Dr. Evan L. Ivie holds a BS and a BES from BrighamYoungUniversity. He has an MS from StanfordUniversity and a PhD from MIT. He was a manager and member of the technical staff at Bell Telephone Labs from 1966 to 1979 where he created the Programmers Workbench, the DIR/ECT telephone book system, and was Process Administrator for the Safeguard Anti-ballistic Missile System. He was a professor of computer science at BrighamYoungUniversity from 1979 to 1997 creating the operating system and networking curricula. In 1992-3 he was a Fulbright Lecturer at Kiev Polytechnic Institute in the Ukraine. In 1997 he created the Pioneer Ancestral Past system for the LDSChurch and the Utah Sesquicentennial. In 2000-1 he was the Europe Area Welfare Agent for the Europe Central area supervising humanitarian aide to some 40 countries. From 2002 to 2006 he was the Director of the BYU-Nauvoo Program. In 2007 he founded GeneSys, a non-profit family history foundation. He has served as bishop, temple sealer, and in other Church positions.
