Pitney Bowes Inc

1992-01

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1994-12

Advanced Concepts & Technology; Member Technical Staff

Proposed and developed various data mining initiatives. Formulated and prototyped concepts to enhance reliability growth of electro-mechanical products by logging, electronically retrieving, and analyzing their performance data relative to customer service data. Following “Total Quality Management” principles, developed a reporting system on an MVS platform using SAS to provide product usage, servicing, and reliability metrics.

1989-12

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1992-01

Advanced Concepts & Technology; Member Technical Staff

Innovator and team leader advancing strategic standardization concepts to accelerate development and productization of reduced cost products. Established the requirements and design for a unifying, communications based, real-time control architecture for rapid development and deployment of sophisticated, electro-mechanical products, such as paper handling systems. The communications architecture simultaneously supports multi-motor server control and peer-to-peer communications (Patents: 5,499,374, 5,452,419, 5,390,351). Presented a paper on this architecture at a motion control conference hosted by the American Institute of Motion Engineers; and wrote an article concerning it in the Motion Control Magazine. As part of this effort, proposed packaging concepts for routing communications lines along with power distribution in these robot-like systems (Patent: 5,242,314).

1987-11

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1989-12

Mailing Systems; Project Manager

Manager of 12 engineers in the development of a sophisticated “robot-like” mail handling product comprised of numerous servo motors. Responsible for the product's real-time system architecture, communications, motion control system, electronics, motors, power distribution, and packaging; with a significant focus on high level integration and attention to RFI issues.

Predictive Technology Inc.

1986-10

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1987-11

Consultant

Developed a market share analysis tool to support franchise sales and PC database applications to support target marketing and sales lead generation.

1985-09

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1986-10

President

Investigated the use of real-time ticker data for a stock market prediction model based on my masters’ project at Cornell University.

Pitney Bowes Inc

1983-11

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1985-09

Mailing Systems; Senior Engineer

Hands-on project leader of 10 engineers pioneering the development of 3 custom ASIC devices for electronic postage meters.  Personally designed the most complicated device (a gate array).  In support of its simulation testing, I designed and used Pascal to rapidly develop a test vector language compiler to facilitate the generation of thousands of test vectors across a range of anticipated process and environmental conditions.  The first samples of these devices were completely functional; a significant achievement at that time.

1981-11

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1983-11

Special USPS Automation Project; Software Project Leader

Hands-on software management in the development of a high speed OCR mail processing system … project leader and developer of software to support the technology transfer of OCR systems from an Italian manufacturer to automate high-speed letter handling system in numerous US Postal processing centers.

1979-11

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1981-11

Research And Development; Engineer

Designed the electronics for laser printer and ink jet addressor.  Pioneered use of CAD systems (Mentor Graphics) to design PC boards. Two patents Awarded.

The MITRE Corporation

1977-06

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1979-11

Technical Staff

Developed a concept feasibility model.