2020 – Present

Framatome Inc

Framatome Corporation Lynchburg VA Principle Software Engineer Lead software engineer for a MS Windows WPF based nuclear fuel moving monitor and control system.

• Took ownership of a large repository of C# WPF application code implementing a collaborating computer monitoring and operator control system including integrations with SQL server and PLC device control. Quickly re-engineered the code base to support new reactor types and new clients as well as supported existing clients. Implemented GitLab source control and collaborative engineering development disciplines.

• Manage various consultants and train new engineers on the architecture and best practices relating to the code base and industry domain it is serving.

• Interface with clients, project management, engineering leads and help migrate existing corporate polices to help reduce time to market and project maintenance costs.

2003 – 2020

ChyronHego Corporation, Melville NY

Vice President Enterprise Projects, Vice President Engineering, US; Senior Vice President Product Engineering; Director of Product Management; Senior Software Engineer

• Project manager and technical lead on several projects for Major League Baseball Advanced Media. This included integration and deployment of player and ball tracking technology as well real time graphics visualization of the acquired data (Emmy Awarded StatCast and PitchCast). These and other sport related projects accounted for over $10 million in revenue.

• Managed technical research and development projects for golf, baseball, football and cricket with extensive in stadium and on site broadcast truck involvement. • As Director of Product Management, I established the company’s first formal product management group. I guided a team of 6 technical product specialists through PM training and together we established product lifecycle management tools and procedures. We covered all areas from Functional Specialist, Product Management and Product Marketing.

• Managed the development and operations of our news production graphics SAAS offering. Took the service through several data center locations, dealt with all areas of the data center infrastructure and managed the development and roll out of our second generation set of services. These were built on standard Microsoft IIS, SQL and Server infrastructure as well as our own custom graphics rendering servers. These services leverage data sources from Thompson Routers, Bing, TomTom and the Associated Press, along with various social media outlets to provide tools for news producers to generate graphics and maps for on air use. Used daily by over 5000 television news producers.

• Developed and product managed several broadcast video servers and graphics branding solutions. These were all C# based windows systems with custom video IO processors. Each of these products were responsible for over a million dollars of revenue for the company annually.

• Led the company through adoption of new technologies, including IP Video, HDR Video, virtualizing video production, new audio standards. • As team leader and ultimately VP of Engineering, I ushered in new technologies and processes such as .net, agile development and TDD.

• Responsible for the administration and personnel management for an engineering/SQA team of local and remote developers totaling 32, as well as several outside consultants.

• Responsible for the development of various hardware platforms, mechanical and electrical product designs, as well as walking our products through UL and CE Safety, emissions and immunity testing and certification. • Performed technical due diligence for several acquisition targets.

1996 – 1998

L3 Communications, Hauppauge NY

Principle of my own consulting company. I worked for various clients on several projects including:

• Multi-year project developing a real time automation and control system for a family of audio mixing consoles built by Studer-Editech of Switzerland. This system slaved to LTC time code and recorded all the movement of the robotic faders, knobs and switches. It was written in C++/MFC with an extensive N-Unit testing framework.

• Performed IT management services for clients including wireless interbuilding networking, Windows server configuration and management, as well as customer application development in C++ and Visual Basic.

• Developed microcontroller hardware and software products. • Developed a direct to consumer photo archiving and DVD burning application called Archive Creator. This was a full lifecycle development effort that involved application development using C++ and Visual Basic, integrating licensing, dealing with ecommerce sales, client support and release management. Several thousand were sold during the life of the product