISO 9001:2000 certified, 8(a) SDB, MBE-MDOT, Nextel Supplier Diversity, PG County MBE, WSSC MBE, MD/DC MSDC MBE, NJ Commerce MBE, MWAA LDBE, MD Dept of Gen. Serv MBE
• Sybase - World Wide Professional Services, Bethesda, MD 1997 - 1999 [Consultant - DBA] Projects/Clients Include: Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), Boeing-RCAS, GTE-TCAIIMS II, Department of Medicine Institute of Pathology
• Motorola - Space and Systems Technology Group, Scottsdale, AZ 1994-1997 [Software Engineer / CTEP Project Lead] Projects Include: International Space Station
• GE Information Services, Rockville, MD 1992 - 1993 [Software Engineer Intern]
• IBM Marketing and Business Systems, Bethesda, MD 1990 - 1991 [Software Engineer Intern]

Professional Certifications

• Certified Sybase Professional – Database Administrator, 1997
• Certified Sybase Professional – Performance Tuning, 1997

Honors / Awards

• Lifetime Achievement Award - New Light Leadership Coalition
• 2004 Top Minority Business Leader Under 40 – MD/DC Minority Supplier Development Council Source Magazine
• 2003 MECEO TRIO Achiever
• GE Foundation Scholar
• Motorola Scholar
• NACME Corporate Scholar
• Inroads Scholar - Baltimore
• National Science Foundation Instrumental Institute Scholar
• Carl Rowen Scholarship Recipient
• UMCP Minority Scholars Program
• Omega Psi Phi Scholarship Recipient
• Who’s Who Among American High Schools
• Who’s Who Among American Colleges and Universities
• USAA National Collegiate Engineering Award Recipient
• Project Enrich Program
• Martin Luther King Jr. Community Service Award
• Motorola SSTG Concurrent Engineering Training Program
• P.G. Science Fair Association
• Talent Search Program
• The Rotary Club - Young American of the Month
• National Honor Society
• National Junior Honor Society
• Superintendent’s Award (Middle/High School)
• Outstanding High School Students of America
• Academic Merit Award
• P.G.C.C. Concurrent Enrollment Program

Leadership Experience

• EduSerc - Educators Serving the Community - Executive Director (1996-Present)
• SMITHSolutions - Chief Executive Officer (1999-Present)
• National Society of Black Engineers - Regional II Chairperson (1994 - 1995)
• Black Engineers Society - UMCP Chapter President (1993-1994)
• Educational Talent Search - Mentor / Tutor (1991 - 1994)
• Black Students of North Campus (UMCP) - Vice-President (1990 - 1991)
• Gr. Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church - Youth President (1986 - 1989)
• Crossland High School - Class President (Senior/Freshman), Class VP (Sophomore)

Selected Publications

• Smith, Brian K. “The Man Behind Bill Clinton’s Speeches - J. Terry Edmonds’ Journey To The White House and Beyond” Young Innovators Magazine, October 2005 [Article]
• Smith, Brian K. “Laurel Businessman Finds Time For Educating” Business Edition - Gazette Newspaper, August 2005 [Internet] http://gazette.net/gazette_archive/2005b/200531/business/news/288407-1.html
• Smith, Brian K. “Innovative Experiences - A Golden Culinary Experience At Silver Diner” Young Innovators Magazine, October 2005 [Article]Smith, Brian K. “The Corporate 401(k) Plan” Young Innovators Magazine, April 2005 [Article]
• Smith, Brian K. “The Survivor - How Ebeny Rogers made it through the Young Innovators Summer Program” Young Innovators Magazine, April 2005 [Article]
• Smith, Brian K. “Robotic Engineers - How Baltimore City Students Created A Company To Win Spy Robot Competition” Young Innovators Magazine, October 2005 [Article]Smith, Brian K. “How To Inspire Your Students” NextStep Magazine. September 2004 [Internet] http://www.nextstepmagazine.com/nsmpages/articledetails.aspx?order=1&articleid=1626
• Smith, Brian K. “2004 Top Minority Business Leaders Under 40” Maryland/District of Columbia Minority Supplier Development Council, April 2004 [Featured Business Leader Under 40]

Presentations / Speaking Engagements

• Smith, Brian K.  “Alliance Opportunities With Native Americans” University of Maryland Office of Minority Student Education, April 2006 (College Park, MD)
• Smith, Brian K.  “Mentoring Experiences” Howard County Public School System - Department of Student, Family and Community Services - Triple A Community Outreach Conference, November 2005 (Columbia, MD)
• Smith, Brian K. “Opportunities In Education” Teachers Education Association for Maryland Students (TEAMS) of NEA, November 2005 (College Park, MD)
• Smith, Brian K. “Entrepreneurship” New Light Leadership Coalition 7th Annual Youth and College Leadership Summit, November 2005 (Washington DC)
• Smith, Brian K. “How To Maximize Your Value To Leverage Corporate Relationships” Black Data Processing Association National Convention, August 2005 (Detroit, MI)

Professional Training

• Fast Track to SQL Server, Sybase, Inc., World Wide Professional Services, 1997
• Fast Track to Replication Server, Sybase, Inc., World Wide Professional Services, 1997
• Fast Track to PowerBuilder 5.0, Sybase, Inc., World Wide Professional Services, 1997
• Sybase IQ Internals, Sybase, Inc., World Wide Professional Services, 1997
• Writing Effective Stored Procedures, Sybase, Inc., World Wide Professional Services, 1997
• Adaptive Server 11.5 Internals, Sybase, Inc., World Wide Professional Services, 1997
• Building Dynamic Websites-PowerDynamo, Sybase, Inc., World Wide Professional Services, 1997
• Building PowerBuilder Internet Applications, Sybase, Inc., World Wide Professional Services, 1997
• Building PowerBuilder Distributed Applications, Sybase, Inc., World Wide Professional Services, 1997
• SQL Server Administration, Sybase, Inc., World Wide Professional Services, 1997
• Advanced SQL Server Administration, Sybase, Inc., World Wide Professional Services, 1997
• Performance and Tuning, Sybase, Inc., World Wide Professional Services, 1997
• Advanced Transact SQL, Sybase, Inc., World Wide Professional Services, 1997
• Sybase Technical Support Training, Sybase, Inc., World Wide Professional Services, 1997
• SQL Anywhere Fundamentals, Sybase, Inc., World Wide Professional Services, 1997
• Open Client Programming Using Client Library, Sybase, Inc., World Wide Professional Services, 1997
• Advanced Application Design-Replication Server, Sybase, Inc., World Wide Professional Services, 1997
• Mobil Computing with ASA, Sybase, Inc., World Wide Professional Services, 1997
• Systems Engineering Principles, Motorola University, 1995
• SEI Capability Maturity Model, Motorola University, 1995
• HP Visual Engineering Environment (HPVEE), Motorola University, 1996

Special Needs

Brian K. Smith has a daughter with down syndrome and works with her to help her with her speech and creative abilities.  His experiences with her humbles his teaching abilities to develop innovative ways to learn for students with and without special needs.

With his wife on the board of directors for the ARC, a local organization that supports individuals with special needs, Smith receives knowledge, support and an additional appreciation for all individuals.  Smith has learned that there is a local of understanding for people with disabilities and even a discriminatory factor that plays into people’s minds when working with them. 

However, Smith reinforces, through his interactions with youth and adults, the lessons his daughter has taught him in appreciating life and an opportunity to live in a positive manner.  This is caused Smith to ensure not only his life and his families is full of enrichment, but for others to understand that excellence is a requirement for sustained happiness in this world.  Therefore, his daughter reinforces the reason why his skills of being innovative are a God-given gift to enrich the lives of others and not to only make money for himself and his family. 

Honors

• Lifetime Achievement Award - New Light Leadership Coalition, 2005
• 2004 Top Minority Business Leader Under 40 – MD/DC Minority Supplier Development Council Source Magazine
• 2003 MECEO TRIO Achiever
• Motorola SSTG Concurrent Engineering Training Program, 1995
• Who’s Who Among American Colleges and Universities, 1995
• USAA National Collegiate Engineering Award Recipient, 1995
• Motorola Scholar, 1994-1995
• GE Foundation Scholar, 1992-1993
• NACME Corporate Scholar, 1990-1992
• Inroads Scholar – Baltimore, 1990-1991
• National Science Foundation Instrumental Institute Scholar, 1988
• Carl Rowen Scholarship Recipient, 1990
• UMCP Minority Scholars Program, 1990
• Omega Psi Phi Scholarship Recipient, 1990
• Who’s Who Among American High Schools, 1990
• Project Enrich Program, 1986-1990
• Martin Luther King Jr. Community Service Award, 1992
• P.G. Science Fair Association, 1989
• Talent Search Program, 1986-1990
• The Rotary Club - Young American of the Month, 1988
• National Honor Society, 1990
• National Junior Honor Society, 1986
• Superintendent’s Award (Middle/High School), 1986/1990
• Outstanding High School Students of America, 1990
• Academic Merit Award, 1990
• P.G.C.C. Concurrent Enrollment Program, 1989-1990

UNESCO Center for Peace Goodwill Ambassador for Education

Brian K. Smith has been newly appointed as the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Center for Peace Goodwill Ambassador for Education in January 2012.  Smith is now amongst the likes of other Goodwill Ambassadors in the world related to UNESCO such as Academy Award Winner Forest Witaker, Princess Firyal of Jordan, Pierre Cardin and many others in across the globe. 

Smith represents the area of education for the First Lady’s “Youth Infusion” Summit that involves connecting youth leaders and innovators to build and sustain solutions of youth development and economic growth for the First Lady’s of the following countries in Africa:  Ghana, Senegal, Liberia, Nigeria, Benin, Ethiopia, Gambia, Kenya and Sierra Leone.

UNESCO Goodwill Ambassadors are famous celebrities willing to do their utmost to mobilize support for the “underserved population” and to articulate UCP’s message of hope among the general public and among their industry. Many of the Goodwill Ambassadors represent spheres of influence in the business, arts & entertainment, media, faith and government arena.

UNESCO Center for Peace promotes the ideals of UNESCO and is located in Frederick Maryland (U.S.), which has been building strong alliances in the Washington, DC metro area since 2004. Major partners include the Frederick County Public Schools, Hood College and Frederick Community College.

Since then, the center has become a cultural anchor for the region, celebrating community diversity, contributing on current issues and events, engaging policy makers, and working with all stakeholders to further understanding of peace, acceptance and tolerance.

As representing the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the UNESCO Center for Peace works to create the conditions for" dialogue among civilizations, cultures and peoples, based upon respect for commonly shared values.

Yearly The UNESCO Center for Peace host students around the world for a two week summer camp called the International Model U. N (IMUN) for students ages 14 to 22. The mission of the United Nation and UNESCO Center for Peace are reflected through our IMUN summer camp, which serves as a forum in which students from around the world can gather to discuss some of the major challenges facing the world today, in fields such as the international peace, economic progress, human rights and security. It aims to educate participants about civics, effective communication, globalization and multilateral diplomacy. It serves as a “mock” UN for students.

For more information, visit www.unesco.org or www.unescocenterforpeace.org

Appointee - United States Service Academy Selection Board

In October 2011, Brian K. Smith was selected and appointed to serve on Congressman Steny Hoyer’s U.S. Service Academy Selection Board.  As a great honor in our country, Smith is part of the interview selection process to recommend to Congressman Steny Hoyer congressional nominations for top students in the State of Maryland to be accepted into one of the four (4) Military Service Academies:

• The United States Military Academy (Army)
• The United States Naval Academy
• The United States Air Force Academy
• The United States Merchant Marine Academy

Smith serves his country by serving once a year to identify the best out of the best students to potentially earn a free education and opportunity to serve their country in turn.